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The Continental © 2022 Starz Entertainment, LLCThe second of three episodes of The Continental: From the World of John Wick is now streaming on Peacock.  Set in "the hell-scape of 1970s New York City," it was up to director Albert Hughes, as well as Wick franchise producers Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee and their production team, to recreate the bad old days of the Big Apple — very far from New York, no less.  One way of painting that landscape was through the music. The soundt...

The Ragin Cajuns and the Golden Gophers played three straight seasons from 2001-03, including a 2002 game in Lafayette, Louisiana, that Minnesota won 35-11.

Jack Vartoogian/Getty ImagesThe late Charlie Watts’ huge collection of books went up for auction at Christie’s on Thursday, September 28, and brought in some big bucks. According to The Independent, The Rolling Stones drummers first-edition copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic The Great Gatsby earned the highest bid of the day, over $276,000. Meanwhile, a first edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes tale The Hound Of The Baskervilles, featuring a personal mes...

Drew Carey supported the Hollywood writers strike by providing sustenance to those on the picket line—and their families. The Price Is Right host generously paid for the meals of approximately "80 to 100 writers a day" at Swingers Diner in Los Angeles. Stephanie Wilson, the owner of the restaurant, told Entertainment Tonight, "About a week into the strike, Drew reached out to us and said, 'We have to do something for the writers. Would it be OK if I offered free meal...

Gary Miller/Getty ImagesA new book is set to explore feminism and rock n roll from the point of view of several well-known female rockers. She’s a Bad**: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism, from music journalist Katherine Yeske Taylor, features interviews with a host of famous female rockers, including Heart’s Ann Wilson, The Go-Go’s Gina Schock, The Runaways Cherie Currie, Joan Osborne, Xs Exene Cervenka, Breeders Tanya Donelly, Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray and Joan Osborne. In t...

Comedians Dana Carvey and David Spade honored their late friend Phil Hartman with a new two-part episode of their Fly on the Wall podcast. Hartman died 25 years ago in a tragic murder-suicide, as his wife Brynn shot him in the head while he slept and then shot herself. Spade reflected on how much the cast of Saturday Night Live admired Hartman. "They would talk about Phil without prompting," the Joe Dirt actor said during the two-part tribute episode. "Will Ferrell, Bill Hader,...

Rotary Club Meeting – 9-26-23 The program at the Rotary Club meeting on Tuesday was presented by Rotarian Eric Gil. Mr. Gil introduced his son, Sam Gil. Sam is a student at McNeese University....

Madonna and David Banda; Cassy Athena/Getty ImagesMadonna took to Instagram on September 26 to share footage of a party marking the 18th birthday of her son David Banda, who was born September 24, 2005, in Malawi. She adopted him from the African nation in 2008. In the footage, David is rocking a white tuxedo and shades, and is shown dancing and twerking with Madonna, his siblings and a bunch of scantily dressed folks who are busting some sexy dance moves — its possible some of them are M...

Kerry Washington details her experience having an abortion in her 20s in her new memoir, Thicker Than Water. Time Magazine published an excerpt on Tuesday (September 26th) along with an intro by the Little Fires Everywhere actress. "In my late 20s, I made the difficult and very private decision to have an abortion. About a decade later, I played a character that was the first woman to be shown undergoing an abortion procedure on network television," Washington wrote in the intro, re...

ABCLenny Kravitz is the latest rocker to join TikTok, and he did so in a pretty hilarious way. The rocker shared his first video on Saturday, September 23, and it had him walking through the park wearing his oversized brown blanket scarf. “Grab your big scarf, it’s the first day of fall,” he says to the camera. According to Vogue, Kravitz first went viral with his enormous scarf back in 2012, when photographers caught him wearing it while on a stroll in New York City. And it appears t...