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Holiday retail sales are expected to increase between 3% and 4% in 2023, according to trade group the National Retail Federation. In 2022, sales jumped 5.3%, according to the NRF. Owner Kimberley Yurkiewicz said the store had strong sales in 2021 and 2022 and sales are up again so far this year. Instead of one customer spending $200, 10 customers are spending $20 each. Then she’ll restock with gift items that can sell not only during the holidays but in January and beyond.

Persons: ”, Max Rhodes, Rhodes, Barbie, Taylor Swift, Rick Haase, Owner Kimberley Yurkiewicz, “, ” Andy Wilkerson, Heather Haynie, ” Haynie, she’s, Sierra Wallis, ” Wallis, Wallis, won’t Organizations: Holiday, National Retail Federation, Owner, Blackhawk Locations: St, Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Brooklyn , New York, Charlotte , North Carolina, Charlottesville, Va, Decatur , Ga

☆ Think You Don’t Like Something? Try Listening Closer - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Jeff Tweedy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

And at the time that “Dancing Queen” came out, it wasn’t hard to hate a disco song, anyway — disco was despised by practically everyone I knew (with the exception of the kids who liked to roller skate). To this day, whenever I think I dislike a piece of music, I think about “Dancing Queen” and am humbled. And even then, if I don’t like something, I make a mental note to try it again in 10 years. Melodies as pure and evocative as the one in “Dancing Queen” don’t come along every day, and I mourn every single moment I missed loving this song. Playing it again as I write this, making up for lost spins, I feel overcome with gratitude for its existence.

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☆ A Harvard Prodigy Set Out to Disrupt the Legal Industry. Now, CS Disco Tries to Fix Its Culture.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Emily Glazer | Theo Francis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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NEW YORK (AP) — The first thought that comes to mind when you enter the Balloon Museum for the “Let’s Fly” exhibit is the massive scale of the art. But it's the adventure of a theme park attraction that can awaken the childlike wonder in all of us. “The idea of Balloon Museum is to create a space where artists meet the public and they meet by meaning everybody from the smallest to the oldest,” said Smigla-Bobinski. While the exhibition varies in content from each city the Balloon Museum takes up residency, there’s one constant, Balloon Street, where guests can be fully immersed and become part of the installations. Premiering in Rome in 2020, the Balloon Museum has toured through Europe with its curation focused on inflatable art installations.

Persons: That's, Chiara Caimmi, ” Caimmi, Cyril Lancelin, Sir Isaac Newton, Hyperstellar ”, Karina Smigla, ”, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Michael Shaw, Tadao Organizations: Museum, Balloon Museum, Tadao Cern Locations: New York City, Vegas, Polish, Lithuanian, Lithuania, Rome, Europe

☆ Trance Music Is Coming Back. Evian Christ Is Part of the Revival.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Isabelia Herrera | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

His masterful, theatrical buildups, full of relentless bass lines, pounding synths and prismatic arpeggios, blasted from the speakers as a single disco ball sparkled overhead. But Christ, born Joshua Leary, didn’t always know how to work a room like this. Most artists don’t drop their debut a decade after their breakthrough, but Christ, 34, has long chosen the unconventional path. His skill for that approach endeared him to ravers across the globe, in part because he has long been devoted to trance, an often-derided genre of dance music rooted in big climaxes and unabashed sentimentality. On “Revanchist” he leans into it at a critical moment in the sound’s bubbling comeback, making a statement about its relevance and power.

Persons: chunky, Evian Christ, Joshua Leary, didn’t, ”, Kanye West, Travis Scott, Danny Brown Organizations: Evian, Kanye, Trance Party Locations: New York, Brooklyn, British, Ellesmere Port, “

☆ I missed Beyoncé’s European tour, so I flew 4,600 miles to New Orleans to see her in concert — by myself
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Afterward, I listened to "Summer Renaissance," Beyoncé's reworking of one of my favorite songs, Donna Summer's 1977 disco hit "I Feel Love," on repeat. Beyoncé's daughter, Blue Ivy, dances, as her mother sings behind her on the London, U.K. leg of the Renaissance World Tour in May 2023. Virgin Hotels New Orleans, where I stayed, is only a half-mile from the Superdome stadium, and was well-prepared to host the many concertgoers who stayed there. Members of Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour band perform at jazz club Snug Harbor in New Orleans, led by saxophonist Kat Rodriguez (second from right). Caesars Superdome stadium in New Orleans is illuminated by thousands of lights attached to audience members' wristbands during Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour.

Persons: Beyoncé, Kevin Mazur, WireImage, Alexander McQueen, Roksanda, Roksanda Ilincic, Annie Macmanus, Donna Summer's, Blue Ivy, Beyoncé I've, I've, Redmond —, Honey Dijon, Laveau Contraire, Kat Rodriguez, Lucy Handley, Crystal Torres, Tayler Green, Danny Laurino, John Coletti, Hurricane Katrina, Willa Jean, diamante Organizations: Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Parkwood, London, Caesar's, British Airways, Southbank, Virgin Hotels, Preservation Hall, Bank, Getty, Garden, Uptown, Plantations, New, New Orleans police, Vue Orleans, Caesars Locations: London —, Instagram, London, U.K, British, Amsterdam, New Orleans , Louisiana, YOLO, New Orleans, Orleans, Virgin Hotels New Orleans, Bey, Preservation Hall , New Orleans, Snug, Faubourg Marigny, U.S, Mississippi, Louisiana, Beyoncé's

PARIS (AP) — Valentino took a sentimental journey to Les Beaux-Arts this Sunday, revisiting the prestigious Parisian art school where its founder, Valentino Garavani, was once a student. Dive into the highlights of this Spring/Summer 2024 ready-to-wear collections from Paris, including the end of an era at Alexander McQueen as its lauded designer Sarah Burton presented her final show. Strategically positioned boxes filled with rocks, sand, and earth transformed into platforms for a troupe of sinewy, scantily clad contemporary dancers. Her task had always been titanic – to step into shoes left empty by the enigmatic genius of Lee Alexander McQueen. From the profound artistry of Kate Middleton’s wedding gown – a garment that transcended royal expectations – to her final collection’s poignant motifs, Burton proved her mettle time and again.

Persons: — Valentino, Les, Valentino Garavani, Alexander McQueen, Sarah Burton, VALENTINO, Pierpaolo, pare, Lee Alexander McQueen, Burton, Magdalena Abakanowicz’s, Kate Middleton’s, –, Naomi Campbell, Cate Blanchett, Elle Fanning Organizations: PARIS, Les Beaux, Beaux, Arts Locations: Paris, Polish

☆ Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour: Best looks
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —It’s not the diamonds or the pearls that make Beyoncé that girl, but fashion is a critical part of what’s made her Renaissance World Tour unforgettable. In celebration of her seventh album of the same name, Beyoncé’s first solo tour in seven years featured a wardrobe fit for a queen. For me, during her Renaissance tour she is Queen B Beyond, a timeless queen that moves in a dazzling constellation.”“This ethereal and futurist femininity complements and extends her other looks in the tour that beautifully highlight other aspects of feminine empowerment,” van Herpen added. Here are some of the best looks from the Renaissance tour. Kevin Mazur/WireImage/Getty ImagesThis custom Balmain look by Olivier Rousteing was one of multiple silver ensembles Beyoncé wore on tour.

Persons: CNN — It’s, what’s, Beyoncé’s, ” Beyoncé, “ Beyoncé, ”, Iris van Herpen, Beyoncé, “, ” van Herpen, David Koma, ” Koma, Kevin Mazur, Alexander McQueen bodysuit, Courrèges, ” Kevin Mazur, Roksanda Ilincic, Loewe, Shiona Turini, Jonathan Anderson, Gucci, Frank Micelotta, Casey Cadwallader, Turini, ” Coperni, Bob Mackie, Iris, Herpen, David Koma “, Sylvia Earle, — “, Daniel Roseberry, Richard Quinn bodysuit, Gaurav Gupta’s, ” Gupta, Elie, Karen Langley, Tara Greville, Olivier Rousteing, Peter Dundas, Ibrahim Kamara Organizations: CNN, Chrome, Beyoncé, Paris Haute Couture, Elie Saab Locations: Stockholm, London, Amsterdam, Chicago, Atlanta, Warsaw, Minneapolis

☆ Deion Sanders’ ‘audacious Blackness’ makes him the hero African Americans want right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —After his team’s first victory earlier this month, University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders said something remarkable. He has entered one of the Whitest and most conservative institutions in America — college football — and excelled. It’s no secret the league has had a poor record of hiring Black coaches. Ron Jenkins/Getty ImagesHe’s brought an “audacious Blackness” to college football that’s revolutionary, one commentator says. In many ways, the profession at this level has become welfare for white coaches.

Persons: CNN —, Deion Sanders, “, ” Sanders, Sanders, He’s, Muhammad Ali, Lil Wayne, Kawhi Leonard, Dwayne “, ” Johnson, ” Deion Sanders, Dwayne, Johnson, Andrew Wevers, ”, ” Clinton Yates, Obama, George Floyd, White, —, It’s, Colin Kaepernick, Carmen Mandato, He’ll, ‘, ” Greg Moore, Al Campanis, weren’t, Doug Williams, Rick Stewart, “ I’m, That’s, he’s, Shedeur Sanders, Ron Jenkins, ’, ” Vaughn Wilson, Ted Johnson, Deion, “ Sanders, Bakari K, Lumumba, cornerbacks, John Blake Organizations: CNN, University of Colorado, LA Clippers, Colorado, USC, BET, Colorado Buffaloes, Colorado State Rams, USA, Sports, Reuters, Buffaloes, Georgetown Hoyas men’s, University of Miami football, UNLV, Michigan, US Supreme Court, America —, NFL, White, Los Angeles Dodgers, Washington Redskins, Super, Blacks, of Famer, Jackson State University, TCU, Fort Worth , Texas . Colorado, Jackson State, Washington Post, that’s, Pan, Oregon Ducks, Black Locations: Boulder, Boulder , Colorado, Black America, America, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Arizona, White America, Colorado, Mississippi, Fort Worth , Texas, White

☆ Eddy Grant explained his song 'Electric Avenue' to Donald Trump's lawyers in a deposition. It did not go well.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In 2020, singer Eddy Grant sued Donald Trump for using "Electric Avenue" in a campaign tweet. Trump's lawyers asked him to "explain" the song, a newly-public deposition transcript shows. Grant asked. Grant noted that "Electric Avenue," a common street name worldwide, is also the name of a street in the south London district. Like "heaven" and "hell," he explained, Electric Avenue is more of a concept than a location on a map.

Persons: Eddy Grant, Donald Trump, Grant, Donald Trump's, bristled, you've, SDNY, Trump, Joe Biden, Biden puttering, Darren Saunders, Saunders, David Bowie, I've, You've, Dan Scavino, Scavino, Grant — Organizations: Service, Trump Locations: Wall, Silicon, Barbados, London, Brixton , London, Brixton

☆ Beyoncé wants everyone to wear silver and Etsy sellers are benefiting
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —The Queen, better known as Beyoncé, had a dress code in mind for Renaissance tour concert goers attending her “House of Chrome,” as she described her concerts. Unprecedented salesAt a pivotal moment during each concert, Beyoncé flicks her wrist and pans out her black handheld fan. A group of fans pose for a portrait before entering Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023 in Inglewood, CA. “I did not see them becoming my best seller, much less my by-far-best-seller, because of something as random as a concert tour,” Fritts said. That demand was quickly replaced with silver bedazzled shades earlier this month after Beyoncé’s silver announcement.

Persons: Etsy, Taylor, “, ” VenuezNVibez, ”, Beyoncé, Erin Fritts, she’s, Taylor Swift, it’s, ” Fritts, Jason Armond, Fritts, Sydney Baloue, ” Baloue, Tracy Swank, Swank, DaKeitha Bennett, I’ve, ” Bennett Organizations: New, New York CNN, Chrome, New York Times, CNN, Los Angeles Times Locations: New York, ”, Charlotte , North Carolina, Inglewood , CA, Florida, California, Baltimore, Etsy, Flint , Michigan

☆ Here Are the Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Ben Kenigsberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What’s the anatomy of a fall movie season? Here is a select list of features coming to theaters and streaming services beginning later this month. (Sept. 22 in theaters)FLORA AND SON An acoustic guitar helps bridge the gap between a mother (Eve Hewson) and her son (Orén Kinlan). John Carney (“Once”) wrote and directed. (Sept. 22 in theaters, Sept. 29 on Apple TV+)

Persons: ’, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Justine Triet, Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Anderson, Morgan Neville, “, Jeff Malmberg, Mike Veeck, Bill Veeck, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Eve Hewson, Orén, Joseph Gordon, Levitt, John Carney, ” Organizations: Cannes Film, Chicago White Sox, Comiskey, Netflix, Apple

☆ Beyoncé Fuels a Small-Business Boom
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Sanam Yar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Virgo season dawned, Beyoncé — perhaps the world’s most famous Virgo, who named a track on her seventh album, “Renaissance,” after the star sign — had a birthday request. The performer, now in the last month of her Renaissance World Tour, posted a message on her website and Instagram on Aug. 23 encouraging fans to wear silver to her concerts through Virgo season, which ends on Sept. 22. “We’ll surround ourselves in a shimmering human disco ball each night,” the message read. Virgo season together in the house of chrome.”The tour has already been a fashion show, with attendees wearing bejeweled cowboy hats and more looks inspired by the album’s visuals and Beyoncé’s stage outfits. On TikTok, concertgoers posted videos of their original non-silver looks set to audio of high-pitched screaming.

Persons: Beyoncé —, —, concertgoers, Gayle King, Rosie O’Donnell Locations: Las

☆ Out West, the Gay Cowboy Roams Free
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Evan Moffitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

TWO MEN, A grizzled sheriff and a gunslinging vigilante, confront each other in a dusty saloon town. When Silva (Pedro Pascal) visits his former lover Jake (Ethan Hawke), he rekindles their romance before revealing less amorous intentions. Intrigue ensues, and the shock of two gay cowboys gives way to what we might expect from a classic western: shootouts, horseback chases, fugitive justice. This is partly why over the decades many queer artists have made winking references to cowboy culture. Then there was the gay disco troupe the Village People’s dime-store cowboy, Randy Jones, who was meant to be read as a tongue-in-cheek archetype (one since referenced by musicians like Lil Nas X and Orville Peck).

Persons: Pedro Almodóvar’s, Silva, Pedro Pascal, Jake, Ethan Hawke, Almodóvar’s, John Wayne, Bob Mizer, Andy Warhol, ”, Randy Jones, Lil Nas X, Orville Peck Organizations: Marlboro, Lonesome Cowboys Locations: It’s, Spanish, America

As the all-powerful ruler of oil-rich Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba had two passions, music and forests, that forged powerful ties across the world. An accomplished musician, Mr. Bongo recorded a disco-funk album and lured James Brown and Michael Jackson to Gabon. As president, he built a music studio at his seaside palace and played improv jazz to foreign diplomats at state dinners. More recently, Mr. Bongo allied with Western scientists and conservationists, entranced by both the paradisiacal beauty of Gabon, an Arizona-sized country covered in lush rainforest and teeming with wildlife, and by his commitment to protecting it. But to his own people, Mr. Bongo, 64, embodied a family dynasty, founded by his father, which had dominated Gabon for 56 years — until this week, when it came crashing down.

Persons: Ali Bongo Ondimba, Bongo, James Brown, Michael Jackson, . Bongo Locations: Gabon, an Arizona

☆ This is the No. 1 trait you need to be more successful than most—Mark Cuban learned it by age 12
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

"I was a little short chubby kid [and] my parents didn't have a lot," Cuban recounted on the show. Learning the moves to show him he was competent, had rhythm and could quickly pick up new skills, Cuban said. "It really did [help with confidence]," Cuban tells CNBC Make It in an email. "It will be the person with high confidence and lower abilities who will get the job over the person with low confidence and higher abilities." "It was the best job ever," Cuban told sportscaster Jim Rome on a podcast in 2019.

Persons: Mark Cuban, NBC's, didn't, Cuban, We've, couldn't, Bonnie Low, Kramen, Jim Rome Organizations: Dallas Mavericks, CNBC, Staff, Solutions, Indiana University

☆ Nvidia and more: Morgan Stanley reveals its favorite global stocks to play 'a pivotal moment for AI'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Analysts at Morgan Stanley picked several global stocks they say are set to benefit from the artificial intelligence trend, from semiconductors to server companies. "The 2024 earnings for AI stocks are higher than they were on July 1, and fundamentals for AI companies look even better," Morgan Stanley said in a note to investors seen by CNBC Tuesday, titled "A Pivotal Moment for AI." The analysts also described AI stocks as "materially cheaper today than they were last month." Morgan Stanley said this is a "pivotal moment for NVDA and the AI supply chain," adding that investors should "prepare for potential AI opportunities." In Japan, Morgan Stanley named Disco Corporation , a maker of semiconductor manufacturing devices, for its "meaningful demand increase from generative AI-related Equipment."

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Shawn Kim, Morgan, — CNBC's Michael Bloom, Yeo Boon Ping Organizations: CNBC, Nvidia, Revenue, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, China Semiconductors, Global Unichip Corp, chipmaker SK Hynix, Samsung, Disco Corporation Locations: Greater China, China, South Korea, Japan

☆ Toto Cutugno, Italian singer famous for smash-hit single ‘L’Italiano,’ dies
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Hafsa Khalil | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Salvatore “Toto” Cutugno, the Italian singer-songwriter best known for his 1983 hit “L’Italiano,” has died at age 80, local media reported Tuesday. Cutugno was also a regular at Italy’s Sanremo song contest, which he won in 1980 with “Solo Noi,” and was runner-up multiple times. But he was most famous for his 1983 smash hit, “L’Italiano,” a pop song that celebrated the nation’s identity and culture. Though it didn’t make an impression in the United States or United Kingdom, it shot him to stardom across Europe. In Zagreb in 1990, Cutugno won Italy its second Eurovision Song Contest victory, with his song “Insieme: 1992” (“Together: 1992”), which he composed and wrote himself.

Persons: CNN — Salvatore “ Toto ” Cutugno, “, ”, Cutugno’s, Danilo Mancuso, Hospital “, Giorgia Meloni, Cutugno, Johnny Hallyday, Dalida, senza, sotto gli, Toto Cutugno, Gigliola, Carla, Nicolo Organizations: CNN, Hospital, Italian, Sanremo, European Union, Eurovision Locations: Italian, Milan’s San, United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Zagreb, Italy, Rome

☆ Sporting Gijón coach apologizes for comparing scoring goals to talking to ‘girls in the disco’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The head coach of Spanish second division soccer team Sporting Gijón has apologized for remarks he made which likened talking to women in discos to scoring goals. “In the end, a goal is like girls in the disco,” said Miguel Ángel Ramírez at one point during his post-match press conference following his side’s 3-0 win over Mirandés on Sunday. I apologize for [my comments].”CNN Sport has reached out to Sporting Gijón for comment. Prior to his apology, Ramírez had received criticism for his comments, including from the mayor of the city of Gijón. “Conversations like this, really unfortunately, show the importance of continuing to work for a more egalitarian society,” Carmen Moriyón wrote on X.

Persons: Sporting Gijón, ”, Miguel Ángel Ramírez, ’, you’re, Ramírez, Ramírez’s, ” Carmen Moriyón Organizations: CNN, Sporting, “, CNN Sport, Sporting Gijón, Spain, England, Verdes Locations: Spanish, Sunday’s, Gijón

☆ PlayStation and BTS Help Lea Salonga Clear Her Head
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Sarah Bahr | More About Sarah Bahr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lea Salonga was feeling under the weather earlier this month. “I had to miss shows, which is unfortunate,” she said before one of her final performances in the Broadway disco musical “Here Lies Love.” “But I was still able to stand over a stove and cook this soup that had a lot of garlic and a lot of ginger,” she recalled during a phone interview from her Manhattan home. “It’s called tinola, which is a Filipino chicken soup. It’s what would be cooked every time I was sick at home.”That connection to the Philippines — where Salonga was born and raised — is one she also feels with “Here Lies Love,” which recounts the rise and fall of the country’s ousted leader and first lady, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. “Normally, if I’m watching a theater piece, I could just feel whatever feelings there are, or that the show wants me to feel,” said Salonga, 52, who on Saturday finishes her guest run as Aurora Aquino, the mother of Benigno Aquino Jr., Ferdinand’s political rival.

Persons: Lea Salonga, “, ”, “ It’s, Salonga, Ferdinand, Imelda Marcos, Aurora Aquino, Benigno Aquino Jr, Kim Organizations: Aurora, Broadway Locations: Manhattan, Philippines, “

☆ Lea Salonga on the groundbreaking representation of Broadway’s ‘Here Lies Love’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Ann Bindot | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“Here Lies Love” arrives onto Broadway, though, at a moment of greatly increased visibility, representation and empowered Filipino identity. Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images“Here Lies Love” is an immersive experience that invites show-goers to the dancefloor, literally, imbuing the proceedings with a fun, nightclub-meets-karaoke vibe. That’s what I remember.”When the Marcoses fled to Hawaii in 1986, having been granted asylum by the United States, Salonga was celebrating her 15th birthday in Manila. The cast of "Here Lies Love" performing onstage. Watching “Here Lies Love” over two decades later, the emotion returned, packing an even stronger punch.

Persons: —, Lea Salonga, Kim, Salonga, Tony, ”, Imelda Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos, Aurora Aquino, Benigno “ Ninoy ” Aquino, Corazon Aquino, Marcoses, Corazon’s, Benigno “ Noynoy, Corazon III, Imelda, Andy Hernandez, Conrad Ricamora, Ninoy Aquino, she’s, “, ’, ’ ”, I’ve, ” Salonga, …, “ I’m, Willa Kim, Will Rogers, ” Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce, Sonia Moskowitz, Marcos, “ Laban, John Nacion, Jose Llana, ‘ We’ve, I’m, Ferdinand “ Bongbong ” Romualdez Marcos Jr, Ferdinand, Moses Villarama, Apl.de.Ap, H.E.R, Jo Koy, Jose Antonio Vargas, David Byrne —, Fatboy Slim, Moammar Gadhafi, Fidel Castro, Ronald Reagan, Castro, Gadhafi, Billy Bustamante, Matthew Murphy, Evan Zimmerman Organizations: CNN, New York, Broadway, San Francisco Bay Area, Manila International, Getty Locations: United States, Miss, ”, New, London, American, San Francisco Bay, Philippines, Manila, Mindoro, New York, ‘ Miss, New York City, Hawaii, “, Virginia

☆ The Future of Rap Is Female
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Niela Orr | Photographs Adrienne Raquel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

The Future of Rap Is Female As their male counterparts turn depressive and paranoid, it’s the women who are having all the fun. In the mid-’80s, the dynamics shifted slightly, when UTFO released “Roxanne, Roxanne,” a comical torch song dissing a woman who rejected the men’s advances. Like good sex, raunchy rap is only fun if all parties are completely enthusiastic, and this music provides necessary female perspectives to match what the men make. In Miami one weekend in late July, Rolling Loud, one of the biggest annual hip-hop festivals, made itself into a microcosm of the rap world. There’s a relentless gender pessimism in the air, too — on the street, on dating apps, in the Supreme Court and, of course, in rap music.

Persons: Sackler, Drake, Foley, Yung Miami, Wu, Da, Tupac Shakur, Nicki Minaj, Cardi, Megan Thee, there’s, ”, There’s Latto, Jung Kook, “, Diana ”, Boy’s, Red’s, Munch, Rodney Dangerfield, munch, ” MAIYA, “ We’re, Lil Baby, Flo Milli, —, ” Flo Milli, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire —, Debbie D, Lisa Lee, Mercedes Ladies, UTFO, Roxanne, Lolita Shanté Gooden, Gooden, ” FLO MILLI, Roxanne Shanté, Clover Hope, M.C, Brian Coleman, Lyte, Ruff Ryders, it’s, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Kash Doll, SKODI LOLA BROOKE, Lil ’ Kim, “ I’m, I’m, ” That’s, Lolita Gooden, Greta Gerwig’s “ Barbie ”, James Harden, P.J, Tucker, KENTHEMAN “, I’ve, Playboi Carti, Travis Scott, Grace Jones, Benzino, blowin, ignorin ’, Berry hairdo, Grandmaster Flash, It’s, ” —, ” Leray, VETTE, CHANEL, ” Flo, Cartier, “ Lyte, Flo Organizations: YouTube, Girls, City Girls, Public, Down Productions, Wu -, Digital, City, Memphis, Brooklyn Locations: Miami, Wu - Tang, “, Bronx, Mobile , Ala, y’all

☆ Remembering the Rappers We Lost
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Danyel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

That same year, the Recording Academy finally included a rap category in the Grammy Awards, and Will Smith, a.k.a. And then, in September 1996, Tupac Shakur died at 25 in Las Vegas, having been shot four times. Hill’s was the first hip-hop album to win album of the year (along with four other Grammys). In 1999, Big L of Harlem (Lamont Coleman) was shot nine times in the face and chest on West 139th Street near his Harlem home. On Oct. 30, 2002, Run-DMC’s D.J., Jason Mizell, known as Jam Master Jay, was killed in his Queens recording studio at age 37.

Persons: Will Smith, a.k.a, DJ Jazzy Jeff, “, ”, Tupac Shakur, Roland Bishop, Ernest Dickerson’s, Christopher Wallace, poolside partyer, DJ Quik, Gen, Biggie Smalls, Shakur, Will, Biggie, ’ Raymond Rodgers, Evans’s, Kirk Franklin, Cheryl James, Lauryn Hill ”, Jay, Z’s, Hill’s, Big, Harlem, Lamont Coleman, Jason Mizell, Mizell, Rap Organizations: Recording Academy, Billboard, Motown, Queens Locations: Florida, Las Vegas, God’s, Harlem

☆ Dua Lipa must face lawsuit claiming she copied 'Levitating'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska/File PhotoNEW YORK, Aug 8 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Manhattan said the British pop star Dua Lipa must face a lawsuit accusing her of copying her 2021 megahit "Levitating" from a 1979 disco song. The lawsuit, filed in March 2022, claimed that "Levitating" shared "compositional elements" with "Wiggle," most significantly by duplicating its opening melody. Defense lawyers argued that it was implausible to believe that Lipa, 27, heard "Wiggle" before writing "Levitating." Failla's opinion does not cover the plaintiffs' claim that "Levitating" copied another song, "Don Diablo," to which they owned a copyright. The case is Larball Publishing Co et al v Lipa et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

Persons: Dua Lipa, Maja Smiejkowska, Katherine Polk Failla, L, Russell Brown, Sandy Linzer, Failla, Jason Brown, Don Diablo, Lipa, Bosko Kante, Jonathan Stempel, Leslie Adler Organizations: Dua, REUTERS, U.S, Warner Records, Larball, Court, Southern District of, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Manhattan, British, Lipa, Los Angeles, Florida, U.S, Southern District, Southern District of New York, New York

☆ Everybody Dance Now! ‘Here Lies Love’ Dictates Your Moves.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Like many Broadway musicals, “Here Lies Love” involves a lot of dancing. Imelda Marcos — wife of Ferdinand Marcos, the longtime president of the Philippines — was fond of discothèques. Wheeled platforms and runways are regularly rearranged around the floor area, displacing audience members. The rest of the audience is seated, above the dance floor and back into the depths of the mezzanine. to join the standing folks in a simple line dance, picking up the moves from cast members spread throughout the theater on more platforms and catwalks.

Persons: David Byrne, Fatboy Slim, Imelda Marcos —, Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines — Organizations: Broadway, wranglers Locations: Philippines

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