Today, August 23rd, marks what would have been Kobe Bryant’s 42nd birthday, and to honor the late Los Angeles Lakers legend, Nike released a tribute video narrated by Kendrick Lamar. The video embraces the “Mamba Mentality” of “Just be better,” with Lamar’s spoken word the foundation of a montage of …
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Amidst weeks of unrest in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has announced the creation of a “task force” to monitor protesters’ social media activity and prevent “looting,” NBC Chicago reports. The social media monitoring is part of a five-point strategy to combat unrest in Chicago, where more than 100 people were …
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Screenwriter Mattson Tomlin’s latest movie,Project Power, is about a new street drug called Power that can make those who swallow it a superhero — at a price. The movie stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jamie Foxx, and Dominique Fishback (Darlene on HBO’sThe Deuce) and is now streaming on Netflix. In our latest …
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Very few TV shows enjoy the level of untouchable nostalgia that surrounds The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. While it only arrived on a streaming platform for the first time this year, nearly everything about the Nineties sitcom — from its theme song to Will Smith‘s Air Jordan rotation — was …
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Maya Rudolph, who was nominated for an Emmy earlier this month for her impersonations of Senator Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live, will likely be reprising that role more often following the announcement that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has named Harris as his running mate. Rudolph, an SNL …
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Jamie Foxx and Dominique Fishback — co-stars of the upcoming Netflix action flick Project Power — discuss their earliest performances, first records, and most striking celebrity encounters in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time. The clip opens with Fishback recalling her audition for Project Power. She flew …
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Pearl Jam will document a hometown concert from their 2018 tour in an upcoming pay-per-view broadcast. The band’s August 8th performance at Seattle’s Safeco Field — the first of two sold-out gigs billed as “The Home Shows” — will be available to view via Nugs.net throughout Labor Day weekend, starting …
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At long last, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have teamed up on a track, “WAP,” released Thursday night along with a steamy music video. In a live YouTube conversation before dropping the new visual, the pair discussed the making of the clip, gave each other kudos and expressed some …
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The final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation features an episode called “Lower Decks,” told from the point of view of a group of junior officers on the Enterprise who see our heroes as their demanding and at times unfair bosses. It offered a fresh perspective on a show …
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The first catastrophe of 2020 came slightly earlier than most for Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. On a stormy evening in early March, the couple found themselves racing around Woodland Studios — the historic East Nashville recording facility that’s served as the duo’s home base since 2001 — trying to …
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