Month: March 2022

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams speaks out on the city’s vaccine mandate and how it affects the NBA, MLB

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New York City mayor Eric Adams addressed the city’s current COVID-19 vaccination mandate during a news conference on Tuesday, and stated that professional sports teams are going to have to wait for restrictions to ease.  Adams said: “Right now, we’re going to take some complaints. But when this is all said and done, people are going to realize this is a thoughtful administration and we got it right. So baseball, basketball, businesses, all of those things, they have to wait until that layer comes.”

Due to the private employer mandate currently in place in New York City, unvaccinated professional athletes in NYC are not allowed to compete in home games — meaning the mandate applies to the Nets, Knicks, Mets and Yankees.  Notably, Brooklyn point guard Kyrie Irving has repeatedly stated he will not be getting the vaccine; and as a result, had only been allowed to compete in away games for the Nets.  As MLB’s Opening Day and the NBA postseason approach, unvaccinated athletes are at risk of being limited in play time.  The Yankees’ home opener is April 7 and the Mets’ home opener is April 15, and the NBA play-in tournament starts April 12 with the playoffs set to start April 16.

Adams says he doesn’t “feel any pressure doing this job at all, because I’m going to do what’s right. We’re going to do it in the right way. We’re going to follow the science … we’re going to make the right decision. And in New York, no matter what you do, this is 8.8 million people and 30 million opinions, so you’re never going to satisfy New Yorkers, so you must go with the logic, your heart and the science.”

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Country Daypop

Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert and more set to perform at 2022 CMT Music Awards

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CMT has announced a first round of performers for the 2022 CMT Music Awards, broadcasting live from Nashville on Monday, April 11th from 8-11 pm ET. The awards show will also be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.

The CMT Music Awards will be hosted by Kelsea Ballerini and Anthony Mackie. and the first slate of performers includes Ballerini, Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Maren Morris, Carly Pearce, Cole Swindell and Keith Urban. Additional performers and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.

The CMT Music Awards will air April 11 at 8 p.m. EDT on CBS and Paramount+. The CMT Music Awards Extended Cut with an additional 30 minutes of performances and bonus content will air April 15 at 8 p.m. on CMT.

Fan voting is now open (at the link here) for the 2022 CMT Music Awards, country music’s only entirely fan-voted award show. General voting ends Monday, April 4 at 9:00 a.m. CT.

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Willie Nelson, Jason Isbell, ZZ Top and more set for 2022 ‘Outlaw Music Festival’ tour

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Willie Nelson & Family will be headlining the ‘Outlaw Musical Festival’ tour alongside a rotating list of country music stars. The tour begins June 24 at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis before it wraps up on Sept. 23 at the Waterfront Music Pavilion in Camden, N.J.

Nelson will be joined by the likes of The Avett Brothers, ZZ Top, Brothers Osborne, Chris Stapleton, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and more, on select dates. Also set to perform on select dates are Billy Strings, Gov’t Mule, Zach Bryan, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Allison Russell, Charley Crockett, Larkin Poe, The War and Treaty, Brittney Spencer and Particle Kid.

Said Nelson: “The Outlaw Music Festival Tour has always been about family and friends coming together for a great day of music and fun, and with the amazing group of artists joining us, this year promises to be our most special Outlaw Tour to date. I just can’t wait to get back on the road again.”

Ticket, including VIP packages, will go on sale Friday starting at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

Willie Nelson, Jason Isbell, and Nathaniel Rateliff Set for Outlaw Music Festival Tour 2022

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Entertainment Daypop

‘And Just Like That’ renewed for second season at HBO Max

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HBO Max has picked up a second season of And Just Like That, the ‘Sex and the City’ sequel that wrapped its 10-episode first season in February.  Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis reprised their roles from the 1998-2006 HBO series. as well as serving as executive producers on the new series.

Showrunner Michael Patrick King in a statement: “I am delighted and excited to tell more stories about these vibrant, bold characters — played by these powerful, amazing actors. The fact is, we’re all thrilled. And Just like That… our Sex life is back.” HBO Max head of original content Sarah Aubrey added: “We have been delighted by the cultural conversation generated by these characters and their stories, set in a world we already know and love so much. We are proud of the work Michael Patrick King and our wonderful writers, producers, cast and crew have done to bring these stories to the screen. We can’t wait for fans to see what’s in store for season two.”

In addition to Parker, Nixon and Davis, the season one cast of And Just Like That featured Sex and the City returnees Mario Cantone, David Eigenberg, Willie Garson, Evan Handler and Chris Noth, along with newcomers Sara Ramirez, Sarita Choudhury, Nicole Ari Parker and Karen Pittman.

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Beyoncé to perform ‘Be Alive” at 2022 Oscars ceremony

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Beyoncé will appear on the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony this Sunday, March 27.   The superstar will perform a rendition of her song “Be Alive,” which is nominated for Best Original Song and included in the film ‘King Richard.’  As of press time, it was unclear whether Beyoncé would be performing the song live from Dolby Theatre at Ovation in Hollywood, or if it will be pre-taped as she sings from the tennis courts where Venus and Serena Williams used to train in Compton.

Other fellow Best Original Song nominees that will be performing during the show are Sebastián Yatra delivering “Dos Oruguitas,” Billie Eilish and Finneas performing “No Time to Die,” and Reba McEntire singing “Somehow You Do.” Van Morrison was also nominated for his song “Down To Joy” from the film Belfast, but will not appear at the Academy Awards ceremony.

Beyoncé can possibly earn her first Academy Award if “Be Alive” takes home the Oscar for Best Original Song. The 2022 Academy Awards are set to take place on March 27 live from Dolby Theatre at Ovation in Hollywood, CA.

Official: Beyonce to Perform at Oscars 2022

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Metallica, Green Day, and more set to headline Lollapalooza 2022

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The Lollapalooza festival has announced their 2022 lineup. The annual Chicago summer fest will feature headliners Metallica, Green Day, Dua Lipa, and J. Cole.  Also set to appear at the festival are Doja Cat, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Baby, and Kygo, along with more than 150 additional acts. Jane’s Addiction are listed as special guests.

Green Day posted on social media: “”Oh heyyy, Chicago!  Making our return to headline Lollapalooza for the first time since 2010. Can’t wait to kick it at Grant Park.”   Metallica said in a statement: “Has it really been seven years since we hit the stage at Grant Park in Chicago?!?! It’s about time that drought ends. We’re excited to announce that we’ll be headlining one of the nights during this summer’s four-day extravaganza at Lollapalooza in Chicago, July 28 – 31.”

Lollapalooza 2022 will be held in Chicago’s Grant Park from July 28–31. The festival celebrated its 30th anniversary last year with 385,000 fans in attendance, the first music gathering of its size to take place in the U.S. following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Four-day tickets on sale now.  For the full lineup and ticket info, head to lollapalooza.com.

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Dave Grohl sets release date for metal EP ‘Dream Widow’

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Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl will digitally release his new metal EP, recorded under the moniker Dream Widow, on March 25.

Dream Widow is connected to the Foo Fighters’ recently issued horror-comedy film, Studio 666.  In the flick, Grohl and company rent a Los Angeles mansion to record their 10th album, only to discover the space is haunted — it turns out that twenty-five years before, the metal group Dream Widow worked there for an ill-fated project, their singer becoming possessed and murdering his bandmates.

The Dream Widow EP features the recently released “March of the Insane,” which is part of the project Dream Widow were recording in the film.  Grohl told Variety that he recorded the Dream Widow EP on his own. saying: “When we started writing the script, we had the idea of there being this epic metal opus that — once completed — would release the demon in the house. I said, ‘Oh, f**k, I’ve got a million riffs.’ So I recorded this 13- or 14-minute long instrumental just by myself that’s very metal, and it’s meant to be from the [fictional] band Dream Widow. Then, I furthered that idea by making a whole record by Dream Widow that would be their lost album that they recorded before they were murdered.”

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Lollapalooza announces 2022 lineup featuring headliners Dua Lipa, Green Day and more

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The Lollapalooza festival has announced their 2022 lineup. The annual Chicago summer fest will feature headliners Metallica, Green Day, Dua Lipa, and J. Cole.  Also set to appear at the festival are Doja Cat, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Baby, and Kygo, along with more than 150 additional acts. Jane’s Addiction are listed as special guests.

Green Day posted on social media: “”Oh heyyy, Chicago!  Making our return to headline Lollapalooza for the first time since 2010. Can’t wait to kick it at Grant Park.”   Metallica said in a statement: “Has it really been seven years since we hit the stage at Grant Park in Chicago?!?! It’s about time that drought ends. We’re excited to announce that we’ll be headlining one of the nights during this summer’s four-day extravaganza at Lollapalooza in Chicago, July 28 – 31.”

Lollapalooza 2022 will be held in Chicago’s Grant Park from July 28–31. The festival celebrated its 30th anniversary last year with 385,000 fans in attendance, the first music gathering of its size to take place in the U.S. following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Four-day tickets on sale now.  For the full lineup and ticket info, head to lollapalooza.com.

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‘Saturday Night Live’ to welcome hosts Lizzo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jerrod Carmichael and musical guests Camila Cabello and Gunna this April

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“Saturday Night Live” has announced its April lineup of hosts, including Jerrod Carmichael, Jake Gyllenhaal and Lizzo, who will be pulling double duty as her own musical guest. Gunna and Camila Cabello will perform as musical guests along with Gyllenhaal and Carmichael.

Carmichael will make his “SNL” hosting debut April 2, joined by Gunna, who is also marking his first time at “SNL” musical guest. The Grammy-nominated artist’s latest album, “DS4Ever,” debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 chart.

On April 9, Gyllenhaal will host “SNL” for the second time, joined by Cabello who makes her second appearance as “SNL” musical guest.

For the April 16 show, Lizzo will be a first-time “SNL” host and second-time musical guest. The Grammy winner stars in the competition series “Watch Out for the Big Grrrls,” which premieres March 25 on Prime Video.

“SNL” airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC. The show also streams live on Peacock.

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Ex-wife of Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens accuses him of domestic violence

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Eric Greitens, Missouri’s former governor and current Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, has been accused by his ex-wife Sheena Greitens of allegedly being physically abusive and “unstable,” according to court records filed on Monday.

Sheena Greitens and Eric Greitens have been part of an ongoing child custody battle. Their divorce was finalized in May 2020 and a county court decision said the marriage was “irretrievably broken” and that a joint parenting plan is “in [the] best interest of minor children.” However, Eric Greitens has since said he wants full custody of their two children.

Greitens’ campaign said that the affidavit is part of a “politically-motivated attack.  His children deserve a father who will speak the truth and stand up against malicious attacks that are clearly politically motivated. This attack is nothing more than a sad attempt to force a father to yield custody of his children to a deranged individual.”  In a statement, Eric Greitens said: “I will continue to love and care for my beautiful sons with all of my being, and that includes fighting for the truth and against completely fabricated, baseless allegations. I am seeking full custody of my sons, and for their sake, I will continue to pray for their mother and hope that she gets the help that she needs,” adding that “ultimately truth will always prevail.”

Greitens served just over one year as Missouri’s governor before he resigned in 2018 after allegations of sexual misconduct and blackmail for allegedly taking a picture of his former hairdresser with whom he was having an affair, as well as an ethics investigation and a computer data tampering criminal charge. Greitens admitted to the affair and called it consensual, but denied taking the photograph and the blackmail accusation. Prosecutors dropped an invasion of privacy charge related to the alleged incident in May 2018.

Eric Greitens is looking to succeed retiring Republican Senator Roy Blunt in his bid for U.S. Senate. Also in the field are Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, Representatives Billy Long and Vicky Hartzler. Hartzler, Schmitt, Long and Lucas Kunce, a Marine and Democratic candidate in the race, have called for Greitens to drop out of the U.S. Senate race.

The deadline for candidates to file for the Missouri primary is March 29, 2022; the primary is slated to be held August 2.

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