WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) blasted the chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for appointing a high-ranking officialfrom a scandal-plagued loan servicer to be the Bureau’s new student-loan watchdog. On Monday, Warren’s office released three fiery letters the senator had sent to Trump-nominated CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger, Treasury …
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Nearly two years after first announcing the project, David Byrne has launched an online magazine named Reasons to Be Cheerful that aims to be a “tonic for tumultuous times.” As the former Talking Heads singer explains in the introductory video, he founded the website – “part magazine, part therapy session, …
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With the release this week of her new album While I’m Livin’, Tanya Tucker proves once again that she’s among the finest, most unique country singers on the planet. Through nearly 50 years of hits, professional highs and a few well-publicized lows, the Seminole, Texas, native has established herself as …
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Edward Norton has shared the first trailer for Motherless Brooklyn, the actor/director/screenwriter’s upcoming adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s acclaimed novel. On Wednesday, Rolling Stone premiered Thom Yorke’s “Daily Battles,” the musical centerpiece of Motherless Brooklyn; Wynton Marsalis also contributes a jazz arrangement of the Radiohead singer’s new song for the film. …
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A documentary about a 55-year-old musical sounds like a quaint and nostalgic cinematic scrap book. But Fiddler:Miracle of Miraclesturns out be an exhilarating, expansive, warts-and-all look into 1964 Broadway phenomenonFiddler on the Roof. Director Max Lewkowicz delivers an emotional powerhouse in which none of the compromises, growing pains and ego …
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Phish has issued a statement regarding fans’ increasing concerns over plague-infected prairie dogs threatening the band’sannual Labor Day event at Commerce City, Colorado’s Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. “As you may have heard, there have been ongoing cases of plague in prairie dog colonies in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife …
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It is a truth universally recognized that Succession, the darkly funny HBO drama about a media-dynasty family eating their own, was a slow starter. And the early feint of introducing the series’ most recognizable face in the form of Brian Cox, supporting actor extraordinaire, only to have him lapse into …
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In May, country superstar Sara Evans joined her 19-year-old son Avery and 16-year-old daughter Olivia on the road for a mini-tour in support of an EP they had recorded. Billed as Sara Evans with the Barker Family Band, the Bloodline Tour emphasized family harmony, musical comradeship and an eclectic set …
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Common addresses the challenges of black manhood in the rapper’s second video for “Hercules,” a Swizz Beatz-featuring single off his upcoming album Let Love. In July, Common released a “Hercules” video with himself and Vince Staples — as a convenience store clerk — subduing a group of robbers as seen …
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Tracy Morgan, Sarah Silverman, Nick Kroll, Aubrey Plaza, Tiffany Haddish and Kathy Griffin lead the cast for the long-awaited fifth season of Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers. The first episode of the revived series — in which comedians voice puppets reenacting absurd and outrageous prank calls — premieres September 25th. Adam …
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