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Yinka Olatunbosun Tina, a 2021 American-British documentary film, directed by Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin. Produced by Erwin Bach, it trails the life and career of rock and roll legend, Tina Turner and it is not the first documentary of her life. This version is particularly interesting because the focus is not just on a grass-to-grace story but on the trauma that trails the success story of a sexual violence survivor and the role that the media plays in building the box around a survivor, mak...

Desert in The Boston Lyric Opera presents a new miniseries on its Opera Box TV service that tells the story of a married female couple running a mysterious motor lodge where guests pay to be reunited with lost loves. The longform music video and supernatural love story is propelled by new music from a number of composers including Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Reid, who co-created the series with playwright Christopher Oscar Peña and director James Darrah. During Pride Month, the Pie Hole teams ...

In 1993, Tupac Shakur had the world in his hands—until he became the center of a trial that would change hip-hop forever. For the first time, a juror is speaking out about what happened inside the jury room.

May 5, 2021 Today is Wednesday, May 5, the 125th day of 2021. There are 240 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 5, 1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later set aside.) On this date: In 1494, during his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus landed in Jamaica. In 1818, political philosopher Karl ...

Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, May 5, the 125th day of 2021. There are 240 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 5,

: Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 2:30 AM IST Tina Turner & Dolly Parton: Two divas & unwitting feminist icons whose attitudes set them apart from all celebs, writes Deepa Gahlot If Dolly personified the white American dream girl, with her sweet voice, dimpled smile and daintiness—Jane Fonda recalls how she always stepped out of her room fully made up with wig in place—Tina Turner, in her Sheena: Queen of the Jungle-inspired look, sang in a raspy voice, danced vigorously on stage and dripped...

Who’s going to tell the makers of TINA that as its legendary subject recounts a harrowing experience of fleeing her abusive ex-husband by running across a Dallas freeway, the film’s accompanying stock footage shows Downtown Houston – not our little sister town? Or at least that, unlike plenty of Ike Turner’s songs in sound, not all Texas city skylines look the same? However late it is for Turner’s camp to distinguish Dallas from Houston, HBO’s recent documentary on the 2021 Rock & ...

That spiderweb is quintessentially Austin: irreverent, endlessly entertaining, and weird as hell. And among longtime veterans in the city’s rap community and upstarts alike, there’s a growing belief that the latest generation of local rap acts, led primarily by artists including Mama Duke, J Soulja, Mike Melinoe, Riders Against the Storm, Vintage Jay, Magna Carda, Abhi the Nomad, Deezie Brown, The Teeta, Chucky Blk, among others, combined with a push to create infrastructure that can suppo...

Review: In Tina, the final word from a legendary survivor This image released by HBO shows Tina Turner performing in 1976, from the documentary Tina. (Rhonda Graam/HBO via AP) Tina Turner (HBO via AP) This image released by HBO shows Tina Turner performing in 1973, from the documentary Tina. (Rhonda Graam/HBO via AP) Published April 09. 2021 1:42PM  By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit In the opening moments of the HBO documentary “...