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Jan 20, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Derrick Taylor
NEW YORK - TikTok might have gone dark briefly in the United States over the weekend, but that did not stop one notable new user from joining the app last week: Bob Dylan. A verified account for the legendary singer-songwriter, Nobel Prize-winner and current subject of a Hollywood biopic appeared on the app last week with a 50-second video montage featuring excerpts from his songs Like A Rolling Stone (1965), Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (1973) and Hurricane (1975).
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Derrick Taylor
TikTok faces a possible ban in the coming days, but that did not stop one notable new user from joining the app this week: Bob Dylan.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Derrick Taylor |Michael Gold
The singer Carrie Underwood said Monday that she would perform next week at President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration. “I love our country and am honored to have been asked to sing at the Inauguration and to be a small part of this historic event,” Ms. Underwood said in a statement on Monday.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Derrick Taylor
The miseries of flying for work are well documented. Delays. Cancellations. The eternal gamble: to check or not to check bags, risking damaged or lost luggage. For professional cellists, whose tools of the trade are extremely delicate instruments that can be worth thousands if not millions of dollars, and which certainly do not fit into the overhead bins, flying can be exponentially worse.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Derrick Taylor
The episode, which struck a chord with cellists around the world, occurred last week when Kanneh-Mason and his sister, Isata, a pianist, were on tour and trying to fly from Cincinnati to Toronto, with a connection in Washington. Their original flight, on American Airlines, was delayed and then canceled, a spokeswoman said. So they bought tickets on a new flight to Toronto on Air Canada - including one for his cello.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Derrick Taylor
Since making their relationship public in December 2023, the couple have not shied away from the cameras, and have discussed their romance in interviews. "She's truly just like my best friend," Blanco said on "The Howard Stern Show " in May, adding that he was already thinking about having children. "When I look at her, I do say, I don't know a world where it can be better than this."Gomez echoed similar sentiments in a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning, calling Blanco her best friend.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Derrick Taylor
A performance of "Breaking: The Musical," a parody exploring the journey of the Australian breaker known as B-girl Raygun, whose unusual routines at the Paris Olympics this summer led to mockery and memes, was shut down after a cease-and-desist letter. Steph Broadbridge, the show's creator and star, said she was willing to make changes so the show could move forward, but not at the expense of art.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
staradvertiser.com | Derrick Taylor
Dick Van Dyke, the lithe and witty nonagenarian whose career spans more than seven decades, has added yet another role to his lengthy resume: music video star.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Derrick Taylor
Dick Van Dyke, the lithe and witty nonagenarian whose career spans more than seven decades, has added yet another role to his lengthy résumé: music video star. Van Dyke, who starred on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" from 1961 to 1966 and danced his way through "Mary Poppins" 60 years ago, pulls out some of his signature dance moves while the band's frontman Chris Martin plays an upright piano. The video, directed by Spike Jonze and Mary Wigmore, was filmed in October.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
myheraldreview.com | Derrick Taylor
Stephen King, the horror author whose books have sold hundreds of millions of copies, inspired classic films and disturbed untold nights of sleep, has long played another role closer to his home in Maine: local media magnate. For more than four decades, King, an enthusiastic rock fan, has owned small independent radio stations in Bangor, Maine.
