Here’s Darlene Love, Anna Kendrick, The Roots, and Jimmy Fallon Doing ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’

[unable to retrieve full-text content] One of our favorite television holiday traditions was Darlene Love’s annual visit to David Letterman’s show – first Late Night on NBC, then The Late Show on CBS – to sing her Phil Spector-produced Christmas classic, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).” When Letterman went off the air in 2015, Love […]

Local Roots: Farm-in-a-box coming to a distribution center near you

Enlarge / The interior of a TerraFarm. (credit: Local Roots) Eric and Matt could not be more earnest in their quest to feed the world. These two fresh-faced LA boys founded Local Roots four years ago. Their first purchases were broken-down, 40-foot shipping containers—this is apparently easy to do, since it is cheaper for shipping […]

Meet the Anti T-Swift Taking Folk Music Back to Its Protest Roots

Bearded and wearing a flannel shirt, Eli Smith stands on a block of cement with a banjo in his hand, offering it to passersby for a toss into Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. But Smith isn’t your typical folk-musician hipster, and the banjo toss is a gimmick. For this 34-year-old musician, producer and founder of the Brooklyn […]

Watch Vince Staples Perform “Love Can Be” With His Idol Ray J — Plus Kilo Kish, Damon Albarn and the Roots — on Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’

Vince Staples’ Big Fish Theory is the business — it’s one of the best albums of the year to date, and if you haven’t heard it yet, you should, y’know, probably go and do that immediately. But wait, before you do, watch this performance of “Love Can Be” from last night’s Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, […]

Pixar Goes Back to Its Roots With New Experimental Short Division

Pixar has a problem. It’s a problem that’s well-detailed in The Atlantic article, “Did Disney Ruin Pixar?” which proposes that the once-great animation studio has reached the end of its golden age, weighed down by halfhearted sequels and poorly received original films. But maybe with the recent announcement of a new experimental shorts division, Pixar […]

Call of Duty WW2 setting LEAKED: Sledgehammer to go back to series' roots for COD 2017?

It looks like Call of Duty 2017 may have a WW2 setting on PS4, Xbox One and PC. The FamilyVideoGamers YouTube channel (which you can check out this link) claims to have been sent leaked promotional material that shows a WWII setting for the upcoming COD. This includes a promotional poster featuring the D-Day landings, […]

The EU is seeking post-Brexit unity by going back to its roots at Rome

Tony Gentile/Reuters Photos ROME — Sixty years ago, Britain shunned a meeting in Rome where six war-scarred neighbors founded what became the EU; on Saturday, it is again absent, this time from a somber birthday party as it quits a bloc which now embraces most of Europe. It might have been a modestly hopeful summit […]

Cruising with Jane McDonald: Former ship singer returns to her roots for Channel 5

Starting tonight, the first episode of the four-part series will explore a 4,345-passenger MSC Divina on a seven-night Caribbean cruise. Viewers will get a sneak peak behind the scenes of the ship, owned by MSC Cruises, as it sails from Miami, with veteran Jane as their guide. Jane, who hasn’t set foot on a ship […]