I’m balancing on a tightrope, 3,000 feet above the Nordic fjords. As I glance down into the watery abyss, my stomach churns. Then, with a few flicks of my index finger, I’ve ditched Scandinavia for Pangea, where I’m frolicking with velociraptors who come within centimeters of my face to sniff and size me up. Next, I find myself in a present-day sanctuary for dehorned rhinos, so close that I can count individual eyelashes on the majestic creatures.
I have not been hop-scotching around the world with a passport and a DeLorean. I’m hanging out in Culver City, Calif., using Apple’s Vision Pro headset to transport. Earlier this month, the tech monolith invited me to one of the first screenings of its original studio content made for the device. My experience was jaw-dropping and emotional, one immediately followed by great anxiety about the implications the device could...
I have not been hop-scotching around the world with a passport and a DeLorean. I’m hanging out in Culver City, Calif., using Apple’s Vision Pro headset to transport. Earlier this month, the tech monolith invited me to one of the first screenings of its original studio content made for the device. My experience was jaw-dropping and emotional, one immediately followed by great anxiety about the implications the device could...
- 3/25/2024
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Ask any young woman in pop today whose songs she first sang into her hairbrush as a child, and at the drop of a hat, or wig, she might tell you it was Britney, or Beyoncé, or Dolly, or Mariah.
As a little girl in the capital of the Dominican Republic, Natti Natasha’s divas of choice were hip-hop stars: She cites Lauryn Hill and Ivy Queen among her faves. Born Natalia Alexandra Gutiérrez Batista in Santiago de los Caballeros, the 32-year-old singer-songwriter wants to be that diva for another...
As a little girl in the capital of the Dominican Republic, Natti Natasha’s divas of choice were hip-hop stars: She cites Lauryn Hill and Ivy Queen among her faves. Born Natalia Alexandra Gutiérrez Batista in Santiago de los Caballeros, the 32-year-old singer-songwriter wants to be that diva for another...
- 3/15/2019
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
When the Specials’ Jerry Dammers’ launched the 2 Tone label in Britain in 1979, his group was more than just a ska revival band with good taste in covers — they were a multi-racial spearhead of a post-punk movement combatting skinhead racism (fueled by far-right groups like the National Front) and the craven business-first classism of the Thatcher government. Now, with racist nationalism on the rise amidst the Brexit debacle, the Special’s third album — 38 years since the last one, More Specials — is well timed. As frontman Terry Hall puts it, the band remain “horribly relevant.
- 2/2/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Like many of the post-punk U.K. ska bands, The Specials were serious fans of the late Cecil Bustamente Campbell, aka Prince Buster, one of Jamaican music’s godfathers. They covered his “Too Hot” on their debut, “Enjoy Yourself” on their follow-up; their cohorts Madness made his “One Step Beyond” their signature. Now, the Specials have overhauled Prince Buster’s mid-Sixties spoken word single “Ten Commandments of Man.” A battle-of-the-sexes routine, the original addresses a woman as if she were property, instructing that she obey him “In my every whim...
- 1/31/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
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