Barack Obama musical to debut in March

By Liz Stinson at 5:27 PM on January 21, 2009

Well, that sure didn't take long.Not even 24 hours after the inauguration of the 44th president, Playbill News announced that a new musical entitled Obama On My Mind will premiere March 21 at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in north London....  read more

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Barack Obama guest-stars in Spider-Man issue #389

By Rachel Dovey at 8:45 AM on January 13, 2009

Tomorrow (Jan. 14), for the low price of $3.99, you can watch President-elect Barack Obama get inaugurated, be pursued by an evil doppleganger and exchange his signature fist-bump with Spider-Man. No, this isn't reality television; it's Marvel Comics Issue #389, featuring a storyline and cover dedicated to the future president....  read more

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Barack Obama inauguration events to air on HBO for free

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 11:54 AM on January 8, 2009

HBO already has a stake in Barack Obama as a cultural icon, and it seems the network’s faith in his enduring popularity has few limits. The network has snagged rights to air an inauguration special touted as a top-shelf event with musical performers and special appearances—and has agreed to make it available for free to any viewer with a cable or satellite subscription. ...  read more

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Brian Eno sounds off on Israeli offensive in Gaza

By Jeremy Goldmeier at 10:48 AM on January 8, 2009

Well, it's certainly made the rounds. Brian Eno, the man of a thousand influential production credits, has some thoughts on the latest cycle of tragedies in the Mideast....  read more

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Paste launches Obamicon.me

By Paste Staff at 8:00 AM on January 7, 2009

The longest election season in memory is now over...  read more

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Beastie Boys, Sheryl Crow, Jack Johnson, Santogold - Richmond Coliseum - Richmond, VA - 10/28/08

By Austin L. Ray at 11:00 AM on December 2, 2008

[Above: Beastie Boys]Photos taken at Richmond Coliseum by PJ Sykes...  read more

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Neil Young has some advice for Detroit's Big Three

By Michael Saba at 3:06 PM on November 14, 2008

One imagines Neil Young growing restless on his tour with Wilco and Death Cab for Cutie, only too conscious of the greenhouse gas his cross-country jaunt generates. Yet with bailout bonanza fever raging in the heart of Capitol Hill and Detroit's biggest automakers seeming more like Oliver Twist than Arthur Jensen, what's the second greatest living songwriter to do?...  read more

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HBO nabs Ed Norton-produced Barack Obama doc

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 5:20 PM on November 7, 2008

With a sensational ending now in tow, Edward Norton’s Class 5 Films has sold television rights for its unfinished Obama documentary to HBO for “low seven figures,” according to Variety. ...  read more

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Mavis Staples reflects on Hope, Barack Obama's election

By Henry Freedland at 1:39 PM on November 7, 2008

It's not like it was really a question who Mavis Staples was pulling for in the election. And once it actually happened, releasing the former Staple Singers' Live: Hope at the Hideout the day of seemed liked it had been an awfully well-conceived idea....  read more

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ATL students rap like T.I.: "You can vote however you like"

By Michael Saba at 2:50 PM on November 4, 2008

Hip-hop and presidential politics: two great tastes that taste great together. Sure, we already know that most rappers are firmly in the tank for Obama, but in the weird pop-cultural bouillon that has been the election season it was only a matter of time before they flipped the keys, as the canny Nasir Jones put it. The students of Atlanta's Ron Clark Academy have done just that with a little song-and-dance number about the 2008 election that's already spreading like wildfire across the grassy plains of the interwebs....  read more

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