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When it comes to Chris Martin’s diet, he’s looking at the stars and everything they do.“You’re Chris Martin, Coldplay, massively successful,” host Conan O’Brien said to the musician on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast released Wednesday. “So you get to have dinner with the people that you grew up listening to, and I’m curious, have you gotten advice from those people?”While audiences may have hoped for some tips on thriving in the music biz, Martin, 46, said that one thing he took away from grabbing a bite…

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviewsSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Bruce Springsteen and Mindy Kaling will be among those honoured at the 2021 National Humanities Medals and the National Medal of Arts ceremony on Tuesday (21 March).Similar to an MBE, the National Medal of Arts is the nation’s highest award for advancing the arts in America.Springsteen and Kaling are among a dozen individuals and groups including Gladys Knight and Julia Louis-Dreyfus that Biden…

Mindy Kaling, Bruce Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gladys Knight and Vera Wang are among those receiving the White House’s 2021 National Medals of Arts and Humanities. The medals will be presented by President Joe Biden during an East Room ceremony on Tuesday. First lady Jill Biden will also attend. Actor-producer Kaling, who proved to be a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood with The Office, The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever and The Sex Lives of College Girls, is being recognized with…

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have postponed three shows in a week because of illness.  The latest delayed tour date was a Tuesday show in Albany, N.Y. Social-media posts from the band didn’t say who was sick or what the illness was. A publicist for the band didn’t provide additional information Monday.   One of the band’s members, guitarist and singer Steven Van Zandt, said the illness…

Nick Hornby, novelistNick Hornby Photograph: Patrick McMullan/Getty ImagesThere was a version of High Fidelity in my head before I wrote Fever Pitch. It wasn’t a high-concept book: the original idea was to write about a relationship from a guy’s point of view. I remember telling my agent about it and seeing her eyes glaze over as I mumbled about record shops and relationships. I’ve spent a lot of time in record shops but I have never worked in one, so I based it on people I’d seen and conversations I’d heard. The…

Article content He may be born in the USA, but Bruce Springsteen is coming to Canada in late fall with the E Street Band including two dates at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. Article content Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 2023 international tour began Feb. 1 in Tampa, Fla. — their first North American show in seven years. The trek has now added seven Canadian cities in total, including Toronto Nov. 14 and 16. Before the Big Smoke they’ll hit Vancouver Nov. 3, Edmonton Nov. 6, Calgary Nov. 8 and Winnipeg Nov. 10.…

I’m generally fascinated by stories of the well-to-do and über famous hanging out with one another. Which is why when former Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner wrote about a party longtime Hollywood It couple Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson once threw, my interest was piqued. Particularly once I knew icons like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Springsteen were involved.I don’t often think about the possibility of The Boss being in the same room with The Terminator, but it happened at least once. Setting the stage, Wenner shared…

Terry Wyatt | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesHundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift fans will closely be checking their phones Monday night, waiting to see if they've been chosen by Ticketmaster's Verified Fan system to buy tickets to the pop star and singer-songwriter's upcoming stadium tour. When those tickets go on sale later in the week, it'll likely be minutes before they all sell out.Live music roared back in the U.S. as the pandemic has waned, and the refrain of high demand and low inventory for tickets…

The album’s title is, of course, mostly bluster. Despite its tough-guy posturing, Only the Strong Survive – Bruce Springsteen’s new record of old soul covers – deals in yearning and hurt, in summer nights remembered and love squandered. Its true theme is vulnerability. These, though, are tender moments delivered with the effusive, upbeat vigour of the soul revue segments of Springsteen’s live shows and the Boss’s lived-in, barrel-chested growl: a very feelgood record about feeling bad.The title track, Only the Strong…

Bruce Springsteen is booked and busy this month, with a new album dropping tonight and an extended stay at “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” on the horizon. The “Dancing in the Dark” singer announced Wednesday that he will have a short residency on the NBC late-night show to showcase songs from his 21st studio album, “Only the Strong Survive.” Springsteen’s four-night stand on “The Tonight Show” starts Monday and then returns for the show’s Nov. 15, Nov. 16 and Nov. 24 episodes.The Boss has been a guest on the show…