New this week: Lizzo, 'Criminal Minds' and 'The Woman King'
This week’s new entertainment releases include an live posthumous album from Tom Petty, the criminal profile spinoff series “Criminal Minds: Evolution,” a documentary about the plucky Mars Rover Opportunity and a TV series that focuses on the backstage melodrama at the Chippendale’s male strip clubs.
Bob Dylan gates “beckon” at Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum
The newest donation to the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU graces the front walkway as part of FIU’s public sculpture park. Dylan, the subject of a recent retrospective at the Frost Art Museum, has long been associated with the music world. This is the first work of public art by Dylan in the United States, a legacy to creativity and an entryway to FIU’s campus art museum. “The collection of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum has just grown exponentially stronger with the donation of this sculpture by Bob Dylan,” said Museum Director Jordana Pomeroy. The gates are as a permanent addition to the Frost Museum collection.
communitynewspapers.comBob 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 Taylor’s “Never Die Young” 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 laureate’s 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. Brigden’s 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.comBob Dylan Wins Lawsuit Against Co-writer Jacques Levy’s Estate
We’re glad it’s now over.”The suit was filed by Levy’s wife, Claudia Levy, in January 2021 after Dylan sold his publishing catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group in December 2021. Judge Barry Ostrager of the Supreme Court of New York agreed with Dylan and Universal Music Publishing Group’s lawyers. The court also noted that Levy’s estate has continued to receive royalties from the co-written songs, before and after Dylan’s catalog sale, set at 35 percent, with no ownership conferred. He was also instrumental in the creation and direction of Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour. The Levy lawyers had contended that his agreement with Dylan was “atypical” and stood apart from similar publishing agreements.
thewestsidegazette.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 ‘n’ 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 – 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.comWill Cannabis Help Or Hurt You?
Countries such as the United States consider marijuana a ‘Schedule I’ type of drug, which means that it does not have a beneficial health effect. However, medicinal cannabis is available in certain U.S. states. THC, which is responsible for most of the therapeutic effects of cannabis, and CBD, responsible for some other health benefits,” said Guzmán. For this reason, it is imperative to analyze its side effects so doctors utilize the beneficial effects to help patients. Edited by Fern Siegel)The post Will Cannabis Help Or Hurt You?
thewestsidegazette.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,” 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 year’s round of Nobel Prizes, sharing in all three science awards before Thursday’s 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.comClassic 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.
cbsnews.com