2Pac may have been at the top of the rap game, but according to his longtime friend Jada Pinkett Smith, he struggled with a hidden illness. Smith has been open about living with alopecia since going public in 2018. But she recently said that she and Pac had the condition — an …
Read More »‘Barbenheimer’ was a boon to movie theaters and a headache for many workers. So they’re unionizing
For movie theater owners around the country, the same-day release of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” this summer meant record box office sales and a gratifying sign that the public still craved entertainment on the big screen. But for some employees at the Alamo Drafthouse in Manhattan, “Barbenheimer” was the breaking point. “That really pushed us to the …
Read More »Author and activist Louise Meriwether, who wrote the novel ‘Daddy Was a Number Runner,’ dies at 100
NEW YORK (AP) — Louise Meriwether, the author and activist whose coming-of-age novel “Daddy Was a Number Runner” is widely regarded as a groundbreaking and vital portrait of race, gender and class, has died. She was 100. Meriwether died Tuesday at the Amsterdam Nursing Home in Manhattan, according to Cheryl …
Read More »Salman Rushdie was stabbed onstage last year. He’s releasing a memoir about the attack
NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie has a memoir coming out about the horrifying attack that left him blind in his right eye and with a damaged left hand. “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” will be published April 16. “This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge …
Read More »Former NFL player Sergio Brown is missing after his mother’s death was ruled a homicide
Former NFL player Sergio Brown is missing after his mother died from injuries related to an assault and her body was found near a creek behind her suburban Chicago home, according to the Maywood Police Department. Authorities discovered the body of 73-year-old Myrtle Brown on Saturday after relatives alerted police …
Read More »City’s Parris and West Ham’s Kmita recall their journeys to the top
The footballing journeys of Manchester City’s Nikita Parris and West Ham’s Rosie Kmita have been depicted in motion projections in a video produced by the FA, as the two players prepare to go head to head in the Women’s FA Cup final this Saturday. The video traces the journeys of Kmita, 24, …
Read More »Taylor Swift joins the action as Travis Kelce’s Chiefs battle the Jets at MetLife Stadium! You don’t want to miss this star-studded showdown!
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Taylor Swift couldn’t just shake off another chance to watch Travis Kelce on the football field. The 12-time Grammy Award winner arrived at MetLife Stadium about 40 minutes before kickoff Sunday night to watch Kelce and his Kansas City Chiefs defeat the New York Jets 23-20. SNY …
Read More »VAR was supposed to cut out errors. Now the integrity of the Premier League is in question
The fallout from Luis Diaz’s wrongly-disallowed goal in Liverpool’s 2-1 loss at Tottenham on Saturday resulted in the Merseyside club issuing a statement, saying it would “explore the range of options available given the clear need for escalation and resolution.” It is not clear what those “options” are and The Associated Press …
Read More »Inside the night that Tupac Shakur was shot, and what led up to the fatal gunfire
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The first arrest in the 1996 death of Tupac Shakur came Friday with the murder indictment of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, one of the last living witnesses to the Las Vegas drive-by shooting of the hip-hop superstar. Here’s a look at the hours that led up to the …
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