INCOMING: The Girl With Lower Back Tattoo

  She will be at the Free Library on August 17th. Tix go on sale Monday at 10 AM.   VANITY FAIR: If Hollywood gave out trophies for agents, managers, and publicists, Schumer’s team would have won one last year, too. Trainwreck built on the accolades and viral appeal of Inside Amy Schumer, grossing $110 million in the U.S. upon its release in July. Schumer followed the film with a well-received and decently if not spectacularly rated October appearance hosting Saturday Night Live and, a week after that, the premiere of her first HBO special, Amy Schumer: Live at the […]

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NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When U Can’t

  FRESH AIR: Growing up in South Carolina, soul singer Sharon Jones knew from the first time she sang in her church’s Christmas play that she would be a musician. “I was, like, maybe 8, 9 years old … and I got to sing ‘Silent Night,’” she tells Fresh Air host Terry Gross. Jones remembers audience members taking note of her performance. “Right then and there,” she says, “I knew that I was going to be a singer. God had blessed me with a gift.” Now the lead singer for the soul group, The Dap-Kings, Jones is inspired by the […]

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Q&A: Dr. Jill Stein, The Green Party Candidate For President Of The United States Of America

BY WARREN LIPKA Green party Presidential candidate Jill Stein marched with protest groups outside of the Democratic National Convention last night. The 66-year-old physician’s pace was impressive considering it was 100 degrees and she was in a full suit. While some elements of the protesters chanted at cops and burned flags (both Israeli and American), Ms. Stein conducted interviews and shook hands. She was almost omnipresent as she bounced in between Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, and reporters, trying to tell anyone who would listen, why both political parties are “obsolete.” PHAWKER: Jill what are you doing here? DR. JILL […]

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SOUTHERN COMFORT: A Q&A W/ Rich Robinson

  BY CHRIS MCCARRY Let me be clear about this: I am a hardcore Black Crowes fan. By the time I finally saw them live when I was 20, I had been listening to their albums just about everyday since I was 14. My best friend and I blew off work on a Monday and drove the two-and-a-half hours to a place called The Staircase in Pittson, PA to catch an unpublicized warm up show for a newly reformed Crowes lineup after several years “on hiatus.” I can still remember, as if it were yesterday, feeling my knees buckle when […]

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BEING THERE: Father John Misty @ XPNFest

Photo by JOSH PELTA-HELLER When Father John Misty took the River Stage at WXPN’s XPoNential Music Festival last night it became immediately apparent that wasn’t going to deliver a conventional set of pastoral folk rock ballads for an adoring crowd of dad rockers in khaki cargo shorts. “What the fuck is going on?!” he bellowed, refusing the guitar a roadie tried to hand to him. The bearded troubadour glided right past his mic stand with a long, lanky stride, and with a lit cigarette smoking between his fingers perched himself on a sound monitor, poised to confront the crowd. This […]

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CINEMA: The Great Beyond

  DAVID EDELSTEIN: The new “Star Trek” picture, “Star Trek Beyond,” is a wild ride. It’s fast and furious, which makes sense, since director Justin Lin made the last few “Fast And Furious” movies. And he thinks in terms of whoosh and jangle. He bombards you with angles. You have to concentrate or the action will streak right by. It’s like abstract expressionism. Now, if you’re a lover of the original series, you might think, I like “Star Trek” because it wasn’t fast and furious. It was philosophical. Well, I’ve got news. That “Star Trek” is gone. Since the series […]

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THE WHITE KNIGHT: Fear & Loathing In Cleveland

Artwork by JACOB THOMAS NEW YORK TIMES: It was Donald J. Trump’s best chance to escape his own caricature. He did not. After 40 years in the public eye, Mr. Trump decided on Thursday night that he was not interested in revealing himself to America with disarming tales of his upbringing, hard-earned lessons from his tumultuous career or the inner struggles masked by his outward pomposity. In the most consequential speech of his life, delivered 401 days into his improbable run for the White House, Mr. Trump sounded much like the unreflective man who had started it with an escalator […]

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NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t

  FRESH AIR Fifty years ago, the Voting Rights Act passed outlawing literacy tests and other measures that had prevented African-Americans from voting. After its passage, Congress amended the act five times to increase its scope. But in 2013, a Supreme Court decision blocked the act’s enforcement provision, which opened the door for states to pass new voting restrictions. Journalist Ari Berman says that many of the new restrictions discriminate against poor people, young people and people of color. “There’s a whole range of voting restrictions … [including] making it harder to register to vote; shutting down voter registration drives; […]

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