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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The casts of “ Barbie ” and “ Oppenheimer ” gathered Monday at the annual Academy Award nominees luncheon alongside dozens of less famous and first-time Oscar hopefuls for handshakes, hugs, a huge group picture and instructions on nailing an acceptance speech. Ryan Gosling at the Oscar nominees luncheon The event at the Beverly Hilton is a warm, feel-good affair where nominees in categories like best animated short get to rub shoulders and share tables with acting nominees like Ryan…

Cameras caught Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift sharing a passionate kiss on-field in celebration of Chiefs’ Super Bowl 2024 advancement after a 17-10 victory against the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game. The lovebirds were seen snuggling while the entire team entered into a celebratory mood and have been dating since the summer. Both Taylor and Travis had the look of love on their faces as they embraced on the field, she ran into her boyfriend’s arms and gave him a sweet kiss to congratulate him on the big…

The Grammy-nominated song comes off the musician's recent LP, World Music Radio Jon Batiste stopped by The Late Show to showcase a rousing rendition of his Grammy-nominated song “Worship.” The musician performed the track with a live band and a dynamic group of back-up singers who brought an upbeat, celebratory vibe to the late-night stage. “Worship” appears on Batiste’s seventh studio album, World Music Radio, released in August. The LP followed his hit 2021 album, We Are, which famously won …

The sunny positivity of the first collaboration between singer-songwriter-actor Johnny Flynn and nature writer Robert Macfarlane, 2021’s Lost in the Cedar Wood, felt like a genuine bright spot amid the bleakness of the pandemic. The genesis of this follow-up was far more pleasant – some of the songs came into being during walks on the South Downs (most notably Song With No Name), rather than as a result of exchanged WhatsApp messages and voice memos during lockdown – but the elements that made that first record so…

BLACKPINK Reaches New Milestone On Spotify, Becomes First Girl Group To Surpass 10 Billion Streams ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) The South Korean girl band BLACKPINK is currently on cloud nine as the group is performing at California’s music festival, Coachella. The four members of the group are sharing snaps every day from their stints and receiving a lot of love from their fans, BLINKS. Amid their performances, the band has reached a new milestone, and it is a legendary one for sure. The girl band began in 2016 with…

By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press The king of rock ‘n’ roll didn’t die at Graceland in 1977. He died just three years ago in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and he never really got the crown he deserved. That’s the persuasive case made by Lisa Cortés’ documentary “Little Richard: I Am Everything,” an insightful biography of an unlikely hero who emerged in the buttoned-down Eisenhower era. Cortés argues that Little Richard created the template for the rock icon and she’s got the receipts, tracing his musical and stylistic…

Tata vs Mahindra The Tata Nexon EV, which crossed recently crossed the 35,000+ units sales milestone, has cemented itself as a strong EV brand in the EV four-wheeler segment in India. On the occasion, Tata Motors took to Twitter to take a humourous dig at its Indian rival, Mahindra. Much like the Ather-Ola, PepsiCo-CocaCola, and Audi-BMW rivalry, the Indian automotive giants have been seen mingling in a sarcastic exchange of comments.  The Nexon EV’s 35,000+ mark has come up in just 2 years times since its launch in 2020,…

Buying a new car is an overjoying moment for all, no matter if you are buying a small entry-level car or a big luxury car. Most people feel enthusiastic while buying a new car, and express their emotions in their ways. However, a person from Mohali took this expression of joy to a disturbing level, when he fired gunshots up in the air while taking delivery of his new car, as an expression of his happiness. The said incident has been reported from Mohali, where a person named Shubham Rajput fired gunshots in the open…

The musical taste of Gilles Peterson – the BBC Radio 6 Music broadcaster and curator behind Worldwide FM and Brownswood Recordings – is nothing if not eclectic. We Out Here, the festival he stages across the August bank holiday weekend in leafy Cambridgeshire, is proof. Taking its name from a 2018 Brownswood compilation showcasing London’s fertile jazz scene, the festival sits somewhere between a specialist affair and a more mainstream event, its lineup boasting acts as disparate as jazz legend Pharaoh Sanders, superstar…

The jittery, crazed, experimental brilliance of Dziga Vertov’s 1931 film, subtitled The Symphony of the Donbas, still pulses after almost a century, although it should be said right away that the “enthusiasm” of the title is mainly for two things: first, Soviet Russia’s control of Ukraine and, second, coal. Neither of these commands quite the same excitement in 2022.This was Vertov’s first sound film, celebrating the role played by the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and its mineral and agricultural riches in Joseph…