THIS JUST IN: Firefly Fest Is BACK!

SPIN: Firefly Music Festival is returning to Delaware’s Dover International Speedway from June 21 to 23, and the three-day event promises live sets from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Grizzly Bear, and Kendrick Lamar. Also on the bill for the second annual Firefly showcase: Foster the People, the Avett Brothers, Calvin Harris, Passion Pit, MGMT, Ellie Goulding, Dispatch, the Lumineers, Alabama Shakes, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Big Gigantic, Azealia Banks, Imagine Dragons, Zedd, Matt & Kim, Public Enemy, Dr. Dog, the Joy Formidable, Japandroids, Krewella, the Walkmen, […]

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DIRTY DEEDS: Dark Doings At Cadillac Ranch

  NEW YORK TIMES: Stanley Marsh 3, an eccentric millionaire artist best known for his Cadillac Ranch art display along an interstate highway in the Texas Panhandle, has settled lawsuits from 10 teenagers who said he paid them for sex acts, lawyers for both sides announced Saturday. In a prepared statement, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Anthony Buzbee, and Mr. Marsh’s lawyer, Kelly Utsinger, said the teenagers and Mr. Marsh have resolved their differences and that no side would comment further. The statement was obtained by The Amarillo Globe-News. Mr. Marsh had a stroke in 2011 and his wife, Gwendolyn Marsh, was […]

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JIM JAMES: Know ‘Til Now

Looks to us like he’s roastin’ a bowl. From his new solo album Regions Of Light And Sound Of God. He plays a completely sold out show at JB’s tonight. ROLLING STONE: This album is the official solo debut of a rock star who really doesn’t need to make solo records. The singer-guitarist and main songwriter of My Morning Jacket, Jim James leads one of the most successful and consistently exciting bands in modern rock, a Southern Led Zeppelin with the futurist nerve of Radiohead. James has produced or co-produced most of his group’s records while racking up sublime collaborations […]

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Philly-Born Two And A Half Men Actress Channels Ann Richards Obsession Into One-Woman Broadway Play

  NEW YORK TIMES: It is a one-person play, and that one person is most certainly Ms. Taylor, an Emmy winner for “The Practice” and best known as the acerbic motherin the sitcom “Two and a Half Men,” who is giving new meaning to the term “passion project.” “I’ve always been a gun for hire,” she said. “I’ve had some marvelous parts, but I’m also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people. Here’s a chance to play somebody that would use every single dot of what I could imagine I would ever be at my very best. […]

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CINEMA: How Pulp Fiction Got Made

VANITY FAIR: John Travolta was at that time as cold as they get,” says Mike Simpson, Tarantino’s agent at William Morris Endeavor. “He was less than zero.” Marred by a series of commercially successful but creatively stifling movies, culminating in the talking-baby series, Look Who’s Talking, Travolta’s career seemed past saving. So, when he was told that Tarantino wanted to meet with him, he went to the director’s address, on Crescent Heights Boulevard. Tarantino recalls, “I open the door, and he says, ‘O.K., let me describe your apartment to you. Your bathroom has this kind of tile, and da-da-da-da. The […]

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TWISTED: Chubby Checker Still Shameless And Frivolously Litigious After All These Years

  HUFFINGTON POST: Chubby Checker’s lawsuit over a smartphone app that claims to measures penis size is the latest in a checkered record at attempting to maintain relevancy through the twists and turns of pop culture. The app is is called the “Chubby Checker” referring to a slang term for an erection. The 71-year-old Checker, whose real name is Ernest Evans, is suing Hewlett Packard and its subsidiary Palm, Inc. for $500 million, claiming the app associates his name with obscene, sexual connotation and images, without giving him “compensation for the unauthorized use of the Chubby Checker name and trademark,” […]

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BEING THERE: Bleeding Rainbow @ Johnny Brenda’s

Photo by PETE TROSHAK There are a few things you need to know about Bleeding Rainbow. 1) they have been praised by both surviving members of Nirvana 2) they once were known as Reading Rainbow but changed their name after being chided by Carrie Brownstein and one too many stupid questions about LeVar Burton and 3) they might be the best band you’ve never seen. The band started out as an indie duo of husband and wife Rob Garcia and Sarah Everton, but last year expanded to a four piece by adding lead guitarist Al Creedon and drummer Greg Frantz. […]

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ARTSY: Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto

Photo by JOHANNA AUSTIN BY BRANDON LAFVING ARTS CORRESPONDENT  Oriza Hirata, an experimental playwright of international renown and director of Osaka University’s Seinendan Theater Company, often ventures into uncharted territory. He’s bringing two of his recent works to Philadelphia this weekend that feature robots in lead roles interacting with human co-leads. The robots were created and programmed by a leader in the field, Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro. Dr. Ishiguro is director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University and has worked toward creating robots that look shockingly human-ish. The first breakthrough in this vein occurred in 2005 when he unveiled […]

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WATCH: Major Meteorite Crashes Into Russia, Injures 1,200, Scares The Living Sh*t Out Of 7 Billion

TIME: A flaming meteorite crashed to the earth on Friday, injuring hundreds and reportedly prompting fears of an alien invasion. In scenes reminiscent of a Hollywood blockbuster, a series of explosions rocked the skies above the Urals and sparked panic in the three major cities of Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg and Tyumen. Witnesses described how buildings shook, glass shattered and cellphones and internet connections stopped working. Amateur footage was also posted of the object causing windows to break before crashing into a wall at a zinc factory. Around 400 people are believed to have suffered minor injuries, mainly due to broken glass, while initial […]

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