NBC wrangled some of entertainment’s best-known New Jersey and New York natives — as well as other superstars who lent their support — for an hour-long live concert Friday to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse Take a Psychedelic Pill Ride to Another Universe
Young and his band rediscover their musical selves on their latest album, even when it tests a listener’s patience
“Swift”-Selling Red Posts Biggest Billboard Week Since Eminem
Taylor Swift and Eminem in the same sentence? Only when it comes to album sales — in this week’s Billboard recap
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TV Weekend: SEAL Team Six
The Bin Laden raid movie is at best a competent, bland docudrama. But the timing means it’s hard to discuss it only as a movie.
Call the Midwife Is No Downton Abbey—But Here Are 5 Reasons to Watch Before Sunday’s Season Finale
You still have time to catch up on the English period drama before the U.S. season finale on Nov. 4
Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP
The follow-up EP to the band’s ‘Swing Lo Magellan’ offers a bite-size take on that album’s sound
A Late Quartet: Harmonic Divergence Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener
Things get ugly when one member (Walken) of a renowned string quartet gets sick and another (Hoffman) gets tired of playing second fiddle
Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Sting to Headline NBC’s Hurricane Sandy Benefit Concert
New Jersey natives and other stars are stepping up to help in the aftermath of Sandy. The Matt Lauer-hosted event will air Friday Nov. 2 at 8 p.m. ET
Musician Health Care Crisis: Rapper P.O.S. Crowdfunds New Kidney
The under-insured Minneapolis artist is reinventing the benefit-concert model with online fundraising efforts
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South Park Watch: All For a Good Scause
What with so much talk in the headlines now about charity and the right and wrong ways to go about it, it’s perfect (if unintentional) timing that South Park should do something on the subject this week. This being South Park, of …
Denzel Washington in Flight: A High Time or a Crash Landing?
Come for the great imperiled-plane scene, stay for a taut, surprising drama from director Robert Zemeckis
The Comedy-Club Election: “Take Mitt Romney — Please”
What the foot-soldiers of stand-up comedy are saying about the Presidential campaign