“Bring Your Love,” Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter‘s new song release, tops this week’s best new music poll. Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (May 1) on Billboard, choosing the superstar team-up as their favorite music release this week. “Bring Your Love” rose to the top in a week that also delivered new music from Zara Larsson,…
One year in, Pope Leo XIV’s papacy has been rooted in truth, unity and love — the distinct gifts of his religious order, the Order of St. Augustine — making him a shepherd who leads with a blend of bridge-building and truth-telling, according to those who know him well and from afar. A panel made up of a…
Martin Short is not a national treasure — the Canadian comic actor and Hollywood superstar is a full-on continental treasure. Short is getting his flowers with new Netflix documentary Marty, Life is Short, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, the writer-director of The Big Chill, Wyatt Earp and Body Heat. Kasdan is incredibly accomplished, clearly — he’s…
“I was used to fans,” Felicity Barnard, the chief executive of Ascot, says, recalling earlier roles in charge of commercial operations at Arsenal and West Ham. “At Arsenal, I was used to selling 60,000 shirts at the beginning of every season and that doesn’t happen here, so it’s teaching me how to be nimble and…
Seven minutes before Olivia Rodrigo gets on the phone, Billboard announces that her new single, “Drop Dead,” has debuted at number one on the Hot 100. When I mention this, she becomes almost too shy to speak. “It’s been a very exciting few weeks,” she manages. No kidding. Rodrigo is taking the call during a…
Jason Derulo took the witness stand in a federal courtroom in downtown Los Angeles Thursday and denied claims he stiffed guitarist-producer Matthew Spatola out of writing credit and royalties on his chart-topping hit “Savage Love.” “Mr. Spatola created nothing on ‘Savage Love,’” Derulo said, asserting that he hired Spatola only as a session musician for…
biography Homesick for a World Unknown by Miriam Horn In her engaging, lyrical book, Horn tells the story of the famed naturalist George Schaller, who went to the Belgian Congo in 1959 to study mountain gorillas. (He would go on to work with other animals, including Brazilian jaguars, Indian tigers and Serengeti lions.) Schaller, Horn…
Twenty years ago Andy Sachs, an eager journalist fresh out of Northwestern University, stepped into the office of the most fashionable devil in movie history, the Runway magazine editor Miranda Priestly. Since its premiere in 2006, “The Devil Wears Prada” has been, unironically, one of my personal favorites. I’m not the only one; the comedy…
The Last Dinner Party marked their two-show run at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom with a cover of LCD Soundsystem’s ‘New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down’. The 2007 classic came as the first of a three-song encore from the English rock outfit, witnessed by the Hammerstein crowd on Saturday (April 25)….
Antoine Griezmann’s significance at Atletico Madrid goes far beyond his numbers. He is regarded as their greatest player, not just a goalscorer, but more importantly as the most complete expression of what the club stands for. Simeone spoke about him with genuine emotion, even saying he loves him. Thierry Henry thanked him publicly a couple…
