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It stars Annalese Starzec as Frances “Baby” Houseman and Blake Zelesnikar as Johnny Castle, who are currently on tour with the musical Dirty Dancing: The Musical, the stage production based on the beloved 1987 film, is heading to Broadway. The musical will open at the Lena Horne Theatre in New York on Feb. 12, 2027 and will run through Sept. 5. “Set during an unforgettable summer in the Catskills in 1963, ‘Dirty Dancing: The Musical’ follows Frances “Baby” Houseman, whose undeniable connection with charismatic dance instructor Johnny Castle leads to an unexpected discovery of love, passion and independence,” the synopsis…
Freddie Jackson, the soul balladeer and slow jams firebrand whose “Rock Me Tonight,” “You Are My Lady,” and “Have You Ever Loved Somebody” dominated R&B radio in the Eighties, died Monday. The singer’s social media confirmed the news but did not list a cause of death. He was 70. “Freddie was more than a legendary voice,” a statement from Jackson’s family said. “He was a kind, generous soul who loved his fans, his family, his friends, and his music with everything he had. For decades he gave us the songs that became the soundtrack to our love stories, our celebrations,…
From products designed for one person to saunas spacious enough for an entire group, these are the best splurge-worthy picks to buy during Amazon’s massive sale If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Unless you’re a frequent spa-goer with a monogrammed bathrobe to your name, chances are that it’s been a minute since you last entered a sauna. But what if you could sweat it all out whenever you want with your own at-home steam room? Not only will it let you skip that trip…
Update: On October 6, 2026, FKA twigs dropped her latest lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf after the actor agreed to void an NDA prohibiting her from publicly discussing the alleged sexual abuse she experienced during their relationship. In a statement provided to Pitchfork, twigs’ attorney, Mathew Rosengart, said,“Twigs stood up for something larger than herself, female survivors of sexual abuse.”Original story follows:FKA twigs has filed a new lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf, claiming the actor is attempting to prohibit her from publicly discussing the alleged sexual abuse she experienced during their relationship or any additional issues related to sexual violence.In 2020, twigs…
The Comet Is Coming, a breakout Shabaka project and key influence on London jazz in the 2010s, are readying a 10th anniversary reissue of their debut album, Channel the Spirits. The trio, completed by Danalogue and Betamax, is packaging the Mercury-nominated record with its EPs from the period (Prophecy and Death to the Planet), as well as four previously unreleased recordings. One, “Late Night Party Jam 2,” was put to tape at Total Refreshment Centre, the beloved London venue where the group served as unofficial house band. Listen to it below. The reissue, exhaustively titled Exploding in Slow Motion: the…
Historians chronicling the decline and fall of humanity will have any number of key moments to point to as the beginning of the end. But a handful might single out an innocuous meeting at the University of Toronto in 2003. A 17-year-old named Ilya Sutskever — born in Russia, raised in Israel, and a citizen of Canada — walked into the office of Professor Geoffrey Hinton. The latter ran the college’s Computer Science department; the former is intrigued by the teacher’s lectures on neural networks. Impressed by the student’s hyper-intelligence and keen grasp of the concept, Hinton offers to take…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. NAD supplements have been one of the biggest health trends in the last couple of years, with celebrities and wellness influencers espousing the supplement’s benefits. If you’ve been hearing all the buzz and want to check it out for yourself, now is the time: Several of the best NAD supplements are currently discounted during Amazon’s October Prime Day sale. If you’re unfamiliar, NAD supplements work at the cellular level to (hopefully) yield a range of anti-aging benefits, including…
Harry Styles has been transforming Madison Square Garden into New York’s hottest club every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday since his 30-night residency kicked off in August. Each begins with a seamless transition from Jamie XX’s opening DJ set into almost two hours of strobe lights and dancing built around Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. But lately, another piece of the party has been thrown into the mix: “Telephone Busy” by 5 Seconds of Summer. The crowd has begun chanting the opening verse of “Telephone Busy” in time with the pulsating bridge of “Ready, Steady, Go!” — with no prompting…
A rare record from Led Zeppelin, which the band ordered to be recalled and destroyed, has been found on Antiques Roadshow. The rarity was found as the hit BBC show headed to Wales for a recent episode. When at Caerphilly Castle, a man brought in a copy of a seven-inch single, and told antiques expert Marc Allum about how he managed to get his hands on it. The seven-inch contained the legendary group’s classic single ‘Whole Lotta Love’, which was certified gold in the US and had a rare single pressing of 500 copies made by Atlantic Records. Led Zeppelin…
Everyone from Roger Daltrey and Lucinda Williams to Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Dave Matthews, and Billy Strings have played the 1989 Neil Young classic in just the last couple of weeks Neil Young and the Restless, which included Crazy Horse guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro, were touring America in early 1989 when a proposed cultural exchange with the Soviet Union — which would have sent the rock band into the repressive communist nation and the Russian ballet into America — fell apart. “Neil was like, ‘Damn, I really wanted to go,’” Sampedro recalled to Rolling Stone in 2013. “I said, ‘Me…
