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Roots Picnic Heads to Los Angeles, Featuring Queen Latifah, Common

The Roots and Live Nation Urban announced Monday the Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop is the Love of My Life festival, which will take place June 29 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The Roots will headline with additional performances by Queen Latifah, Common, and others. It’s the Philly festival’s inaugural Los Angeles event. The Roots’ Questlove and Black Thought landed on Hollywood Bowl, a live music venue since 1922, due to their shared love for the event space. “The first time we played Hollywood Bowl was way…

Misfits star Nathan Stewart-Jarrett on playing a vengeful drag queen: ‘I tried to do the treadmill in heels’

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNathan Stewart-Jarrett wants to talk about adversity, about the marginalised experience and the burden of appearing strong and powerful at all times. But his soup needs a stir. “I burnt it last time,” the star of Candyman and Channel 4’s unruly superhero comedy Misfits tells me. “It was a butternut squash soup and I just roasted the f***ing thing. I thought I got all the burnt bits…

Beyoncé Is Queen Bee At The Weekend Box Office With Renaissance, But The Numbers Are Not Taylor Swift-Esque

The first weekend of December is typically a down one for the box office. In the wake of Thanksgiving and the glut of new films that arrive in theaters to take advantage of the holiday, a lot of folks seem to go for a calm, do-nothing stretch that includes not going to their local movie theater. Because of this audience behavior and intense market competition, studios typically save their big new titles for deeper into the month. This year is a bit different, however – and it's thanks to Beyoncé. Following the…

‘Queen Rock Montreal’ heading to the big screen in January

‘Queen Rock Montreal’ is coming to cinemas, courtesy of IMAX and Pathé Live in partnership with Mercury Studios and Queen Films beginning 18th January 2024. Exclusively in IMAX, this exhilarating live concert from 1981 is a window into Queen in their most unalloyed form, giving audiences a larger-than-life, front-row immersive experience. The film was digitally re-mastered for the first time into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience, including 12-channel surround sound, crystal-clear images, and …

Queen Elizabeth II’s Iconic Third-Gen Land Rover Range Rover is Up For Auction, Details Inside

Last Updated: October 26, 2023, 08:45 ISTQueen Elizabeth II's Iconic Third-Gen Land Rover Range Rover is Up For Auction. (Photo: Motor1.com)Queen Elizabeth II's personalized Land Rover Range Rover, with unique features, goes under the hammer, preserving regal motoring history.The third-generation Land Rover Range Rover with a regal history is all set to be auctioned off.This exclusive vehicle, which boasts a royal legacy, will hit the auction block on November 11 at the prestigious NEC Classic Motor Show Sale 2023 in…

This Biophysicist ‘Sun Queen’ Harnessed Solar Power

Today we tell the story of Mária Telkes, one of the developers of solar-thermal storage systems. Telkes was so dedicated to the world of solar energy that while she was working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she earned the nickname the “Sun Queen.” Over her lifetime, she registered more than 20 patents, nearly all related to harnessing the power of the sun.Her inventions that utilized solar energy included an oven, a desalination device and one of the first solar-heated houses, the Dover Sun House,…

Destiny 2 The Witch Queen, Sea of Stars, and Lost Judgement lead PlayStation Plus Extra, Deluxe Games for August 2023

Destiny 2: The Witch Queen leads the pack of new titles coming to the PlayStation Plus Extra and Deluxe/ Premium catalogue, this month. Starting August 15, all high-tier PS Plus members can delve into Savathûn's Throne World, as you uncover the mystery of how she and her Lucent Hive stole the Light — across a set of maps ranging between gothic cathedrals, palaces, swamps, and a mysterious black pyramid on the icy moon of Europa. Often considered one of the best Destiny 2 campaign packs, it will be available on the PS4 and…

One to watch: Baby Queen | Pop and rock

At 18, South African singer-songwriter Arabella Latham moved to London from Durban to become a pop/rock star. She couldn’t instantly emulate her heroines Taylor Swift and Courtney Love: for years, Latham didn’t release anything, ambition waylaid by drugs, time-sucking social media and heartbreak. But by 2020, as Baby Queen, she’d found how to pour her angst into song, which snaffled her a dedicated fanbase – her Baby Kingdom – and a record deal.Latham, now 26, is gifted with words. Baby Queen articulates adulting pains…

Queen of Pop Madonna thanks her `Lucky Star` after health battle

The Queen of Pop, Madonna thanked her "lucky stars" as she danced for her fans in her latest Instagram post. In the post, she wore a black outfit and gold sunglasses as she danced to her hit song `Lucky Star`, reports The Mirror. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Madonna (@madonna) She captioned the post: "To be able to move my body and…

Queen Guitarist Brian May to Co-Author Asteroid Atlas

The prominent astrophysicist and musician Brian May is co-authoring a three-dimensional atlas of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, an 85-million-ton hunk of rock orbiting the Sun.Inspiration Behind Immortal Longings | io9 InterviewMay is co-authoring the book with Dante Lauretta, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona and the principal investigator of NASA and the university’s OSIRIS-REx mission. May is also part of the mission team.OSIRIS-REx saw a small spacecraft arrive at Bennu in 2018 and extract a sample of…