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Harvey Weinstein has filed an appeal seeking a new trial and accusing the judge of not ensuring he received a fair trial, according to multiple reports.
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers are demanding a new trial more than a year after his rape conviction.
Rosanne Cash's new song "The Killing Fields" grapples with a dark part of southern United States history: lynchings. The singer-songwriter wrote the song, she shares, during the summer of 2020. "A few years of my own personal reckoning with painful issues of race, racism, privilege, reconciliation and individual responsibility led up to the moment in the summer of 2020, when finally no one could avert their eyes from the truth of white privilege in America, and the damage and sorrow caused by systemic racism," says Cash, who is the daughter of country legend Johnny Cash, himself known for sev...
... Nearly a year after he died from Covid-19 and just over a year after he was granted a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, the late John Prine hovered angelically over this year’s American Roots field with two Grammy wins on Sunday. His posthumously released single “I Remember Everything” was named Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song, a songwriter trophy shared with Nashville’s Pat McLaughlin. Prine now has four career Grammys. “The music community in Nashville and beyond, your love and encouragement has meant the world to us this past year,” said Fion...
Moses had always avoided the limelight, but in 2018 he felt he could do so no more. He published an excoriating blog arguing for his fatherâs innocence and describing Dylanâs allegation as ridiculous: âThere was no electric train set in that attic. There was, in fact, no way for kids to play up there, even if we had wanted to,â he wrote. âAs a trained professional, I know that child molestation is a compulsive sickness⦠yet some would have you believe that, at the age of 56, [Allen] suddenly decided to become a child molester.â Iâve experienced suici...