Today, we celebrate our independence from the onerous yoke of nonrepresentational government — that, along with sobriety, the 9-to-5 and perhaps a finger or two of thanks to those M-80s you bought from a makeshift fireworks stand behind the gas station.
Music
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
At a sold-out MGM Grand Garden on Saturday, Beyoncé’s movements were as fluid as the sweat she worked up.
At times, the show’s choreography was so awesomely out there, with limbs flying every which way, that she looked like a marionette being worked by an over-caffeinated puppeteer.
Celebrate freedom with Beau, Justin
PHILADELPHIA — A judge has ordered rapper Meek Mill to attend etiquette classes and notify his probation officer before he takes any trips outside of the commonwealth.
As fierce as The Black Dahlia Murder was, the band had nothing on the Hades-worthy heat found at the Warped Tour on Friday at the Silverton. “Stay alive,” enjoined Trevor Strnad, frontman for the death metal band.
Michael Jackson’s longtime stylist told jurors Friday that she tried to warn the singer’s manager that concert promoter AEG Live LLC would look responsible if the singer died because of numerous signs his health was declining.
This could be the last time, as Mick Jagger once sang. For the Rolling Stones, it’s definitely a first.
Rock music fans in Las Vegas braved sizzling temperatures for an opportunity to see multiple performances on Friday thanks to 19th Vans Warped Tour music festival, held in the Silverton parking lot.
Tired of the Bieber speeding through your gated community?
You are a man. You are going to a Beyonce show with your lady. Careful, now. Being a dude in the presence of Sasha Fierce and her army of amped-up female followers means you need to act right or else risk getting a high heel broken off in an uncomfortable place.
The best New Wave was, and still is, posited on contrast, the chilly, detached feel of electronic instruments counterpoised with very human emotional bloodletting.
Part summer camp, part boot camp, part punk rock rite of passage, the Warped Tour is the music festival season’s most unforgiving endurance test.
Rapper Drake headlines the MGM Grand Garden arena on Nov. 22, with Miguel and Future. Tickets are $59.75, $79.75 and $109.75 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at Ticketmaster outlets.