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Top 5 Blind Auditions on The Voice Kids: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-04T21:41:03+00:00“>June 4, 2021 | 5:41pm ET The 20th season of The Voice may have just ended, but if you’re already missing Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas and Co., the good news is there’s plenty of more of The Voice Kids to go around. While Cam Anthony just walked away with the title for Team Blake in the U.S., kid-centric iterations of the hit singing competition have sprung up all around the globe in recent years. Seven-year-old Jesús del Río made headlines this week for his mighty cover of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell,” but he’s only the latest in a long line of talented kids. From the Netherlands and Brazil to Ukraine and Spain, we’ve rounded up five of the best blind auditions in t...
Sad! Donald Trump Shutters Blog After Less Than One Month
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-02T21:12:44+00:00“>June 2, 2021 | 5:12pm ET It was the yugest blog in history: hotter than Donald Trump’s steaks, more magnanimous than the Trump Foundation charities, and even better attended than the former president’s inauguration. Now, it is no more. Less than a month after launching From the Desk of Donald Trump with a promise to “redefine the game,” 45 has shut down his blog and moved on. After most social media platforms banned Trump following the January 6th Capitol insurrection, his aides canvassed Fox News with a sales pitch. The blog would be “the hottest ticket” in social media, according to senior adviser Jason Miller, drawing “tens of m...
Bill Cosby Denied Parole After Refusing Sex Offender Treatment Program
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-28T17:00:50+00:00“>May 28, 2021 | 1:00pm ET Bill Cosby has been denied parole after refusing to participate in a sex offender treatment program. The disgraced 83-year-old actor and comedian is currently serving between three and 10 years in a Pennsylvania state prison after being convicted of sexual assault in 2018. He would have been eligible for parole on September 25th after completing the minimum term of his sentence. However, on May 11th the Pennsylvania State Parole Board declined Cosby’s parole request due to his “failure to develop a parole release plan,” which would have required “a treatment program for sex offenders and violence prevention.” Related Video Cosby, w...
TikTok Beach Party Broken Up by Police Using Tear Gas
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-23T21:31:36+00:00“>May 23, 2021 | 5:31pm ET At the beginning of this week, a random kid named Adrian Lopez announced he was hosting an open-invitation birthday party on Saturday at Huntington Beach, California. The flyer for Adrian’s Kickback spread like wildfire on TikTok and, as is the way things go online, it quickly became one of the most overhyped parties, with high-profile influencers even suggesting they would attend. Unsurprisingly, local police caught wind of the event and promptly broke it up with tear gas and pepper bullets. What began as a simple invite on TikTok — “pop out n celebrate my bday,” reads the flyer for Adrian’s Kickback — wound up drawing thousands of tee...
Ricky Schroder Has Meltdown Outside of Costco Over Mask Mandate
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-16T18:20:20+00:00“>May 16, 2021 | 2:20pm ET Ricky Schroder, the former Silver Spoons child star-turned-bail bondsman for Kyle Rittenhouse, filmed himself ranting and raving outside of a California Costco over the weekend after being denied entry for refusing to wear a mask. Though the CDC recently lifted federal guidelines for mandatory mask wearing, face covering mandates remain in place at the state, local, and business levels. As such, when a bare-faced Schroder turned up at a Los Angeles-area Costco on Saturday, he was promptly denied entry. Schroder proceeded to film himself harassing a store supervisor named Jason, questioning why Jason allowed himself to be ruled by “kings...
Elon Musk’s Net Worth Plummeted $20 Billion After Hosting Saturday Night Live
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-14T19:48:02+00:00“>May 14, 2021 | 3:48pm ET In case you didn’t hear, Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live last weekend and viewers were left feeling — uh, to put it nicely — very unsatisfied. It looks like plenty of investors were also underwhelmed, because Musk’s net worth reportedly dropped by a whopping $20 billion (!) after his SNL episode aired. As the cofounder and CEO of Tesla, Musk took quite the hit on Wall Street following his appearance. According to estimates by Forbes, shares of Tesla have fallen more than 15% so far this week, lowering Musk’s net worth by $20.5 billion total. That said, his net worth is still roughly $145.5 billion, which means Musk is still the thi...
John Mulaney and Olivia Munn Are Dating: Report
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-13T20:32:23+00:00“>May 13, 2021 | 4:32pm ET John Mulaney is reportedly dating Olivia Munn. People reports the 38-year-old comedian and 40-year-old actress met at a church in Los Angeles. “This is very new, they’re taking it slowly,” a source close to Mulaney told People. Earlier this week, Mulaney and his wife of six years, Anna Marie Tendler, announced their separation. “I am heartbroken that John has decided to end our marriage,” Tendler said in a statement. “I wish him support and success as he continues his recovery.” Related Video Late last year, Mulaney entered inpatient rehab for cocaine and alcohol abuse. This week, he returned to the stage for a series of sold-out s...
Dave Chappelle, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli Unveil The Midnight Miracle Podcast
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-11T17:52:40+00:00“>May 11, 2021 | 1:52pm ET Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, and Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def have launched their new podcast The Midnight Miracle. The first two episodes are streaming now through the Luminary Podcast Network. The three longtime friends recorded this material during Chappelle’s 2020 Summer Camp series of socially-distanced comedy shows in Ohio. They spent hundreds of hours in front of microphones at the converted mechanic’s garage The Shack, which resulted in enough material to release new episodes through the end of the year, with a summer hiatus. Episode 1 is titled “How to Inspire”, and it opens with a prayer in Arabic that Chappelle then ...
Joe Rogan Hits Reverse on Vaccines: “I Believe They Are Safe and I Encourage Many People to Take Them”
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-29T22:14:16+00:00“>April 29, 2021 | 6:14pm ET Earlier this week, Joe Rogan was roundly criticized for telling healthy young people to not get vaccinated against COVID-19, remarking on an episode of his popular podcast, “If you’re like 21 years old, and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I go no.” Now, via The Hollywood Reporter, he’s walking back those statements, saying on the latest edition of The Joe Rogan Experience that it “makes sense” to get vaccinated to protect other people. It wasn’t quite an unequivocal apology; Rogan spent some time attacking the “click bait” instincts of the media, and questioned why anyone would listen to him in the first pl...
Florence Welch, Thomas Bartlett Writing Music for New Great Gatsby Broadway Show
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-28T14:26:56+00:00“>April 28, 2021 | 10:26am ET Concert tours aren’t the only live musical productions gearing up for a post-pandemic return, as Broadway just got it first new project in over a year. Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine and producer Thomas “Doveman” Bartlett (St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens) are set to write the lyrics and music for an upcoming stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby. “This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” said Welch in a statement (via Deadline). “It contains some of my favorite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is ...
Joe Rogan Tells Young People Not to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-27T21:25:04+00:00“>April 27, 2021 | 5:25pm ET Joe Rogan, who once coached the contestants of Fear Factor through drinking donkey semen, now says that healthy young people shouldn’t be vaccinated against COVID-19. Via Media Matters, the highly compensated Spotify podcast host and all-around moron contradicted CDC guidelines on his April 23rd episode, saying, “If you’re like 21 years old, and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I go no.” Rogan has long advocated for a kind of “thinking for yourself” that is unrecognizable as thinking: giving a platform to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, spreading misinformation about the novel coronavirus, and repeatedly att...
Dave Chappelle, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli Announce New Podcast The Midnight Miracle
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-20T19:14:51+00:00“>April 20, 2021 | 3:14pm ET Dave Chappelle has announced the new podcast The Midnight Miracle with his good friends Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, who raps under the name Mos Def. The show will arrive on the subscription podcast platform Luminary “in the coming weeks.” Chappelle’s relationship with Kweli and Bey goes back decades, and the two Black Star rappers were frequent guests on Chappelle’s Show. They also appeared at Chappelle’s 2020 Summer Camp series of socially-distanced comedy shows in Ohio, and it is here that The Midnight Miracle was born. The three friends gathered at the converted mechanic’s garage The Shack, recording hundre...
