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Jon Bernthal Portrays a Baltimore Cop in New HBO Miniseries ‘We Own This City’
The team behind the HBO’s hit Baltimore crime drama The Wire is making a comeback with We Own This City. The forthcoming miniseries, which will also air on HBO, will chronicle the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption within it. Based on journalist Justin Fenton’s novel of the same name, the show is helmed by The Wire’s creator David Simon and writer and producer George Pelecanos. Reinaldo Marcus Green of King Richard will direct. Jon Bernthal stars as Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, a central figure in the department. Wunmi Mosaku plays attorney Nicole Steele from the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and Jamie Hector portrays BPD homicide detective Sean M. Suiter. Additional cast members include Josh Charles, McKinley Belcher III ...
Marvel’s ‘Ironheart’ Disney+ Series Brings on Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes as Directors
Marvel Studios‘s upcoming Disney+ series Ironheart has now recruited Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes as directors. Bailey is best known for her previous co-creation of the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls as well as creating Gotham-nominated You’re So Talented. She has also produced and directed the final season of Dear White People on Netflix and Powderkeg’s East of La Brea. As for Barnes, her work includes episodes of both Mythic Quest and Blindspotting, and she’s also directing the upcoming fourth and last season of Donald Glover‘s Atlanta. Ironheart will follow the origin story of Riri Williams, played by Dominique Thorne, a young genius who invents a suit of armor similar to Tony Stark’s Iron Man suit. Other details regarding the show remain scarce at the mom...
How to Get Tickets to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ 2022 Tour
The Grammy-winning duo of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are bringing their latest collaborative effort Raise the Roof to new heights with an extended international tour that now covers the West Coast this August. Get tickets here, and read on for more info including pre-sale dates. What Is Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Next Tour? The contemporary Americana combo kicks off their summer leg in Canandaigua, New York on June 1st. They’ll make stops at New York City’s Forest Hills Stadium on June 4th, Chicago on June 7th, Philadelphia on June 12th and more, followed by the East Coast closer at the Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park in Atlanta on June 16th. They’ll then immediately head out for a spot at Bonnaroo on June 17th. Advertisement Related Video The European leg begins prompt...
Comedians Pay Tribute Gilbert Gottfried: “Indescribably Unusually Hilarious”
Gilbert Gottfried was known as a comedian’s comedian, and as evidence of that look no further than the outpouring of tribute posts reacting to his untimely passing. Jon Stewart called opening for Gottfried “one of the great thrills of my early stand up life.” He added that Gilbert “could leave you gasping for breath…just indescribably unusually hilarious…Damn.” “For almost 40 years his spectacular comedy blew me away,” wrote Richard Lewis. “You can’t be funnier.” Advertisement Related Video “Gilbert Gottfried made me laugh at times when laughter did not come easily,” remarked Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander. “What a gift. I did not know him well but I loved what he shared with me. My best wishes and sympathy to his family.” Find more tributes to Gottfried from Bill Burr, Al Franken, Judd Ap...
Gilbert Gottfried Always Knew Where the Line Was. Here Are Three Times He Went Over It.
Among the big comedy stars of the modern era, nobody enjoyed offending their audience more than Gilbert Gottfried. “You want to feel like you’re going to go on a ride and there’s a chance it will kill you,” he said in 2019. Gasps and boos were a common soundtrack to his sets, and his roasts became legendary for their shocking rudeness. He told a filthy joke about Joan Rivers and handjobs, unfavorably compared Roseanne Barr to livestock, and said that “Donald Trump has done so much damage to the New York skyline, instead of calling him The Donald, they should call him the 20th hijacker.” Gottfried passed away on April 12th, and tributes have come pouring in, with fans and fellow comedians recalling all the times he tiptoed right up to the line without going over it. But that’s not...
Johnny Depp’s Defamation Trial Against Amber Heard Begins with Explosive New Claims
The trial for Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard began on Tuesday, April 12th in Virginia. Deep sued Heard in 2019 for $50 million over her Washington Post op-ed in which she referred to prior allegations against her ex-husband, while also saying she had become “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Although Heard did not refer to Depp by name or go into any details of the abuse, Depp’s attorneys have accused her of fabricating the claims in order to derail his career and advance her own. That allegation led to Heard filing a $100 million countersuit of her own. And after losing a libel lawsuit against The Sun in November 2020, the trial represents a second opportunity for Depp to refute Heard’s allegations of abuse. Jurors in Fairfax, Virgin...
Desire Detail Johnny Jewel–Produced Album Escape, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Desire—the Italians Do It Better project fronted by Megan Louise—announced the new album Escape in April 2020. Two years later, the album has a concrete release date: It’s out May 3 via Italians Do It Better. The album was produced by Johnny Jewel. Watch the video for the new song “Telling Me Lies,” plus find the album’s artwork and tracklist, below. Escape is the second Desire album after the 2009 debut II. Chromatics, whose last tour featured Desire as an opening act, announced their breakup last year. The band’s announcement was made by all the members aside from Johnny Jewel, and Jewel went unmentioned in the announcement. Jewel’s representative confirmed the breakup in a statement, which did not mention the other three members by name. Read “Did Chromatics’ Album Dear Tommy Ever Exist...
Drive-By Truckers Announce New Album Welcome 2 Club XIII, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Drive-By Truckers have announced the new album Welcome 2 Club XIII and shared its title song. The new track comes with a music video directed by Jason Shevchuk. Watch it below. Welcome 2 Club XIII arrives June 3 via ATO. It follows Drive-By Truckers’ pair of 2020 albums, The Unraveling and The New OK. The new album gets its title from a venue where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley performed at the start of their careers. “There were no cool bars in town and Club XIII was the best we had,” Hood said in a statement, “but it wasn’t all that good, and our band [Adam’s House Cat] wasn’t particularly liked there. From time to time the owner would throw us a Wednesday night or let us open for a hair-metal band we were a terrible fit for, and everyone would hang out outside until we...
David Lynch Debunks Cannes Movie Report: “I Have No New Film Coming Out”
Yesterday, Variety reported that the 2022 Cannes Film Festival would feature the premiere of a brand new David Lynch feature film starring Laura Dern. The publication got the news from “two well-informed sources.” Now, in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lynch has said he will not have a movie premiere at Cannes. “I have no new film coming out,” he said definitively. Lynch continued: That’s a total rumor. So there you are. It is not happening. I don’t have a project. I have nothing at Cannes. It’s unfortunate. It got built up that people thought, “Oh, that’d be nice.” But there is something new, but it’s not mine. I don’t know whose it is. They say there’s something new at Cannes, and they don’t say whose it is, and some people thought it was my film, but it’s not. So we’ll...
Lucius Say Harry Styles Should Have Given Them a Feature Credit on “Treat People With Kindness”
Lucius, who just released their new album Second Nature on Friday, gave an interview with The Los Angeles Times where they reflected on their work with Harry Styles on the Fine Line song “Treat People With Kindness.” The duo said they felt they were unfairly denied a featured artist credit on the track after making significant contributions. The duo are credited on the song as vocalists when you click through to view the song’s credits, but don’t receive a prominent featured artist credit on streaming platforms. “We start the song, we sing every chorus, just us,” Jess Wolfe said. “We trade off the bridge. It is us and Harry Styles. Harry Styles and us.” “It just hurt,” Wolfe says. “Here was an opportunity to spread the love a little bit, which he purports to do all the time. And it could’v...
Take The L Trends After Sister Administering Proper Fade Video Makes Rounds On Social Media
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: DjelicS / Getty Here at Hip-Hop Wired, we’re not keen to show violent videos of fights but today we’re making a slight exception. A video making its rounds on social media of a vicious fight between two young women has “Take The L” trending for all the right and wrong reasons. On April 10, @@BarbieTheeStar shared an older video from the @JustGirlFight Twitter account, which hosts a bunch of street fades of all sorts. In this particular clash, a young Black woman in a green top and Black pants squared up with another shorter young woman wearing all Black. It was clear that the taller woman knew how to throw down, literally and otherwise. The shorter young lady had no chance and the fight was all but done after she was kicked in the face by the ...
Twitter Discusses The Hijacking Of AAVE, Debates Proper Usage
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Westend61 / Getty AAVE, also known as African-American Vernacular English, is an often controversial discussion not so much due to its usage but how AAVE is properly applied. As the English language in America is replete with regional influences, AAVE falls under that distinction and a discussion on the style of speaking is currently trending on Twitter. Twitter user @IvoryTheJunior posted an interesting thought regarding AAVE On Monday (April 11) and the discussion that was sparked from the tweet is still bubbling today (April 12). “Watching non-black people “adopt” (*kidnap) AAVE is so funny to me because there are legit some AAVE terms/phrases that I, a Black person, just don’t use because they don’t sound right coming from me. Y’all mouths be in...
