Bree Runway is Giving Us the Righteous Pop Music We Need Right Now
Bree Runway This week: “2ON” by Bree Runway (Virgin EMI Records, 2019) Why we’re into it: It’s intense. It’s loud. It’s messy. It’s also what the pop music needs right now. Runway originally hails from the London borough of Hackney and has only two other songs out, 2016’s “Butterfly” and 2017’s “What Do I Tell My Friends.”…
More People Than Ever Say They Support Trans Rights. But Do They Support the Policies?
LGBTQ activists and supporters rally in support of transgender people at New York City Hall in late 2018.Drew Angerer / Getty Images A survey by the Public Religion Research Institute made headlines last week with its finding that 62 percent of Americans say they have become more supportive of transgender rights in the last five years. Media…
Why “Jaws” Was So Terrifying, According to the Guy Who Co-Wrote It
Zanuck/Entertainment Pictures/ZUMA When Steven Spielberg’s Jaws premiered on this date 44 years ago, on June 20, 1975, it was a booming success: In the first weekend, it grossed $7 million—adjusted for inflation, that’s a whopping $33 million. The film would go on to inspire a wealth of pop culture moments: a Saturday Night Live skit…
In Martin Scorsese’s “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story,” the Masks Drop, and the Women Disappear
Circuit Films/Zuma Around the midway point of Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, now out on Netflix, the actress Sharon Stone tells a story. It seems that at some point in 1975, Stone had been invited to tag along with Bob Dylan and crew on his Rolling Thunder Revue tour. She would…
Suburbs Aren’t Only Conformist, White-Bread Clichés. They’ve Also Been Radical, Green, and Visionary.
Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty The typical suburb as it is stereotyped in the popular imagination is white, wealthy, and conformist. The Monkees’ 1967 song “Pleasant Valley Sunday” captured the cliché by describing a place with “rows of houses that are all the same and no one seems to care,” where there’s a TV in…
Trump Labels Fox News “Fake” and Claims “Something Weird Is Going on” at Network
Ron Sachs/ZUMA President Donald Trump on Monday accused one of his favorite media outlets of spreading “fake news” after Fox News anchor Bret Baier reported on the network’s own polling that showed the president trailing or tied with a number of top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination. That survey, which showed Joe Biden leading Trump by…