Entertainment
We’re used to seeing Taye Diggs in his romantic lead roles, so to see him as the flashy, transgendered frontman Hedwig in Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — B.B. King’s longtime business manager was named sole executor of his estate Thursday, despite objections from a lawyer for four of the late blues icon’s daughters. Clark County District Judge Gloria Sturman first refused to let prominent national attorneys Benjamin Crump and Jose Baez contest King’s will on behalf of daughters […]
Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby has been placed at the forefront of one of Baltimore’s most high-profile cases ever – the prosecution of six police officers charged with the death of Freddie Gray, Jr., a resident of West Baltimore who was arrested and died in a police van back in April. So much so that […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Univision is dropping the Miss USA pageant and says it will cut all business ties with Donald Trump in a spiraling controversy over comments the Republican presidential candidate made recently about Mexican immigrants. The network said Thursday it would pull the plug on the July 12 Miss USA telecast and has […]
Some of B.B. King’s heirs are due in a Las Vegas court today (June 25) to ask a judge not to turn over control of his estate to the longtime business manager he named as executor. But a lawyer for the B.B. King estate and designated executor LaVerne Toney says the family’s claim that Toney […]
They’ve only been dating for a few weeks but billionaire James Packer and pop diva Mariah Carey are reportedly already talking marriage. Lucky for Mariah, James is obsessed with her and her music. TMZ reports that he went to her concert in Vegas a month-and-a-half ago and has been pursuing her ever since. Pals say […]
Sherri Shepherd is happily a single woman once again. Her divorce from her second husband, Lamar Sally, was finalized yesterday and she says she was so happy she texted everyone she knows to let them know. The two-time divorcee says that now that she’s again a free woman, she’s ready to put that past behind […]
Jill Scott is doing her part to develop the next group of successful writers. According to MadamNoire.com, Scott is aligning her Blues Babe foundation with Hallmark’s Mahogany brand to award deserving inner-city college students who are interested in a career in writing arts. Two students currently enrolled in college will be eligible to be awarded […]
Orange is the new Rock – as in Chris Rock on Fox’s second season of “Empire.” Director Lee Daniels Instagrammed some video from the set that reveal Rock’s guest starring role on the series – an inmate in jail with Lucious Lyon. Daniels’ clips and pics from the first day of shooting show Rock and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Bravos, bouquets and most of all a clear sense of history reigned at the Metropolitan Opera House on Wednesday as Misty Copeland made her New York debut in “Swan Lake,” a key moment for the popular ballerina whom many hope will soon become the American Ballet Theater’s first black principal dancer. […]
Kim Kardashian is joining a prestigious list that includes Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates. The 33-year-old reality star is set to speak to San Francisco’s venerable Commonwealth Club next week to discuss her new book of selfies and her famous family. Also on the agenda, according […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce is heading back to Jay Z’s Made in America festival this September. Organizers also announced Wednesday the pop diva and R&B singer The Weeknd will headline the Budweiser Made in America festival over Labor Day weekend in Philadelphia. The festival debuted in 2012, and Beyonce headlined in 2013. Last year […]
