Usher has earned one of the biggest gigs of his career: The 2024 Super Bowl LVIII halftime show. Roc Nation, the NFL and Apple Music announced Sunday that the Grammy-winning “Yeah!” singer will take the centerstage February 11, 2024 at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium. “It’s an honor of a lifetime …
Read More »'Expend4bles' Signals the End of the Elderly Action Hero
They sold it with a list of surnames: Stallone. Statham. Li. Lundgren. Couture. Austin. Crews. Willis. The only name missing was Schwarzenegger, and that’s simply because they wanted his cameo to be a surprise. (He’d make the poster for the sequel.) Two of them came from the worlds of pro-wrestling …
Read More »This Activewear Brand Wants to Be Lululemon for Fascists
Conservatives opposed to shopping at “woke” corporations have launched their own lines of pillows, piss beer, and mobile phone service. Now, unabashed white supremacists are setting up shop in this so-called parallel economy. Consider the fascist fashion house Will2Rise. Will2Rise makes sports gear for white nationalists — including muscle-tees, track …
Read More »Kendrick Lamar Brings On the Hits, Omar Apollo Sparkles at Life Is Beautiful Day Two
It’s official. Summer is over. The second day of Life Is Beautiful inaugurated the Fall season with a diverse lineup of performers across the festival’s stages in Downtown Las Vegas, with artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Reneé Rapp, the 1975, and Omar Apollo performing throughout the evening. (It might be …
Read More »'The Super Models' Directors Didn't Want to 'Make a Puff Piece'
You know their names: Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington. The supermodel quartet reached instant fame and held the fashion industry in the palm of their hands in the Nineties. To filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, they were the first influencers with indelible power, photographed globally and enamored …
Read More »New Jersey Celebrates First-Ever 'Bruce Springsteen Day' to Mark His 74th Birthday
Today, September 23, marks Bruce Springsteen’s 74th birthday, and with it the inaugural “Bruce Springsteen Day” in the state of New Jersey. Back in April, Gov. Phil Murphy announced plans to designate September 23 as the official “Bruce Springsteen Day” to celebrate “the voice of the Garden State.” “Bruce Springsteen …
Read More »Right-Wing Activists Are Trying to Take Over Virginia's Schools
Samuels Library has been lending books to the residents of rural Warren County, Virginia, for more than 200 years. But today, it’s continued existence is threatened by a small band of locals upset over the fact that it carries some titles with LGBTQ themes —or as the group calls them, …
Read More »'Superpower' Is Sean Penn's Odd Vanity Project About Zelensky
Sean Penn knows what you think of him. Several minutes into the two-time Oscar winner’s new film, Superpower, ostensibly a documentary about the battle-hardened president of Ukraine, Penn’s gravelly voice answers a question posed in interviews past: Who do you think you are, Walter Cronkite? You have a savior complex? …
Read More »The Killers Come Home, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Bring Magic on Life Is Beautiful Day One
With Saturday marking the first official day of Autumn, Las Vegas’ Life is Beautiful is the last hurrah of the summer festival season. Life Is Beautiful is unique in that it doesn’t take place in a large field or a city park, but smack dab in the middle of Vegas’ …
Read More »Trans Boxers Are Stepping Into the Ring. Will the Sport Let Them Stay?
P atricio Manuel sits silently backstage at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. He’s in the back corner of the white-tarpaulined gazebo as he waits to be called to the ring of the 3,000-seater events center here in Indio, California. Inside the thin tent walls, he can hear the hubbub of …
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