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Lev Akabas The 2023-24 College Football Playoff championship game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Washington Huskies is a fitting end to the season in multiple ways. Both teams finished the regular season undefeated and were No. 1 and No.

So often, when regional rap scenes blow up nationally, they’re treated too much as a passing novelty: a city has its moment in the sun, and then it’s on to the next one. Just as frequently, the popularity of regionally-specific sounds doesn’t actually benefit artists from those areas very much.

Joe Biden‘s campaign unveiled a new 60-second ad on Thursday, their first of 2024, that signals a primary campaign theme: Donald Trump‘s threat to the republic.

The first two singles from Fredericksburg, Virginia five-piece Infant Island’s third album, Obsidian Wreath, were characteristically obliterating. But on “Kindling,” the project’s final single before its January 12 release, the clouds part and the hellhounds rest, at least for a while.

ESPN kicked off the year on a high note with impressive audiences tuning in to watch Monday’s showdowns for a spot in the College Football National Championship games.

Oops. ESPN has apologized for airing a brief video clip of a woman flashing her breast during its broadcast of the Sugar Bowl Monday in New Orleans.

Jack White has teased new music for 2024.The former White Stripes man took to his Instagram page on New Year’s Day (January 1) to share a new snippet of what appears to be new music.The clip doesn’t contain any vocals but features White’s trademark guitar riff.

A day after revealing on New Year’s Eve on Fox that the newly formed United Football League will kick off in June, co-owners Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia took to ESPN to unveil the cities and coaches for the inaugural season.

The 2024 Rose Parade is about to kick off!

Brooke Hogan is a married woman now!

Brooke Hogan walked down the aisle well over a year ago!

Jeremy Renner and the cast of Mayor of Kingstown are gearing up for their return to production on Season 3 of the Paramount+ drama.

The secretary of state of Maine has determined that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot, finding that he is disqualified under the 14th Amendment‘s insurrection clause.

CNN state that the charges against the “007” actor are Foot travel in all thermal areas and w/in Yellowstone Canyon confined to trails … and Violating closures and use limits,” which are listed as a petty offenses. The “Mamma Mia” star, 70, was charged with violating travel restrictions near the thermal feature on Tuesday, according to the docs filed in the US District Court in Wyoming. The thermal areas of Yellowstone have “delicate, breakable crusts that can sit atop scalding water,” according to the park’s website.

Oprah Winfrey, was even the Queen of Talk.And the very same year, Stephen Bray — executive music producer of the new “Color Purple” movie musical that opens on Christmas Day — scored his first hits with the future Queen of Pop, Madonna, as co-writer of both “Into the Groove” and “Angel.”But Bray and Madonna shared a different kind of rhythmic history even before that — when they were both living in Ann Arbor, Michigan.“I used to play percussion in some of the dance classes that she was in,” Bray told The Post. “And then she moved to New York and was playing drums for [the band] Breakfast Club in ’79.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Cheating pays — for Bart and Homer, that is. This Sunday’s episode of “The Simpsons” takes on sports cheating, college admissions scandals (like “Varsity Blues”) and more, as father and son become kings of the blue-collar sports circuit. But in “Do the Wrong Thing,” Marge soon suspects that there’s something dishonest going on.

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details on who won the competition.

Kelly Stafford has been by her husband Matthew Stafford‘s side for his college and NFL career, and we’re taking a minute to get to know her better!

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Amp Fiddler, the Detroit musician known for melding funk, soul and electronic, has passed away at 65. According to a post on his Instagram account, he died after “an extensive and noble battle with cancer.” “We face the insurmountable responsibility of sharing the passing of Joseph ‘Amp’ Fiddler,” reads the statement.

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Karpman was drip-fed jazz notes when she was a baby. Her mother’s turn-table featured a playlist that included Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Wes Montgomery and Thelonious Monk, the virtuoso pianist, whose music informs and underpins her own jazz-infused score for Cord Jefferson’s scorching American Fiction.

EXCLUSIVE: CJ 4DPLEX and Europe’s Kinepolis Group are expanding their longstanding partnership to include 21 further ScreenX auditoriums across Europe and North America. The Kinepolis openings bring the cinema chain’s total of ScreenX screens to 26. This pact will give Kinepolis the largest ScreenX footprint in mainland Europe.

told media outlets.“I had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with him in his last years, as he had no immediate family,” Garland said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. “We spent much time outdoors, where Jack loved to sketch, read news articles, and recite Shakespearean sonnets.” Born on Jan.

about the dance. Instead, that climactic event allows the viewer to meet the documentary’s extraordinary subjects and gain a deeper, more human understanding of what their daily lives are like. Unlike the overblown musical, the doc is not excessively and damagingly weighty.

iHeartRadio‘s Jingle Ball crew learned an important lesson the hard way: don’t tease Swifties about their idol!

Josh Rogin, a longtime former aide to senior House Democrats, will join the Motion Picture Association as senior vice president of federal government affairs.

Taylor Swift as a surprise guest at this year’s event, but instead brought out an impersonator.On Tuesday (December 5), the Michigan city’s edition of the annual iHeartRadio concert series took place at the Little Caesars Arena. Usher, Flo Rida, Lil Durk and (G)I‐DLE were among the acts on the line-up.As MLive reports, iHeartRadio’s ‘Mojo In The Morning’ introduced a “special guest” in the form of Swift lookalike ‘Trailor Swift’ at one point in the Jingle Ball.

For the fourth time in as many weeks, vivid sexual assault allegations have been brought against Sean Combs. This time, the mega-producer and performer, who goes by Diddy, is accused of sex trafficking and participating in the gang rape of an 11th grader in 2003.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued for sexual assault for the fourth time. This time, the alleged victim was a high schooler. In a lawsuit filed in New York on Wednesday and

Another woman has sued Sean “Diddy“ Combs of sexual assault, multiple outlets report and court documents confirm. The anonymous plaintiff (referred to in her initial complaint as “Jane Doe”) filed the new lawsuit Wednesday (December 6) in Manhattan federal court, alleging that the Bad Boy Records founder and two of his associates — Bad Boy president Harve Pierre and another unidentified man — trafficked her across state lines and “gang raped” her at Combs’ Daddy’s House Recording Studio in 2003.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused in a lawsuit on Wednesday of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in 2003, marking the fourth sexual assault allegation lodged against the producer in recent weeks. The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, alleges that she was flown on a private jet from Michigan to Combs’ recording studio in New York, where she was raped by three people, including Combs and Harve Pierre, the president of Bad Boy Entertainment. According to the suit, Combs and his associates plied her with “copious amounts” of drugs and alcohol.

Alecia Dixon-Kurschner, a TV distribution executive who held senior positions at MGM, Miramax and Starz before becoming an independent consultant several years ago, died of ovarian cancer at her home in the Minneapolis suburb of Excelsior, Minnesota, Nov. 23. She was 60.

public return to cooking on screen Friday, in a livestream of his virtual cooking show “Molto A Casa,” from his home in tiny Northport, Michigan.He fled there after a string of accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, including rape, became public in 2017, ending his TV career and forcing him out of restaurants including Babbo, Lupa and Casa Mono, and his Eataly food markets.Batali, 63, denied all sexual misconduct but quit public life until Friday, when he held a $50-a-head live cooking class on Zoom followed by a Q&A.Asked by The Post in the Q&A if he would ever do live cooking demos back at Eataly in New York City, Batali responded: “Me and New York have parted ways. I’m done.“It was a great town.

For the first time in the history of the college football playoffs, an undefeated power conference champion was left out.

Michigan fought its way to a victory over Ohio State on Saturday and, in the process, blew the rest of the college football season out of the water.

Sex and the City‘s Cynthia Nixon has started a hunger strike in hopes that President Biden will call for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza strip.

, a survey by Lake Research Partners in conjunction with advocacy group Paid Leave for All found. This broke down into 96% of Democrats, 82% of Independents, and 76% of Republicans.Notably, it was also backed by 94% of younger women, 84% of suburban women, 99% of Black women, and 92% of typically low turnout Gen Z and Millennial voters.“Paid leave has been one of the most widely supported policies for years, but we’re watching the intensity continue to rise with voters,” the founding director of Paid Leave for All, Dawn Huckelbridge, tells Glamour.