15-time All-Star and basketball Hall of Famer, Shaquille O’Neal, Authentic Brands Group (Authentic), and Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group, the world’s largest Halloween-themed entertainment company, announced that Shaqtoberfest will return for its second Halloween season at the iconic Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Opening on September 28 through October 31, tickets are on-sale now at shaqtoberfest.com with prices starting at $29.99 on select nights. “We are excited to come back bigger and scarier this year,” said O’Neal. “I can’t wait to welcome fans on board The Queen Mary to experience what we cooked up this Halloween!” “We are thrilled to…
Author: Admin
Spice Girls’ Geri Halliwell-Horner has given her statement-making ’90s style the (platform) boot for an uncomplicated wardrobe that will viva forever.”I don’t know about you, but as you get older, you want to keep it simple,” Geri—a.k.a. Ginger Spice—told Jenna Bush Hager on the Oct. 4 episode of Today With Hoda & Jenna. “And one thing I’ll say is everything matches. It’s just fast, fast.” These days, she likes to stick the basics, as well as a white color palette. “You look at the men who are always wearing these same things, a uniform,” Geri explained. “Can’t I do the same? Why not?” Of course,…
Photography courtesy of launchmetrics.com/spotlight Size-inclusive runways are unfortunately still not the norm. But some labels are beacons of progress. By Natalie Michie Date October 5, 2023 Facebook Twitter Is body diversity going out of style? This distressing question has been permeating the fashion zeitgeist lately, thanks to a trend of regressively rigid sizing on the runway. Despite all the progress made to push plus-size fashion to the forefront over the past decade, recent seasons have been lacking inclusive clothing (and body) representation. With the Spring 2024 calendar having officially wrapped, this topic is once again impossible to ignore. What did…
Twenty-two years ago today, on Oct. 5, 2001, the sitcom Reba debuted on the WB network.Reba, which starred Reba McEntire, Christopher Rich, Joanna Garcia and Melissa Peterman, centered around McEntire’s character, Reba Nell Hart, who lived across the street from her ex-husband and his new wife. Her teenage daughter Cheyenne (played by Garcia) revealed in the debut episode that she was pregnant.The first episode of Reba was delayed twice due to the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, but once the show hit the airwaves, it didn’t take long for it to become a favorite. The sitcom set a new all-time WB viewership record…
Hipgnosis Songs Group CEO Kenny MacPherson has been placed on leave, the company confirms to Rolling Stone, a day after the publishing executive was accused of sexually assaulting a former colleague nearly two decades ago when he was president of music publishing company Chrysalis. “Hipgnosis Songs Fund has a policy of zero-tolerance to harassment or abuse,” the company said in a statement. “While the company is not a defendant to these historic allegations which relate to a period 15 years before Hipgnosis was founded, Kenny MacPherson was placed on leave of absence from Hipgnosis Songs Group as soon as it…
*NSYNC was at the height of pop music at the turn of the 21st century, with Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick and Lance Bass dancing and harmonizing their way to four albums and worldwide fame. Nothing good lasts forever, though, and a year after the group released Celebrity — their final album to date — lead singer Timberlake decided to leave *NSYNC and pursue a solo career. Now Fatone is opening up about what happened between the bandmates. And while he insists that he doesn’t resent the Justified artist, I was surprised to learn that he’d been…
Released into Early Access last October, developer Smidge Games’ haunted house management game Horror Tycoon has received a new update that introduces an array of enhancements, bug fixes, and new content for those burgeoning haunted house managers. “I’m incredibly grateful for the dedicated community that has supported Horror Tycoon since its launch,” says Smidge Games’ Casey Clark. “Major Update Two is a testament to our commitment to delivering a top-notch experience for our players.” New for this update is an additional area in The Lake. Players can explore this new locale and uncover its secrets, adding a new layer of…
Today, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Norwegian novelist and playwright Jon Fosse. Fosse’s work has been highly acclaimed across Europe, and is gaining more and more of an audience in English-speaking portions of the world. The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded for entire bodies of work, and Fosse’s win comes as a result of his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” His work spans genres, is written in Norwegian Nynorsk, and includes everything from plays to novels and children’s books. He joins other laureates like Toni Morrison and Kazuo Ishiguro in the…
However, despite their circumstances as a former couple, family always comes first for Khloe, especially considering Tristan, 32, and his brother Amari, 17, (who suffers from epilepsy) moved in with her temporarily shortly after their mom Andrea Thompson’s passing.”No matter what, we’re not a family of, ‘eye for an eye,’ especially in times of need,” she tells Tristan, who is also dad to Prince, 6, with ex Jordan Craig. “That’s when you rally together and I want to be good for the lifetimes after this. I want my karma just to always be great. And I’m not justifying anything you’ve…
Photography by Getty Images for Rare Beauty “Rare Beauty is so much bigger than a makeup brand.” By Souzan Michael Galway Date October 4, 2023 Facebook Twitter “When I created the Rare Impact Fund [in 2020], I knew it was something I had to give my full heart to,” says Selena Gomez over a video call. She’s calling to chat about the launch of the Make a Rare Impact campaign, which officially launches today. The campaign is a partnership between Gomez’s Rare Beauty and Sephora, wherein Sephora will donate 100 per cent of Rare Beauty product sales on October 10,…
Toby Keith’s cancer battle has been the focus of headlines about him over the past year, but his impassioned performance of “Don’t Let the Old Man In” at the People’s Choice Country Awards last month is a reminder of who he is as an artist.The superstar told NBC’s Backstage Live on the red carpet that he chose to sing that song — which he wrote for the 2018 Clint Eastwood flick The Mule — because of his cancer fight.”It’s really inspiring for a lot of people,” Keith observes. He revealed his stomach cancer diagnosis in June 2022, telling fans at the time that he’d been…
A art-themed video for the track features the rapper’s son Adonis Drake has released a new single, “8 AM in Charlotte.” The rapper surprise dropped the song on social media along with a music video for the track, which features his son Adonis. The video opens with Adonis showcasing a piece of his artwork, which he explains to Drake, who replies, “It’s almost like a little story.” The drawing includes a goat with “Daddy” written alongside it, leading Drake to ask if that’s him. “It’s Daddy Goat,” Adonis replies. “That makes perfect sense to me,” Drake says. “8 AM in…
Although the MonsterVerse has been expanding into TV recently with the animated series Skull Island (which can be streamed with a Netflix subscription) and the upcoming live-action show Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (which Apple TV+ subscribers will be able to access), it won’t be too much longer until this franchise returns to its cinematic roots. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire will pick up where 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong left off, with the two title monsters now poised to join forces rather than fight each other again. Ahead of this 2024 movie release, the MonsterVerse is setting up a cool…
Launched in 2022, NorthwestFEARFest (“NWFEARFest”) is back this year with a full line up of 2023’s hottest new horror & thriller fare (along with some retro classics!). Launched with a 2-night “sneak peek” last October, this year’s edition expands to 5 blood-curdling days & nights of gooey mayhem, with a lineup of over 20 feature and short films that includes some of 2023’s most BUZZ-worthy new genre films, and some beloved classics. Festival Programmer Guy Lavallee says audiences are in for five days of non-stop chills. “From the moment we decided to start this festival, our number one focus was…