UPDATE: Taylor Swift is set to perform at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, marking her first live performance on the ceremony since playing “Bad Blood” in 2015. Other performers include Bad Bunny, Camila Cabello, J Balvin, Lil Nas X, Lizzo, Rosalía and Shawn Mendes. ** Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, …
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On Thursday night, we’ll find out which Democratic presidential candidates will share the stage during two nights of primary debates later this month. Related: Democratic Primary Policy Guide In 2016, when the Republican field was too big for everyone to share the stage, the candidates were divided into early, less-watched …
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Brittany Howard writes the songs that make Terry Crews and a whole town sing in the video for her new song, “Stay High,” off her upcoming solo debut, Jaime, out September 20th via ATO Records. Kim Gehrig directed the video for “Stay High,” which stars Crews as a factory worker …
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A review of “The Bad Mother,” this week’s Big Little Lies, coming up just as soon as I don’t fit in my wedding dress anymore… When people talk about the talent involved in making Big Little Lies, the stars’ names understandably come up first. It’s such an impressive collection of …
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The crux of the Puerto Rico-based group ÌFÉ, says bandleader Otura Mun, is “about bringing people together, and seeing ourselves as people connected.” In their critically-acclaimed 2017 debut, IIII+IIII — pronounced ‘Edgy-Og-Beh’ — Mun combined the traditional praise songs and messages of his spiritual practice with jovial, Afro-Caribbean rhythms and …
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The Stranger Things cast freaked out visitors of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in a segment on Wednesday’s Tonight Show. Dressed in character, the show’s core teenage crew — Finn Wolfhard (Mike), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas), Noah Schnapp (Will) and Sadie Sink (Max) — stood …
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Note to servers, baristas, production assistants, flight attendants, party hosts, and really anyone, anywhere: Do not — we repeat, do not — under any circumstances give Arturo Castro coffee. Within minutes of sitting down to talk in the sun-drenched atrium of New York’s Bowery Hotel lobby, the actor is engaged …
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At 78, Willie Hightower sometimes struggles to remember details from his long career, but there are some occasions he recalls vividly: like the day his wife died (April 16th, 1995 — Easter Sunday), or the time he met Sam Cooke. The gospel phenom had traveled to Hightower’s Gadsden, Alabama, hometown …
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John Singleton loved talking movies. Sometimes it was about the art behind the process; sometimes it was just for the fun of it. Singleton’s shocking death at 51, after suffering a stroke that put him in a coma, brought the usual pull quotes about Boyz N the Hood, the 1991 …
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Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton, were featured in a video with Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper during which Hillary read from the Robert Mueller report. Among other things, the former presidential candidate quoted a portion of the report, reading aloud: “The president slumped back in his chair and said, …
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