When Ye and Ty Dolla Sign asked last month for permission to sample Donna Summer’s 1977 song “I Feel Love,” the disco singer’s estate firmly told them no. Yet when their joint LP, “Vultures 1,” was released weeks ago, a song with strong similarities to Summer’s famous tune was there
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Marc Summers Is Still Up for a Double Dare. (Hold the Green Slime.)
Rehearsing at a studio space in Times Square earlier this month, Marc Summers was crouched low, engaged in a conversation with God. Such scenes are staples of one-person shows like the kind that Summers is bringing to Off Broadway, but his arch tone suggested he wasn’t approaching this existential moment
COMIC: In the '90s I survived summers in Egypt with no AC. How would it feel now?
In elementary school, NPR’s Malaka Gharib visited her dad in Cairo each summer. It was hot, there was no AC — but she coped. In this age of global warming, she wonders: How are Egyptians getting by? (Image credit: Malaka Gharib/NPR) Source link
Donna Summer’s Bedazzled Closet and Ephemera Will Go Up for Auction
For nearly a decade after Donna Summer’s death in 2012, her home in Nashville remained like a shrine to the Queen of Disco’s decades-long music career. Beaded gowns that she had worn onstage remained tucked away along with designer pumps in the upstairs closet; ephemera such as an annotated album
International Fiction: Summer’s in High Gear and So Are the Cities
THE ETERNAL AUDIENCE OF ONEBy Rémy Ngamije376 pp. Scout Press. $28. Séraphin Turihamwe, the sharp-witted protagonist of Ngamije’s debut novel, “The Eternal Audience of One,” is bursting with teen angst when we first meet him in hot and dusty Windhoek, Namibia. The son of Rwandan exiles, he feels doubly alienated,
This Summer season’s Dance MVP: The Weatherman
Additional north, Williamstown Theater Pageant in Williamstown, Mass., can be internet hosting its first totally out of doors season this 12 months, on discovered phases, together with the Clark Artwork Institute’s reflecting pool, the place Grace McLean stars in “Row.” The musical misplaced almost 60 % of outside rehearsal time