Toro - To the Sun (EDM)

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MLB suspends Dodgers' Bauer for two seasons

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has been suspended two full seasons, MLB announced on Friday.
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Future - I'M ON ONE ft. Drake (Hip-Hop)

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Justin Bieber - Honest (feat. Don Toliver) (Pop/Hip-Hop)

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Gene Wilder's life is getting the documentary treatment

It’s been six years since Gene Wilder died, and another thirteen, before that, since he retired from acting, ending a long and storied career with an Emmy-winning guest performance on Will And Grace. (He spent the following years working primarily as a writer, before retiring more fully a few years before his death.)
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Is it really the “New York Review of Each Other’s Books”?

Measuring the extent of self-reviewing at the New York Review of Books from 1963-2022
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Travis Scott Astroworld Tragedy Documentary Set for Release Despite Lawyers’ Concerns

The documentary, opening in 11 Texas cities including Austin, Dallas and Houston, includes interviews with several people who survived the crowd surge. The experiences of panicked concertgoers who couldn’t breathe and had no clear path to escape a massive crowd surge at last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival in Houston are featured in a documentary set for release Friday.
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James Cameron’s ‘Avatar 2’ Debuts Visually Dazzling Footage at CinemaCon, Gets Official Title

“Avatar 2” is real, and it’s here — naysayers be damned. After at least seven delays in the last eight years (the film was originally supposed to open in 2014), director James Cameron is finally ready to show audiences his otherworldly, underwater vision for “Avatar’s” long-awaited sequel. It’s newly titled as “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
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A Psychologist Hired By Johnny Depp Testified That Amber Heard Has Borderline Personality Disorder

A forensic psychologist who was hired by Johnny Depp's legal team testified on Tuesday that she believes Amber Heard has borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder and does not have post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Sean Paul - No Fear ft. Damian Marley, Nicky Jam (Reggae)

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Florida Atheist Uses State's New Book-Banning Law To Object To The Bible

“If they’re gonna ban books, then the whole library should be in play," Chaz Stevens told the Miami New Times.
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Bill Burr: “I’ve Made Every Mistake You Can Make”

Burr has become one of the world's most successful stand-ups by leaning into his anger. In this candid interview, the actor-comedian shows there's a lot more to him – but he still gets plenty fired up too.
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‘Dune: The Sisterhood’ Series Taps ‘Chernobyl’ Director Johan Renck To Helm First Two Episodes

Johan Renck, the Emmy Award-winner behind HBO series Chernobyl, is to direct the first two episodes of Dune: The Sisterhood
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How Literature by Black Authors Shaped One Scholar’s Life

In “Read Until You Understand,” Farah Jasmine Griffin explores how books have served as instruction manuals to guide her through difficulty and triumph.
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Lufthaus - To The Light (Trance/EDM)

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Michelle Pfeiffer Is Definitely Done Second-Guessing Herself (Probably!)

The 'First Lady' actress on moving beyond the self-doubt that has come with being one of the most effortlessly cool stars of our time: "I jump in feet first and then I realize what I’ve gotten myself into."
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Alesso - Words (Feat. Zara Larsson)(EDM)

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‘Absolutely staggering’: the true story behind TV’s buzziest new show

We Own This City, the anticipated new drama from The Wire’s David Simon, cracks open the story of a corrupt Baltimore police unit fallen from grace. He was praised as a positive role model. He enjoyed the admiration and respect of his superiors and was given special privileges. His elite unit came to be seen by senior commanders as “a bulwark against chaos”.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/25/we-own-this-city-david-simon-show-baltimore?source=Snapzu

Pusha T - Call My Bluff (Hip-Hop)

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel Confirmed By Sony At CinemaCon

When Jason Reitman brought Ghostbusters back to theaters in 2021 for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, people wondered if it was going to be a one-and-done deal. He was continuing his father Ivan Reitman’s legacy, connecting the original characters to new characters introduced in the new sequel.
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Luke Combs - Tomorrow Me (Country)

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bear bear & friends - UNKNOWN (EDM)

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twocolors x Pascal Letoublon - Break Up (EDM)

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‘Outer Range’ Is the Trippy ‘Yellowstone’ You Didn’t Know You Needed

With all the success that Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone—and its ever-expanding universe, which now includes a spinoff prequel called 1883—has had, it was inevitable that other major producers of television were going to make an attempt to capture that same fire and excitement. And if you want to picture an alternate universe version of the modern American West ranching landscape of Yellowstone, also starring a movie star in Josh Brolin, but with some weird, trippy, Lost-esque, Alex Garland-esque, sci-fi ripples, then you've got Amazon Prime Video's new series Outer Range. And folks, this show rules.
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What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?

We booksellers have seen it all.
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Amazon’s cashierless Just Walk Out technology comes to Houston Astros’ Major League Baseball Stadium – TechCrunch

Amazon announced today it will bring its cashier-free checkout technology, Just Walk Out, to a Major League Baseball stadium for the first time. MLB team Houston Astros will introduce the Just Walk Out system to two stores at Minute Maid Park, allowing fans to purchase food and beverages.
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A New World Order

It is more urgent than ever for Europe to become self-sufficient in energy. This is accompanied by major power shifts, both within and outside the EU. What will the energy transition mean for geopolitical relations?
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DaBaby filmed fighting artist weeks after shooting home intruder

The clip shows the “Suge” rapper walking backstage at a venue when he spins and throws a punch at signee Wisdom, who immediately began to swing back.
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Pluto TV Was an April Fool’s Punchline 8 Years Ago. Today It’s the Future of Streaming

Paramount Global’s popular FAST (free, ad-supported streaming television) service Pluto TV crossed $1 billion in revenue last year – without one paying subscriber.
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Rudy Giuliani's 'Masked Singer' Reveal Disgusts Viewers

Many social media users slammed the show for hosting the attorney who led Trump's legal effort to overturn the 2020 election.
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Pusha T - Brambleton (Hip-Hop)

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The Kid LAROI - Thousand Miles (Pop)

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Canadiens icon Guy Lafleur, one of hockey's flashiest players, dead at 70

Montreal Canadiens icon Guy Lafleur, who captured five Stanley Cup titles and was a hockey hero in Quebec long before his NHL playing days, has died. He was 70. The cause of death was not immediately known. However, Lafleur suffered through health issues in the latter stages of his life. In September 2019, he underwent quadruple bypass heart surgery, which was followed by lung surgery two months later.
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10 notable books that are coming under attack

Efforts to remove books from libraries or limit their availability to teenagers and younger children have stepped up amid culture wars on race, gender and sexuality. Fights over critical race theory, transgender rights and other issues have public libraries on the front lines, sparking efforts to remove books from wide consumption.
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How Anne Hathaway’s Bold Performance Saved ‘WeCrashed’: Column

Television, this spring, has been full of stories of real-life people struggling against the petty matters of their respective realities and reinventing themselves as heroic figures. On “The Dropout,” Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) pushed past the limits of science to declare herself a genius, no matter how unrealistic her putative accomplishments; on “Inventing Anna,” Anna Delvey (Julia Garner) made herself into a wealthy woman of leisure, despite having neither wealth nor, in her endless gyrating calculations, leisure time.
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How HBO Kept ‘House of the Dragon’ Costs Under $20 Million per Episode

HBO’s “House of the Dragon” cost under $20 million per episode to produce its 10-episode first season, which debuts Aug. 21, a source close to production told Variety. For comparison, “Game of Thrones” cost HBO around $100 million to per season. It’s per-episode price tag began at roughly $6 million in Season 1 and rose to $15 million for the show’s eighth and final season.
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Each episode of the new Stranger Things season cost $30 million

That's supposedly how much each episode of the new season costs, at least
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Nicolas Cage's grandpa inspired his bizarre 'Wicker Man' helmet and 'Not the bees!' line

In "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent," Nicolas Cage gets to drop acid, scale walls, outrun drug lords and French kiss himself. It also gives him a chance to send up his brazen on-screen persona, playing a heightened version of himself who gets mixed up in international espionage after befriending Javi (Pedro Pascal), a Cage superfan and Spanish billionaire with potentially shady dealings.
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BROHUG - Bella Max (Trance/EDM)

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AMC Greenlights Bob Odenkirk Dramedy Series ‘Straight Man’

Well, that was fast. AMC has formally greenlit the dramedy series “Straight Man” starring Bob Odenkirk a little over two weeks after announcing the show as in development. The show is b…
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Stephen Colbert Tests Positive for COVID-19, Upcoming ‘Late Show’ Episode Canceled

"Yep! I tested positive for Covid, but basically I’m feeling fine - grateful to be vaxxed and boosted," the late-night host wrote on Twitter.
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Lil Pump - All The Sudden (Hip-Hop)

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Dr. Fresch - Bang Harder (EDM)

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‘A difficult time’: why popular TV series Pachinko was met with silence in Japan

It has charmed critics and attracted big audiences in the UK and the US, but the TV adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s bestselling novel Pachinko has barely merited a mention in one of the countries that inspired it.
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Sir David Attenborough named 'Champion of the Earth' by UN

The UN conferred it's "most distinguished environment award" on the 95-year-old for his dedication to telling stories about nature and the climate crisis and advocating for protection. Accepting the award, Sir David said past conservation successes should give us hope that change is possible.
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How the Book Industry Turns Its Own Racism into a Marketable Product

The failure of progressive change in contemporary book publishing is so total that there is now a whole string of books about the failure of progressive change in contemporary book publishing, often backed enthusiastically by big corporate publishers, in an elaborate circuit of denial and absolution.
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The House of the Dead: Remake coming to PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia on April 28

The House of the Dead: Remake is a remade version of the game introduced in 1997 on the arcade platform. A classic arcade rail-shooter receives a whole new entourage and gameplay changes to suit modern gaming standards.
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West demands retraction over TV series portrayal

Former Lakers executive Jerry West has demanded a retraction and an apology for what he called "a baseless and malicious assault" on his character in the HBO series "Winning Time."
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How Apple TV+ Suddenly Became the Best Streaming Service

Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) spinning a stake, Dr. Peter Benton (Eriq La Salle) defiantly punching the air, and the Friends cast cavorting in the fountain on the Warner Brothers lot. This might sound like ’90s TV Mad Libs, but more specifically they are the images burned in my brain, thanks to the opening credits of some of TV’s biggest (and best) shows. Or, how even 20-plus years later, whenever I hear the signature HBO identifying static-y sound the image of Sarah Jessica Parker in a pink tutu immediately flashes before my eyes.
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J.I - Toxic (Hip-Hop)

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