Early Buzz: LeVar, Ad-Rock, Warhol and more

Morning, everyone! I have a jam-packed day full of interviews and things out of the office, so expect a lag in posts until late afternoon. (The good news is you can also expect several cool features next week.)

I've already received some excellent entries in our "Pop & Pop" series about dads and pop culture, but I'm still taking submissions, if you're interested.

And now for headlines:

- LeVar Burton launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring back Reading Rainbow — and he raised more than $1.5 million in just one day.

- As you've probably already heard, poet Maya Angelou has died. She was 86.

- I'm so happy to hear Danny McBride will star in a new HBO show!

- Ad-Rock testified in a court case involving Monster Energy Co.'s unauthorized use of a Beastie Boys song.

- Watch the trailer for Get on Up, a biopic of James Brown.

- Who should direct Ant-Man now that Edgar Wright isn't?

- Spike Lee has been sued over the posters for Oldboy.

- Pitchfork is streaming Bob Mould's new record.

- Those who helped fund the Kathleen Hanna doc on Kickstarter haven't gotten their rewards — and it's been three years.

- NPR is streaming the new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album.

- How did Louisiana become such a big part of the film industry?

- Please just let the show die already.

- I love the cover of Amy Poehler's new book.

- I have to see this musical screening of Andy Warhol films!

- Watch the trailer for This Is Where I Leave You with Jason Bateman, Tina Fey and Adam Driver.

- Read a new interview with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman.

- Freak out your dinner guests with these Indiana Jones serving bowls. (Thanks, Scott.)

- And finally, "Man Spends 13 Years Transforming Hedge Into Massive Dragon." (Thanks, Boaz.)