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San Francisco Chronicle
13-06-2025
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- San Francisco Chronicle
Big news for Beatles fans: FAMSF extends Paul McCartney photo exhibition
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has extended the popular photography exhibition ' Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm,' giving visitors nearly three additional months to catch the show. Initially planned to run through July 6, at the de Young Museum, it will now be on view through Oct. 5 — marking the first time in its global tour that the show has been extended. More Information Museum officials also promise more programming surrounding the exhibition, including a special screening of the acclaimed documentary miniseries 'McCartney 3, 2, 1' scheduled for June 21. Meanwhile, visitors have an opportunity to check out the show until 9:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12, as part of its Late Night Editions series that features live music and food trucks. The exhibition was originally presented at the National Portrait Gallery in London in June 2023, and has traveled to the Brooklyn Museum and Portland Museum of Art. But the de Young is the show's only California stop. The museum reports that in the first weeks after its March 1 opening, 'Eyes of the Storm' welcomed 85,000 attendees. FAMSF said that 100,000 have seen it overall. The exhibition features more than 250 photos by the 82-year-old Beatles musician, along with archival footage and other images of the band. The photos were rediscovered in the artist's personal archive in 2020, and show the band's rise to global stardom from December 1963 through February 1964 during a tour that took them from local venues in Liverpool to their debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' taped in New York and Miami. McCartney was 21 at the time, armed with a 35 mm Pentax single-lens reflex camera during the birth of what came to be known as 'Beatlemania.' The Beatles formed in Liverpool, England, in 1960, with McCartney on the bass, guitarists John Lennon and George Harrison, and drummer Ringo Starr. The band is considered one of the most influential groups in music history, credited with helping usher in what became known as the British Invasion in the United States in the early '60s. McCartney and Starr, 84, are the only living members of the band. Lennon was 40 when he was assassinated in 1980, and Harrison died at 58 of lung cancer in 2001. During their decade together, the Beatles performed in the Bay Area three times — at the Cow Palace in Daly City in August 1964 and again in August 1965, and at Candlestick Park on Aug. 29, 1966. The San Francisco show was their final concert ever before the band broke up in 1970. The de Young's decision to extend the exhibition is notable amid a time of uncertainty for art institutions nationwide, as many face major federal funding cuts and the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The Star
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
Fashion fabulosity: Sly Stone didn't just change music – he changed style too
In 1974, decades before Ye, then known as Kanye West, packed Madison Square Garden for a twin album-fashion spectacular, Sly Stone, the cosmically groovy singer-songwriter who died Monday (June 9), offered his own extravaganza of dance, funk and flash on New York's biggest stage. The occasion was a sold-out Sly & The Family Stone concert in front of more than 20,000 fans, and the centrepiece was Stone's wedding to Kathy Silva – a gold and black display of fabulosity. The bride and groom (and the whole wedding party, band included) wore coordinated Halston looks. Stone wore a gleaming cape and jumpsuit, the waist cinched with a big gold belt buckle, so he looked like a cross between a disco superhero and a sci-fi lord come lightly down to Earth. Behind them, a dozen models in black dresses carried gold palm fronds. It was, The New Yorker declared, 'the biggest event this year'. It was also seven years after Stone arrived on the music scene promising A Whole New Thing (the name of his debut album), and boy, had he delivered. Read more: A new generation of fashion lovers are just getting to know Steve Madden Sly Stone's style crossed genre, race, gender and audience. It offers unity in a psychedelic stew of fringe, rhinestones and lame that was sometimes celebratory and sometimes chaotic, often outrageous, but almost always impossible to forget. Photo: Instagram/Sly Stone He introduced not just a whole new sound but a whole new kind of style to the stage. Like his music, it crossed genre, race, gender and audience, offering unity in a psychedelic stew of fringe, rhinestones and lame that was sometimes celebratory and sometimes chaotic, often outrageous, but almost always impossible to forget – whether it was on The Ed Sullivan Show or the Woodstock stage. 'He had a look,' Questlove, drummer, record producer, disc jockey, filmmaker, music journalist, and actor, wrote in the introduction to Stone's 2023 autobiography, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) . He loved an accessory: a necklace, an arm band and, especially, a hat. He wore giant, broad-brimmed fedoras long before Pharrell Williams stepped out in his 20-gallon Vivienne Westwood number in 2014, as well as crocheted toppers and exaggerated newsboy caps – like the silver-sequinned style he wore with his magenta-sequinned shirt for a performance on The Midnight Special in 1974. He was his own Spaced Cowboy (the name of his song) in Nudie suits, spangled vests and wigs. 'He challenged people's perception of normalcy,' Williams wrote in The New York Times . 'He wore seriously fly clothes, and to this day, I have no idea how he walked around in those platforms.' And it wasn't just him; it was the whole band. Stone had a theory of fashion just as he had a theory of rhythm, one that emphasised the individual within the group dynamic. He would pick the colours for the crew – his favourites were red, white and black, which were also the colours of his living room, but within that spectrum, they were free to go their own way. At a time when many Motown bands still wore matching suits and ties, the idea that band members should dress to express their own bliss was revolutionary. 'Sly had the idea that we should be in the same theme, but make it be your own personality,' Jerry Martini, the band's saxophone player, said in a video interview posted on the band's YouTube channel in 2013. Read more: 'Doing what I love': Malaysian fashion designer Zang Toi is living his best life He also described a day when Stone, dissatisfied with whatever outfit Martini had planned, looked around, grabbed a razor and cut up a cow-skin rug for him to wear like a poncho. The point, Greg Errico, the band's drummer, said in the video interview, was 'to be colourful'. Not just to stand out, although they definitely did that, but 'to be like (what) music is – music is technicolour'. Stone understood the power that came from connecting the ears and eyes, and he stuck to that conviction through his struggles with drugs and the industry, as his appearance during a 2006 Grammys tribute in silver lame and a giant blond mohawk attested. He didn't just sing about embracing 'the skin I'm in'. He offered everyone a bedazzled primer for how that might look. – ©2025 The New York Times Company This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Daredevil group debuts for the summer at Holiday World
SANTA CLAUS, Ind. (WEHT) — Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, Holiday World is welcoming a summer-long attraction to the park. The Nerveless Nocks will be putting on the stunts, and it's promising a Las Vegas-caliber show. Soaring through the sky, jumping rope four stories in the air, bending in all different fashions, defying gravity: this is just a sneak peek into what Holiday World unveils at the park. Replacing the park's dive show and a group coined by Queen Elizabeth, The Nerveless Nocks is spending the entire summer at what's considered America's first theme park. 'It's so beautiful here, and I guess that's why people come here. It's like a hidden jewel in the forest, and we just love it. Looking forward to a great summer,' The Nerveless Nocks President Michelangelo Nock says. The seventh generation owner says his group predates all of us, establishing in 1840 in Switzerland and traveling the world before eventually sharing the same stage with The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Meanwhile in Santa Claus, the Holiday World staff say they were looking to improve their guest experience and believed it was time for a change. Beginning last fall, the park started talking with The Nerveless Nocks about bringing its show to Holiday World and some park guests attending the first show Friday morning tell me it's a worthwhile decision. Parkgoers couldn't help but look in awe — or look aware in anxiousness — and capture the act on their smart phones. The daredevils hailing from Florida, South Carolina, Wisconsin and Mexico even grabbed the attention of others waiting in lime for a nearby ride. For thirty minutes at a time, they go into the spinning wheel 40 feet off the ground, inside the sphere of fear with motorcycles and put on a jet pack and soar 30 feet in the air. 'It was wonderful. And the jet ski. That was my favorite. The jet ski — the jetpack was awesome,' says Jessica Hare visiting the park from Henderson. 'I had to leave, and I came running back when I saw it.' 'I love it a whole lot — the circus — more than the dive show,' says Madison Woodard from Evansville. 'A whole lot more.' There's still plenty of time for the Tri-State to see these performers for themselves. They go on stage three times a day each day the park is open from now until Labor Day. 'When we get performing as a team, we see the smilies on people's faces — the fun they're having,' says performer from Wisconsin Troy Stowe. 'We have so much fun as well. So, it's great to be out here and going live with these guys.' Daredevil group debuts for the summer at Holiday World Gibson County visionaries cut the ribbon on the Toyota Indiana YMCA Posey County's first inclusive playground opens in Mt. Vernon Union County residents 'still processing' Friday tornado Evansville business owners work to build a partnership with city officials Eyewitness News. Everywhere you are. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
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Joan Rivers' tribute to bring out the stars including Aubrey Plaza
"I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive. Things are happening." ~ Joan Rivers A new comedy special will bring Joan Rivers back from the dead, at least for one night. NBC will honor the life and legacy of the late comic with "Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute," an hour-long television special set to air May 13. It will be available to stream on the Peacock network later this month. "Given that I'm dead, I assume someone will finally decide to honor me," Rivers said in a letter she left for her daughter, Melissa Rivers. "Well, it's about time." The comedy special, which stars Delaware's own Aubrey Plaza and cameos from many famous comics, was filmed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on the opening night of the 2024 New York Comedy Festival, NBC said in a news release. You won't get far down the list of most influential comedians of the 20th century without landing on Joan Rivers. The comedy pioneer, died in 2014 at the age of 81. Here's what to know: Joan Rivers was a comedian and television personality who was a regular on NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and made frequent appearances on other shows, including "The Ed Sullivan Show." Rivers also served as host of daytime talk show "The Joan Rivers Show," for which she earned her first and only Emmy Award. She later hosted Fox's version of "The Tonight Show," dubbed "The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers." Rivers is best known for her fashion commentary on E! Network's "Fashion Police" and "E!'s Live from the Red Carpet" telecasts before every major award show, from the Golden Globes to the Grammys. She discussed the dos and don'ts of celebrity fashion from 2010 up until her death in 2014. Rivers also famously coined the phrase, "Who are you wearing?" Rivers also was a Grammy Award winning performer, a Tony Award-nominated actress, bestselling author, playwright, screenwriter, film director, columnist, lecturer, radio host, jewelry designer, entrepreneur and the renowned creator of the modern-day red-carpet interview show. As first reported by Deadline, the tribute to Rivers next month will feature a long line of comedians including Aubrey Plaza, Tracy Morgan, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Chelsea Handler, Howie Mandel, Patton Oswalt and many more. With her sharp tongue and daring wit, Rivers didn't hold back, and neither will the tribute special. Other celebrities on the bill for "Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute'' include Nikki Glaser, Bill Maher, Rachel Brosnahan, Tiffany Haddish, Neil Patrick Harris, Joel McHale, Jean Smart and Rita Wilson. Also featured in the special, which was recorded at the historic Apollo Theater in New York City last fall, will be Rivers' daughter, Melissa Rivers. According to NBC, "Performers will deliver a mix of classic Rivers zingers and modern stand-up, and there will be musical bits, as well.'' The group, including Chelsea Handler, will "pay homage to Rivers' razor-sharp humor and impact on pop culture" through standup, musical bits and tributes. They will also revisit "Rivers' legendary cabinet of jokes" but add their own personal spin to the material to make it timely and a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. "Given that I'm dead, I assume someone will finally decide to honor me. Well, it's about time,' Rivers wrote in a letter she left for her daughter, Melissa Rivers, NBC reports. "This tribute is everything my mother would have wanted — hilarious, unfiltered and filled with people she respected (and roasted). And as usual, she was still the funniest person in the room," Melissa Rivers said in a statement. "It's incredibly moving to see so many iconic comedians come together to celebrate her legacy, especially the women whose careers she helped make possible by breaking down so many doors." Aubrey Plaza has been keeping a low profiile since the death of her husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena, who died earlier this year at the age of 47. Plaza made her first public appearance since Baena's death on Feb. 16 when "Saturday Night Live" celebrated turning 50 that weekend. The Wilmington actor Plaza once interned for "SNL,'' served as a page for NBC and also hosted the show in 2023. Plaza, who stars in Marvel's "Agatha All Along,'' also appeared in previously recorded Super Bowl commercial for Ritz crackers. The award-winning actress has several films due out later this year including Ethan Coen's "Honey, Don't,'' and Zach Woods' "The Accompanist,'' starring Susan Sarandon. You can watch the Joan Rivers tribute on NBC on May 13 at 10 p.m. EST, and subscribers also will be able to stream an 'extended and uncensored version' of the special on Peacock on May 14. The longer version will include more artists to be announced. And on June 5, an encore presentation of the original special will air on E! You can learn more by visiting Delaware and Hollywood: What movies & TV shows were made in Delaware? If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, seek help from a professional and call 988. The United States' first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline988 will connect callers with trained mental health counselors. Text 'HOME' to 741741 in the U.S. and Canada to reach the Crisis Text Line. This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: How to watch 'Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute,' Aubrey Plaza
Yahoo
06-05-2025
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Paul McCartney's Rare Photos to Feature in Special L.A. Exhibition
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways Paul McCartney: Ringo rehearsing at the Deauville for our second live appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (light leak), Miami Beach, 15 February 1964 - Credit: © Paul McCartney/ Courtesy the artist and Gagosian This spring, the art gallery Gagosian LA will exhibit 36 of Paul McCartney's recently rediscovered photos, including some that featured in the former Beatle's Eyes of the Storm book and many that have never been shown before. The photos were taken between December 1963 and February 1964. And the exhibition, titled 'Rearview Mirror: Photographs, December 1963–February 1964,' opens April 25 and runs through June 21. More from Rolling Stone One never-before-circulated shot (above) is an artistic view of Ringo Starr in a loose-fitting white shirt, drumming at Miami Beach's Hotel Deauville ahead of the the Beatles' second Ed Sullivan Show appearance. McCartney took the photo on Feb. 15, 1964. Poolside at the Pollaks', Miami, 15 February 1964 'The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein arranged for the band to play two live appearances on the popular Sunday television program, The Ed Sullivan Show: the first on Feb. 9 from the show's New York-based studio, and the second a week later, on Feb. 16, from Miami,' Joshua Chuang, director specializing in photography at Gagosian, tells Rolling Stone. 'The second performance was broadcast from the Deauville Hotel, the beachside resort in Miami Beach where the Beatles also stayed. At this point, Beatlemania was officially gaining steam in America and cheering fans were a constant; the press nicknamed the hotel 'Beatle Central,' as fans milled about the grounds and wrote the band messages in the sand below their balconies. 'The Beatles rehearsed for their performance in the hotel's 'cool room' near its outdoor pool, wearing hotel-issued toweling shirts,' Chuang continues. 'McCartney took photographs of his bandmates as they practiced their six-song set. Lennon, ever-so-cool, strums his guitar while wearing sunglasses, while Starr is framed in a psychedelic fog — an inadvertent interaction of light and chemistry that resulted in a one-of-kind image.' The exhibition includes other photos taken at the Deauville, as well as early selfies and images of Beatlemania. Prices for the photos, which are individually signed, will range from $15,000 to the high five figures. Proceeds from the sales of the photos will benefit recovery efforts for those affected by the recent southern California wildfires. An exclusive video from Gagosian shows McCartney reflecting on the photos and signing them, as well as sharing stories behind songs like 'Yesterday' and the Beatles' visit to the States. 'We didn't really know how important Ed Sullivan was,' he says. 'We hadn't heard of him. … By the time we got to America, that was the coolest thing. But when we went on this show, we didn't realize the significance. It's just another TV show, we thought.' Gagosian's exhibition complements the 'Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm' exhibit, currently showing at San Francisco's de Young Museum. Chuang says the photos show McCartney's natural inclination toward visual art, citing the singer-songwriter's collaboration with artists like Peter Blake and Jann Haworth on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Richard Hamilton on the cover of 'The White Album.' He also notes that McCartney came up with the cover image for Abbey Road. 'Of course Paul is very much associated with the medium of photography — I'm thinking of the well-known photographs of him taken by the likes of David Bailey, Harry Benson, and Richard Avedon, and the fact that his first wife Linda and daughter Mary were and are photographers,' Chuang says. 'What isn't as well known, however, is Paul's own engagement with photography. There are a number of images from the mid-1960s of him with a camera, but his photos were never made public; he even forgot about them for a while! Their rediscovery is a major event, and working with Paul and his team to bring them into the world has been a privilege.' In his opinion, Chuang believes the photos provide an 'indispensable perspective' of the Beatles. 'I can't think of another time when a figure of such importance — not just musical but also cultural and historical — captured the very moment their impact was first being made with such compelling photographs,' he says. Best of Rolling Stone Sign up for RollingStone's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
