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After three seasons of The Boys, The Seven is a bit of a mess. And while we don’t know much about where the show is headed next when it comes to Vought’s signature superhero team, the show is certainly primed for new supes to fill some important roles. Which is why it’s not very surprising that the show’s fourth season will have some new faces presumably doing some terrible things with their impressive powers.

As Entertainment Weekly shared on Monday, Amazon revealed two new supes and their costumes ahead of a fourth season coming at a much later date. The show’s Twitter account also shared two of the images on Monday as well, introducing Sage and Firecracker to the world in full uniform.

We already know that Sage will be played by Susan Heyward (Orange Is The New Black, Vinyl) and Valorie Curry (Veronica Mars) will play Firecracker. But right now that’s about all we know. Amazon has made it clear that we’re not getting much more information about what these two supes are up to, and what side they’re on, until the show debuts on Prime. And we don’t even have a release date for that, so right now it’s all speculation.

Sister Sage, for example, doesn’t show up in the comics at all. But the “Sage” could come from the Sage Grove Center, a psychiatric hospital from the show/comics that’s a cover for Vaught experimenting on people. And perhaps Firecracker — described as having a “short fuse” on Monday, is yet another patriotic-themed supe that will play into Homelander’s nosedive into the far right.

Speculation doesn’t get you very far in The Boys universe, though. The show has made some changes to characters when they make the transition from comic to streaming screen, and these two are blank slates to boot. So it’s tough to know what showrunner Eric Kripke and company have in store for us. As far as other casting news, we also know that Ryan Butcher will be around much more in Season 4, as actor Cameron Crovetti has been promoted to a full-time regular cast member after serving a reoccurring role in the previous two seasons. And with how the last season’s finale cleared out the supe rolodex, we certainly will see lots of screen time for these new faces.

[via EW]

While many of us are going back to concerts as if the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a factor, we’re still very much seeing the effects of the pandemic lingering on the live music industry and the artists who make their living going on tour. Animal Collective are the latest in a growing number of artists who are cancelling their tour dates, as the group shared a lengthy statement today citing “the economic reality” that they’re facing with embarking on a full slate of UK and EU tour stops and festival dates in November.

“It has been a wild year for us trying to push through a mountain of touring obstacles related to COVID and the economy,” the statement starts. The band had to cancel dates recently as well because three of the members contracted “bad” COVID infections. The statement continued:

“But preparing for this tour we were looking at an economic reality that simply does not work and is not sustainable. From inflation, to currency devaluation, to bloated shipping and transportation costs, and much much more, we simply could not make a budget for this tour that did not lose money even if everything went as well as it could. We have always been the kind of people to persevere through the difficult times and get on stage unless our health prevented it. We are choosing not to take the risk to our mental and physical health with the economic reality of what that tour would have been. We hope you understand and that you know we would not make a choice like this lightly. We truly want nothing more than to make it out there again.”

Apart from their tour stops in November in support of their latest album, Time Skiffs, Animal Collective also had a couple of notable music festival appearances scheduled. One at Pitchfork’s inaugural London festival, and another at Le Guess Who? festival in the Netherlands, where they were curating an entire showcase of acts. It’s alarming to think that even for a well-established act like Animal Collective, touring in the wake of the pandemic is still presents a number of challenges that wears on them deeply. So much so, that cancelling a number of lucrative paydays is the best option for their well-being. This is a reminder, that while live music is back, we’re not totally out of the woods just yet.

Find the band’s full post below.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a smart guy. He went to Harvard and Columbia, has won a bunch of awards (including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal), and he interviewed “Weird” Al Yankovic, which doesn’t prove anything about his intelligence but it does show that he has good taste. But man, he seems like a drip to watch movies with.

Last week, deGrasse Tyson made a poorly received “Blues Live Matter” joke about Avatar, while over the weekend, he finally watched Top Gun: Maverick and shared his thoughts. Namely, that Tom Cruise’s Maverick should be “very dead.”

“Late to the party here, but In this year’s @TopGunMovie, @TomCruise’s character Maverick ejects from a hypersonic plane at Mach 10.5, before it crashed. He survived with no injuries. At that air speed, his body would splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm. Just sayin’,” deGrasse Tyson tweeted. He added, “When Maverick ejected at Mach 10.5, he was going 7,000 mph, giving him 400 million joules of kinetic energy — the explosive power of 100 kg of TNT. A situation that human physiology is not designed to survive. So, no. Maverick does not walk away from this. He be dead. Very dead.”

Would you be shocked to learn that Elon Musk also weighed in?

Wait until deGrasse Tyson, the “ACTUALLY” of people, gets around to fact-checking Minions: The Rise of Gru. Kevin, Stuart, and Bob won’t know what hit them.

(Via IndieWire)

Shakira has new music on the way. The Colombian superstar announced that her new single “Monotonía” featuring Ozuna will be released later this month.

“Monotonía” will be Shakira’s second single this year following “Te Felicito” with Rauw Alejandro, which was released in April. In the latter song, she sarcastically congratulated an ex on being a good actor in their relationship. “Te Felicito” seemingly touched on reports of her ex Gerard Piqué cheating on her. In an interview with Elle last month, Shakira admitted that her songs were inspired by her personal experiences.

“I can only say that either consciously or subconsciously, everything I feel, everything I go through is reflected in the lyrics I write, in the videos I make. When the glove fits, it fits. Like I said before, my music is that channel,” she said.

Shakira’s next single “Monotonía” is seemingly touching on heartbreak. In June, she announced her separation from Piqué. Over the weekend, Shakira was posting teasers on her social media accounts about the upcoming song with Ozuna. In one video, a human heart is shown getting stepped on as she attempts to pick it up off the ground. The cover art for “Monotonía” shows a heart getting pierced by a dagger.

Shakira also revealed a few lyrics from “Monotonía.” The lyrics seem to be the most telling that she has a breakup anthem on the way. In English, the lyrics translate to: “It wasn’t your fault nor was it mine / It was the fault of the monotony.”

Shakira’s “Monotonía” single will be released on October 19. Last month, her court case over claims of tax evasion in Spain was approved to go forward. No court date has been set yet. Shakira has maintained her innocence, calling the allegations against her “false accusations.”

The Seattle Mariners are in the playoffs for the first time in 20-plus years, snapping one of the longest droughts in professional sports, and they punched their ticket, officially, on Saturday in an unbelievable comeback in Toronto to complete a 2-0 sweep of the Blue Jays in the Wild Card series.

After trailing 8-1 entering the sixth inning, the Mariners steadily reeled in Toronto with four runs in the sixth, four runs in the eighth, and the go-ahead (and ultimately game-winning) run in the ninth inning. It was a wild comeback that left the home crowd in Toronto stunned and in disbelief, while the celebration began back on the west coast in Seattle. The celebration scenes from the watch party at T Mobile Park made their way around the internet over the weekend, but on Monday we got our best fan celebration video of them all from a Seattle Toyota dealership service center.

The video starts with three employees — one dressed for the occasion in an Ichiro jersey — are watching on a TV in the office and lose their minds when the Mariners complete the comeback, as the guy in the Ichiro jersey launches his hat in the air while jumping around. They start hi-fiving and huddle together for an adorable dance, which is when this gets really good, as another guy comes skipping out of the back and seamlessly joins the dance celebration.

I have never seen a purer distillation of Dudes Rock than this video. I also want to know if this is a celebration dance they do regularly, or if this was off the cuff and everyone was just vibing on the same frequency with the little kicks. Either way, I’m very happy for these guys and am also very happy for this security cam footage hitting the internet for our enjoyment.

(House of the Dragon spoilers will be found below.)

Although House of the Dragon viewers were sad to see Milly Alcock depart as the younger Princess Rhaenyra, Emma D’Arcy picked up the role without missing a beat. They’ll guide us through the Targaryen heir’s more challenging years that follow King Viserys I’s confirmation of his daughter as heir to the Iron Throne and the subsequent misunderstanding that will likely usher in the Targaryen civil war.

Aside from all of that conflict and drama (including Prince Daemon letting Vaemond know what it’s like to f*ck around and find out), however, people have been enjoying Emma’s interviews, including a TikTok-ed moment where they rave over their favorite drink, a broken Negroni. To be more specific, Emma refers to this the Italian drink as “a Negroni sbagliato… with Proscetto in it.”

Stanley Tucci, a famed lover of Negronis, would be proud, but more than that, people can’t get over Emma’s utterance of this (some would say dubious) concoction. Fans are positively swooning over the way that the drink rolls off their tongue, and it’s quite charming to see them excitedly add that finishing splash. Heck, even people who find Negronis to be “vile” are enjoying this clip. Let the drooling begin.

HBO’s ‘House of the Dragon’ airs on Sunday nights at 9:00pm EST.

There was an unusual moment involving a fan at a recent Megan Thee Stallion performance: Videos circulating on social media show the concert attendee crashing Megan’s set mid-performance, which ultimately led to security officials intervening and removing the fan from the stage. Before they did, though, the fan confidently strode to Megan, grabbed her hand, raised it, and initiated a spin, which Meg didn’t seem to mind.

To date, Megan has not acknowledged the incident. The moment was caught amid coverage of TwitchCon 2022, where Megan warmly welcomed a different guest, the Master Chief character from the Halo franchise, to the stage.

Aside from this, Meg has been quite busy — from being slated for a run of international dates before closing out her 2022 schedule in Los Angeles to appearing on Saturday Night Live later this week (October 15) and doubling as the show’s musical guest for the night. This marks her second appearance on the popular show since 2020, where she performed and Chris Rock hosted.

The Texas native encouraged all her “hotties” to tune into her upcoming performance after announcing it in a tweet last month, writing, “OCT 15 THEE HOT GIRL COACH IS HOSTING AND PERFORMING ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE TUNE IN ALL HOTTIES.”

There was an unusual moment involving a fan at a recent Megan Thee Stallion performance: Videos circulating on social media show the concert attendee crashing Megan’s set mid-performance, which ultimately led to security officials intervening and removing the fan from the stage. Before they did, though, the fan confidently strode to Megan, grabbed her hand, raised it, and initiated a spin, which Meg didn’t seem to mind.

To date, Megan has not acknowledged the incident. The moment was caught amid coverage of TwitchCon 2022, where Megan warmly welcomed a different guest, the Master Chief character from the Halo franchise, to the stage.

Aside from this, Meg has been quite busy — from being slated for a run of international dates before closing out her 2022 schedule in Los Angeles to appearing on Saturday Night Live later this week (October 15) and doubling as the show’s musical guest for the night. This marks her second appearance on the popular show since 2020, where she performed and Chris Rock hosted.

The Texas native encouraged all her “hotties” to tune into her upcoming performance after announcing it in a tweet last month, writing, “OCT 15 THEE HOT GIRL COACH IS HOSTING AND PERFORMING ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE TUNE IN ALL HOTTIES.”

Rudy Giuliani has zero f**ks to give. At least that’s the way it looks, based on the lack of respect he has shown to the law — a profession that gave him his start (before it was all yanked away when he decided, in an allegedly drunken stupor, that Donald Trump should just declare victory when he lost the 2020 presidential election).

While Giuliani spent months playing hard-to-get with Georgia lawmakers, who ultimately compelled him to testify before them about his meddling in the 2020 presidential election, another legal drama has been playing out for the former New York City mayor: he has been ordered to pay $262,000 to his ex-wife (one of the two who isn’t his cousin) and warned that he could be spending time in the slammer if he didn’t pay up. Which didn’t seem to faze Rudy much.

On Friday, Rudy finally showed up in court to face the charges of this missing alimony — a month late. As the New York Post reported, Giuliani, who was originally ordered to appear before the court a month ago, got an earful from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Michael Katz. As usual, Rudy was full of excuses — most of them pretty pathetic.

“Let me apologize for not appearing,” Giuliani said about the missed appearance. “It was very stupid,” he admitted. “I made a mistake.”

As far as exactly what that mistake was, well, the scofflaw proffered up a litany of dumb defenses. Including that he simply wrote down the incorrect date, which didn’t exactly fly with the judge.

Katz not-so-gently reminded the man formerly known as America’s Mayor that he had “repeated the date [back] to me” at a previous hearing. “I said everyone needed to be here on the 23rd and you repeated it to me,” Katz said. “I don’t understand your excuse.”

“I put it down the wrong way when I left the courthouse,” Rudy replied, making his response even more confusing.

Still, Giuliani did manage to hand over copies of two checks that he claims clear him of any monies owed to his ex-wife, who says he is $260,000 in arrears for monies owed for their agreed upon alimony, condo payments, and the ever-important country club fees. But Katz was still confused.

“I don’t understand why it takes two months to get checks from Citibank,” the judge said. “I can get my bank records by entering a passcode on the computer. I don’t understand why there is such a delay.”

While Katz had initially warned Giuliani that there was a sheriff ready to “come at a moment’s notice today” to arrest him, he eventually called off the dogs and set a new court date in order to allow both sides time to review the new evidence.

After the hearing, the New York Post caught up with Giuliani, who claimed it “went very well.”

“The judge lifted the mistaken [contempt] order which was based on false statements by her,” Rudy said, claiming “it’s not true that I owed $200,000 or $300,000. At the very most, it’s probably closer to $20,000 — if it is that.”

“It’s possible I’ve overpaid her,” he finally decided.

(Via New York Post)

If you’ve used TikTok recently, you’ve seen one of Rodger Cleye‘s videos. Although you might not know him by name, Cleye has become virtually recognizable. He’s a middle-aged man singing to a range of songs and green-screen POV meme posts — for everything from lip-syncing Lana Del Rey to various renditions of what a girlie’s room looks like when you walk in at 3 am. And he has 2.5 million followers on the app.

For casual users, it felt like Cleye came out of nowhere but has recorded a gigantic trove of TikTok videos. Who is this man? How does he have the time? I’ve wondered these exact things myself. As it turns out, Cleye is just a 56-year-old man in California who loves music.

According to his bio on Songtradr, Cleye began writing his own songs nearly half a lifetime ago, when he was 28. “I put them to music and produced it on an 80’s synthesizer and a guitar my mom gave me at age 27 (I had never played any instrument before that),” he wrote. “I proceeded to lay down tracks on an 8-channel cassette multi-track recorder and had a couple of effects boxes too. It was therapy for me.”

“Now at age 56, music consumes me more than ever,” Cleye’s bio continues. “I am going through an ‘Emotional Renaissance’ all over again as I enter my senior years.”

Even with Cleye’s popularity on TikTok and his passion for music, there is still a sense of mystery surrounding him. Not only has Cleye somehow landed on the app, but he created and edited his videos in such a way that has stacked him as a top creator. Was he self-taught? When and where does he find time to record? Only time.. or more TikToks will tell.

Continue scrolling to watch a few of Rodger Cleye’s videos.