Billy Porter revealed that he’s been living with a positive HIV diagnosis for the last 14 years in an as-told-to story in The Hollywood Reporter. Porter said he was diagnosed in 2007 and that, at the time, he decided to tell everyone who needed to know, except his mother. He …
Read More »Biden Announces Aid to India as Country Copes With Pandemic Surge
As India is in the midst of a massive Covid-19 outbreak, President Biden announced that the United States will be sending aid in the form of supplies to manufacture the vaccine, funding for vaccine manufacturers and medical equipment. “Just as India sent assistance to the United States as our hospitals …
Read More »Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Noel Gallagher Sign Letter Urging Streaming Revenue Reforms
Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Noel Gallagher, and other British and U.K.-based musicians have signed an open letter to England’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling on him to embrace reforms that would improve streaming revenues for artists, performers, and songwriters. The letter is backed by the Musicians’ Union and the Ivors …
Read More »'Leave Britney Alone' Video Sold as NFT for $44,000
Internet personality and content creator Chris Crocker minted their famous 2007 “Leave Britney Alone” video as a non-fungible token and sold it for about $44,000. Crocker launched the sale on the NFT marketplace Foundation on April 9th with a starting price of 10 ethereum (the cryptocurrency used most frequently to …
Read More »David Crosby Answers Your Questions on Edibles, Beatles vs Stones
“I’m an opinionated son of a bitch,” David Crosby says at the top of our newest Ask Croz video. But that’s precisely why the rock legend has served as our advice columnist for the past couple of years. He’s a man who’s seen it all, done it all, and he’s …
Read More »Jennifer Nettles to Sing Songs From 'Hamilton,' 'Annie' on New Broadway-Inspired Album
Jennifer Nettles‘ voice, outsized and dramatic, has always been suited for the stage. In 2015, she starred in Chicago on Broadway as Roxie Hart. Now the eclectic vocalist — and one-half of the country duo Sugarland —will release an album full of her versions of Broadway songs. Always Like New …
Read More »Rage Against the Machine Postpone Reunion Tour to 2022
Rage Against the Machine have postponed their reunion tour — originally set to begin in March 2020 but rescheduled to summer 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic — until March 2022. “The Rage Against the Machine tour will now start in the spring of 2022,” the band said in a …
Read More »New Autopsy Rules Death of Alonzo Brooks, Whose Case Was on 'Unsolved Mysteries,' a Homicide
The 2004 death of Alonzo Brooks, a 23-year-old black man who disappeared after attending a party in Kansas, has been ruled a homicide following a new autopsy, The Associated Press reports. Brooks’ body was exhumed from a cemetery in Topeka, Kansas, last year and was reviewed by a federal forensic …
Read More »Armie Hammer Departs Broadway Show 'The Minutes' Amid Sexual Assault Claims
Amid accusations of sexual assault, Armie Hammer announced Friday that he would not appear in the Broadway show The Minutes when the pandemic-postponed production ultimately opens in New York. “I have loved every single second of working onThe Minuteswith the family I made from Steppenwolf,” Hammer said in a statement …
Read More »Fifties California Suburbia Gets Spooky in 'Them' Teaser
UPDATE (3/22): The official trailer for Them has been released. *** Little Marvin and Lena Waithe revealed a teaser for their upcoming anthology series Them, and, yes — it’s insanely creepy. Set in the Fifties during the Great Migration, the trailer features a black family moving from North Carolina to …
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