Coles

After being a pop star in his 20s (as keyboard player in the Communards with Jimmy Somerville), Richard Coles became an Anglican vicar and then a broadcaster (notably as a co-presenter for 12 years on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live). The 61-year-old is now a bestselling novelist: his second “cosy crime” book, A Death in the Parish, featuring the country vicar and occasional sleuth Canon Daniel Clement, is out now in paperback; a third mystery follows this summer. He lives in East Sussex with his two dachshunds Pongo and…

When 27-year-old BookTok creator Sat posted a TikTok criticizing a dark romance book for what she called “romanticizing” the Ku Klux Klan, she thought the video would spark a conversation about racism in book publishing. But even after the author, Tillie Cole, removed the book, Sat and at least two other BookTok creators tell Rolling Stone that after publicly criticizing the book, they were targets of a coordinated harassment campaign on TikTok.  “I wanted to bring it to folks’ attention because I thought maybe…

"Coles team members are not impacted by this partnership and there is a clear distinction between the roles of Coles team members and third-party courier pickers," the spokeswoman said.LoadingUber has long argued that its workers value the flexibility of choosing their own hours and receive fair pay.But Josh Cullinan, secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, said the pact was “ringing alarm bells” and would worry Coles staff.“Using Uber in the way that’s being described would appear to fundamentally undermine…

Who said two legends can’t coexist? J. Cole and j-hope, two superstars in their respective music spaces, have linked up for hope’s new single “on the street” which marks a full-circle moment for the BTS singer. Hope has idolized Cole since the beginning of his career, covering his track “Born Sinner” on his own song “Born Singer” in 2013, which was officially released on BTS’ project Proof last year after Cole cleared the sample. Suga of BTS explained how grateful the K-Pop group as a whole was for the rapper in an …

California teenager Chloe Cole has become something of a star in the movement to deny treatments to transgender youth. She has given testimony or made public statements in support of anti-treatment bills in Florida, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Idaho and North Dakota; appeared on Fox News; and shared a Washington platform with right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). That’s useful for you to know in assessing Cole’s latest moment in the spotlight: her filing of a lawsuit against the giant Kaiser Permanente…

J Cole fans just received a mid-week surprise.On Wednesday night, producer Bvtman unleashed the rapper’s new track “Procrastination (Broke),” along with the following text message about its origin.  This song should live on your channel and serve as a thank you to you and every producer out there cooking up and sharing their work with the world. It’s a million artists out there right now just like me, hungry and searching every day for something to spark a word, a melody, a hook, a verse, a punchline, a way to vent,…

The debut novel from broadcaster and cleric Reverend Richard Coles, Murder Before Evensong features Daniel Clement, amateur sleuth and rector of St Mary’s church in Champton, an English village surrounded by verdant hills and country lanes lined with primroses. Set in the late 1980s, the book introduces us to a cast of characters including: flower arrangers Stella Harper and Anne Dollinger; an aristocratic landowner, Bernard de Floures; a retired headmaster Ned Thwaite; and Daniel’s no-nonsense mother, Audrey, who…

J. Cole and Dreamville Records’ annual festival is set to return in Spring 2023.On Monday, the label confirmed the show will return to Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina on April 1 and 2, 2023. The festival made its post COVID-19 lockdown return last year following a three-year hiatus. Early-Bird ticket sale registration for the ‘23 fest is open here, with further announcements regarding the line-up set to follow soon. “Dreamville Festival wants to keep growing and building off the success of the expanded…

Lil Pump doesn’t think J. Cole was right about his career trajectory, even if he’s on good terms with the rapper.In an interview with Bootleg Kev, the 22-year-old rapper reflected on what he took away from his sit-down interview with Cole four years ago. “He was trying to understand young generation, ’cause at that time people didn’t understand what was going on with the music,” he said. “‘There’s this new wave coming in, we don’t understand it but we’re just gonna roll with it.’ But I fuck with J. Cole, I don’t have no…

| We've talked a lot here in these auction posts about L.B. Cole's skill at creating covers that stood out on crowded newsstands, and Ghostly Weird Stories #122 is yet another memorable example of that ability.  68 years after that issue was published, that cover still made me want to read the comic to find out what the hell happened on that tragic death ship.  During the Star Publications era, Cole made a point of being particularly inspired by the interior story he was cover featuring, and Disbrow's stories brought out…