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Saturday Night Live cast and Chis Rock reflect on crazy COVID year in season finale Danielle Turchiano, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The cast of “Saturday Night Live” wrapped up their 46th season on May 22 by addressing the audience directly in the cold open to discuss the “crazy” year we all just went through due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But they weren’t alone: comedian and actor Chris Rock, who hosted the first episode of the season, joined them to bring things full-circle. Ai...

"Thank you for staying with us through an election, an insurrection, and an objection that there was an insurrection."

“We went from doing very weird shows at home to terrifying shows in person,” Bowen Yang said.

“Saturday Night Live” scrapped its typical cold open for the show’s Season 46 finale, opting instead to have its cast members do something a lot of us are…

The cast of “Saturday Night Live” wrapped up their 46th season on May 22 by addressing the audience directly in the cold open to discuss the “crazy” year we all just went through due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But they weren’t alone: comedian and actor Chris Rock, who hosted the first episode of the season, joined them to bring things full-circle.

  Article Contributed by Calabro Music Media | Published on Sunday, May 9, 2021 Steven Bernstein, the beloved virtuoso trumpeter, arranger, bandleader and composer, has announced Community Music, a four volume series that presents one album every three months over the course of a year via independent record label, Royal Potato Family. Indeed, community is the essence of these recordings, made over four days in 2020 and featuring an ensemble of musicians who have been both integral to the ...

Rolling Stone Menu April 30, 2021 11:47AM ET The Last Word: Marianne Faithfull on Fame’s Dark Side and the Evolution of ‘As Tears Go By’ The singer also discusses poetry, drugs, Mick Jagger, and the advice she lives by By Illustration by Mark Summers for Rolling Stone Marianne Faithfull has lived several lifetimes in her 74 years. She was only 17 when the pop song  “As Tears Go By” turned her into a star overnight in 1964, and she was in her early twenties when he...

Rolling Stone Songwriter Eric Andersen Crossed Paths With Everyone From Dylan to Warhol. Now, He’s Getting His Due With the release of a new documentary about his life, the cult-favorite balladeer recalls hanging with Patti Smith, befriending Lou Reed, and almost being managed by the man who gave us the Beatles By David Brownes Most Recent Stories The Eric Andersen Archives* Even in the Sixties, Eric Andersen was never a typical troubadour. Harper’s once described him as s...

Songwriter Eric Andersen Crossed Paths With Everyone From Dylan to Warhol. Now, He’s Getting His Due David Browne Even in the Sixties, Eric Andersen was never a typical troubadour. Harper’s once described him as sporting “high cheekbones like Rudolf Nureyev’s,” and he eschewed folk sing-alongs for his own sensuous ballads, like “Violets of Dawn,” “Thirsty Boots,” and “Close the Door Gently When You Go.” The Beatles’ Brian Epstein wanted to manage him, Jo...

Marianne Faithfull: ‘I may never sing again’ How the great rock’n’roll survivor beat cancer, heroin, homelessness, heartbreak – and now Covid (but only just) 24 April 2021 • 5:00am I really did get close to croaking: singer Marianne Faithfull spent 22 days in hospital with Covid Credit: Rosie Matheson Covid-19 almost killed Marianne Faithfull. “I really did get close to croaking,” she tells me. “As close as I’ve ever been.” This time last year, Faithfull spent 22 days in h...