”Peeeeeeete!!” A collective scream builds and crescendos, carrying across the glassy man-made waterways of Orlando’s Universal Studios Florida theme park. The object of these dolphin-pitched cries, a diminutive 27-year-old named Pete Wentz, pulls his red hoodie further over his forehead, to no avail. As the bass player and de facto leader of the multiplatinum Chicago-based emo-pop outfit Fall Out Boy, he is also the band’s sex symbol, known for tabloid-documented dalliances with various Mystic-tanned starlets. Read More...
Wednesday was a big day at the Sunoco Station on Wayne Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. The local gas station saw hundreds of people show up, but not to buy gas: for a secret Limp Bizkit show that never happened. Rumors of an April 20 concert at the Dayton gas station began with a Facebook event that went viral. Although the event was actually scheduled for 2017, many of the 8,000 people who marked that they would attend misread or assumed the date to be 2016, and a portion of those attendees also failed to realize the event was fake. Read More...
If one can name a definitive literary classic of the late 20th century, The Color Purple is surely in contention. The 1982 Alice Walker novel became a celebrated Steven Spielberg film in 1985, introducing the world to Whoopi Goldberg and earning Oprah Winfrey an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Since then, the tale has gone on to be reinvented on the stage as a musical, earning 11 Tony nominations in 2006 and spawning a hit 2015 revival. Read More...
