U2 cover "Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Come Home)."
MY MORNING JACKET visits World Cafe.
THE LEMON TWIGS share “I’ve Got A Broken Heart” and “Friday (I’m Gonna Love You).”
THE NOTWIST returns with "X-Ray."
PETE FIJ shares "Love's Coming Back."
ULRIKA SPACEK shares "Square Root of None."
BUDDY GUY: The Last of the Old Bluesmen?
THE TOP 25 ALBUMS of 1995, according to Paste.
THE 50 GREATEST BEATLES SONGS, according to Paste. A little hot takey, but I am there for number five.
PETER HOOK, on the bass work of the late Mani.
THURSTON MOORE shares the soundtrack of his life.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Zootopia 2 tops the chart with 156MM over the long holiday frame, breaking records along the way. Wicked: For Good placed with 93MM on a 57 percent drop. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t showed with 10MM. Below the fold, Predator: Badlands became the highest grosser of the franchise domestically.
TOM STOPPARD, a four-time Tony-winning playwright who won an Oscar for the Shakespeare In Love screenplay, was nominated for co-writing Brazil, and script-doctored Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, among others, died at 88. Here's a super-deep dive into his Indiana Jones work.
MACAULAY CULKIN, 35 years after Home Alone.
JOSH BROLIN, on fame, fights, addiction, and friendship with Donald Trump.
GEORGE CLOONEY & ADAM SANDLER, on success, fatherhood — and the parts they didn’t get.
GUY PEARCE issued an apology for sharing “misinformation and falsehoods” about Israel on social media while supporting Palestine online. I doubt he means it.
KEVIN SPACEY, facing more accusations.
QUENTIN TARANTINO put a lost chapter of Kill Bill in Fortnite.
JODIE FOSTER, on Taxi Driver, De Niro, and more.
LILLY WACHOWSKI, on Right-Wing Misinterpretations of The Matrix.
ZIGGY is excited for pool day.
BIRD HARDWARE, cat software.
A SEA TURTLE eats the wrong thing.
DUCKLINGS brave the current.