Nick Cave on joy, grief and the ‘treasured evenings’ he spent in L.A.

“Terrible things don’t really happen to you after you’ve lost a child,” says Nick Cave. “The world has done its worst.” (Venetia Scott) As a general rule, Nick Cave advises against “attaching a strict life narrative” to the records a musician puts out. Songwriters are storytellers, after all, and few have demonstrated more interest in … Read more

Margaret Qualley reveals ‘The Substance’ prosthetics ‘f–ked up’ her face for a year

Margaret Qualley really felt the effects of “The Substance.” The actress, 30, recently appeared on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast and spoke about how wearing extensive prosthetics to shoot the bloody horror film took a toll on her skin. “It took me probably, like, a year to recover physically from all of it,” she … Read more

The week’s bestselling books, Jan. 19

(Los Angeles Times) Hardcover fiction 1. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press: $20) During the 1985 Christmas season, a coal merchant in an Irish village makes a troubling discovery. 2. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $29) Two grieving brothers come to terms with their history and the people they … Read more

US inflation ticks up again — dimming prospects for significant Fed cuts this year

US consumer prices showed no signs of cooling in December amid higher costs for energy goods — pointing to still elevated inflation that aligns with the Federal Reserve’s projections for fewer interest rate cuts this year. The consumer price index rose 0.4% last month after climbing 0.3% in November, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said on … Read more

Jerry Jones on ‘solo mission’ with Cowboys’ coaching search after Mike McCarthy’s ‘surprise’ exit

It’s Jerry’s world. NFL Network’s Jane Slater reported that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has started the coaching search as a “solo mission” after Mike McCarthy left the team when contract talks broke down. So, it should be no surprise that instead of starting with a standard list of top coordinators — it was big names … Read more

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