Among the myriad of objections leveled at Betsy DeVos, US president Donald Trump’s pick to lead American public education, the most stark is the fact that she’s never actually attended a public high school or university. Nor have her four children.
Grammy-winning R&B singer Chrisette Michele “didn’t even think to say no” when she was asked to perform at one of the official balls at US president Donald Trump’s inauguration last weekend. She “thought that it was almost my responsibility to not just say yes, but to say yes with purpose,” she says in an interview with Billboard.
Whatever troubles Jay Z is facing with his music streaming service Tidal, there’s no denying how astonishingly far it’s come.
While once a fail-safe way to land a well-paying job, going to law school in the US is nowadays proving more of a risk than a guarantee of a cushy salary. Legal job prospects are shrinking, tuition is rising, and students are being warned to think twice before committing to a degree program.
At first glance, Tidal—the music streaming service owned by rapper Jay Z, rivaling Spotify and similar platforms—seems to have had a decent year. It put out exclusive music by artists like Beyoncé and the late Prince, surging to the top of app download charts, and was in talks to be bought by Apple Music.
It all begins today.
Can’t quite fit Donald Trump’s US presidential inauguration festivities in Washington into your plans this week? Boycotting it on purpose? Couldn’t find a dress before the DC shops all sold out?
With much of Hollywood and the music industry refusing to perform at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration this weekend, many people have been asking: Why not bring in Kanye West, the biggest A-list celebrity who has shown public support for the US president-elect, who’s also visited him at a one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower?
“Potential grizzlies,” Betsy DeVos stammered during her Jan. 17 Senate confirmation hearing, in a deeply odd answer to the question of whether she supports having guns in American schools. Yet at least it was something.
Betsy DeVos, president-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education, will go in front of a Senate committee at 5pm today (Jan. 17), to be grilled about her qualifications for the office. DeVos is already considered a controversial pick for the nomination, and her confirmation could have an outsized impact on the 50 million students that attend public schools in the US.
When George Mason University law professor Frank Buckley started putting together a pro-Trump group of academics last year, he was hard-pressed finding colleagues willing to actually scribble their names down.
A handful of new musicians have been added to Donald Trump’s imminent inauguration—dubbed by the president-elect a ”GREAT SHOW,” while thought of by almost everyone else as possibly the worst Super Bowl halftime lineup ever.
Usually when a business unveils some exciting brand-new product, it follows up by expanding its workforce, not shrinking it.
Shiny and bright is the future of Netflix right now. The video streaming service took a bet on original television programming that has paid off in spades: Sci-fi adventure Stranger Things dominated water-cooler talk last summer, royal drama The Crown snagged top awards at the Golden Globes, and critics are keenly eyeing what’s next.
It is a U2 song, of all things, that has faithfully followed Barack Obama’s remarkable journey to the White House—and now, a decade later, out of it.
In a rare, concentrated dose of star power, Interview magazine posted an interview today between Beyoncé and her sister Solange—the former the most recognizable pop star in the world, and the latter a rising household name, thanks to the success of her last album A Seat at the Table.
One of the biggest dilemmas of the modern age is thus: Is a college degree worth it? Yes. And also no.
The iPhone is Apple’s keystone product, and it’s stumbling. Thanks in part to a tepid response to its latest iteration of the product, the mega tech company saw sales and profit fall in the 12 months ended Sept. 24, the first fiscal-year decline for Apple since 2001.
Before packing up his things from the White House in a few days, Barack Obama is throwing one last party there. It’s tonight (Jan. 6), and—true to the outgoing president’s signature suave style—it’ll likely be spectacular.
“Slowly at first, and then all at once.” To quote those words from Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is to describe, in the most succinct way, what’s happened to the music industry in recent years—specifically, its incredible takeover by digital music streaming.
“Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption,” 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once declared. “It is not only an interruption; it is also a disruption of thought.”
Coachella, the glitzy music bacchanal drawing thousands of beads-wearing twenty-somethings to the California desert each spring, has released its 2017 festival lineup. There’s an oddity in this year’s list of performers: Hans Zimmer, the award-winning composer who wrote the score to The Lion King, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, Pirates of the Caribbean, and several other blockbuster films.
The clouds of controversy swirling around Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, who president-elect Donald Trump has chosen for his attorney general, are looming ever larger.
Of the factors contributing to Donald Trump’s presidential win, one particularly stands out: his fervent support from white America. Academics and political analysts have spent the weeks since Nov. 8 trying to pinpoint exactly how—and why—racial divides played such a significant role in this year’s US election.
