U.S. baseball may outweigh everyone. Here’s why marketers should pay attention. Question: Which professional stadium/arena do you think a sports fan in the U.S. is most likely to be sitting in? For those of you who guessed football or basketball, the answer might be surprising: Major League Baseball. Hard to …
Read More »'White Lotus,' 'Last of Us,' and More HBO Shows Delayed Due to Hollywood Strikes
If you thought waiting week to week for new episodes of The White Lotus was hard work, you’re going to need a long vacation. The beloved HBO anthology series “likely” won’t return with its third season until 2025, according to HBO exec Casey Bloys via Deadline. The network is also …
Read More »'Shut Up, Colonel Sanders': Republicans Can't Stop Attacking Each Other
House Republicans had a chaotic October — ousting Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, fighting bitterly about it for weeks, and then electing Mike Johnson to replace him, seemingly because no know knew him well enough to hate him. The GOP may have unanimously agreed to let a Christian nationalist election denier …
Read More »Robert Durst Is Dead But 'The Jinx' Lives On With Sequel Docuseries
HBO will plunge once more into the story of Robert Durst with a sequel to The Jinx, the hit docuseries that ultimately led to the late real estate scion’s conviction on murder charges. While Durst died in January 2022 — months after he was found guilty of murder, though that …
Read More »Alicia Keys Unlocks 'Golden Child' From 'The Diary of Alicia Keys' Vault for 20th Anniversary Celebration
The approaching 20th anniversary of The Diary of Alicia Keys had trudged up all kinds of nostalgia for Alicia Keys. December will mark two decades since she released her second album, and the musician is celebrating with a 24-track re-release titled The Diary of Alicia Keys 20 featuring the newly-surfaced …
Read More »Second Woman Sues Steven Tyler for Sexual Assault
A second woman has come forward with allegations that Steven Tyler sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager, according to a lawsuit filed in New York on Thursday. Jeanne Bellino, a former child model who claimed to have met Tyler in New York in the summer of 1975 when …
Read More »Cidny Bullens Sang on 'Grease' and With Elton John. Transitioning Helped Him Find His Voice
In his home office in Nashville, Cidny Bullens glances at a photo perched behind him: a young, pouty-faced 28-year-old in a Superman T-shirt, cradling an electric guitar. “I look at me as a different person,” says Bullens, who now sports short hair and a wisp of a mustache. “I don’t …
Read More »Stop the Scroll: 12 Tips to Make Attention-Grabbing Videos
Whether you’re creating a video ad or an educational “how-to” video for your business, there are some creative tactics that seem to lend themselves well to the video format. Taking advantage of these tactics is critical in an age where getting someone to stop scrolling through their social media feed …
Read More »Green Day to Play 30 Years of Hits With 2024 Saviors Tour, Celebrating 'Dookie' and 'American Idiot'
Saviors of summer touring, Green Day are promising to bring the heat (or at least add to it) with concerts that celebrate two big anniversaries — their 1994 breakout album, Dookie, and Grammy-winning 2004 album, American Idiot — alongside songs from their upcoming 14th album, Saviors. They’re previewing that record, …
Read More »Girl Power Will Dominate the Grammy Nominations for Best Pop Solo Performance
Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 10, Rolling Stone is breaking down 16 different categories. For each, we’re predicting the nominees, as well as who will (and who should) win on Grammy night. If it is truly “the year of the girl” as many have claimed in light …
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