She ‘held our family together’ through years of hardship, the musician said about his mother in a 2010 Ellis Island speech.
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Grammys 2024 predictions: Who will win, who should win and the Taylor Swift of it all
The awards air Sunday night on CBS.
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Songs by Taylor Swift, Drake and more are starting to disappear from TikTok. Here’s why
Universal Music Group said that it would no longer allow its music on TikTok following the Wednesday expiration of a licensing deal between the 2 companies.
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Pearl Jam throws a listening party for their new album that Eddie Vedder calls ‘our best work’
Singer Vedder, lead guitarist Mike McCready and bassist Jeff Ament played the record for the first time for invited guests at the Troubadour.
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Annette Bening named Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
The Pudding is the oldest theatrical organization in the nation. Since 1951, it has bestowed this award annually on women ‘who have made lasting and impressive contributions to the world of entertainment.’
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How Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce became the focus of baseless political conspiracy theories
‘Pop culture people identify with this stuff, they pay attention to it. And that’s what moves politics now. It’s attention and identity,’ says one researcher.
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TV SERIES REVIEW: ‘The Dry’ is a strange, often bewildering sitcom
In the opening scenes of Paddy Breathnach and Nancy Harris’s “The Dry,” we meet Shiv (short for Siobhan played by Roisin Gallagher) arriving home unexpectedly from London in a cab. She seems surprised that no one in the family is there to meet her. Once you meet this family, you’ll wonder if she really grew […]
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Meta, TikTok among social media CEOs in heated Senate hearing on child exploitation
Lawmakers and parents have grown increasingly concerned about the effects of social media on young people’s lives.
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Groundhog Day’s biggest star is Phil, but holiday’s roots extend well beyond Punxsutawney
It’s part of a tradition rooted in European agricultural life, marking the midpoint between the shortest day of the year on the winter solstice and the spring equinox.
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ON MUSIC: Jontavious Willis says blues is about sharing the experience
Reconnecting with artists is always fun, especially when they are enthusiastic about our great State of Maine — such is the case of today’s chat with Jontavious Willis, who will be coming to One Longfellow Square. He called me from Luthersville, Georgia, on Jan. 5, and the bluesman was more than happy to talk with […]