“DALLAS”: THE OIL, THE AMBITION, AND THE GUNSHOT THAT STOPPED THE WORLD
When Dallas first appeared on television screens in 1978, produced by Lorimar Television, it introduced viewers into a world of power, oil, and money. It opened a window also of ruthless ambition that felt both distant and strangely magnetic. Across both the United States and the United Kingdom, audiences found Continue Reading
Arise Sir David
By any reasonable measure of time, a century is a long road. Yet when the calendar turns toward the hundredth year of David Attenborough, it feels less like the closing of a chapter and more like the continuation of a remarkable conversation between humanity and the living world. For nearly Continue Reading
Sir Elton Family Pics
Elton John gets the royal treatment—new family portrait unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery. Sir Elton, David Furnish, and their boys Zachary and Elijah
Pharrell Williams: The Architect of Joy
We’re up all night to get to get lucky There are musicians who chase trends. And then there are musicians who build the weather. Pharrell Williams has spent three decades quietly rearranging the atmosphere of popular music. Producer, songwriter, performer, fashion icon, cultural diplomat, he has never seemed interested in Continue Reading
Stevie Wonder – The Man With a Plan
He entered the world early, tiny and fragile, in Saginaw, Michigan. The incubator meant to keep him alive instead stole his sight. Retinopathy of prematurity. A clinical phrase for a lifelong darkness. Yet out of that darkness came a man who would flood the planet with light. Stevie Wonder was Continue Reading
There are survivors. Dave Gahan
. The voice of Depeche Mode is not just a singer. He is a resurrection story with a microphone in his hand. Born David Callcott in 1962 in Epping, Essex, Gahan grew up with the kind of restlessness that could have curdled into trouble. Instead, it became voltage. When he Continue Reading
