UPDATE (12/1): The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced on Wednesday it will suspend all WTA tournaments in China, including Hong Kong, CNN reports. “In good conscience, I don’t see how I can ask our athletes to compete there when Peng Shuai is not allowed to communicate freely and has seemingly been pressured to contradict her
Month: December 2021
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Anna Ash has announced her next album Sleeper and shared two new singles, “Favorite Part” and “Popularity.” The new releases build off of the rootsy, delicate Americana sound that Ash updated with more complex soundscapes on her most recent EP Fire Season, which she released in March. Her intimate, intricate songwriting has conjured literary comparisons, with her
Reginald VelJohnson is best known for playing Al Powell in Die Hard and Carl Winslow in Family Matters, but many also know him as David Sutton from Turner & Hooch. Earlier this year, VelJohnson reprised his role from the classic ’80s movie in the Disney+ reboot of the same name that starred Josh Peck as
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Business owners across the hospitality industry say COVID rule changes are already having a “chilling” impact on bookings. Many who have survived 20 months of lockdowns and restrictions as well as a “lost” Christmas last year, say a strong festive period this year is essential to their survival. Data from reservations website OpenTable also suggests
Though she says she was skeptical of accepting the cover because she didn’t feel like she really deserved it, the Tennessee native has accomplished a hell of a lot over the past year. We’ve seen her branch out into the perfume market, fund a portion of the Moderna COVID vaccine with a million dollar donation,
Game of Thrones is readying a return to Westeros in 2022 with House of the Dragon. Set around 200 years in the past, during the height of the Targaryens’ incestuous, dragon-riding royal reign, the series is the first of HBO’s ongoing prequel pursuits. However, it also represents an enormously expensive mulligan, since it arrives in
Honor 60 and Honor 60 Pro were launched in China on Wednesday at a live event hosted by the company. The smartphones feature curved OLED displays, and sport 4,800mAh batteries with support for 66W fast charging. The Honor 60 is equipped with the Snapdragon 778G SoC, while the Honor 60 Pro features the newer Snapdragon
Play video content ABC News 11:54 AM PT — Hollywood weapons expert Steve Wolf is giving his take on what he thinks Alec Baldwin means when he says he “didn’t pull the trigger” — and it sounds like it all boils down to semantics. Play video content TMZ.com Wolf gave us a demonstration Wednesday on
As The Simonetta Lein Show debuts its 4th season, the show welcomes one of the most insanely influential and impactful legacies in hip-hop history, Tech N9ne. Tech has consistently accomplished the impossible from outside the system. Having worked with the hip-hop industry’s biggest legends from Eminem, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar, to Tupac, he’s resisted every trend, overturned
The site of a neglected, stranded (albeit fictional) child’s brave attempts to fend off a pair of nefarious criminals — that’s right, the Home Alone house — is up on Airbnb for a one-night stay this holiday season. The Chicago house is being “offered up” as part of a promotion for the new Disney+ film
Timed to today’s debut of original movie Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas, the Roku Channel has added a range of holiday programming and features. Among the offerings is the new end-credit song from the Zoey’s movie called “North Star,” which was co-written by Mary Steenburgen and performed by Tori Kelly. Steenburgen is among the stars of the
Three students were killed and eight other people wounded when a 15-year-old boy allegedly opened fire Tuesday at Oxford High School. Killed were Tate Myre, age 16; Hana St. Julian, 14; and Madisyn Baldwin, 17. Myre’s gunshot wound was so severe that a deputy put him in a patrol car to transport him to hospital
A school shooter tried to lure students out into the hallway by pretending he was a police officer, viral video footage shows. Three people were killed after a 15-year-old boy opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, while eight others – including a teacher – were injured. Several of them remain in critical
Boris Johnson has said “all guidance was followed completely” as the prime minister was accused by Sir Keir Starmer of hosting a “boozy party” in Downing Street last Christmas despite COVID rules that were in place at the time. The Labour leader said Mr Johnson was “taking the British public for fools” as the pair
A newly discovered botnet capable of staging distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeted unpatched Ribbon Communications (formerly Edgewater Networks) EdgeMarc appliances belonging to telecom service provider AT&T by exploiting a four-year-old flaw in the network appliances. Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360’s Netlab network security division, which detected the botnet first on October 27, 2021, called it
On Tuesday, the first full day of witness testimony in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial, defense lawyers highlighted Epstein’s circle of high-powered acquaintances, naming former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, as well as Prince Andrew and others as passengers aboard Epstein’s private planes for the first time in court. They also sought to depict
After spending nearly 40 years labeled as author Alice Sebold’s rapist, Anthony Broadwater was exonerated last week of all charges. The ruling came following the investigation Tim Mucciante, executive producer on the adaptation of Sebold’s memoir of her rape Lucky, when he became curious why the first draft of the script for the adaptation differed
The world’s rich nations must help vaccinate the poorest nations or else they will face a continual cycle of economic shocks and restrictions in the face of new variants, the OECD’s chief economist has said. Laurence Boone told Sky News that the Omicron variant could cause the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to downgrade
Let’s call a spade a spade… for the most part, country radio sucks. They play the same 5 pop songs over and over again (literally, read our full country radio data analysis here), hardly any women, and with this new wave of boyfriend country bullshit, it’s enough to make you want to lay down in