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Over four nights in March, Rolling Stone’s Future of Music showcase at SXSW brought the stars of tomorrow to Austin’s famed ACL Live at the Moody Theater. Each night, the 2,750-seat venue was packed — not just inside, but outside, too. Ahead of the second night’s bill, which was topped by música mexicana superstar Peso Pluma, lines of fans stretched for blocks, including, reportedly, the longest line in SXSW history. (One fan got in line at 4 a.m. for a show that didn’t start for more than 14 hours; he later got to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEmma Stone’s wild-eyed look, as she clambered up on stage to receive the Oscar for Best Actress, said it all: she didn’t think she was going to win. Perhaps, even, she wasn’t quite sure she was meant to win. Her turn as Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, about a reanimated woman with a baby’s brain who rediscovers the world step by step, sensation by sensation, is truly…

Researcher Patrick Schmidt produces a stone tool like those found in South Africa, using local material. Credit: Gregor Bader Early hunter–gatherers from the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa were selecting the most suitable material available for stone tools and spearheads more than 60,000 years ago, according to a study by Dr. Patrick Schmidt from the University of Tübingen's Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology section.…

Poor Things has a shot at a very big Oscar night in a cou Poor Things has a shot at a very big Oscar night in a cou[ple weeks, as the film, a twisted take on the Frankenstein story, received a number of 2024 Academy Award nominations. Emma Stone could end up taking home the Best Actress award yet again, but it seems Stone's nudity is the primary topic of conversation surrounding the film is how much time she spends naked. While I can pretty easily guess why that is, Stone says that eating 60 tarts for the movie was…

The SAG Awards wrapped up on Saturday, February 2024, marking a significant moment for Hollywood as it resumed operations following the historically long SAG-AFTRA strike that rocked the entertainment industry the previous year. Among the highlights of the ceremony was Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, with its cast, including Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., receiving major accolades. However, it was an epic reaction that stole the spotlight. Lily Gladstone made history once again at award shows, with fellow…

When it comes to the best romantic comedies we’ve seen over the years, Crazy, Stupid, Love. is definitely a highlight. Steve Carell leads the star-studded Crazy, Stupid, Love. cast as Cal Weaver, a middle-aged father who is trying to get back in the dating game after separating from his longtime wife and mother of his kids (Julianne Moore). When he meets Ryan Gosling’s smooth-taking womanizer Jacob Palmer, his world turns around, not only because he’s making Cal his project, but because (unknown to both of them) he’s…

Emma Stone has done it again. Keeping in line with her Poor Things promotions, the Oscar winner, who might as well be inching closer to her second Academy honour soon, stepped out in a custom peach gown for the BAFTAs 2024. Vogue spilt the beans on what her longtime stylist Petra Flannery had to say about the exclusive fashion look that took hundreds of hours (times four) to perfect. Emma Stone, winner of the leading actress award for 'Poor Things', poses for photographers at the 77th British Academy Film Awards,…

Considered both one of Emma Stone’s best movies and one of the best rom-coms of all time, Easy A is a 2010s classic! These days, we adore Stone for her “hilarious and “raunchy” performance in Poor Things and her Oscar-winning role in La La Land. However, before all that, she proved herself as a wonderfully unique leading lady in Will Gluck’s wildly creative 2010 coming-of-age flick.So, in honor of this hilarious and heartfelt film about a high school student named Olive to tried to take advantage of the rumors swirling…

Uncle Waffles is taking DJing to another level, coming out from behind the decks to groove with her dancers — emphasizing performance along with specializing in the South African Amapiano genre. Before her set at the UnitedMasters event during Grammy weekend, the DJ from Eswatini spoke with Rolling Stone’s Delisa Shannon about repping her homeland and how she’s changing the game in a predominately male dominated space. “Putting Amapiano on the map is like my main priority, so getting to headline shows and getting…

There are 25 total Tuning Stones you can acquire in Diablo 4, but that doesn't include the two most powerful of the bunch, the Evernight and Genesis. These are called Uber Tuning Stones and they are far rarer than any of the other Tuning Stones you can get your hands on in Season 3.The Evernight and Genesis stones are only found by completing specific tasks in Diablo 4. However, the reward is worth the effort, as both stones can be incredibly powerful if you equip the right Governing Stones along with…