Attendees of Vancouver’s Breakout Festival wreaked havoc on the festival grounds after Lil Baby unexpectedly canceled his headlining set Sunday, Sept. 18. According to the CBC, Lil Baby’s cancellation was announced at around 9:30 p.m. local time, about 30 minutes before the event was scheduled to end — and the …
Read More »Sherri Papini Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Faking Her Own Kidnapping
Sherri Papini, the California woman whose three-week disappearance became national news and sparked a major search effort before she reappeared on Thanksgiving Day in 2016, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own abduction. Papini’s priosn time will be followed by 36 months supervised release, and …
Read More »Lil Nas X Sends Pizza to, 'Accidentally' Falls in Love With 'Homophobic' Religious Protesters at His Show
Long live Montero! Over the weekend, as fans waited to enter the MGM Music Hall ahead of Lil Nas X‘s tour stop, a group of religious protesters gathered across the street, asking his stans to “repent and believe” with massive signs. In true Lil Nas X fashion, he took that …
Read More »4 Ways Startups Can Optimize Hiring Processes
Optimizing the hiring process requires you to focus on a few core issues. One of them is the quality of candidates: How do you find the right fit and how do you compete with other companies for them? Another is the interview process itself — this comes down to your …
Read More »Britain's Channel 5 Uplifts a Grieving Nation by Airing 'The Emoji Movie' During Queen's Funeral
Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and it’s important to ensure there are always some options available, especially when the only other thing going on is a funeral. That’s why Britain’s Channel 5 is doing its TV-watching constituents a true national service by broadcasting The Emoji Movie …
Read More »'They Didn't Wait for Lady Gaga': Why a Controversial Theater TikToker Says 'Funny Girl' May Be 'Cursed'
Last week, Lea Michele made her much-ballyhooed debut in Funny Girl. It’s an understatement to say the casting of the former Glee star was not without controversy: although Michele had long been considered an obvious choice for Fanny Brice in the revival, having publicly campaigned for the role for more …
Read More »What I Learned From Saying 'No' to My Second TEDx Talk
People often say that human beings — especially entrepreneurs and business leaders — feel great dissatisfaction in life mainly in two ways. Either they’ve yet to hit a massive goal they’ve always wanted to achieve and they feel dissatisfied until they do. Or, they’ve just hit a massive goal they’ve …
Read More »Inside the Making of 'Andor,' the Star Wars Series That Changes Everything
FOR A SENSE of what makes the ambitious new Disney+ series Andor different from just about everything else in the ever-expanding Star Wars universe, consider this: There will be no Jedi appearing over the show’s two allotted seasons, but in the very first episode, there is a scene set in …
Read More »System of a Down's Serj Tankian Embraces Augmented Reality for New 'Perplex Cities' EP
System of a Down’s Serj Tankian will release his next solo project through an augmented reality app. On Monday, Sept. 19, the musician announced a five-track EP, Perplex Cities, which will arrive on Oct. 21. But before the full EP hits the usual streaming services, Tankian will trickle out tracks …
Read More »'I Know What You Feel Before a Fight': Why Gina Prince-Bythewood Needed to Make 'The Woman King'
Gina Prince-Bythewood doesn’t find herself intimidated very often. Why would she be? The director kicked off her career with a bona fide sports-movie classic, Love & Basketball, which was the talk of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival; she’d made critically acclaimed dramas like Beyond the Lights and superhero blockbusters like …
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