New this week: Lizzo, 'Criminal Minds' and 'The Woman King'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include an live posthumous album from Tom Petty, the criminal profile spinoff series โCriminal Minds: Evolution,โ a documentary about the plucky Mars Rover Opportunity and a TV series that focuses on the backstage melodrama at the Chippendaleโs male strip clubs.
Bob Dylan Center: Exhibiting the voice of a generation
In Tulsa, Okla., a former warehouse has been transformed into a repository for 100,000 items from the singer-songwriter's archives, including manuscripts and notebooks offering a window into the painstaking craft of one of America's foremost musical artists.
cbsnews.comMurakami plays antiwar songs on radio to protest Ukraine war
Playing James Taylorโs โNever Die Youngโ and going back to songs that marked the antiwar movement in the 1960s, Japanese author Haruki Murakami added his voice to protests against the war in Ukraine with a special edition of his Tokyo radio show.
Bob Dylan artwork show opens in Miami, new cinema paintings
Bob Dylan has been telling stories through songs for 60 years. The most comprehensive exhibition of the Nobel laureateโs visual art to be held in the U.S. goes on display on Tuesday in Miami at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. Forty new pieces by the 80-year-old songwriter will be showcased for the first time. The exhibition with more than 180 acrylics, watercolors, drawings and ironwork sculptures will kick off the same week as Art Basel Miami Beach and will run through April 17 with no future stops announced yet.
news.yahoo.comRolling Stones tour manager Mark Brigden dies while digging grave for family dog outside California home
Mark Brigden, a music industry staple well-known for his work as tour manager for the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, died while digging a grave for his dog in the backyard of his home in California. Brigdenโs wife, Julia Dreyer Brigden, confirmed to The Press Democrat that the tragic accident occurred on Sunday outside their residence in Santa Rosa. He was immediately transported to a nearby ...
news.yahoo.comTreasure trove of rock memorabilia includes Kurt Cobain hair
Guitars from Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton and Aerosmith as well as autographed memorabilia from The Beatles and even strands of hair from Kurt Cobain are some of the highlights of an online rock โnโ roll auction that ends over the weekend.
Book excerpt: How Los Angeles in 1974 ruled the pop culture universe
Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. The "New Wave" that revitalized Hollywood, the smooth Southern California sound that ruled the album charts and radio airwaves, the torrent of groundbreaking comedies that brought new sophistication and provocation to television's prime time โ all these emerged from Los Angeles. It was an "extraordinarily creative period," remembered Michael Ovitz, a Los Angeles native who became the entertainment industry's most powerful agent during the 1980s. For Los Angeles, those twelve glittering months represented magic hour. From "Rock Me on the Water: 1974, the Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics" by Ronald Brownstein.
cbsnews.comFormer U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize in literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to former U.S. Childhood and family life, the close relationship with parents and siblings is a [theme] that has remained central to her,โ Anders Olsson, the chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, said. At least one member of the Nobel literature committee resigned over the decision to honor Handke. AdvertisementHowever, Americans have been well-represented in this yearโs round of Nobel Prizes, sharing in all three science awards before Thursdayโs announcement of the literature laurel. The Nobel Peace Prize winner will be unveiled Friday, and the award for economics will be announced Monday.
latimes.comWhy millennials may shrug at the stock market's troubles
As a personal finance reporter at CNBC, when the stock market drops, as it has from the coronavirus outbreak, I write stories reminding our readers to remain focused on their long-term goals and to resist panic. Fewer than a third of millennials, often considered those born between 1981 and 1996, are saving in a 401(k) retirement plan, according to Charles Schwab's 2019 Modern Wealth Survey. "I don't even know why or how a stock market crash would affect me waking up, going to work and living my life," she said. Millennials earn 20% less than baby boomers did at a similar age, according to a recent report, "The Emerging Millennial Wealth Gap," from nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank New America. All of this means fewer young people are able to put their money into the stock market.
cnbc.comSan Antonio's SOLI Chamber Ensemble is Ushering in the Winds of Change
And now San Antonio's SOLI Chamber Ensemble is here to weigh in.Next week, SOLI premieres the next entry in its 2019-2020 season, Winds of Change. From local politics and culture to national news that hits close to home, San Antonio Current has been keeping San Antonio informed for years. Its never been more important to support local news sources. If quality journalism is important to you, please consider a donation to San Antonio Current. Every reader contribution is valuable and so appreciated, and goes directly to support our coverage of critical issues and neighborhood culture.
sacurrent.comBob Dylan and Johnny Cash's demo of 'Wanted Man' released
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash on "The Johnny Cash Show" in 1969. Video for the demo of Bob Dylan singing with Johnny Cash on the latter's hit song "Wanted Man" was released Monday on YouTube. Dylan wrote the song for Cash in 1969, and Cash recorded it on his live album, "At San Quentin," that same year. "Honey, I don't want to interrupt your train of thought, but be sure that Bob puts the melody to that song, that 'Wanted Man,'" she said. If you listen closely, you can hear Cash flubbing exactly where the "Wanted Man" is wanted and chuckling at his mistakes.
Defensive end Robert Quinn excited about Dallas' prospects
There have been many interpretations of the lyrics, but on face value, the "Mighty Quinn" appears to be a savior for his people in despair. Thats after the Miami Dolphins gave the defensive end permission to shop for a new team this offseason. Quinn was candid when asked why he chose Dallas. "We want to be standing up on that podium at the end of the season," Quinn said. I get to work with them and lets see if we can make that happen.If he can help make that happen, then he will truly be the "Mighty Quinn" for the Dallas Cowboys.
Guadalupe Theater Hosts Performance of Amalia Ortiz's The Cancin Cannibal Cabaret & Other Songs
Chisme and a Tex-Mex remix of Georges Bizets iconic opera Carmen dubbed Carmen de la Calle.An evolution of an MFA thesis manuscript Ortiz started writing before Trumps election, The Cancin Cannibal Cabaret & Other Songs functions as a multidimensional, multipurpose endeavor. Although firstly a collection of socially conscious, political poetry that doubles as a script for a punk musical, the forthcoming Aztlan Libre Press book is also a conceptual commentary on propaganda, a love letter to the DIY aesthetics of rasquachismo, a rebuttal of performance poetrys questionable reputation within the ranks of academia and a refugee, people of color, feminist, and LGBTQ+ call to action. In the books introduction, Ortiz explains that The Cancin Cannibal Cabaret is more than a flat manuscript of text, but rather words which claim three-dimensional space.Set in a post-apocalyptic, not-so-distant future just after the establishment of a totalitarian government, The Cancin Cannibal Cabaret centers around La Madre Valiente, an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist refugee secretly planning an intersectional feminist revolution with assistance from her roving emissaries, the Black Bards and Red Heralds. Human flesh, however, is not on the menu. Here the term cannibal refers to the cannibalization of knowledge from before the fall of civilization as well as Ortizs homolinguistic translations (essentially English to English reconfigurations) of songs and poems by the likes of Bob Dylan and late Chicana icon Gloria Anzalda whose poem The Cannibals Cancin sparked the projects name. If you enjoy Anzalda or Dylan, you might enjoy this, Ortiz suggests.In celebration of the books national release on July 27, the Guadalupe Theater plays host to a free book launch and a complete performance of The Cancin Cannibal Cabaret, which Ortiz describes as a deliberately theatrical spectacle involving costumes, makeup, choreography, stage lighting, music and video.
sacurrent.comCelebrities' hidden talents
Bob Dylan (iron working) -- The legendary singer-songwriter has also shown off his artistic talents outside the music world, including several exhibitions of his watercolors and drawings over the past decade. But he revealed another talent in late 2013 when an exhibition of his ironwork sculptures opened at Halcyon Gallery in London. "I've been around iron all my life ever since I was a kid," Dylan in exhibition literature. "I was born and raised in iron ore country where you could breathe it and smell it every day." Hide Caption
Classic album covers in Google Street View
Classic album covers in Google Street View A Google Street View specialist at London's The Guardian used Google to place classic album covers, such as Bob Dylan's "The Freewheelin'" and Oasis' "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?," into their current-day street view. Anthony Mason reports.
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