Bonnaroo unveils headlining artists
Kendrick Lamar is returning to the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this summer as a headliner along with rock band Foo Fighters and electronic duo Odesza.
The Foo Fighters were supposed to headline the festival in 2021, but the event was canceled due to flooding. The band is returning to touring in 2023. Foo Fighters canceled tour dates last year after the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in March. In a social media message posted Dec. 31, the band said Hawkins would be with them in spirit every night.
Rapper Lamar, who released the album “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers” in 2022, last headlined the annual festival in 2015. Odesza will headline the event after coming off a four-year hiatus in 2022 to release the album “The Last Goodbye.”
The Bonnaroo lineup was released Tuesday ahead of ticket sales starting Thursday for the music festival set for June 15 to 18 in Manchester, Tennessee.
The lineup also includes Paramore, Lil Nas X, Baby Keem, Tyler Childers, Vulfpeck, Marcus Mumford, My Morning Jacket, Three 6 Mafia, Korn and Pixies.
Roth tribute to be held in New Jersey:
Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Susan Choi and actors John Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker will be among dozens of featured guests at a Philip Roth tribute in the late novelist’s New Jersey hometown.
“Philip Roth Unbound” — a reference to Roth’s novel “Zuckerman Unbound” — will run in Newark from March 17 to 19, around the time Roth would have turned 90. The Pulitzer Prize winner died
in 2018 at age 85.
“Philip Roth Unbound” will include a reading of his dystopian bestseller “The Plot Against America,” a preview of a stage adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” and debates on censorship and other issues Roth often contended with in his lifetime.
Cinematographer Roizman dies:
Five-time Oscar nominated cinematographer Owen Roizman — who shot landmark films including “The French Connection,” “The Exorcist,” “Network” and “Tootsie” — has died at age 86. The American Society of Cinematographers confirmed that Roizman had died after a long illness. Roizman was given an honorary Oscar for his career achievements in 2017, having retired from the film business in the 1990s without yet taking home one of the gold statues.
Anchor Vargas joins NewsNation:
Nexstar Media Group’s NewsNation announced Tuesday that Elizabeth Vargas, who previously was a co-anchor for “ABC World News” and “20/20,” has signed on to host a nightly program. “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” will air out of the Chicagobased network’s New York studios starting April 3. Vargas, 60, spent 20 years at ABC News and was also a news anchor on “Good Morning America.” She left ABC News at the end of 2017.
Jan. 11 birthdays: Director Joel Zwick is 81. Musician Robert Earl Keen is 67. Actor Phyllis Logan is 67. Musician Vicki Peterson is 65. Actor Kim Coles is 61. Actor Dawn Lyn is 60. Director Malcolm D. Lee is 53. Singer Mary J. Blige is 52. Actor Amanda Peet is 51. Actor Rockmond Dunbar is 50. Actor Aja Naomi King is 38.