Elon Musk has long sought to augment his Silicon Valley celebrity with gamer cred, professing both skill and passion for a medium favored by tech geeks. A couple of years ago, he went so far as to explain why strategy video games are superior to chess. Yet his latest attempts …

Confirmation hearings for a slew of Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other high-ranking positions are scheduled to begin this week. Senate committees still have not received vetting materials for several nominees, and many of their financial disclosures and ethics disclosures have not yet been made public. On Monday, …

The cast of Sing Sing will perform an off-Broadway rendition of the play Breaking the Mummy’s Code, a time-traveling musical comedy originally staged at Sing Sing correctional facility in 2005 and reenacted in the A24 film. Hosted by Succession’s J. Smith-Cameron, the production will take place Feb. 3 at the …

Mac Miller‘s estate has announced a new short film to accompany the release of the late rapper’s upcoming posthumous album Balloonerism. The short film, which draws inspiration from the unreleased album, will premiere Wednesday Jan. 15 in select theaters, with general admission tickets costing $5. Balloonerism follows a group of …

Carrie Underwood is slated to perform at Donald Trump‘s forthcoming presidential inauguration. “I love our country and am honored to have been asked to sing at the Inauguration and to be a small part of this historic event,” Underwood said in a statement. “I am humbled to answer the call …

SZA is thanking Drew Barrymore for inspiring her. On Monday, the R&B star visited The Drew Barrymore Show and held back tears as she shared how the actress inspired the Ctrl song named after her. “It was inspired by you. It wasn’t just titled after you,” SZA told the talk …

The filmmakers behind the Oscar-shortlisted documentary, Union, about the formation of the Amazon Labor Union, are back with a new short film documenting last year’s holiday season strike. Local One, directed by Stephen Maing and Brett Story, is a 10-minute look at the action, which the ALU and the International …

A federal court has levied a $2.75 million judgment against Patriot Front, the prominent, violent white-nationalist extremist organization, and its leader Thomas Rousseau. The judgment, levied Monday in federal district court in Massachusetts, stems from an unpermitted “flash” mob of masked Patriot Front toughs, led by Rousseau, in Boston during …

Sean Combs is facing a new Jane Doe accuser who alleges the Bad Boy Records founder drugged and sexually assaulted her when she was a 16-year-old high school student walking home from a babysitting gig in lower Manhattan in late August or early September 2000. In her lawsuit filed today …

The 2025 Grammy Awards will proceed as planned on February 2, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told members in a letter Monday morning, assuring that the show will go on at Crypto.com Arena early next month as Los Angeles currently faces the devastating Palisades and Eaton wildfires. With the …