The organizers of Woodstock 50 have found a new financial partner following their acrimonious split with Dentsu Aegis. Oppenheimer & Co., a New York–based investment bank and financial services company, has agreed to provide a new round of financing, though the firm did not disclose how much it was putting …
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Above the doors of the Alabama Statehouse, where late Tuesday the senate approved H.B. 314, the most extreme abortion ban in the country, is a plaster scroll embossed with the state’s Latin motto: Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere. “The phrase,” explains Amanda Reyes, president of the Yellowhammer Fund, means “We Dare …
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K-Pop band BTS recreated The Beatles iconic 1964 U.S. television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Dressed and styled as the Beatles, the band performed in the Ed Sullivan Theater as it looked in February 1964, with Colbert himself getting …
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Carrie Underwood, Maren Morris and Kelsea Ballerini are among the artists that will take the stage at the 2019 CMT Music Awards. CMT announced the initial slate of performers on Wednesday morning, a roster that spotlights some of contemporary country’s most popular entertainers. Along with that trio of women, each …
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Nine-year-old Japanese drum prodigy Yoyoka Soma returned to The Ellen Degeneres Show Tuesday where she received a surprise from one of her idols, Dave Grohl. Soma, who’s completely self-taught, became a viral sensation last year with a remarkable cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times.” She continued to post …
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When Luke Combs first played a solo, acoustic “Beer Never Broke My Heart” at one of his concerts way back in January 2018, fans responded as if the brand new song were an old favorite. Chalk it up to the North Carolina singer-songwriter’s gift for crafting sharp hooks and on-the-nose …
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This week: Second trailers for two new movies starring superheroes, i.e Spider-Man and Cate Blanchett, respectively; first looks at HBO‘s take on the greatest men-in-capes tale ever told (revisionist edition), the final season of FX’s god-level mindbender Legion and the It sequel; and peeks at a fictional horror movie involving …
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The new teaser trailer for the biopicJudy was released on Friday, featuring Renée Zellweger as Hollywood icon Judy Garland. The film takes place in winter 1968, six months before Garland’s untimely death; the singer and actress arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at famed nightclub The Talk …
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For all this talk about marijuana culture going mainstream, and corporate pot developing brands that appeal to everyone from soccer moms to achy grandparents, the truth is that, in the cannabis market, sex still sells. So, for that matter, do mansion parties, celebrities, private planes, custom cars and supermodels. This …
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A vigilante movement, inspired by the slain superhero Rorschach, embarks on a deadly terror spree in the new teaser for HBO‘s upcoming adaptation of the famed graphic novel, Watchmen. An exact premiere date has yet to be announced, though the show is expected to arrive this fall. Damon Lindelof (Lost, …
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