Author: Darius Hargrove
Remember Fyre Festival, the disastrous failed music festival that completely fell apart in 2017 and descended into chaos in the Bahamas? Well, it’s getting a sequel and if you’re feeling adventurous, tickets are on sale now. Fyre Festival 2, also titled FYRE II, is taking place from May 30 through June 2 at Playa FYRE on Isla Mujeres, off the coast of Cancún, Mexico, according to a press release shared on Instagram Monday by Billy McFarland, the fraudster creator of the infamous failed Fyre Festival.The tickets went on sale Monday for Fyre Festival 2, nearly eight years after the original 2017…
Grimes is pleading with the public to keep her children out of the media after her four-year-old son, X AE A-XII, visited the White House with his father Elon Musk during a televised press conference in the Oval Office. Following Musk’s surprise appearance, Grimes, the billionaire’s ex-girlfriend with whom he shares three children, claimed she had no clue her son was going to be there and took to X to criticize the move.“It was like, ‘Grimes slams,’ ‘Grimes speaks out.’ It’s like, OK, it was a reply,” Grimes said in an interview with Time, published Feb. 25. “I would really…
Late last week, Euphoria star Hunter Schafer revealed that her renewed passport has been issued with a male gender marker. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 requiring the federal government to define sex as only male or female and saying that must be reflected on official documents, like passports. The State Department, responsible for passports, is no longer issuing passports with the “X” marker that had been available since 2021 and is not honouring requests to change gender markers between “M” and “F.”Schafer, who came out as transgender in Grade 9 as a young teen,…
Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on Killing Me Softly with His Song, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and other hits made her one of the top recordings artists of the 1970s and an influential performer long after, died Monday. She was 88. She died at home surrounded by her family, publicist Elaine Schock said in a statement. Flack announced in 2022 she had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and could no longer sing.Little known before her early 30s, Flack became an overnight star after Clint Eastwood used…
In 1999, the recorded music industry was swimming, drowning in money. CDs had been on an upward trajectory for more than 15 years, reaching sales of 2.4 billion globally and one billion units in the U.S. alone in 2000. Despite the massive scale of the CD industry and plants running flat out around the world, the promised decline in prices never came. In fact, the industry was caught in a price-fixing scheme that inflated the cost of CDs between 1995 and 2000 with a marketing plan called “minimum advertised pricing.” It’s estimated customers were overcharged US$500 million and up to…
A defence lawyer representing Sean “Diddy” Combs has filed a motion to step down as the rapper’s lawyer, according to legal documents filed on Thursday. In the motion filed in New York Federal Court, Anthony Ricco notified the judge of his intent to withdraw and said there are “sufficient reasons” protected by lawyer/client privilege.“Although I have provided Sean Combs with the high level of legal representation expected by the court, under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs,” he wrote.He declined to go into the specific details as to why he was leaving Diddy’s…
Nicolas Cage’s ex, Christina Fulton, is suing the actor and their son, Weston, over an alleged assault stemming from an April 2024 incident. Weston, 34, and Fulton were allegedly involved in a verbal dispute that turned physical, an encounter she claims left her with “catastrophic” physical, emotional and financial injuries.Fulton is accusing Cage, 61, of ignoring Weston’s mental health concerns, according to legal documents obtained by People. She is suing the pair for negligence and Weston for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.“Weston has a long history of mental and psychological disorder and a history of committing violent…
Elon Musk’s ex Grimes has made a public plea to the billionaire, urging him to respond to her about a “medical crisis” involving one of their children. In a series of now-deleted posts on X on Thursday, Grimes, Musk’s ex-girlfriend with whom he shares three children, wrote, “Plz respond about our child’s medical crisis. I am sorry to do this publicly but it is no longer acceptable to ignore this situation. This requires immediate attention.”“If you don’t want to talk to me can you please designate or hire someone who can so that we can move forward on solving this,”…
The anthem singer who performed the Canadian anthem prior to the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game Thursday night changed a lyric in “O Canada” as a response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated remarks about making the country the 51st state. Publicist Adam Gonshor in an email to The Associated Press confirmed Chantal Kreviazuk changed the lyric from “in all of us command” to “that only us command” and confirmed Trump’s 51st state comments were the reason why. During Canada’s 3-2 overtime victory, Kreviazuk told the AP she did it “because I believe in democracy, and a sovereign nation should…
After a jury found rapper A$AP Rocky not guilty at his trial on two felony counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm, he celebrated by diving into the arms of Rihanna in the packed courtroom. The Los Angeles courtroom, full of fans and family, exploded into celebration as Rocky leapt from the defence table, over a barrier and into the gallery, where Rihanna sat between his mother, Renee Black, and sister, Erika B. Mayers. They embraced and sobbed.Amid the chaos, it took the clerk a few minutes to read the second not guilty verdict once Rocky returned to the defence…
