Obsession and Off Campus stars Inde Navarrette and Josh Heuston serve as an emotional vehicle in the music video for one of the young artist’s most sincere records to date Sombr has his finger on the pulse of pop culture in the Gus Black-directed video for his latest single, “My Body Isn’t Ready.” The visual … Read more
Cher’s effort to place her son Elijah Blue Allman under a California conservatorship faced new hurdles Thursday when the rock heir appeared by video from a locked psychiatric facility in New Hampshire without a lawyer, and the judge separately questioned whether she had jurisdiction over the case. Cher has been fighting to put guardrails on … Read more
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Devastation in Venezuela: “Rescue teams rushed Thursday to areas hit hardest by a pair of powerful earthquakes that rocked Venezuela, killing at least 164 people, injuring nearly 1,000 and trapping many under the rubble. Wednesday evening’s 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes were among the strongest to strike Venezuela in … Read more
Clive Davis — the legendary record executive who died Monday at the age of 94 — cast as long a shadow across the music world as any executive, and participants in his funeral will bear that out. Sources tell Variety that artists from his long career who are expected to participate include Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, … Read more
Former President Barack Obama slammed President Donald Trump for obsessing over him while serving in the nation’s highest office. “I obviously, you know, have a room in his head. A suite in his head,” Obama said an an episode of the podcast “All the Smoke,” posted Wednesday. “Look, first of all, when I was president, … Read more
Mick Jagger channels his soulful “Emotional Rescue” falsetto on “Jealous Lover,” one of two newly released songs off the Rolling Stones‘ upcoming Foreign Tongues album, which comes out July 10. A video for the song, available only on Amazon Music for now, dramatizes the lyrics as Anya Taylor-Joy turns green with envy when she thinks … Read more
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s successful backing of a trio of left-wing candidates in New York’s House primaries — two of whom ousted establishment Democratic incumbents — has triggered backlash from fuming moderate Democrats. But their criticism reveals the exact wrong takeaway from Tuesday’s political earthquake. New York Attorney General Letitia James told CNN on … Read more
The enterprise AI problem was supposed to be getting out of pilot mode. Turns out, it’s what happens after you get out. A global survey from communications platform Sinch found that 74% of enterprises have already rolled back or shut down a customer-facing AI agent after deployment. Among organizations with the most mature governance frameworks, … Read more
Graphene has been described so often as a “wonder material” (including by myself) that the phrase now risks obscuring the more important question: where, precisely, is graphene moving from laboratory promise into measured industrial value? In Canada, that question is beginning to receive a substantive answer. Over the past two years, Canadian universities, scale-up firms … Read more
Arizona judges blocked a lower court order that took election duties away from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and assigned them to county Recorder Justin Heap, an election denier who has pushed conspiracy theories about voting in the state. The emergency stay issued Thursday should pause a long-simmering legal feud between board officials and … Read more