Hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg is ready to help artists get what’s rightfully theirs. He intends to launch an app for Death Row Records that will exclusively stream the label’s catalog of artists. He says the streaming companies are paying “pennies” for millions of streams. The new Death Row Records owner …
Read More »Trump Tries To Avoid Contempt Charge In NY Investigation
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at The Farm at 95 on April 9, 2022 in Selma, North Carolina. Trump’s lawyers in New York and elsewhere are trying to help him fight off multiple investigations.Photo: Allison Joyce (Getty Images) Lawyers for ex-president Donald Trump are trying to …
Read More »<em>The Northman</em> Is an Unsentimental Portrait of a Hero
The magic of Robert Eggers’s breakout first film, The Witch, a horror fable about a Puritan family besieged by supernatural forces, lay in its authenticity. Not from the close attention to period detail, though that was itself impressive, but from the earnestness of its tone, which presented every supernatural element …
Read More »Nia DaCosta to Direct Adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Hit Novel, ‘The Water Dancer’
Candyman director Nia DaCosta, the first Black female director to debut a movie at the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office, has her next project. According to Deadline, DaCosta will direct an adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2019 novel, The Water Dancer, for MGM, Plan B, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo …
Read More »Uber Driver Caught Jan. 6 Rioter Bragging about Attack on Dashcam, Turns Him Into FBI
The FBI arrested a Jan. 6 insurrectionist after he admitted to participating in the attack to his Uber driver. The interaction was caught on video through the driver’s dashcam which was turned over to police, reported NBC News. The rider, Jerry Daniel Braun, was arrested in California and is facing …
Read More »Two Nights in the Brooklyn Arm-Wrestling Scene
Sign up for Kaitlyn and Lizzie’s newsletter here. Lizzie: Despite not being very good at most things, I’m really competitive. I’m not talking about professional sports, because those have nothing to do with me. I’m talking about real-people athletics like mini golf, or Monopoly, or betting someone $10 that the …
Read More »Roderick ‘Pooh’ Clark of ’90s R&B Boy Band Hi-Five Passes Away At 49
Roderick “Pooh” Clark, an original member of the ’90s R&B quintet Hi-Five, has died at 49. According to TMZ, Clark had been in and out of the hospital while battling pneumonia over the last two weeks. On Sunday, April 18, the singer succumbed to complications from pneumonia and an infection …
Read More »The Evolution of Michelle Obama
Photo: 52nd NAACP Image Awards/BET / Contributor (Getty Images) I’m not going to lie, I’m not totally ready to let go of Michelle Obama as America’s first lady (no offense, Dr. Biden). The epitome of grace and class, she commands every room she enters and looks amazing while doing it. …
Read More »Chasing the King of Kowloon
The mood was one of eager anticipation when, four years behind schedule, Hong Kong finally unveiled its multimillion-dollar M+ art museum in November 2021. As the docents swung open the gallery’s entrance, they revealed the very first piece in the exhibition: a pair of wooden doors daubed with misshapen, messy …
Read More »Social Media And Lifestyle Gamechanger Maui Bigelow To Celebrate Female Tastemakers With Ninth Annual Life Styled Honors
Social media maven, influencer, boss and founder of PHAT Girl Fresh, Maui Bigelow, is taking over Atlanta for five days with upscale events throughout the city. The ninth annual Life Styled Honors is a “world-renowned celebration of style, community, beauty and brilliance,” and its game-changing master of ceremony plans to …
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