Last night, March 3, The National dropped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to treat viewers to an electric performance of their new song, “Tropic Morning News.”
Complete with red lighting and a moody, moving backdrop, lead singer Matt Berninger carried the entire band through a five-minute take. “I was suffering more than I let on / The tropic morning news was on / There’s nothing stopping me now / From saying all the painful parts out loud,” he emotionally sang.
The song is featured on the group’s forthcoming album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, alongside the other recently-released single, “New Order T-Shirt” and some soon-to-come collaborations with Taylor Swift, Sufjan Stevens, and Phoebe Bridgers.
Fans can also expect to catch them playing selections from the new record when their tour begins in May. More information, along with a complete list of dates, is available here.
As Berninger notes in a statement via Rolling Stone, he was in a “very dark spot where I couldn’t come up with lyrics or melodies at all.”
“Even though we’d always been anxious whenever we were working on a record, this was the first time it ever felt like maybe things really had come to an end,” he said.
Check out The National’s “Tropic Morning News” performance above.
After announcing needing surgery for a broken finger last month, Travis Barker took to social media to share a recovery update and offer some heartfelt words to the fans who’ve supported him and Blink-182.
“Thank you for all the love and prayers and understanding this week as I went into surgery,” Barker wrote. “It was a hard decision to make but ultimately I couldn’t continue to play the drums without it. It was inevitable that my finger would have dislocated again without fixing the torn ligament surgically.
“So grateful for Dr. Shin and that my surgery was a success so that I can keep doing what I love,” he added. “See you guys on tour soon. (trigger warning: last photo is hard to look at).”
Before Barker’s injury, the band had been rehearsing for their massive reunion tour — marking the first time that he, Mark Hoppus, and Tom DeLonge have played live together since 2014. It was scheduled to start with shows in South America next week but has since been postponed.
“This has been something we’ve been aiming to do for so long and we work so hard and we just kind of had one of those freak accidents that nobody saw coming,” DeLonge shared earlier this week, according to Billboard.
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Julius Randle had one of the best nights of his NBA career on Friday in the New York Knicks’ game against the Heat in Miami. Randle scored 43 points and made eight of his 13 attempts from behind the three point line, with his final made triple coming in the final moments to secure a 122-120 win.
New York led by as many as 17 points on the evening, but was unable to fend off a second half surge by Miami. Behind a 29-point night from Tyler Herro and Jimmy Butler scoring 18 of his 33 from the free throw line, the Heat were able to get back in the game and, eventually, take the lead midway through the fourth quarter. While the Knicks eventually got it back, Miami kept chipping away and went ahead with 23 seconds left due to a layup by Herro.
And then, it looked like things were headed towards disaster, as Randle struggled to shake Jimmy Butler as the clock wound down. He eventually threw up a prayer, and somehow, it was answered.
The shot was so big that it got a rare double bang out of Mike Breen. With the win, the team’s eighth in a row, the Knicks moved to 38-27 on the season.
At nine years old, North West is living the dream. Over the past year, she’s garnered nearly 15 million followers on her TikTok page, which she shares with her mother, Kim Kardashian.
In her videos, fans can see North as she and her friends and family make milkshakes, apply makeup, and draw some of her incredible drawings. Last month, she shared a clip of an uncanny portrait she drew of rapper Ice Spice, as the latter’s verse in PinkPantheress’ “Boy’s A Liar, Pt. 2” played in the background.
A little over two weeks later, it appears North manifested something special. Today (March 3), Ice Spice shared a video on her TikTok page at the Kardashian home, where she is seen dancing with North and one of her friends.
In the above clip, the three bust moves to Spice’s viral track, “In Ha Mood,” which is mashed up in a special remix with ad-libs from The Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star.”
North also shared a video clip on her and Kim’s TikTok page, which featured another portrait of Ice Spice.
The first three episodes of Amazon Prime’s rock-inspired show, Daisy Jones & The Six, dropped last night — and one very eagle-eyed fan caught something interesting during it. The series, which stars Elvis‘ granddaughter Riley Keough in the title role, seemed to pay tribute to the King with a simple accessory choice.
“Spoiler Alert – in episode two of Daisy Jones, looks to me like Riley is wearing the same pattern guitar strap as Elvis in the ‘68 Comeback Special,” the user tweeted, sharing a side-by-side comparison of the two relatives.
The post has since gone viral as fans are going wild over it being the exact same guitar strap — proving that the costume and styling team paid true attention.
“We didn’t talk about her family that much or her lineage – I was very respectful of her private life,” the show’s costume designer, Denise Wingate, told People about Keough’s style, “but I did find this woman named Love Melody who made rock and roll clothes in the Seventies.”
As it turns out, the Elvis connection that was embedded into the show’s style goes even deeper.
“She actually made two jumpsuits for Elvis Presley, so I had her make two beautiful, long coats for the show,” she added. “One is a denim leather patchwork long coat and the other a beautiful rust leather. She made those.”
Continue scrolling for some more fan reactions to the fun easter egg.
Philippe Morgese is a single dad with a daughter named Emma. She, like many children, happens to have hair.
Like most parents, Morgese is really hoping to do his part to make sure Emma becomes a fully-functioning and responsible member of society. He wants to make sure she grows up confident and well-adjusted. He also wants her to have a good male role model in her life. Ya know, like most of us dads do.
And he wants to make sure her hair looks nice. He didn’t have any people in his life who knew how to braid hair, so he taught himself.
The class got pretty popular over time. So much so that he ended up starting a Facebook page called the Daddy Daughter Hair Factory to help dads everywhere learn how to braid hair. He got a kid’s haircare company, SoCozy, to sponsor the class. He even built an incredibly handy website where dads like me, who get horrifically dirty looks from their daughters every time they try to do hair, can learn how to do it correctly.
The class is about more than braiding hair though.
The classes are really about dads and daughters bonding and connecting.
They turn off their screens. They focus on being together. And they just hang out.
It’s a win for everyone. Dads and daughters get to spend time with each other and they both get something out of it: new skills for dad and awesome hairstyles for their daughters.
Parenting can be a little stressful. There’s no checklist for how to do it perfectly.
As the father of two young daughters, Doyin Richards has a lot of experience in that department. Like most parents, he hopes he’s doing it right. And like most parents, he has a little voice in his head that sometimes makes him second-guess his choices.
What if he’s doing it wrong?
On his 3-year-old daughter’s first trip to the dentist, Doyin was pretty worried she would freak out about the treatment. Of course, it turns out that the only person who lost their composure that day was him — when he realized she was totally fine and able to handle things herself.
Which made him realize that despite all his fears, he might actually be OK at this whole dad thing.
Watch Doyin try to hold it together while his daughter is totally chill at the dentist in this episode of “What Dads Do”:
It’s set up just like a normal library: You check out a “book” on a certain topic and have an allotted amount of time with it. Only at the Human Library, the book is, well, a human.
People who volunteer to become “books” make their experiences open and available, usually on issues that people tend to have a difficult time discussing. “Readers” are encouraged to ask questions freely, and they’ll get honest answers in return. It’s brilliant.
What kind of books can you borrow there?
1. Borrow a person with autism.
With 1 in 68 kids diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) today, there’s no better way to learn about it than by interacting with someone who has it.
2. Borrow someone who has modified their appearance.
Ever make assumptions about people with lots of piercings and tattoos? Here’s an opportunity to stop judging a book by its cover and get to know the inside.
3. Borrow a refugee and hear their story.
You’ve heard about the Syrian refugee crisis in the news. Why not put the media on hold and talk to an actual refugee?
4. Borrow someone who is transgender.
Perhaps you’ve always had questions about being transgender but didn’t know how to ask them. Go ahead. Get your questions ready.
5. Borrow a homeless person.
What stories do they have of a life you may never know?
6. Borrow someone with deaf-blindness.
Just because they communicate differently doesn’t mean their stories are less.
7. Borrow someone who is obese.
Society loves to put people in categories. Break through those boundaries to get a fuller picture.
You can borrow a police officer. A veteran with PTSD. A single mom. A Muslim. Someone in a polyamorous relationship. A former gang member. A sex worker. A welfare recipient. A teacher. The list goes on.
The libraries are bringing people who would otherwise never interact together in a way that many communities long for.
That’s what Ronni Abergel has sought to do since the library’s launch in 2000. During a four-day test run at the Roskilde Festival in Copenhagen, organizers and festival attendees were stunned at the event’s impact.
“The policeman sitting there speaking with the graffiti writer. The politician in discussions with the youth activist and the football fan in a deep chat with the feminist. It was a win-win situation and has been ever since,” Ronni said on the Human Library’s site.
A no-judgment zone is one key to its impact.
“It’s meant to be a safe space to ask difficult questions and not to be judged,” he told Upworthy. “To try and gain an important insight into the life of someone you think you know something about, but…”
You don’t.
In our quick-to-judge, increasingly polarized world, it’s no wonder these events are growing in size. We need them.
When asked what has changed since these events started, Ronni responded, “The world has changed, for the worse.”
He points to there being less tolerance, less understanding, and less social cohesion than when he first had the idea back in 2000. And unfortunately, he’s right.
There’s so much to learn about one another. A group of readers here borrowed a nudist.
It’s time to face our fears and confront our stereotypes. To embrace the diversity of this world will allow us to feel more secure in it.
“When you meet our books, no matter who you are and where you are from or which book you will be reading, in the end, inside every person, the result will say: we are different from each other, we see things differently and we live life differently. But there are more things that we have in common than are keeping us apart.” Truth.
If there’s one immediately impactful way to bring communities together, a Human Library might just be it.
Stan Lee will almost certainly go down as the most influential figure in comic book history.
With his passing, people are celebrating his long and illustrious life. A World War II veteran, comic innovator and someone who truly pushed the needle forward on social progress, here are some of the legendary quotes and deep thoughts that helped define his life:
His timeless quote made famous through the pages and films of Spider-Man:
“I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people’s lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you’re able to entertain people, you’re doing a good thing.”
Lee’s X-Men characters were defined by the post World War II legacy. Even series villain Magneto, a survivor of the Holocaust in the original comic storyline, used the hatred of others to define his worldview:
“Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your politics — or for no reason at all — too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath.”
Lee was still a creative force in the 60’s and 70’s when the Free Love movement was taking hold. He wasn’t above sharing a bit of New Age wisdom of his own:
“There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.”
Despite creating some of the most iconic superhero characters ever, Lee was deeply humble about his own life:
“Someone wants to do a movie of my life now and he’s writing a script, and I said to him, ‘What the hell could you do? I’ve never been arrested, I haven’t taken drugs, I’ve had the same wife for 54 years… where’s anything of interest to people?’”
And he had a lot of perspective about his own mortality:
“You know, my motto is ‘Excelsior.’ That’s an old word that means ‘upward and onward to greater glory.’ It’s on the seal of the state of New York. Keep moving forward, and if it’s time to go, it’s time. Nothing lasts forever.”
From awkward phone calls and impostor syndrome, to depression and anxiety, at some point all of us have experienced challenging feelings and self-doubt.
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, those worries and fears can strike at any moment.
That’s why Beth Evans’ comics feel so familiar and honest.
The 26-year-old from the Chicago area started doodling and drawing in college and now works on her comic full-time. Through uncomplicated line drawings and simple stories, Evans reveals a slice of her daily life, including some of her anxieties, brushes with self-doubt, and small victories. Working on the comic has helped Evans manage some of these thoughts and feelings too.
“Sometimes I’m not always able to express those feelings in my real life,” she says. “Sometimes it’s easier just to say ‘Here’s the awful emotion of the day, we’re just going to put it down, put it out there. Maybe someone else feels that way so we can feel awful together.”
Her work has clearly struck a chord, as she’s amassed more than 216,000 followers — including some fans so dedicated that they’ve gotten tattoos of her work.
Evans is flattered by the gesture, though she’s a little nervous too. “I just hope they like it,” she says.
Her mindset speaks to the honesty and authenticity of her work — just like the rest of us, Evans experiences feelings of self-doubt. The common feeling just seems to be part and parcel of life as an adult. If we can’t make it go away completely, at least we can commiserate together.
Here are 15 more of Evans comics that may have you saying, “It me.”
1. When you make plans at night versus when you wake up.
2. You still earn a ribbon, even if you have nothing to show for it.
3. And don’t get me started on impromptu small talk.
4. If you can limit the internal screaming to 5%, you’re ahead of the curve.
5. This is how it goes down every. single. time.
6. Just in case you needed a reminder.
7. Though compliments can bring their own kind of anxiety.
8. Adulting isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, kids.
9. And why is saving money so, so hard?
10. You know what’s more awkward than feeling all the feelings? Talking about the feelings.
11. But it’s good, especially if you need to.
12. Raise your hand if you’ve played any of these before.
13. Even the love chart is easy to love.
14. It’s totally OK not to know, btw.
15. And, finally, don’t forget to give yourself a break.
No matter your worries, fears, “weird” thoughts, or wild ideas — remember, you’re not alone.
Talk it out, or keep it to yourself. Feel free to laugh, cry, scream, or do something in between. Just remember you are enough, and you are pretty darn great right this second, OK?
And if you enjoy Evans’ work, be sure to follow her on Instagram and Twitter.
This article originally appeared on 09.15.17
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