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It could warm up anytime now, would be just fine.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, February 07, 2022 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

DOBIE GRAY is in with "The In Crowd."

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Animal Collective, Mitski, Rolo Tomassi, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Cate Le Bon, The Jazz Butcher, A Place to Bury Strangers, and more.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS return with "Black Summer."

PHILLY SOUL: A documentary is in the works.

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD: What lies ahead?

SYL JOHNSON, oft-sampled Chicago blues and soul singer, has died at 85.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Silk's extremely horny R & B slow jam "Freak Me."

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Jackass Forever tops the chart with 23.5MM, about half of the last installment's opening weekend, but still an excellent return on investment.  Roland Emmerich's Moonfall places with 10MM and is likely not a return on investment.  Spider-Man: No Way Home shows with another 9.6MM and will likely pass Avatar on the all-time domestic chart by the end of February.

KANYE WEST & KIM KARDASHIAN are feuding over their daughter's use of TikTok.

JASON STAHTHAM & ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELY welcomed their second child.

BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN and Sharna Burgess are expecting their first child.

DAVID LYNCH  has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg's upcoming drama “The Fabelmans.”

JOHN BRADLEY talks about Game of Thrones, Moonfall, and the even more-ambitious Three-Body Problem.

GOOSBUMPS heads to series with Disney+.

HOW "THE METHOD" Made Acting Modern.

CHINA funded your movie theater recliner.

 

A PUPPER's first time at a mirror.

A KITTEN crashed his bike.

OH YEAH, that's the spot.

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The Pretenders, and Friday Things.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, February 04, 2022 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

....wtih THE PRETENDERS! Circa 1981, via one of Pate's two fab drummers, Jon Hahn.  Your setlist includes "The Wait," "The Adultress," "Message of Love/Louie Louie," "Talk of the Town," "English Roses," "Birds of Paradise," "Kid," "Stop Your Sobbing," "Private Life," "Day After Day," "Jealous Dogs, " Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," "Bad Boys Get Spanked," "Precious," and "Brass In Pocket/MysteryAchievement."

THE BLACK INNOVATORS OF ROCK & ROLL: Part One.

SLEATER-KINNEY picked some heroes for a Guest DJ stint on WFUV.

LADY DAN shares "Not In Love," which is not a 10cc cover.

ILLUMINATI HOTTIES share "Sandwich Sharer."

SPOON: Britt Daniel, on how growing up hearing classic rock on the radio informed the band's tenth album.

JOHNNY MARR, on the Best of the Smiths, His Solo Career, and Fever Dreams Pts 1-4.

PEDRO THE LION: David Bazan explains the painful process that went into writing his new record.

 

DAKOTA JOHNSON is in talks to star in Madame Web, a Sony Spider-Verse spinoff.

RENEE ZELLWEGER is doing a quirky crime drama on NBC.

SCREAM: The reboot leads to a sequel.

THE BAFTA AWARD nominations went to these folks. Congrats.

THE TOP STREAMING PROGRAMS AND MOVIES of 2021.

JANE CHAMPION, essayed at The Ringer.

MOONFALL: "It’s a lot crazier than you might even expect from a movie about the moon smashing into Earth."

 

OVER HERE! (Wait for it.)

A PEACOCK, peacocking.

CATS will be cats.

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Three hours of shoveling snow is time not spent on "news."   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, February 03, 2022 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED.  It's the anniversary of the passing of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in a plane crash outside Clear Lake, IA, and it is still bringing people to the historic Surf Ballroom (now a National Historic Landmark), as well as the Riverside Ballroom, where the Winter Dance Party made its penultimate stop. So it's worth linking to an MPR audio feature on the Winter Dance Party and a Weekend Edition piece on Buddy Holly's old classmates.. We'll start with some video of Buddy Holly playing "That'll Be the Day," and "Peggy Sue."  There's even less video of Valens, outside this lipsync of "Ooh, My Head!", but there's rare live audio of "La Bamba" and "Donna" on the Tube. And no survey would be complete without the Bopper's signature song, "Chantilly Lace."  The tragedy has echoed through the years in movies like The Buddy Holly Story and La Bamba.  The latter featured Los Lobos, who would make "La Bamba" a hit again almost 30 years later, with Marshall Crenshaw as Holly, who can be seen here covering "Crying, Waiting Hoping", introduced by Wolfman Jack.

TORI AMOS plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

CRUMB lays KEXP.

LUCY DACUS shares "Kissing Lessons."

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE shares "We Go Back."

BIG THIEF: Learning to Loosen Up.

THE FIRST RULE OF ENCANTO: "We Don't Talk About Bruno" tops the Billboard Hot 100.

KEN JEONG & ROBIN THICKE reportedly walked off 'The Masked Singer' set.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME nominations went to everyone fron Dolly Parton to Devo to Dionne warwick to Duran Duran.

HITPIECE: A website turned artists' songs into NFTs without asking them.

 

MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS: Four people have been arrested on federal charges stemming from the actor's overdose death.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG is telling co-workers she is going to quit The View after being suspended for two weeks.

CHANNING TATUM has ended his break from acting.

SIMON COWELL injured himself in an e-bike crash. Again.

CNN PRESIDENT Jeff Zucker resigned after acknowledging that he had failed to disclose a romantic relationship with another senior executive at the network.

CILLIAN MURPHY, on Peaky Blinders and losing co-star Helen McCrory.

BRIAN COX breaks down his career, including Troy.

DAVID LETTERMAN launched a Tube channel of vintage clips.

 

BRITISH BULLDOGS are banned in Norway.

DUCK Curling.

A DOGGO, sledding.

A ROOSTER battles a hawk to save a hen.

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Today is tomorrow. It happened.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, February 02, 2022 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

I got flowers...in the Spring...

First D.J.: "Rise and shine, campers and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today."

Second D.J.: "It's cold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?"

First D.J.: "Not hardly. So the big question o­n everybody's lips..."

Second D.J.: "O­n their chapped lips..."

First D.J.: "...their chapped lips is, 'Does Phil feel lucky?' Punxsatawney Phil! That's right, woodchuck chuckers, it's...

(IN UNISON): GROUNDHOG DAY!!!"

Saturday, Punxsutawney Phil ---  the Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, and Weather Prophet Extraordinary will predict whether we will have six more weeks of winter.  According to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, Phil has seen his shadow 103 times, and hasn't seen it (predicting an early spring) only 18 times.  Phil's track record is hotly disputed. In general, Groundhogs Do Not Make Good Meteorologists. Nevertheless, thousands will await the sunrise and the groundhog at Gobbler's Knob in the tiny Pennsylvania hamlet that has become known as the "Weather Capital of the World," due in no small part to the movie that makes every day Groundhog Day.

This is o­ne time where the Internet really fails to capture the true excitement of a movie about a large squirrel predicting the weather. However, you can see the trailer as a refresher (while BuzzFeed compiles trivia).

In 2005, Roger Ebert revisited Groundhog Day, declaring that the film "finds its note and purpose so precisely that its genius may not be immediately noticeable. It unfolds so inevitably, is so entertaining, so apparently effortless, that you have to stand back and slap yourself before you see how good it really is."

At the other end of the political spectrum, Jonah Goldberg's equally effusive movie meditation grabbed the cover of National Review: "When I set out to write this article, I thought it'd be fun to do a quirky homage to an offbeat flick, o­ne I think is brilliant as both comedy and moral philosophy. But while doing what I intended to be cursory research -- how much reporting do you need for a review of a twelve-year-old movie that plays constantly o­n cable? -- I discovered that I wasn't alone in my interest. In the years since its release the film has been taken up by Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, and followers of the oppressed Chinese Falun Gong movement."

Indeed, a 2004 article mentioned by Ebert (but not linked) from London's Independent observes that the Harold Ramis comedy has been hailed by some religious leaders as the most spiritual film of all time. More examples can be found at the NYT and the Christian Science Monitor.

As Phil Connors ultimately observed: "When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter."

ACCORDINGLY, we conclude:

...with Sonny & Cher o­n Hullabaloo and famously o­n Letterman years later, plus UB40 with Chrissie Hynde, not to mention The Cynics (from the Bonograph tribute CD), and David Bowie & Marianne Faithfull.

PAUL SIMON gets over three hours of discussion and analysis on Political Beats, with guest Rory Cooper.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Elvis Costello reflects on his decades-long life in music, from his earliest childhood memories to the artists who shaped his work and what his own songs have meant to others.

CALEXICO shares "El Mirador." Oh yeah.

THE LINDA LINDAS share "Growing Up."

GRAHAN NASH leaves Spotify,and what's up with David Crosby?  BTW, this isn't an option for most musicians.

CAT POWER is profiled by NME.

EELS' Mark E Everett, on wanting to "bury the hatchet" with Colin Firth.

KEITH MOON: The long-awaited biopic about The Who's legendary drummer is set to begin shooting this summer.

 

WHOOPI GOLDBERG is in trouble at "The View" after controversial Holocaust comments. UPDATE: She's suspended for two weeks.

BENNIFER: J-Lo on her second chance with Affleck.

SHIA LaBEOUF & MIA GOTH are expecting a child after filing for divorce in 2018.

THANDIWE NEWTON calls SEAN PENN a "gibbering fool."

JACKASS FOREVER: There's more to it than nut shots.

KILLING EVE: Season 4 has a trailer online.

AFTER YANG has a trailer online.

THE OFFER, about the making of The Godfather, has a trailer online.

 

A PUPPER, with butterflies.

BOB THE NEWFY isn't having it.

A TURTLE: Empowered or embarrassed?

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Tuesday, or so they would have you believe.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, February 01, 2022 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

R.E.M., playing "Radio Free Europe" and "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" for their network TV debut ... and Twofer Tuesday.

COLIN HAY (Men at Work) plays Mountain Stage.

STING visits World Cafe.

BIG THIEF shares “Simulation Swarm.”

CATE LE BON talks about her lockdown album.

HARGUS "PIG" ROBBINS, a legendary Nashville pianist who played on hit records by countless country stars as well as Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde, has died at age 84.

SAM LAY, a legendary Chicago blues drummer Sam Lay - known for his work with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Bob Dylan among many others - has died at age 86.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle)'s version of the Aladdin ballad "A Whole New World."

 

RHIANNA & A$AP ROCKY are expecting a child.

THE BATMAN dropped a funeral scene online.

JENNIFER BEALS, currently recurring in The Book of Boba Fett, will be recurring on NBC's Law & Order: Organized Crime.

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: The latest iteration has a trailer online.

UNDERRATED OFFBEAT ROMANTIC MOVIES, according to Slashfilm.

THE TOP 12 PIXAR MOVIES, according to Paste.

THE 100 BEST SCI-FI MOVIES, also according to Paste.

 

A DOGGO and a dinner.

RATATOUILLE? Seems like.

A BISON is on the lam in Wauconda, IL.

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