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Well, here’s a post that should come as no surprise to Tom Sandoval’s PR team, or the public relations folks at Bravo, or even Vanderpump Rules executive producer Alex Baskin: The widely reviled reality star went ahead and tossed out a half-baked comparison between the media attention garnered by “Scandoval” with that of the O.J. Simpson trial or the police murder of George Floyd in The New York Times. The quotes appear in an extensive profile of Sandoval that digs into how the villain of the infamous Vanderpump…

In 2022, the New York R&B producer, songwriter and singer Al B. Sure spent two months in a coma. He survived after a liver transplant, but the ordeal battered his finances.He needed to find every cent he was due from a career working with Usher, Jodeci and Faith Evans, and being sampled by acts like Megan Thee Stallion. “I’m blessed to still be alive,” the 55-year-old said. “But after something like that, it’s like asking an accountant to play piano and survive.”He has a new ally from the civil rights world to find…

At the beginning was a love story. Dave Stewart and his former life and stage partner, Annie Lennox, transformed their personal romance into fantastic, evergreen classics like “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” and “Here Comes the Rain Again.” After their breakup, Stewart, working in parallel with his new solo career, cultivated his love of film by composing several soundtracks. Together with Mick Jagger and Daryl Hall, he co-wrote the theme song for the 1986 comedy Ruthless People and has…

The city of New York is nearing a settlement to pay $13.7 million as part of a class action lawsuit brought forth by nearly 1,400 people involved in the George Floyd protests. The settlement, filed Wednesday in a Manhattan federal court and pending a judge’s approval, would pay roughly $9,950 apiece to 1,380 protestors who “were arrested and/or subjected to force by NYPD officers” and had their First Amendment rights suppressed in late May and early June 2020. In total, the NYPD made over 2,000…

Article content The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains is coming to Toronto’s Better Living Centre at Exhibition Place, starting June 16. Article content The 20,000-square-foot exhibit is described in a release as an “audio-visual sensorial experience” and features more than 350 Pink Floyd artifacts and objects from the band’s five-decade career. Article content It will include “handwritten lyrics, musical instruments, stage props, and items from the personal collections of the band members, while combining…

The Muppets are back! But this time, it’s not the usual Muppets starring in a new Disney+ series. Instead, The Muppets Mayhem focuses on the members of the Electric Mayhem band—the house band on The Muppet Show, made up of beloved side characters Dr. Teeth, Floyd, Zoot, Lips, Janice, and Animal.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning Heroesio9 talked with co-creators Adam F. Goldberg (also an executive producer), Jeff Yorkes (co-executive producer), and Bill Barretta (he plays Dr.…

Few records in the 21st century have divided a band’s fans as much as Daft Punk’s fourth studio album, Random Access Memories. While the reviews were largely positive, a significant swathe of the band’s fanbase wondered why they had swapped techno for soft rock. It took me years to come to peace with this beguiling, if confounding, album, until one day the refracted light came on and the pre-decimal penny dropped: Random Access Memories was the 21st century Dark Side of the Moon. And the 10th anniversary reissue of RAM,…

Nearly five decades after The Muppet Show debuted, The Muppets Mayhem—a new 10-episode Disney+ series—aims to flesh out those intriguing weirdos who’ve provided so much of the Muppets’ all-important music over the years: Dr. Teeth, Janice, Floyd, Zoot, Lips, and Animal, together known as the Electric Mayhem. The show’s not without its flaws, but it achieves its main goal of having fun.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesThat’s also the goal of the band when we meet them,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The police murder of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 and revived claims that public outcry over such high-profile police killings perpetuates a violent "war on cops." In a new study, researchers assessed if and how patterns of firearm assault on police officers in the United States were influenced by the police murder of Floyd.…

Ernestine Johnson, a Hollywood actress, producer, and director, recently revealed her admiration for the legendary boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jr In a viral clip shared on Instagram by the undefeated 50-0 fighter, Johnson spoke about the immense influence Mayweather had on her life and work ethic. Floyd Mayweather's work ethic inspires Hollywood actress Ernestine Johnson. Johnson, who had the pleasure of being Mayweather's personal shopper and a close friend of his family, gushed about the fighter's discipline and…