L il Yachty and Tierra Whack are two of the more inventive artists in hip-hop today — two wildly original talents who have charted their own paths without following anyone else’s trends. If you’re going to compare them to anyone, though, it might as well be each other. Both started …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. The Seigels and Dougie get some very good news at the start of “Under the Big Tree.” Fliplanthropy has been picked up to series by HGTV. This is what all three …
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J ohn Woo couldn’t miss. The godfather of gun fu, who helmed a number of balletic, bullet-riddled Chinese actions hits — A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled among them — before taking his talents to the States, was coming off four consecutive Hollywood smashes. First came the Jean-Claude …
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According to a statement from the U.S. Supreme Court, retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor passed away “of complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness.” O’Connor, whose husband suffered from Alzheimer’s, first announced her diagnosis in 2018 in a letter explaining that as her condition progressed, she …
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Last night, rapper 21 Savage completed his first European headlining tour with a show at London’s O2 arena. The concert was the rapper’s veritable homecoming to his birthplace of London, where he lived until moving to Atlanta with his family at age seven. In October, 21 gained his permanent American …
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George Santos has, finally, been kicked out of the House of Representatives. The New York congressman — who repeatedly refused to resign in the face of his many scandals, including a federal criminal indictment — announced last month that he would no longer seek reelection in 2024 following the release …
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WELCOME TO OURweekly rundown of thebest new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week,Taylor Swift surprise drops a gorgeous pre-breakup ballad, Beyoncéreturns to detonate the dance floor, and Jung Kook gets a hand from Usher on a slick disco tune. Plus, new tracks …
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The Weeknd‘s XO Humanitarian Fund is directing $2.5 million to Gaza, which will pay for the equivalent of more than four million emergency meals for affected civilians. The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) reports that the money pays for 820 metric tons of food, which could feed more than 173,000 …
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Serial liar and alleged fraudster George Santos is no longer a member of Congress. The New York Republican was expelled from his office on Friday after a successful two-thirds majority vote to secure his ouster. Of the 311 representatives who voted to remove Santos, 105 were members of his own …
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When I was a kid growing up in the Nineties, Godzilla reigned supreme. The king of the monsters was a schlock superstar, and as a disciple, I worshipped at an altar of VHS tapes. It was a good time at the height of Heisei era, with disasterpieces like Godzilla vs. …
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