You’re driving somewhere with no real destination, windows down, radio on shuffle, and this song comes on. That’s the setting “Burning Love” by Leo Sawikin seems built for, not a critical notebook, but a car, a porch, a late afternoon with nothing urgent happening. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/leosawikin/?hl=en There’s a looseness to how Sawikin moves through this
CBS fired Stephen Colbert and The LateShow crew when it canceled the talk show. It went off the air for good in May 2026. Stephen Colbert is still dealing with the loss. However, his staff is ready to move on. They landed a huge gig teaming up with Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay.
This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. Is Obi-Wan Kenobi making a big Star Wars comeback? Ewan McGregor has revealed his interest in returning as the Jedi Master for a future Star Wars project, explaining what he pitched to


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Around the time Fantasma, Cornelius’s third album and first to receive international distribution, was released in 1997, many Western journalists likened him to Beck. At the tail-end of the 20th century, that comparison meant that Cornelius, born Keigo Oyamada, made liberal use of samples, knew his way around a beat, and showed an affection for
Hayden Panettiere‘s on-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson found himself back in the actress’ life before her shocking death. “Brian was with her at the time of her death,” the source exclusively shared with Us. “He had inserted himself into her life and was surveilling her.” According to a Greenville City Police Department incident report obtained by
Charley Crockett opened up in a Tuesday social media post about a controversy that flared up after he kicked Satanic doo-wop group Twin Temple off tour dates, declaring that he “lost a lot of respect” for Jack White, who involved himself in the ordeal. Crockett claimed in the 400-word post that he didn’t boot Twin
Reacher Season 4 is already tearing through Gone Tomorrow, and I’m not mad yet. But I’m side-eyeing the hell out of that speed. Alan Ritchson’s Jack Reacher managed to survive that ridiculous Reacher Season 3 fight with Olivier Richters’ Paulie. But apparently, the reward was no rest, no peaceful bus ride, and no sandwich without
A federal judge on Friday ruled against a Trump administration provision to to remove gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit covered under the Affordable Care Act, a 2010 law (also known as Obamacare) which requires the federal government to subsidize such benefits. Senior U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton (an appointee of former President George
Beautiful, eccentric, fiercely private and completely unpredictable, Greek actress Despina Mirou brings something to Hollywood that can’t easily be manufactured: mystery. Hollywood has always loved the femme fatale. The unforgettable woman who enters a room and changes its temperature. She’s beautiful, certainly, but beauty isn’t what makes people watch her. It’s the sense that there’s


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Mama June star Pumpkin has shown off her major cash after working at a strip club. The reality TV star has been making some big bucks after starting to sell spicy pictures and videos. However, she has now been going to strip clubs and making even more money. Fans are shocked every time they see
Streaming may have made almost any movie available at the press of a button, but physical media is having a surprisingly good year. For movie fans who still want to actually own their favorites, 2026 has brought a steady stream of restorations, anniversary editions, and long-overdue upgrades. Even Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! finally made its
Nearly one year before her own death, Hayden Panettiere opened up about the special connection she shared with late Ice Princess costar Michelle Trachtenberg. “Actually, her grandmother lived across the street from my grandparents in Brooklyn. So I knew Michelle way before that … like Harriet the Spy days,” Panettiere told Entertainment Weekly in September
As middle and high school students head back to class for a new school year, combined research shows that affirming teachers and the support of friends are instrumental to a positive school experience for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse (TGE) students. The research brief, School Experiences and Outcomes Among Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Young People, is
Critic’s Rating: 4 / 5.0 4 As a diehard It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fan, I’ve struggled to continue believing in the show in recent years. This year, that might finally change. The two-episode Season 18 premiere was packed with absurdly comedic scenes and trademark tantrums that felt closer to the spirit of earlier seasons
The end of an era has arrived in the mail — or, more accurately, on a web site. Columbia House, the once-ubiquitous mail-order music and media club, will stop accepting new orders after Sept. 15, bringing the curtain down on a 71-year run that helped millions of Americans build their music and movie collections one
Bad Bunny is headed back to Puerto Rico for the closing dates ofhis “Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour.” The global superstar will perform atwo-night “Cerramos en Casa” celebration at San Juan’s Hiram Bithorn Stadium on August 22nd and 23rd. Find Bad Bunny Tickets Tickets for both shows go on sale Wednesday, August 19th at
It’s been five long years since A Court of Silver Flames, the fifth book in Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series, was released. Now, Maas has revealed the covers and titles of the sixth and seventh books in the series. Book six is A Court of Splintered Harmony, and it comes
Lamar Odom has gotten real and admitted whether he married Khloe Kardashian for fame or not. While he was already famous for his career, he did not get the amount of fame a Kardashian got. He was accused by a former friend of marrying the star for clout. Well, he has now spoken out on
Franz Kafka was one of the most important writers of the 20th Century. (He’s also one of the best – if you haven’t read any of his work, seek out his short stories.) Like many great artists, however, he never experienced this fame – in fact, he intended that all his work be burned after
Every year, ex-Black Crowes drummer and current syndicated radio host Steve Gorman would put on a fundraiser show for his kid’s high school performing arts department. In 2019, one of the performers cancelled, and Steve was scrambling to find a replacement. It turns out that ex-Hootie & the Blowfish frontman and country superstar Darius Rucker
Police in Greenville, South Carolina, issued a statement with more details surrounding Hayden Panettiere’s tragic death at age 36. Local authorities told NBC News in a statement that they, “accompanied by EMS personnel, responded to a report of an unresponsive female” at around 1:50 p.m. on Sunday, August 16. “Upon arrival, medical assistance was administered;
Even if the plot of Coyote vs Acme didn’t feel like an uncanny reflection of its own making, it would be hard not to mention the making of the film itself, anear-victim of Warner Bros’ habit of creating and then casting off feature films for tax write-offs. But Dave Green’s courtroom-drama parody does position one
LGBTQ+ people were the only demographic in a recent poll that supported allowing trans people to compete on sports teams as their gender. In results just posted online from the Pew Research Center, 73% of American adults said that they were either “not too” or “not at all” comfortable with “transgender athletes competing on sports
Early into Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Sundance-anointed filmmaker Kris (Hannah Einbinder) explains to erstwhile scream queen Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson) that she’s been parachuted in to resurrect the “zombie IP” that is the teen slasher Camp Miasma franchise because she’s queer. After araft of progressively worse sequels, an ocean’s-worth of
Critic’s Rating: 4.75 / 5.0 4.75 Well, that’s one way to shake things up! The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 Episode 4 flirted with the idea of Maggie getting a love interest, and it came out of left field. The latter seasons of The Walking Dead and the first two seasons of The Walking
Lin-Manuel Miranda has confirmed that he has no plans to return for Moana 3, telling Deadline, “My time in the Moanaverse is done, but I can’t wait to see how far she’ll go.” Miranda composed the songs for the original 2016 animated film, including “How Far I’ll Go,” which earned an Academy Award nomination for
Rocky Kramer will be hosting “A Kind of Magic” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world.
Michael Jackson left behind three children when he passed away in 2009, but there were still so many unanswered questions. As they have grown up, the kids have gone on their own paths, but Michael’s only daughter, Paris, is speaking up. She is revealing how she and her brothers were essentially banned from Neverland, but