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From Pamela Anderson and Amy Winehouse to Cher and Sonny Bono, several A-list celebrities have shown their Halloween and Hollywood pride by dressing up as other stars.

When Jessica Biel was on the hunt for a 2019 Halloween costume, husband Justin Timberlake declared, "It's gonna be me." But she's hardly the first celebrity to dress as one of her own.

Any artist figuratively bragging about bleeding for their craft would be stopped short by Thurston Moore’s Sonic Life: A Memoir. That’s not only because of the doorstopper’s near 500 page heft, but also because the Sonic Youth guitarist makes those pages whiz by with jolting anecdotes, including one about how he repeatedly lacerated his finger, spurting blood across the stage, while playing his famously abrasive riffs. Or as he puts it, during a recent video call with Under the Radar: “A...

While Halloween and costume parties are a prime time to dress up as someone totally opposite of yourself, there are some people who take it a bit too far.

There are a surprising number of books on or by Sonic Youth, the most important of the East Coast bands to emerge in the wake of the first wave of US punk (1974-78). An excellent Spanish biography and an Italian potted history precede the three English language bios to date, while Thurston Moore’s ex-wife Kim

In this modern age, we must separate the art from the artist, or there will be fewer books, artworks and musicians that we can enjoy and learn from.  Separating the art from the artist involves differentiating appreciation for an artist’s work from their actions; this act is essential to continue absorbing art. People can and...

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Sean Howe’s Agents of Chaos is an immersive, eye-opening dip into the 1970s

Naomi Fry on Tony Notarberardino’s black-and-white photos of people who stayed at the Chelsea Hotel, including Debbie Harry, Stephen Baldwin, and Susanne Bartsch.

Minneapolis-based film fest spotlights local links for Austin leg