Since the early ’80s, the iconic country music venue in Fort Worth, Texas, the great Billy Bob’s, has brought in legends like George Jones, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, and continues to be a part of country music history with some really cool moments in 2021 that included Miranda Lambert and Hank Williams, Jr. The
The owners of Shawbrook, one of Britain’s biggest challenger banks, are exploring plans to list it on the London Stock Exchange less than five years after taking it private. Sky News has learnt that BC Partners and Pollen Street Capital, the two private equity firms which each own 50% of Shawbrook, are holding talks with
Another strange, downright sci-fi year has come and gone. What better way to celebrate 2021’s demise and prepare for what 2022 holds in store than with a heaping dose of Twilight Zone? The annual Twilight Zone New Year’s Day Marathon is set to continue on SYFY this New Year. The marathon spans three days, from
TikTok is the most downloaded app worldwide with 656 million downloads in 2021, as per a new report. It is followed by other social media apps like Instagram, and Facebook (now Meta) as well as instant messaging platforms WhatsApp and Telegram. Meanwhile, when it comes to category wise distribution, Netflix is the most downloaded entertainment
Bob Odenkirk is fully back … just months after almost dying of a heart attack. The “Better Call Saul” star was out and about Wednesday … shopping for firewood and groceries at an L.A. supermarket. Speaking of Duraflame — Bob is Dur-able … TMZ broke the story back in July … he collapsed in new
Ryan Reynolds had some choice words for the media as he felt that some publications were exploiting his past relationship with Betty White. He joked that “I’m absolutely sick of the media exploiting past relationships just to drive clicks.” A lot of people found that funny online, and it’s been a wild week of Betty White stories
Rick Montanez reports from Buena Park on the latest developments regarding a man who climbed 250 feet atop the them park’s Supreme Scream ride. He is now safely down, detained by police and being transported to a local hospital.
Peter Parker (Tom Holland) was a bit too careless when asking Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to cast the spell that’d hide his superhero identity once more. In fact, that’s the main reason the plot to Spider-Man: No Way Home was allowed to proceed. Fast forward to the end of the flick, and Parker no longer
Nielsen, building on several of its recent reports about consumption of media by diverse audience groups, has broken out the kinds of podcasts that resonate most with those listeners. Average listening time for Asian Americans, Blacks, Hispanics, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ is about three hours a week, the company noted in a new set
Los Angeles County public health officials reported a staggering 16,510 new cases of the coronavirus since Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases to 1,649,376, as of Wednesday, Dec. 29. The total number of cases represents 16.4% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported 25 more deaths linked to the coronavirus since Tuesday, for a
Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of recruiting underage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. The 60-year-old former socialite and ex-girlfriend of billionaire financier Epstein is now facing the prospect of years in prison. As the verdicts were read out in court in New York, Maxwell appeared to show little reaction behind a
Boris Johnson has praised the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine for saving “many millions of lives” as the UK marks becoming the first country to approve the COVID vaccine exactly one year ago. On 30 December 2020, the Oxford/AstraZeneca shot became the second coronavirus jab approved by the UK’s independent medicines regulator – after Pfizer/BioNTech. To date, almost
Peter Parker might not be a mastermind cryptocurrency criminal, but the name Spiderman is quickly becoming more associated with the mining landscape. ReasonLabs, a leading provider of cybersecurity prevention and detection software, recently discovered a new form of malware hacking into customer computers in the guise of the latest Spiderman movie. As perhaps the most
After Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty Wednesday on five of six sex trafficking counts for her role in procuring young girls for her former boyfriend and serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to abuse, BBC News took to the airwaves to analyze the proceedings. And they brought on Alan Dershowitz, notably named by Epstein accuser Virginia
As a former children’s librarian, I’ve read a lot of picture books. Some, I return to again and again, whether for story time or for my own enjoyment (listen, while Penguin Problems doesn’t work for a large group of babies and toddlers, I love that book; it’s hilarious). Many of those books are old standards
Two of the best voices in country music on one incredible song? Sign me up. Way back in 2006, a couple Carolina boys, Randy Travis and Josh Turner, got together for a performance of Josh’s hit “Your Man,” and hell if it isn’t just perfection. Seriously though, they really are two of the most distinctive
Liquidators of the Thomas Cook travel empire which became one of Britain’s best-known companies during its 178-year history have launched a bid to offload its stake in the company behind the UK’s air traffic control operations. Sky News has learnt that AlixPartners, the professional services firm, launched a process shortly before Christmas to sell Thomas
Season 2 hasn’t even come out, but apparently, Netflix is already talking to the creator of Squid Game about season 3. “It wasn’t that long ago that Hwang Dong-hyuk didn’t seem up for more Squid Game, telling Variety, ‘It is quite tiring just thinking about it.’ Then, the show exploded in popularity around the world,
Actor Justin Melnick drops by the KCAL9 studio to talk about the upcoming military dog holiday toy drive.
iQoo 9 series, which is rumoured to include the vanilla iQoo 9 and iQoo 9 Pro smartphones, will be powered by Qualcomm’s latest flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. The Vivo sub-brand also confirmed that the smartphones will feature a VC three-dimensional heat dissipation system that will have a soaking plate with an area of