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QUINCY, Wash. —  Joni Mitchell hasn’t played a full concert for a live audience — an audience that knew she was coming, that is — for more than 20 years.That’s set to change Saturday night, when the 79-year-old singer and songwriter headlines the Gorge Amphitheatre on the banks of the Columbia River in Washington state. The show follows an unannounced appearance Mitchell made at 2022’s Newport Folk Festival, seven years after she suffered a debilitating brain aneurysm that made it difficult for her to move and to use…

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for MTV Actor Jason Mitchell is recalling the real-life events that occurred on set of Straight Outta Compton. The film, which began production in 2014 and made its theatrical debut the following year, follows the lives of hip hop group NWA as they rose to fame in the 1980s with their often catchy yet controversial songs. Straight Outta Compton also starred O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Neil Brown Jr., Aldis Hodge, Marlon Yates Jr., R. Marcus Taylor, Carra Patterson, Alexandra Shipp,…

Joni Mitchell is taking her comeback wide.The 79-year-old singer and songwriter announced Wednesday that she’ll release a live album of her surprise performance at last year’s Newport Folk Festival. “At Newport” will hit record stores and streaming services on July 28 from Rhino Entertainment.Mitchell’s first full public concert since she suffered a debilitating brain aneurysm in 2015, the Newport set grew out of the so-called Joni Jams she’s held at her Bel-Air home in recent years and featured accompaniment by an…

My earliest reading memoryI don’t have an individual book; what I have is a whole building. I grew up on a council estate in the East End of London and one of my earliest memories of books was my mum sending me and my siblings off to Whitechapel Library. Any children’s book I wanted! What an adventure!My favourite book growing upThe Poldark novels by Winston Graham. I devoured this series about love, betrayal, class, revenge, the windswept sea lashing the rugged Cornish coastline. Nothing beats family drama.The book that…

Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who cues up “California” when they’re landing at LAX. OK, our newsletter editor’s college ritual may not be for everyone. But as TV critic Robert Lloyd writes in this week’s Screen Gab, national treasure Joni Mitchell won’t be around forever, and as long as her fans are still collecting memories, it’s worth tuning in to watch her collect the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, surrounded by multiple generations of music luminaries. Also in Screen Gab No.…

Cameron Crowe, the director of Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire, is developing a new drama film with Joni Mitchell about her life.According to a story on the entertainment site Above the Line – which was subsequently reposted on Mitchell’s own website – the project is not a documentary and Mitchell has been collaborating with Crowe on the script for the past two years.Crowe made his name as a teenager writing for Rolling Stone and Creem magazines, experiences he went on to dramatise in Almost Famous. He is a music fanatic…

The 90’s classic comedy is coming back, and Paramount+ has ordered a sequel of the film “Good Burger.” Mitchell and Thompson are returning to play the fan-favorite character Ed and Dexter. The popularity of the sketches increased, and they released a full movie in 1997 starring Mitchell and Thompson. After so many years since the release of the original movie fans have always been demanding for more, but there was no confirmation from the team. Recently the duo was seen together frequently which drew speculations from…

PARIS—The Joan Mitchell Foundation has sent Louis Vuitton a letter demanding it pull handbag advertisements featuring paintings by the late American artist, saying the ad campaign was shot without the foundation’s permission. The cease-and-desist letter—which was sent Tuesday by the foundation’s lawyers to Louis Vuitton CEO Pietro Beccari and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal—alleges that Louis Vuitton illegally reproduced and used at least three works by artist Joan Mitchell for the promotion of its…

King of Kong Billy Mitchell has once again been accused of cheating. Allegedly, new evidence further suggests that he did not use original hardware to perform some of his record-breaking Donkey Kong runs.According to speedrunning YouTuber Karl Jobst, newly found photographs show that Mitchell used a eight-way joystick, rather than the original machine's four-way, on at least one of the disputed records. An eight-way joystick would enable players to perform feats impossible for players using original…

A coding story about a simple game with an infinite twistI’ve simulated a lot of games — games that require skill, deception, or strategy.This is not one of those games.Photo by Ivan Slade on UnsplashIntroduction:‘War’ is very simple. 2 players are each dealt out half of a standard 52-card deck. The two then face off, flipping over their top card. Whoever has the highest card takes both cards. On the occasion that the cards have the same value, players risk the next 3 cards of their deck, and battle with the 4th card.…