Haven’t stopped by Dollywood for their Flower & Food Festival yet? Then be sure to do so soon before its final day on Sunday, June 11.
The springtime festival offers a stunning array of seasonal blossoms, scrumptious treats, massive mosaicultures, aerial performances and more. Visitors will also get the opportunity to take pictures under Dollywood’s signature Umbrella Sky.
For more information and to grab tickets, visit dollywood.com.
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There’s no shame in Selena Gomez’s game. The singer posted a TikTok video of her sitting on the sidelines of a soccer game and shooting her shot with the players. “I’m single!” she yells across the field. “I’m a little high maintenance but I’ll love you soooo much!” She captioned the clip, “The struggle man lol.”
Shakira might have a new man in her life. Sources tell People the singer and Formula 1 racer Lewis Hamilton are keeping things “fun and flirty” right now. “They’re spending time together and in the ‘getting to know you’ stage,” a source who knows them both tells the mag.
It seems Doja Cat is also seeing someone new, as photos recently surfaced of the singer engaging in some PDA with comedian J. Cyrus while on a yacht in Mexico.
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Cher is taking a stab at horror movies. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the iconic singer is teaming up with her son, Chaz Bono, to executive produce the horror flick Little Bites.
The film will star Krsy Fox as a young widow and mother trying to protect her young daughter from a flesh-eating monster named Agyar by allowing the creature to feed on her body.
Bono, who has appeared in American Horror Story and Curb Your Enthusiasm, will also have a role in the film. The rest of the cast includes well-known horror stars Barbara Crampton, Heather Langenkamp and Bonnie Aarons, along with Elizabeth Caro, who’ll play Fox’s daughter, and Jon Sklaroff as Agyar.
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The Queen musical We Will Rock You reopened at the London Coliseum this week, and the gala performance featured a special appearance by none other than Queen guitarist Brian May. The rocker rose up to the stage through a trap door in the floor to join the performers for the guitar solo on “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
May shared video of the moment on Instagram, describing it as “just about the greatest gift any guitar player could have.”
“The shot of adrenaline it gives ME is massive – literally knocking the breath out of me,” he writes. “That risky stuff is very similar to jumping off a cliff under a ‘parapente’ wing ( I know, because I’ve done it) or going on the biggest roller coaster in the park (we’ve all done it – right?) – but in this case I’m on my own with no safety net.”
He did add, “[It’s] Not quite so terrifying as playing live on the roof of Buckingham Palace to an audience of half a billion – but not far off.”
We Will Rock You runs until August 26. Tickets are on sale now.
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It’s Friday, so another set of new music has arrived. Here’s some of the latest tunes to drop in the culture.
Janelle Monáe, The Age of Pleasure — “All the songs were written from such an honest space,” the singer says of the 14 tracks on her first album in five years.
Sexyy Red, Hood Hottest Princess — The St. Louis rapper’s album features her first Hot 100 hit “Pound Town 2” with Nicki Minaj and Tay Keith, as well as appearances from Sukihana and ATL Jacob.
Vic Mensa, 93′ to 23′: VICTOR — The follow-up to 2019’s 93PUNX comes with 18 tracks. The Dream, Pusha T, SAINt JHN, Pharrell, Wyclef Jean & Chance The Rapper, Charlie Wilson and Ty Dolla $ign guest on the album.
Metro Boomin, Spider-Man™: Across the Spider-Verse (Deluxe Edition) Soundtrack from and Inspired by the Motion Picture — The deluxe version includes new songs from Becky G, Big Boss Vette, Shenseea and more.
Joyner Lucas featuring NBA YoungBoy, “Cut U Off” — The song finds the rappers delivering bars about cutting people off to keep their peace of mind.
NBA YoungBoy & Never Broke Again collective featuring Lil Dump x Rojay MLP x NBA Big B, “Realize” — The song will appear on their upcoming compilation Flag Activity Volume 2, due out June 23.
Tyga & YG featuring Blxst, “Westcoast Weekend” — The California natives unite on the track, which samples “All About You” by another Cali legend, 2Pac.
J Hus featuring Drake, “Who Told You” — Produced by P2J, the song dropped shortly after Drake teased the collab on his Instagram Story. “They need that music. They need his presence,” Drizzy said of the London rapper.
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Disney+ has revealed the trailer to Stan Lee, the documentary about the longtime Marvel Comics icon, who passed away in 2018 at 95.
The coming attraction opens with Lee’s cameo in 2008’s Iron Man — in which Robert Downey Jr.‘s Tony Stark mistakes him for Hugh Hefner — and takes viewers into the origin story of Lee’s long career.
Lee created or co-created dozens of the world’s best-known properties, from Iron Man to Spider-Man, Black Panther, Doctor Strange and the Fantastic Four.
The trailer also shows clips of the dozens of cameos Lee made throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Spider-Man: No Way Home to Captain Marvel and Ant-Man, and how Marvel Comics stayed relevant over the decades, through storylines that dealt with the civil rights struggle, the war in Vietnam and more.
“If you really want to change things and make them better, you gotta plunge in,” Lee says in an old interview clip.
Stan Lee drops June 16 on Disney+.
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Parker McCollum‘s closing out 2023 with five headlining shows in December.
The multiple-city trek includes stops in Las Vegas, Nevada; San Antonio, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Fort Worth, Texas. Corey Kenty, Catie Offerman and Chancey Williams will open on select dates.
Tickets for these newly announced dates go on sale Friday, June 16, at 10 a.m. local time. To purchase tickets and for Parker’s full tour schedule, visit his website.
On the music front, Parker’s latest album, Never Enough, arrived in May and features the chart-topping hit “Handle On You,” as well as its new follow-up single, “Burn It Down.”
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The second night of Pink‘s Summer Carnival tour in Bolton, England, brought her face-to-face with a fan whose moving letter to her provided one of the most touching scenes in Pink’s Prime Video documentary, All I Know So Far.
There’s a scene in the 2021 doc where Pink reads a letter from a British female fan out loud, and gets teary-eyed as the fan describes how Pink’s “attitude and spirit” helped her come out as gay.
Later in life, the fan writes, she contemplated taking her own life after the end of a relationship, but didn’t. She wrote, “I just imagined how disappointed you [Pink] would be if I let myself go all because of one girl … you really did give me the strength to carry on during these dark times in my life.”
On Instagram, Pink posted a slideshow of photos and videos from the second night of the show. In one photo, she’s greeting and hugging a female fan. She wrote in the caption, “There is Ellie in these photos. The brave person that wrote me that beautifully honest, vulnerable and heartbreaking letter that I read in my documentary, All I Know So Far.”
“Ellie, I am so happy I got to hug you be with you and meet your sister Jenny, and your friends. You are so brave and so wonderful, and so alive. I am so proud to share this moment with you celebrating your strength and resilience,” she added.
Pink’s next tour stop is Saturday, June 10, in Sunderland, England.
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A long-in-the-works movie about The Beatles manager Brian Epstein is one step closer to finally hitting the big screen, although it’s now having to get past another hurdle.
Deadline reports the film, Midas Man, is in post production, but it has just brought on its third director, Joe Stephenson, who directed the 2023 film Doctor Jekyll.
Stephenson takes over the project after Vinyl director Sara Sugarman left, reportedly due to creative differences and scheduling problems. She took over the project from Jonas Åkerlund, who left in 2021 following disagreements with producers.
The film stars The Queen’s Gambit’s Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Epstein, with four newcomers playing the Beatles — Jonah Lees as John Lennon, Blake Richardson as Paul McCartney, Leo Harvey Elledge as George Harrison and Campbell Wallace as Ringo Starr.
In addition to director problems, Deadline reports the film has had issues with funding and scheduling.
The film’s producer Perry Trevers tells the site, “With principal photography now being finished we are incredibly happy at what has been shot and look forward with excitement at being able to share it with the world.”
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MoneyBagg Yo‘s next tour will be “Larger Than Life.” With support from Finesse2tymes, Sexxy Red, Luh Tyler, Big Boogie and YTB FATT on select dates, the rapper will make his way around the U.S. to perform live shows for his fans.
The trek kicks off August 3, with scheduled stops in Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and other cities. He’ll wrap September 30 with a hometown show in Memphis, Tennessee. “Going Around The World Putting On For My Hood‼️” he wrote on Instagram.
Tickets for the Larger Than Life Tour go on sale Tuesday, June 13, at 10 a.m. local time. The trek is in support of his latest mixtape, Hard to Love.
“I’m more vulnerable on this project than I ever been because of what I went through in the last two years. I experienced a lot and endured a lot,” he said of the mixtape, per Uproxx. “I went through a lot. So, this album is really personal, but I know the world is going to relate to it because of the stuff I’m saying, the subject matter, I know people going through what I went through across the globe.”
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