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YK Osiris took to his Instagram Stories to show off his latest tattoos honoring Usher and Drake. The detailed, chain-themed work incorporates the OVO owl and Usher’s famous U pendant.The 24-year-old included a photo of Usher and declared the superstar to be the “King of R&B.” Image via Instagram/ykosirisYK seemingly provided an explanation for the tats with a quote.“When you get to seat at the same table with legends, and they talk to you about success, you will understand,” he wrote. Image via Instagram/ykosirisBack…

She is no longer physically with us, but Yma Sumac will again be present in Southern California through the unveiling of a bust, a film projection and a concert.The most enduring of these tributes to the legendary soprano — who was born Sept. 10, 1922, in Peru, settled in Los Angeles in 1950, earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame a decade later, and died here on Nov. 1, 2008 — will take place at the Hollywood Forever cemetery, when a bust made by Peruvian French sculptor Martín Espinoza Grajeda will be placed at…

Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights has long celebrated filmmaker, actor, writer and composer John Carpenter and co-writer and producer Debra Hill’s 1978 independent slasher “Halloween.” The annual event has themed walk-thru attractions after several films within the “Halloween” franchise and the movie’s antagonist, Michael Myers, has certainly become synonymous with the season, HHN creative director and executive producer John Murdy said. “It would be in my top five, all-time classic horror films,” he…

Honor had a pretty jam-packed keynote presentation at this year's IFA 2022. You can read all about the announcements here, but the gist of it boils down to the EU debut of the Honor 70, Pad 8 and MagicBook 14. Honor also launched an interesting visual arts initiative during the presentation. The Gateway to the Future is an AR project that aims to "enrich cultural heritage through the power of technology". It consists of two AR experiences centered around the Wasserschloss - an iconic UNESCO World Heritage Site…

Honor says its new and updated Magicbook 14 laptop can run for 17 hours on a single charge of its 75Wh battery. Claims like this are often proven wrong with real-world testing, but the rest of the laptop also looks impressive. It was launched at the IFA tech trade show in Berlin and is the first time Honor has put its OS Turbo, its system-level energy saving algorithm, in one of its laptops. The Magicbook 14 starts from €1,099 with a 12th-gen Intel Core i5-12500H with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage. You’ll have to…

Honor is planning to release its second foldable next year, and unlike the Honor Magic V, the company hopes to actually release the device outside of China. Honor’s CEO, George Zhao, confirmed the plans in an interview with The Verge ahead of this year’s IFA trade show in Berlin and said the company expects to launch its next foldable device in the first quarter of next year. “We’ve made the decision that next year, in Q1, we’ll bring our latest foldable smartphone to international markets,” including Europe, Zhao…

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Marvel’s Hall H panel at SDCC was a momentous occasion for several reasons — one of which was the debut of the first look at Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.  The footage was a beautiful tribute to everything that Wakanda stood for, the beauty and delicacy of the storytelling, and of course, to Chadwick Boseman, who played T’Challa — their brother and king.  Danai Gurira told EW that the paramount motive for all the artists involved in the film was to honor Boseman — as an actor and…

Artist Gustavo Zermeño Jr. has honored the late rapper with a mural in Etna, a suburb of Pittsburgh.Zermeño, who previously painted his second Mac Miller mural for his birthday in 2019, waited a number of years before he was permitted to paint an even bigger mural at I.D. Labs, the studio where he recorded a large amount of his music. As the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported, the project represents Zermeño’s second ever mural painted outside of his home state of California.“This is his old stomping grounds. This is…

The recipients of one of the United States’ most prestigious cultural awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, have been announced for 2022.George Clooney, U2, Gladys Knight, Tania León and Amy Grant are being given the yearly awards, which were founded in 1978 and last year recognised Joni Mitchell and Berry Gordy among others.Clooney was hailed by Kennedy Center chairman David M Rubenstein for his “unique brand of earnest charisma and his complete embodiment of a character has led us to root for him every time.” Clooney said…