Author: wazup
Los Angeles Venue The Satellite to Discontinue Live Music Events
One of the biggest bummers of COVID-19, outside of the obvious, is that a number of music venues are on the verge of closing permanently. That moment, however, is now. Los Angeles’ The Satellite announced on Friday morning that it will be removing its stage and no longer be hosting live music and will become a restaurant. The Silver Lake music venue is one of the more intimate rooms in the city an...
Zamfara offers cows for guns to halt bandit attacks
Authorities in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state have offered two cows for each gun surrendered to halt bloody attacks by criminal gangs, including cattle rustlers. Remote communities across the region have for years been hit hard by deadly raids from armed groups of motorcycle-riding cattle rustlers and kidnappers. Military operations have failed to end the killings and local officials have tr...
Melinda Gates tasks policymakers on protection of women, girls in fight against coronavirus
In a paper titled “The Pandemic’s Toll on Women and Girls,” Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda Gates, has tasked global leaders and policymakers on the protection of women and girls in the fight against the coronavirus. Gates said that to recover fully from this pandemic, leaders must respond to the ways that it is affecting men and women differently. In the paper, she pu...
NANNM: 200 nurses in Abuja contract coronavirus
Over 200 nurses in the various medical facilities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have contracted COVID-19, Nigerian Association of Nurses and Midwifery has stated. Out of the affected nurses, some 12 others have recovered and have been out of isolation, Chairperson Nigerian Association of Nurses and Midwifery, Federal Capital Territory chapter, Deborah Yusufu, told the leadership of the Ni...
Serge Aurier returns to home following brother’s tragic death
Tottenham star Serge Aurier has returned home to France to be by his mother’s side following the tragic death of his brother earlier this week. Christopher Aurier, 26, was reportedly shot in the stomach outside Kin’s nightclub in Tolouse around 5am on Monday morning. Aurier shared a heartfelt picture on Instagram on Friday of him embracing his mother, as the family continue to mourn Christopher’s ...
2020 Chevy C8 Corvette For Sale: Ran When Dropped, Needs TLC
Given the newness of the mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette C8, its limited quantities, and general lack of second-hand examples, those looking to heavily modify a C8 don’t have that many options. Why pay full price for a factory fresh example when you’re just going to cut it up, juice the engine, and more? This 2020 C8 Corvette might be just the ticket for you, if you’re looking for ...
The 1991 Ferrari F40 Is Still an Outrageous Poster Child, 30 Years Later
The Ferrari F40 is an incredible vehicle, a refugee from an alternate universe in which Ferrari entered Group B rallying with a fury. Descended from the 288 GTO, it was also one of Enzo Ferrari’s pet projects in his twilight years, one of the final incarnations of his legacy. For the rest of us, it was one of the perfect poster vehicles, offering fascinating and otherworldly shapes and angle...
Retired J-Pop Producer Tetsuya Komuro Returns with Nogizaka46’s ‘Route 246′
J-pop girl group Nogizaka46 is set to release a new single composed by veteran music producer Tetsuya Komuro, called “Route 246.” After announcing his retirement from music in early 2018, the legendary hitmaker was persuaded to emerge from hibernation by longtime friend and collaborator Yasushi Akimoto, Nogizaka46’s producer and lyricist for most of their songs, including this on...
What’s Your Favorite Boy Band of All Time? Vote!
Billboard has been traveling back through time by ranking the best boy band projects from the past 30 years. But what’s your favorite group of all time? BTS expanded beyond a Korean household name and became a worldwide sensation with killer choreography, infectious bilingual earworms and a sublime social media presence. The septet has been a mainstay at No. 1 on Billboard‘s ...
‘Check’ Out Iggy Azalea’s Latest Sultry Outfit: Pics
Iggy Azalea has her 13.5 million Instagram followers “checking” out her latest Fashion Nova outfit. In yesterday’s (July 16) quarantine ‘fit pic, the “Fancy” rapper stays classy and cool with a mimosa in hand, showing off a checkered two-piece set that had Noah Cyrus commenting, “wwoow.” The artist (real name Amethyst Amelia Kelly...
20 Questions With Inner City: Kevin Saunderson, His Son Dantiez & Steffanie Christi’an Release the Group’s First Album in 30 Years
Nearly 30 years after the release of their last album, Inner City is back. The seminal dance music project began in the late ’80s, when Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson linked with singer Paris Grey for the 1989 debut Inner City album, Paradise. That LP generated a pair of all-time genre classics in “Good Life” and “Big Fun,” with the latter track hitting ...
Drake Is A ‘Popstar,’ Not A Doctor, On Flexing New Khaled Collab
“I’m a pop star, but this shit ain’t bubblegum / You would probably think my manager is Scooter Braun.” That’s what Drake raps a minute into “Popstar,” an airy new collab with DJ Khaled that dropped on Friday (July 17). It was just one of Aubrey’s several references to, you guessed it, pop stars — “Look, Ariana, Selena, my Visa / It can take as...
