Elahe Izadi

Women released some great comedy specials last year, but the Grammy will go to a man

February 6, 2019 at 4:51 p.m.

Here's your annual reminder that, nope, you don't have to be involved with anything musical whatsoever to win a Grammy. Comedians can get one, too, and one will at Sunday's...

7 things we learned from HBO’s revealing new Robin Williams documentary

December 13, 2018 at 3:35 a.m.

"Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind" fittingly starts out by showcasing how the comedic master's mind ricocheted at a dizzying velocity, bouncing around from character to character. The new documentary,...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Hip-hop mourns rapper Craig Mack, dead at 46

December 14, 2018 at 9:44 p.m.

Craig Mack, known for first putting Sean "Diddy" Combs's Bad Boy record label on the map with his iconic single "Flava In Ya Ear," died Monday at the age of...

Michelle Williams got paid way less than her male co-star; it’s a sad Hollywood tradition

December 15, 2018 at 6:01 a.m.

When Michelle Williams attended Sunday's Golden Globes with Tarana Burke, the activist behind "Me Too," the actress adeptly turned the focus of red carpet interviews back on the message she...

Mike Campbell, left, and Tom Petty of the Heartbreakers perform at Wrigley Field on June 29, 2017, in Chicago.

Tom Petty used the Confederate flag onstage in the ’80s — then he took a stand against it

June 2, 2018 at 8:41 a.m.

When Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers toured to promote their 1985 release "Southern Accents," the Confederate flag became a part of the marketing and appeared onstage. It's a decision that,...

Disney just added a new character to ‘Aladdin,’ and not everyone is pleased

June 2, 2018 at 6:54 p.m.

Disney has been busy making live-action versions of beloved animated classics, and perhaps none has been as closely watched - and criticized - as "Aladdin." The latest blowback started after...

Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham).
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‘Game of Thrones’: The wildest — and likeliest — fan theories

June 2, 2018 at 10:31 p.m.

We only have to wait about two years, give or take, before we finally get to find out where the "Game of Thrones" saga will end. Sunday's Season 7 finale...

This one ‘Game of Thrones’ character is basically responsible for all the things

June 2, 2018 at 10:56 p.m.

Chaos is a ladder, and the climb for Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish has come to an end (RIP Smirking). During Sunday's season finale, Sansa deliciously ticks off all of Littlefinger's misdeeds...

Another Civil War alternate history comes to TV — but with black independence and reparations

June 3, 2018 at 7:26 a.m.

Creating alternate-history entertainment can be incredibly fraught, especially when the subject matter is rooted in American slavery and the outcome of the Civil War. That became abundantly clear last week...

‘Bachelor in Paradise’ host says ‘there’s a lot of misinformation out there’ about show shutdown

June 4, 2018 at 5:57 p.m.

The entertainment press and tabloids picked apart the news that production on "Bachelor in Paradise" shut down over the weekend following alleged "misconduct." Now the host of the popular "The...

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