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Two-Lane Blacktop roars with the hopes of an era when gearheads, hucksters, and hippies believed that time on the road would solve all their problems.

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.

100 hidden heroes of film history. Plus Ben Wheatley on In the Earth, Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby, Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, Jane Fonda, Limbo and refugees on film.

Scotsman Obituaries: Eric Carle, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Brian Pendreigh Eric Carle, writer and illustrator of children’s books. Born: June 25 1929 in Syracuse, New York. Died: May 23 2021 in Northampton, Massachusetts, aged 91 © Author Eric Carle - complete with caterpillar cap - at an event in New York in 2009 (Picture: Getty... Eric Carle survived conscription into the German war effort as a 15-year-old towards the end of the Second World War and subsequen...

Rolling Stone Menu The Beach Boys’ New ‘Feel Flows’ Box Set: An Exclusive Guide We run down 10 revelatory moments from the upcoming collection focusing on the group’s pivotal 1969–71 era By Iconic Artists Group LLC/Brother Records Inc.* At the dawn of the Seventies, the Beach Boys had a lot to prove. Their pop success was a thing of the past — even artistic triumphs like Pet Sounds and Wild Honey were commercial flops. The boys of summer were pushing 30 by now, b...

Eric Carle, writer and illustrator of children’s books. Born: June 25 1929 in Syracuse, New York. Died: May 23 2021 in Northampton, Massachusetts, aged 91

From Hellbilly Deluxe to The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy, we rank Rob Zombie’s biggest, baddest bangers…

Artist Biography by Bruce Eder Michael Franks was born in La Jolla, California in 1944. His parents werent musicians, but they were music lovers and he was soon immersed in swing music and vocal jazz and pop. Franks early idols included such jazz-cum-pop legends as Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee, as well as composers and lyricists such as Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Johnny Mercer. His first instrument was the guitar, and he got the only formal instruction of his life -- a total of six private...

Michael Franks Artist Biography by Bruce Eder Michael Franks was born in La Jolla, California in 1944. His parents werent musicians, but they were music lovers and he was soon immersed in swing music and vocal jazz and pop. Franks early idols included such jazz-cum-pop legends as Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee, as well as composers and lyricists such as Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Johnny Mercer. His first instrument was the guitar, and he got the only formal instruction of his life -- a total...

Monte Hellman in 2009 Credit: Roberto Serra - Iguana Press/Getty Images Monte Hellman, who has died aged 91, was a writer-director working on Hollywood’s fringes who achieved semi-legendary status among cinephiles, in part due to a filmography consisting almost exclusively of cult items. The most notable of these was Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), an anti-road movie that crystallised American anomie at the moment of Vietnam. Backed by Universal to replicate Easy Rider’s success, the finished fea...