The Cricket's Daily 3: Pussy Riot is free

The Cricket by Sean P. Means

Published: December 24, 2013 9:08 am
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.

Here's what's being talked about in pop culture:

• Members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alokhyna, have been reunited after being freed from prison — and they're determined to fight "totalitarianism" in Russia. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• Hugh Jackman has dropped out of a starring role in a Broadway musical about Harry Houdini, citing his movie schedule. [Deadline]

• Jazz great Yusef Lateef — who played with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Mingus, and introduced global sounds to jazz before "world music" was a genre — has died at the age of 93. [Entertainment Weekly] [The Hollywood Reporter](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pussy-riot-pair-reunited-siberia-667594)|

[Deadline](http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/hugh-jackman-vanishes-from-broadways-houdini-cites-time-commitment/)|

[Entertainment Weekly](http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/12/24/yusef-lateef-obituary/)|

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