“The projection is that at the very end of March, early April,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the more contagious UK variant of Covid-19 “will become more dominant than the wild type. “The fact is that when you have a virus that has ability to transmit more efficiently than the wild type in the community, sooner
Happy Friday. This week on the Whiskey Riff New Music Friday Playlist, we have a new tunes from Logan Mize, Eric Church, Morgan Wallen, Mark Leach, Lucero, Muscadine Bloodline, Hailey Whitters with Brent Cobb, Corb Lund, Heath Sanders, Troy Cartwright, Pony Bradshaw, Rodney Atkins and more. Turn it up, tell your friends, and as always,
Hailey Whitters got a big break from Brent Cobb in the fall of 2019, when he asked her to open his Sucker for a Good Time Tour. Now that she’s “living the dream” — finding acclaim with her newest album — she simply had to enlist her fellow singer-songwriter for a song. Cobb joins Whitters
WandaVision fans were probably wondering why there were no commercial break ads in Episode 4 of the series. These short adverts have become an expected part of the mystery over the first three installments of the series. However, “We Interrupt This Program” takes that ease of formula and turns it on its head. To put
Play video content Breaking News PGA Tour Torrey Pines looked more like the set of “Happy Gilmore” on Friday … ’cause Brooks Koepka hit a tee shot that landed INSIDE a shoe — and it had everyone wondering, should he have to play it as it lies?!?!?! The wild scene all went down during the
Denzel Washington decided to pay tribute to a new crop of actors including Chadwick Boseman. People realized after the Black Panther star’s tragic death that the veteran actor played a huge role in his career. Washington famously helped pay for the Marvel hero’s education at Oxford. But, there are multiple occasions where Boseman himself was
Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate who spoke at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, will recite an original piece ahead of Super Bowl LV, February 7th, The Associated Press reports. Gorman’s poem will be dedicated to the three “honorary captains” the NFL has selected to honor before the big game: educator Trimaine Davis, nurse
It will never not be strange that the true crime genre and its fictional counterpart — bloody genres besotted with dead and missing women, haunted detectives, outpourings of familial grief — are not only entertainment, but, for many, an ideal Friday night comfort watch. It’s not a moral question, really; detective stories are rabbit holes
Sometimes you’re born into a family, and sometimes you have to create your own. That becomes even more apparent as soon as we come of age and define our own values, which are sometimes separate from those that raised us—or as we discover a family when we don’t have any nearby. These 15 YA books
Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gnTIbD In a post-apocalyptic world, a man takes refuge in an arcade. High Score by Adrien Vallade, Lou Maurice De Reparaz, Brian Lim, Elodie Ferrer, Pablo Cortes Subscribe to DUST on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh #DUST #scifi #shortfilm About DUST: DUST presents thought-provoking science fiction content, exploring the future of humanity through
Someone must have left the freezer door in the morgue open, because grisly reminders of the past are thawing before our eyes. You can see it this weekend with the release of John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things, a throwback to the days when movie stars hung out at crime scenes instead of in spandex,
Get the firewood and s’mores ready. Campgrounds within the State Parks and National Parks systems are starting to reopen to visitors, after a nearly two-month shutdown during the latest stay-at-home order that was lifted this week. But there are some ongoing restrictions as the state still grapples with a high number of coronavirus cases in
Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black Hollywood actress known for portraying characters of strength, has died aged 96. The film, television and stage actress, whose 60-year career earned her three Emmys and a Tony Award, died on Thursday, her manager Larry Thompson said in a statement. No cause of death was given. “She had a heart
Prisoners in England should start being offered coronavirus vaccines from today, the prisons minister has told Sky News. “The vaccination rollout in prisons has commenced in Wales and should be commencing today in England,” Lucy Frazer said. Live COVID updates from the UK and around the world Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible
Google Project Zero on Thursday disclosed details of a new security mechanism that Apple quietly added to iOS 14 as a countermeasure to prevent attacks that were recently found to leverage zero-days in its messaging app. Dubbed “BlastDoor,” the improved sandbox system for iMessage data was disclosed by Samuel Groß, a security researcher with Project
LG has been an innovative smartphone manufacturer, and we’ve seen some out-of-the-ordinary smartphones from it recently. The LG G5 was a notable attempt at a modular smartphone, while the more recent LG G8X ThinQ and LG Velvet were foldable dual-screen models. The LG Wing is yet another one that breaks conventions with a futuristic and
Financial markets have been rocked this week by a battle initiated by ordinary people against those who are usually dubbed market manipulators – hedge funds. This is not being fought on trading floors but online and is a consequence of an explosion in the popularity of amateur share trading by armchair investors and collaboration among
For the second year running, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival were canceled, according to a release posted by their promoter, Goldenvoice. The festival promoter posted an order from the health officer of Riverside County citing the “worldwide epidemic of Covid-19 disease.” The order referenced the worldwide appeal
Kentucky substance, Oklahoma style. I’m admittedly fairly new to Read Southall Band, but if you can pull off a southern rock cover of Tyler Childers, you have my attention. Way back in 2017, the Read Southall Band performed in Stillwater during Oklahoma State’s Homecoming Week (must have been a hell of a time) and busted
Impatience got the best of Morgan Wallen, so he dropped two bonus tracks off his wildly popular new album, Dangerous: The Double Album on Friday (Jan. 29). Wallen shared “Bandaid on a Bullet Hole” and “This Side of a Dust Cloud,” which were previously offered only as Target-exclusive tracks, adding to his collection of 30 songs on