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The music legend talks about her new book “Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands,” her Mexican heritage, and the GOP obsession with the “crisis” at the border.
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With recipes ranging from weed-infused classics like pot brownies to complex dishes like a fire filet mignon, these cannabis cookbooks will turn anyone into an expert canna-chef.
COPYCAT?
Author Barry Lyga says he was working with the studio to turn his “I Hunt Killers” novels into a show before they abandoned it. And then Fox’s “Prodigal Son” came along.
’THE SPORTY ONE’
Melanie Chisholm tells The Daily Beast about her (excellent) new memoir and answers all our burning questions about “Spice World,” possible upcoming reunions, and more.
ONE OF THE GREATEST
The British writer died “suddenly yet peacefully, surrounded by close family and friends, aged 70,” her publisher said in a statement.
‘DRIVING WEDGES’
“I’m not there to hurt kids. I’m there to help them,” Ellen Hopkins told The Daily Beast, addressing an eye-opening new report on book bans in the U.S.
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In this exclusive excerpt from his riveting memoir “A Billion Years,” former Church of Scientology senior exec Mike Rinder writes about the church’s courting of Hollywood celebs.