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Anointed a blues guitar prodigy before he was old enough to drive, 40-year old Austin, Texas native Gary Clark Jr. has spent much of his career thinking outside his primary genre, and his latest JPEGRAW sounds more than ever like the music Clark wants to make rather than the music folks think he makes. Since as early on as his second album, the underrated 2015 collection The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, Clark has embraced everything from fuzzy rock to funk to Princely psychedelia. JPEGRAW continues his never ending…

Gary Clark Jr. will celebrate the March 22 release of his new album JPEG RAW with a free stream that day of his private concert for the Soho Sessions. The gig will be streamed exclusively via the Veeps platform on March 22. During the performance, fans and viewers will have the opportunity to donate to Music Will, which brings music education to over a million students who don’t currently have those programs in their local schools due to budget constraints. “Singer, songwriter, guitar virtuoso Gary Clark Jr.…

McCanna Anthony “Mac” Sinise, a musician and son of actor Gary Sinise, died on Jan. 5 following a battle with a rare spinal cancer called Chordoma. He was 33. The CSI: NY actor shared the news of his son’s death on his Instagram and his foundation’s website Tuesday, where he wrote a heartfelt tribute. “The week the album went to press, Mac lost his battle with cancer,” Gary wrote. “He died on January 5, 2024 at 3:25pm, and was laid to rest on January 23rd. Like any family experiencing such a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeForrest Gump star Gary Sinise has announced the death of his son, McCanna “Mac” Anthony Sinise, who was 33.Mac, a multi-instrumentalist musician, died on 5 January following a years-long battle with the rare spinal cancer Chordoma.Sinise shared a lengthy tribute to his son on his foundation’s website, announcing that his son had recently completed work on his album Resurrection &…

Gary Sinise’s only son, McCanna “Mac” Sinise, died last month after a 5½-year fight with a rare bone cancer, the veterans activist and “Forrest Gump” actor announced Tuesday on his foundation’s website. “Like any family experiencing such a loss, we are heartbroken and have been managing as best we can,” the actor wrote. “As parents, it is so difficult losing a child. My heart goes out to all who have suffered a similar loss, and to anyone who has lost a loved one.”Mac Sinise was 33 when the cancer chordoma took his life…

Gary Stevenson had a meteoric rise from the rags of east London to the riches of Citibank, and his new book charts that journey. This is not a sleazy tell-all along the lines of the 2008 bestseller Cityboy, or the 2013 box-office hit The Wolf of Wall Street. Stevenson is exceedingly smart and a man with a conscience. Since leaving the bank at the age of 27, he started the YouTube channel GarysEconomics to explain, among other things, how massive money creation by the Bank of England has favoured the wealthy, while warning…

Late last year he wrote a book, called Taming Silicon Valley, which is coming out this fall. It is his manifesto on how AI should be regulated, but also a call to action. “We need to get the public involved in the struggle to try to get the AI companies to behave responsibly,” he says.  There are a bunch of different things people can do, ranging from boycotting some of the software until people clean up their act to choosing electoral candidates around their tech policies, he says.  Action and AI policy are needed…

There’s old-fashioned entertainment value in this tough, if faintly preposterous Nordic western, a muscular, brash and well photographed piece of work from Danish director Nikolaj Arcel, co-written with Anders Thomas Jensen. It’s adapted from the 2020 bestseller The Captain and Ann Barbara by Ida Jessen, which is itself loosely inspired by a true story from Denmark’s history about the retired 18th-century army captain turned farmer Ludwig von Kahlen.Kahlen got royal permission to cultivate the lawless and desolate Jutland…

In April 2023, a 54-year-old programmer named Gary Bowser was released from prison having served 14 months of a 40-month sentence. Good behaviour reduced his time behind bars, but now his options are limited. For a while he was crashing on a friend’s couch in Toronto. The weekly physical therapy sessions, which he needs to ease chronic pain, were costing hundreds of dollars every week, and he didn’t have a job. And soon, he would need to start sending cheques to Nintendo. Bowser owes the makers of Super Mario $14.5m…

Gary Bowser loves video games, but Nintendo turned him into a villain. No, not just because he shares a name with Bowser, the actual villain of the Mario franchise. The human Bowser helped mod Nintendo’s gaming consoles so people could play free, pirated versions of its video games. Then one day, he woke up with three rifles pointed at his head and $14.5 million in debt to Nintendo.What Was Your First Experience with Super Mario Bros? | io9 InterviewBowser was the subject of a Department of Justice sting operation and…