SXSW Adds Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee and Jack Dorsey to 2020 Lineup

By Bruce Haring

Governors Ball Music Festival, the east coast’s answer to Coachella, is back for another round this year, set to take place from June 5 to June 7 at its longtime home of Randall’s Island Park. This year’s event features a handful of festival staples — Tame Impala, Flume, Vampire Weekend — as well as more left-field bookings like Stevie Nicks, Miley Cyrus, Carly Rae Jepsen, Pinegrove, and more.

When The Late Show with Stephen Colbert returned with a new episode Tuesday evening, host Stephen Colbert joined his colleagues in taking time to honor the memory of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and the seven others who perished in a tragic helicopter crash on Sunday.

Stephen Colbert did not know Kobe Bryant personally, but he announced on his late-night show on Tuesday that he has a heartbreaking connection to the NBA legend's sudden death.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Samantha Bee and Ivanka Trump publicly complimented each other this week, nearly two years after the comedian’s controversial insult directed at the president’s daughter in 2018.

By Bruce Haring

By Bruce Haring

Some festivals drop a phase 2 lineup with a couple extra headliners and call it a day. Ultra Music Festival in Miami, meanwhile, could have shared phase 2 as phase 1.

By Anita Bennett

Taking intermittent fasting to the extreme. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently revealed that he eats exactly 7 meals per week — no more, no less.

BARCELONA – Rémi Chayé’s “Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary,” Anca Damian’s “The Island,” Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s “They Shot the Piano Player,” and Enrique Gato’s “Tad the Lost Explorer and the Curse of the Mummy” are among the sixty-six projects from twenty countries to be pitched at the 22nd Cartoon Movie, Europe’s leading animated movie co-production event. Cartoon Movie will take place in the French port city of Bordeaux, kicking off March 3rd.

By Anita Bennett

The Creamfields lineup is starting to get stacked, with this week's announcement that the unstoppable Chainsmokers will be joining the festival as the Friday night headliners and the news Friday (Jan. 17) that UK underground duo Bicep is on the bill for a live set. This lineup adds follow previous announcements that trance

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It’s no secret that one of Bonang Matheba’s secret weapons while building her career has been social media. The star openly speaks about how platforms like Twitter and Instagram have helped her connect with her audience and was even involved in the film ‘Public Figures’ where she goes into detail. So, it was a full circle moment of sorts for the star to attend the 2020 Twitter conference where she got to spend time with the platform’s co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.

By Bruce Haring

Primavera Sound has announced the lineup for its 2020 festival in Barcelona. Pavement, Massive Attack, The Strokes, and Tyler, the Creator are among the performers.

By Anita Bennett