When interviewing record executives during my three decades as pop critic for The Times, I noticed that they were as eager for publicity as any of their artists. And, I must confess, I appreciated it […]
The England football anthem Three Lions could be “put to bed” after the Lionesses’ triumph in the Euro 2022 final, David Baddiel has said. “The women have reset the clock,” Baddiel, one of the trio […]
Photo Credit: Warner Records Archives Legendary Warner Bros. Records music executive Mo Ostin has died. He was 95. The music industry is now bidding farewell to a legendary label executive. After a long-and-storied career that […]
Pauldrons Ubiquitous in video game character design and well known to fantasy costumers the world over, the pauldron is the big, badass ancestor of shoulder pads. We’re not participating in any jousts, sure, but […]
The category is: creative (r)evolution. And Emmy-, Grammy- and Tony-award winning multihyphenate Billy Porter is in the midst of it. After closing out his acclaimed portrayal of beloved ballroom emcee and guiding light Pray Tell […]
When ransomware bandits struck his business last June, encrypting all his data and operational software and sending him a skull-and-crossbones image and an email address to learn the price he would have to pay to […]
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Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, and fame is Marilyn Monroe’s worst enemy in the dramatic trailer for Netflix’s “Blonde,” starring Ana de Armas as the silver-screen icon. The streaming giant released the first preview […]
Aging tech products often suffer from what’s known as feature creep: excessive complexity caused by the accretion of bells and whistles over the years. Log into Facebook (launched in 2004) or Instagram (launched in 2010) […]
Kawter Abed. Last updated: Jul 26, 2022 A college student has been receiving non-stop emails from his university, trying to collect a $1.96 unpaid bill in viral TikTok video. The TikToker who posts under the […]
Model Kate Moss is opening up about a Calvin Klein photo shoot that happened almost twenty years ago in 1992. In the black-and-white ad, Moss is completely shirtless, showing only her bare back to the […]
Via instagram / barrysbanterbus Welcome, all! We are back in the saddle for another roundup of today’s best memes. This marks the umpteenth year in a row that I’ve been publishing a roundup of the […]
Tim Hebb lives in one of more than 1.6 million households in Los Angeles that qualify for a new federal subsidy program for high-speed internet service. And according to the Biden administration, he ought to […]
Continue Reading Below Last time, we joked that Dini had to assure himself that he hadn’t watched some kind of fever dream, but in fact he sort of had watched a fever dream. It was […]
Caroline Grace has always enjoyed vintage technology. An IT tech in the Mid-Ohio Valley, they collect retro games, laser discs and cassette tapes, but mostly, vinyl records. Their collection is in the thousands, and hundreds […]
Adele has rescheduled her long-awaited Las Vegas residency, which will finally kick off on November 18th at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. “Weekends with Adele” spans 32 shows taking place through March 25th, 2023. In […]
Photo Credit: Kobalt Music Kobalt Music is removing its 700,000-song catalog from Instagram and Facebook due to license expiry. The company says its music licensing agreement with Meta expired and the two parties have failed […]
“Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient.” Sometimes relationships don’t work out the first time around, but with a little time and space, rekindling a romance is always possible. […]
In the Marvel universe, the Infinity Stones — six gems whose unique properties give the owner control over time, space, reality, the mind, power and the soul — are priceless. In our universe, though, it […]
Yevhenii Zhmud and his wife, Anastasia, never made it to their dream Coldplay concert in Berlin (photo: Yevhenii Zhmud) A Ukrainian couple hit by war have been repeatedly reaching out to Ticketmaster, Live Nation, and […]