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Carolina Myer is a writer, editor, and digital media strategist who's been working in the news industry since she was 21. She writes about sports, education, and tech—and she's a huge geek.

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Joy Reid's show canceled in programming shakeup at MSNBC

Joy Reid, the most outspoken host on progressive news channel MSNBC, is leaving the network. Reid, who signed a new contract with the Comcast-owned channel last year, will have her final show this week, according to two people familiar with the plans who were not authorized to comment publicly. An MSNBC representative declined comment on […]

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Review: 'Suits LA' is a work in progress, but 'Grosse Pointe Garden Society' offers intrigue

Now that we’ve passed “peak talking about peak TV,” and the streamers have settled down to producing a seemingly endless round of expensive thrillers, the particular charms of bread-and-butter broadcast television are coming back into focus. Of course, we consume these things differently since streaming took over the world, and arguably since man first learned

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'Anora' wins at an emotionally charged Spirit Awards

Continuing to build momentum as award season nears its conclusion, “Anora” won three prizes at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon, including best feature. The movie was also recognized for director Sean Baker and lead performance for Mikey Madison. Kieran Culkin won for supporting performance for “A Real Pain,” while Jesse Eisenberg won

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Arthur 'King Bobalouie' Moses, who led one of first L.A. Bloods gang sets and sang backup for Delfonics, dies

Tired of having to scrap their way through the streets of West Compton in the early 1970s, A.C. Moses and his childhood friends banded together to defend against the other local gangs that were hassling them. They took to calling themselves the Pirus, after the tiny street where they grew up, and eventually formed one

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Hunter Schafer reveals new passport misgenders her: Trump's anti-trans orders 'not just talk'

For “Euphoria” star Hunter Schafer, the Trump administration and its rollout of anti-transgender executive orders now has her mulling the possibility of “having to out myself to Border Patrol agents” as she revealed her new passport misgenders her. In a TikTok video shared Thursday, the 26-year-old “Cuckoo” and “Kinds of Kindness” actor showed off her

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Review: Indie survivor Ed Burns returns with the bland 'Millers in Marriage'

Thirty years after his breakout as a Sundance darling with “The Brothers McMullen,” Edward Burns may have faded from view as an indie troubadour of middle-class mores, family fractures and romantic entanglements. But the writer-director-star is still wholly committed to his East Coast brand of beige, affable, lightly weathered angst, in which nobody exhibits too

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Voletta Wallace, mother of rapper Notorious B.I.G. and steward of his legacy, dies at 78

Voletta Wallace, the mother of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. who worked to elevate his short-lived but influential career to hip-hop greatness, has died. She was 78. “We suffered a tremendous loss today. Our mother, our matriarch, the woman who dedicated herself to uplifting her son, Christopher Wallace, and preserving his legacy has passed,” Wallace’s

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Jessica Simpson left L.A. for Nashville. Now she's released her first single in almost 17 years

Jessica Simpson, the pop singer turned fashion mogul, reality TV star and bestselling author, is returning to her musical roots. Simpson released “Use My Heart Against Me,” a single off her upcoming EP, “Nashville Canyon, Part 1,” on Friday. It marks Simpson’s first single in almost 17 years — her last project was the 2008

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Kennedy Center says J6 Prison Choir is not a 'confirmed event,' despite what Steve Bannon says

Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon told a cheering CPAC crowd in Washington, D.C., this week that the J6 Prison Choir — composed of men jailed after the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — would perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. “I talked to Ambassador Ric Grenell last

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Actor Faizon Love struck San Diego hotel worker with credit card reader, lawsuit alleges

A San Diego woman has taken legal action against actor and comedian Faizon Love, suing him for assault and battery stemming from a hotel check-in gone awry. Love’s accuser, Elizabeth Renderos, filed her lawsuit against the “Elf” and “Friday” actor on Tuesday in San Diego County Superior Court. Renderos has also sued the actor and

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