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Deadhead Andy Cohen pays tribute to Bob Weir

'Watch What Happens Live' with Andhy Cohen. Pictured: (l-r) Andy Cohen, Bob Weir -- (Photo by: Heidi Gutman/Bravo via Getty Images)Bravo personality Andy Cohen, a well-known Grateful Dead fan, has penned a tribute to the band’s late guitarist, Bob Weir, whose death was announced Saturday."Bob Weir wasn’t The Other One, he was That Guy. He was impossibly beautiful and wildly fiery, intense and passionate," Cohen wrote. "Nobody forgets their first Dead show and mine was in 1986 in Alpine Valley, […]

todayJanuary 12, 2026

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Lynyrd Skynyrd to play the 2026 Rock the Country festival

Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd performs onstage during the 2024 CMA Music festival at the Nissan Stadium on June 06, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)Lynyrd Skynyrd is set to play the 2026 Rock the Country touring festival.The mostly country festival will take place over eight weekends this summer, with the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers confirmed for the Ashland, Kentucky, stop. Skynyrd will perform July 10, with a lineup headlined by country star Jelly Roll.Other artists […]

todayJanuary 12, 2026

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Smithsonian faces Tuesday deadline amid White House demand for review

Lonnie G. Bunch III, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, speaks onstage during the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation 2025 Good Trouble Gala, May 29, 2025, in Atlanta. Paras Griffin/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Smithsonian Institution is facing a deadline to submit additional materials to the White House related to a review demanded by the Trump administration of the institution's exhibitions, programming and internal governance.According to a Dec. 18, 2025, letter from the White House addressed to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III, […]

todayJanuary 12, 2026

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Uvalde trial latest: Defense uses foam gun visual aid to defend police response

A memorial dedicated to the 19 children and two adults murdered on May 24, 2022, during a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School is seen on January 6, 2026, in Uvalde, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images(UVALDE, Texas) -- An attorney for former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales brought a neon orange foam handgun to court on Monday as he tried to defend the police response to the Robb Elementary School mass shooting.After stepping behind an eight-foot foam board, defense attorney Nico […]

todayJanuary 12, 2026

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James Taylor to perform at The Nearness of You Concert in New York

James Taylor at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony (Disney/Eric McCandless)James Taylor is one of the acts set to perform at The Nearness of You Concert, an all-star benefit concert supporting cancer research at Columbia University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.The event honors the memory of Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Michael Brecker, who died in 2007. He played sax on Taylor’s 1972 track “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight,” described on Instagram as “one of the most […]

todayJanuary 12, 2026

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‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ wins AARP Movies for Grownups Award

Poster for 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere'/(20th Century Studios)The Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere hasn’t gotten much love this award season, but it did just nab one honor.The film, starting Jeremy Allen White as The Boss, picked up a trophy at the Movies for Grownups Awards Saturday. Put on by AARP, the awards honor “outstanding films and television projects that celebrate the voices and stories of the 50-plus.”Deliver Me From Nowhere won the award for best period film, beating […]

todayJanuary 12, 2026

National News

Driver shot during Portland immigration operation charged with assault: DOJ

Luis Nico-Moncada is seen in a photo released by Homeland Security, Jan. 9, 2026. (Department of Homeland Security/X)(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- The driver who was one of two people shot by a federal agent during immigration enforcement operations in Portland, Oregon, last week allegedly rammed his truck into an unoccupied U.S. Border Patrol vehicle prior to the shooting, according to a federal complaint unsealed on Monday.Luis Nino-Moncada is charged with aggravated assault of a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous […]

todayJanuary 12, 2026

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Sammy Hagar announces new Best of All Worlds Tour dates

Sammy Hagar Best of All Worlds Tour admat (Courtesy of Live Nation)Sammy Hagar has announced a new set of dates for his Best of All Worlds Tour.The latest leg, featuring special guest Rick Springfield, will once again have him backed by Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, guitar great Joe Satriani and drummer Kenny Aronoff. The tour features a set filled with Van Halen classics, some of his solo tunes and tracks from his bands Chickenfoot and The Circle."We’re celebrating the legacy of […]

todayJanuary 12, 2026

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On This Day, Jan. 12, 1995: Neil Young, Led Zeppelin & more are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

On This Day, Jan. 12, 1995…Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and the Allman Brothers Band were among the artists inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at the 10th annual induction ceremony, held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder handled the induction for Young, while Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry inducted Led Zeppelin. Willie Nelson inducted the Allman Brothers, and Melissa Etheridge led Joplin’s induction.The evening ended with an all-star jam, where Young performed […]

todayJanuary 12, 2026

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