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Vicki Lawrence on how she had a No. 1 hit with future ex-husband’s ‘The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia’ before their split: ‘I got a gold record, and I got the dog’ By

Some fans, depending on their age, know comic legend Vicki Lawrence as the ingenue from The Carol Burnett Show, or as Mama’s Family matriarch Thelma Harper, or maybe even as...

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Lyndsey Parker wins six 2024 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards By

I am proud, honored, and actually quite gobsmacked to announce that I won six awards (three for first place, and three for second place) at the 2024 Los Angeles Press Club’s...

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Rufus Wainwright talks Folk Cancer: The Kate McGarrigle Project, mother’s final performance: ‘All of the atoms in her body just rallied’ By

In January 2010, folk legend Kate McGarrigle, beloved mother of singer-songwriters Rufus and Martha Wainwright, passed away at age 63 from a rare form of cancer called sarcoma. She gave her...

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Nina West talks A Drag Queen Christmas tour and the importance of hope in the new year: ‘I know that I’m not giving up’ By

Sitting in her Brooklyn hotel room ahead of that city’s production of A Drag Queen Christmas — a celebratory annual holiday revue starring some RuPaul’s Drag Race’s most celebrated queens,...

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Lyndsey Parker in Paramount+ documentary ‘Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boy Bands’ By

  I recently appeared in Tamra Davis’s feature-length documentary that chronicles the evolution, secrets, and surprising figures that helped create pop music’s most misunderstood group: the boy band. As seen...

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L7’s Donita Sparks talks Fast and Frightening Takeover, Rock for Choice’s legacy, and being ‘scary broads’: ‘Men were terrified. … Some dudes were just not ready for L7’ By

On Nov. 23, punk legends L7 will host their Fast and Frightening Takeover, a three-stage, all-ages all-nighter at the Belasco in Downtown Los Angeles. The epic event will feature fellow...

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How making ‘One for Jackie,’ learning a shocking family secret helped Rett Madison heal after mother’s suicide: ‘It just shifted the way I viewed my mom as a person’ By

One year ago, L.A.-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist released One for Jackie, a stunning concept album about grief and loss in the classic tradition of Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night, Nick...

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Lyndsey Parker & Kerry Brown on Spectrum’s Licorice Pizza Records report By

Licorice Pizza Records owner/music producer Kerry Brown and I recently sat down with Spectrum News 1 to discuss the revival of the Licorice Pizza brand, which includes not only a...

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Lyndsey Parker on ABC’s 20/20 special ‘The Price of Fame: The Liam Payne Story’ By

As a longtime fan of One Direction and The X Factor, I was honored, if deeply saddened, to take part in the timely new primetime special Price of Fame: The...

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Matt Johnson talks near-death experience, politics, AI, sex robots, love, loss, and The The’s triumphant return: ‘Life is very fragile and short, and you’ve got to make the most of it’ By

Post-punk auteur Matt Johnson, best known as the one-man creative driving force behind seminal college rock band The The, hasn’t exactly been idle during the past 24 years — he’s...

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