Jorja Smith teams up with Ibeyi for radiant new track ‘Lavender & Red Roses’

Wordle. As the Times named Joseph Kahn its new executive editor Tuesday, succeeding former honcho Dean Baquet, the Old Gray Lady sanctioned a splashy portrait and profile of their nascent leader for New York Magazine — which captured the promotion in a disarmingly seductive way.The resulting, perhaps unintentional, erotica — featuring enough arched-back and come hither gazes to make pinup pioneers Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe proud — might just drive foot fetishists everywhere into a frenzy, as well.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticTo some subset of the audience of the 2000 reality show “The Real World: New Orleans,” Danny Roberts was the biggest celebrity on TV.Roberts was the gay cast member on a TV franchise that placed a premium on frankness, openness, and unpracticed charm. The first episode of Roberts’ season saw him gradually and haltingly coming out to the six housemates producers had arranged for him to live with for months, at one point announcing he was gay in French so as to avoid doing so in English.

Mike Bossy, one of hockey’s most prolific goal-scorers and a star for the New York Islanders during their 1980s dynasty, has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 65.

Phoebe Bridgers just dropped a bright and bold new love song called ‘Sidelines’. Listen to the track below.Released via Dead Oceans, the song will appear in Hulu’s Conversations With Friends, the TV adaption of the popular Sally Rooney novel, when it premiers on May 15.Bridgers, a longtime fan of Rooney, was tapped to write the track by Hulu.

NEW YORK -- The podcast series “Live from Mount Olympus” is returning this month with the same Broadway ingenuity and the delightful André De Shields but with a new hero plucked from the pantheon of mythical Greek deities.The 10-episode second series focuses on Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, who is suddenly stolen away to the underworld. She is voiced by Joanne Hernandez.“She’s a young girl just trying to meet the expectations of her mom like any young girl would, and she just goes through a journey of learning,” says Hernandez.

Ibeyi, the duo of Afro-Cuban French twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz, have begun to roll out offerings from their third album, Spell 31, in anticipation of its May 6 release via XL Recordings. Thus far, they've shared three of its tracks: November 2021's "Made Of Gold" featuring Pa Salieu, February's "Sister 2 Sister," and last week's "Lavender & Red Roses" featuring Jorja Smith.

Well, it’s official: the Jersey Shore pet psychic was spot on with her prediction about Angelina Pivarnick’s husband! LOLz!

Coldplay have added new South American dates to their huge eco-friendly world tour for new album ‘Music For The Spheres’ – see the updated schedule below.The band’s 2022 world stadium tour comes with an emphasis on environmental sustainability, and began with a gig at the Estadio Nacional in the Costa Rican capital San Jose last month (March 18) – see what went down here.North American dates for the tour kick off later this month, with European dates beginning in July and UK dates in August, including six shows at London’s Wembley Stadium.The band have now announced that they’ll head back to South America in September and October, adding six more shows to the run.Coldplay will be joined by Camila Cabello and H.E.R.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWildBrain CPLG, the agency and licensing arm of kids and family entertainment group Wildbrain, is to open three new offices in Singapore, Taipei and Seoul as part of a major expansion into the Asia-Pacific. The licensing team which is part of WildBrain’s existing Shanghai operations will be expanded and renamed WildBrain CPLG China.Maarten Weck, EVP & MD of WildBrain CPLG, will lead the Asia expansion and be responsible for the management and growth of WildBrain CPLG’s team and business in the region.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorRed Arrow Studios Intl. has secured a raft of deals for two of its premium drama titles “Blackout – Tomorrow Is Too Late” and “Departure.”The international thriller “Blackout – Tomorrow Is Too Late,” starring Moritz Bleibtreu (“The Baader Meinhof Complex”) and Marie Leuenberger (“The Divine Order”), has been picked up by Mediawan Rights for French-speaking Europe, Disney Plus in the U.K.

EXCLUSIVE: Leonard Cohen’s relationship with muse Marianne Ihlen is going under the microscope in a 1960s-set drama co-production for Norwegian broadcaster NRK.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThough the onslaught of streaming giants is impacting Turkey’s TV landscape, it’s not as though Turkish shows weren’t doing gangbuster global biz way before Netflix and other platforms arrived on the scene.“Turkish dramas were already reaching audiences all over the world on linear TV,” says Ekin Koyuncu, head of prominent broadcaster Kanal D’s international sales arm. And that is why streamers are now so keen on making Turkish originals.What changes with having Turkish originals streaming on global platforms is that “the age targets are totally different,” she says.

Ibeyi have revealed another single from their upcoming album Spell 31. "Lavender & Red Roses" features Jorja Smith and comes with a video in which the Ibeyi twins, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, are joined by Smith playing three sisters on a journey through the desert. Check it out below.

Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art has set Audrey Diwan’s Happening and The African Desperate by Martine Syms will bookend the 51st edition of their collaboration, New Directors/New Films running April 20–May 1 in NYC.

Jason Momoa is making a statement at the 2022 Oscars. The 42-year-old actor posed for pictures solo on the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, looking stylish and giving a subtle nod to his support for Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion.The  star wore his long hair in a French braid with a black scrunchie on his wrist. He sported a black tuxedo with a blue-and-yellow pocket square. The square represented the colors of the Ukrainian flagMomoa is a presenter during this year's ceremony, as is his stepdaughter, Zoë Kravitz.ET spoke with Momoa earlier this month at premiere in New York City, which he attended with his two kids, 14-year-old daughter Lola and 13-year-old son Nakoa-Wolf.

Happily ever after! Ahead of her wedding to Luis Ruelas, Teresa Giudice has been very candid about her journey of getting down the aisle.

Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo is refusing to get too carried away after Portugal moved to within one victory of reaching the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.