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Photo by John Nacion/Getty Images If Jay-Z and Roc Nation’s bid to open an NYC casino is approved, the surrounding Hell’s Kitchen community will benefit: Roc Nation announced it will donate $15 million to the area. It will also give NYC residents grants equal to 0.5 percent of the casino’s profits. “We are New Yorkers. Supporting and […]
John Atashian/Getty Images The Broadway League has announced it will dim its lights the night of Sept. 23 in honor of the late James Earl Jones. The EGOT-winning actor, who passed away at 93 years on Sept. 9, was a force on the Great White Way, in addition to his big-screen work. Now the national trade […]
USATSI CBS Sports and the Big 12 Conference have expanded their partnership by adding 20 basketball games per year to CBS Sports Network, burnishing CBS Sports’ standing as the home of the sport. The new agreement is a multi-year deal running through the 2026-27 season and is a sublicense agreement with ESPN. CBS Sports already […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Murders in the United States were down 11.6% in 2023, according to statistics released by the FBI Monday morning. The murder rate went down from 6.2 per 100,000 people in 2022 to 5.7 per 100,000 people in 2023. The steep decline last year comes after a 6.1% drop in 2022 […]
FX Ahead of the release of its creepy new serial killer series Grotesquerie, FX is conducting a symphony — of screams — and it wants you to participate. The network had already popped up booths in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles, which let horror fans have their screams recorded, and now it’s opening up […]
20th Century Studios James Cameron is shedding a little more light on his upgrade to the Terminator franchise, which he launched as an upstart director with his smash 1984 original. To Empire magazine, Cameron says you shouldn’t expect to see a retread of the same characters and canon. “This is the moment when you jettison everything that […]
Epic Records Travis Scott‘s back on top of the Billboard 200 with his 2014 mixtape, Days Before Rodeo, which was recently released on streaming platforms. It jumped up from #106, with a large portion of album equivalents earned through vinyl sales that were exclusively sold on Travis’ website. Days Before Rodeo earned 156,000 equivalent album units […]
Through three quarters on Sunday night, the Seattle Storm were playing the perfect game. Their defense was on point, they were controlling the glass and finding just enough offense to stay in front of the defending champion Las Vegas Aces. Against the odds, they were just 10 minutes from pulling off an upset win in […]
In this April 9, 2022, file photo, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson joins the stage with former President Donald Trump during a rally in Selma, North Carolina. — Allison Joyce/Getty Images, FILE (WILMINGTON, N.C.) — Former President Donald Trump returned to the key battleground state of North Carolina for a rally Saturday, but declined to mention […]
Bettmann / Contributor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jimmy Carter will turn 100 years old on Oct. 1. The former president of the United States will reach the milestone birthday, about 20 months since entering home hospice care in February 2023. Carter’s late wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, died on Nov. 19, 2023, two days […]
