Nike’s gamble to partner with athlete-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick paid off Sunday as the company won an Emmy for outstanding commercial at the 2019 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The commercial, titled “Dream Crazy,” features Kaepernick alongside other sports legends including Serena Williams and LeBron James, who have reached beyond their personal achievements to support and advance…… More
Ric Ocasek, lead singer of the new wave rock band The Cars, died Sunday in New York City, police said. He was 75. The New York Police Department received a call around 4 p.m. “for an unconscious male” at a townhouse on East 19th Street, the Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information told CNN.…… More
Ken Burns’ PBS documentaries are always classy affairs, linking a single topic to the vast rubric of American history. Still, there are greater and lesser works within that filmography, and “Country Music” — an eight-part, 16-hour epic about a lot more than done-me-wrong songs — distinctly falls into the latter scale. Over the last 30…… More
John Legend is weighing in on prison sentences a day after actress Felicity Huffman got 14 days for her role in the nationwide college admission scandal. In a series of tweets Saturday, Legend, who champions criminal justice reform, said prison is not always the answer for every mistake. The bigger issue, he said, is that…… More
It’s the beginning of the end for The CW’s “Supernatural.” The TV series is kicking off its 15th and final season this fall, and The CW has released a promotional poster that appears to hint at what’s to come for the long-suffering, demon-hunting Winchester brothers. The poster was tweeted out this week by the official…… More
If Lil Wayne misses one more show, he’ll have himself a 3 Peat. The rapper tweeted that he would be backing out of Saturday’s scheduled tour stop with blink-182 in St. Louis, Missouri, saying that he was kicked out of the Ritz-Carlton hotel and that police had gotten involved. The Clayton Police Department said, however,…… More
Director James Gunn has revealed the full list of super villains and anti-heroes cast in his upcoming “The Suicide Squad” movie. Gunn said Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn will be back in the 2021 film along with Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Colonel Rick Flag and Viola Davis, who is also reprising her…… More
Ken Burns, the renowned documentarian known for bringing American history to vivid life, debuts his latest effort on Sunday, “Country Music.” The ambitious yet intimate eight-part PBS series chronicles one of the country’s indigenous and most beloved musical genres. “Country music at its Big Bang was two different musics,” says Burns. “The music of Jimmy…… More
