After this past weekend’s match-ups, we now know which teams make up the Final Four in this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament: San Diego State, University of Connecticut, Florida Atlantic University and University of Miami.
The semifinals in the competition will tip off on Saturday, April 1, with the Florida Atlantic Owls facing off against the San Diego State Aztecs, and the Miami Hurricanes duking it out with the Connecticut Huskies for a spot in the final.
The final game in the tournament will then be held on Monday, April 3, when a new champion will be crowned. The No. 1 seed defending champion Kansas Jayhawks were eliminated earlier in the competition.
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Billy Joel returned to New York this weekend for the 88th show of his Madison Square Garden residency and brought out a special guest for the occasion – ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons.
According to Stereogum, the two Billys joined forces for the ZZ Top tracks “La Grange” and “Tush,” with Joel telling the audience the experience was “a fantasy come true.”
You can watch fan-shot videos of both performances on YouTube.
Joel’s next MSG residency show is set for April 22, and he’s inching ever closer to his milestone 100th show. He recently announced his 94th concert at MSG will take place September 10, with presale tickets set to go on sale March 29 at 10 a.m. ET and the general sale happening March 31 at 10 a.m. ET.
A complete list of Billy Joel tour dates can be found at billyjoel.com.
(NEW YORK) — Hayden Panettiere, who hasn’t shied away from talking about postpartum depression, is sharing what she wishes she knew beforehand.
The Scream 6 star welcomed her daughter Kaya back in 2014, but said she wasn’t aware that postpartum depression could affect her.
“I wish somebody told me that that was a possibility, told me it’s OK if you birth your child and you’re not immediately like, ‘Oh my god, I love you more than anything in the entire world!'” Panettiere told E News’ The Rundown.
“I just thought there was something seriously wrong with me, so I thought, ‘Fireball will fix this — duh!'” the 33-year-old continued, referencing a brand of cinnamon whisky. “And it didn’t. It does for a moment, but then it makes everything worse.”
About 20% of women are not asked about depression during a prenatal visit and over half of pregnant women with depression are not treated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Panettiere has spoken out about postpartum depression in the past and said it led in part to her struggles with alcoholism as well. Last July, the actor told ABC News’ Good Morning America and People magazine in an exclusive joint interview that she “didn’t know where the alcoholism was ending and the postpartum was beginning.”
“I didn’t have any negative feelings towards my child,” she said at the time. “I just knew I was deeply depressed.”
About 1 in 8 women report symptoms of depression after giving birth, according to the CDC.
Usually, the condition starts about one to three weeks after a child’s birth, but can occur up to a year after birth.
“When we think of postpartum depression, there are many signs that come immediately after delivery and that can include worthlessness and guilt, not feeling an immediate emotional or physical bond with your baby, decreased sleep, decreased appetite and possible feelings of suicide,” Dr. Jessica Shepherd, a board-certified OB-GYN and the chief medical officer for Verywell Health, who did not treat Panettiere, told GMA.
Unlike the “baby blues,” which can appear within a couple of days after a child’s birth and resolve within two weeks, the CDC notes postpartum depression, and the intense feelings of sadness, anxiety and hopelessness that accompany it, usually requires medical treatment.
Other symptoms of postpartum depression, according to the CDC, include withdrawing from loved ones, crying more than usual, feeling worried or overly anxious, feeling anger, doubting your ability to take care of your baby and thinking about harming yourself or your baby.
Today, Panettiere said she’s doing better and said her daughter has “more love than anybody I’ve ever met.” Although Panettiere didn’t say what type of treatment she sought, current treatment options for postpartum depression usually include therapy or medications or a combination of both, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
Panettiere has been just one of many celebrities, including Serena Williams, Alanis Morissette and Kylie Jenner, who have spoken publicly about postpartum depression in recent years, helping to destigmatize the health issue.
If you are experiencing suicidal, substance use or other mental health crises please call or text 988. Trained crisis counselors are available for free, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can also go to 988lifeline.org or dial the current toll free number 800-273-8255 [TALK].
U2 filmed the video for “Where the Streets Have No Name,” the third single off their album The Joshua Tree. Inspired by The Beatles’ 1969 rooftop concert, U2 took to the roof of a downtown Los Angeles liquor store to perform the song.
The production attracted more than 1,000 fans who gathered to watch the performance, prompting the police to try to shut them down — something the band was hoping for in order to add drama to the video.
The band actually performed an eight-song set during the video shoot, including four performances of “Where the Streets Have No Name.”
The video went on to earn U2 a Grammy for Best Performance Music Video.
(NEW YORK) — The Fox News producer who sued the network last week alleging she was “conditioned and coerced” to give false testimony in the billion-dollar defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems has now been fired, according to amended complaints filed on Monday morning.
In amended complaints filed in Delaware and New York Monday morning, former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg expanded on her earlier complaints, alleging that Fox News attorneys directed her to testify during her deposition in a way that would “inculpate” her and host Maria Bartiromo while “exculpating … certain blame worthy male colleagues.”
“Ms. Grossberg’s deposition testimony, as manufactured by Fox News, put Ms. Grossberg and Ms. Bartiromo squarely on the frontline of the Dominion/Fox Lawsuit so they could be scapegoated as sacrificial female lambs,” the complaint alleges.
Dominion filed a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News in March 2021, accusing the network of knowingly pushing false conspiracy theories about the voting machine company in the wake of the 2020 election, in order to combat concerns over ratings and viewer retention.
Grossberg filed a pair of lawsuits last week accusing the network of fostering a “toxic atmosphere victimizing women.”
The former producer has now left open the door to testifying on behalf of Dominion at trial, saying in the complaint that she “will never testify on behalf of Fox News” and that she will “only testify — if at all — on behalf of Dominion.”
In a statement responding to Grossberg’s new complaint Monday, a Fox News representative said, “Like most organizations, FOX News Media’s attorneys engage in privileged communications with our employees as necessary to provide legal advice. Last week, our attorneys advised Ms. Grossberg that, while she was free to file whatever legal claims she wished, she was in possession of our privileged information and was not authorized to disclose it publicly.”
“We were clear that if she violated our instructions, Fox would take appropriate action including termination,” the statement said. “Ms. Grossberg ignored these communications and chose to file her complaint without taking any steps to protect those portions containing Fox’s privileged information. We will continue to vigorously defend Fox against Ms. Grossberg’s unmeritorious legal claims, which are riddled with false allegations against Fox and our employees.”
As part of her new allegations, Grossberg in the Delaware complaint claims she was unable to review or correct her deposition transcript despite asking to do so at least six times. She claims that “her testimony might not be completely accurate.”‘
“Ms. Grossberg attests that she would have answered differently had she not been conditioned and intimidated by the Fox News Attorneys,” the complaint states, in reference to one of Grossberg’s answers that was used in Dominion’s public filings.
Grossberg, a producer with Tucker Carlson Tonight, alleges that after being deposed by Dominion attorneys, she communicated to Fox’s lawyers “that Mr. Carlson’s name had come up, but that she protected him,” according to the amended complaint. Specifically, Grossberg alleges that during her deposition she was shown a text message of Carlson calling Trump-aligned attorney Sidney Powell the “C word,” which she says she falsely testified did not bother her.
Referring to Carlson’s senior producer, Alexander McCaskill, the complaint alleges that “Mr. McCaskill said he was happy with the answers she had given and suggested they order the staff lunch to celebrate her defense of Mr. Carlson’s misogynistic-laden texts that were shown to her.”
In reality, the complaint states, Grossberg “knew full well, largely based on public information, that Mr. Carlson was very capable of using such disgusting language about women in the workplace.” But, says the complaint, she was “was conditioned to constantly remember that she could not do anything to jeopardize” her position on Carlson’s staff, “so she again kept quiet.”
The complaint alleges that Grossberg was fired from the company on Friday in “yet another thinly veiled act of retaliation.”
“When Fox News realized that it could not stop Ms. Grossberg from speaking her truth to the world in her immutable ‘public filings’ — either by intimidation, obfuscation, or baseless attempts at judicial intervention — it terminated her employment,” the complaint says.
U2 has another top 10 hit. The band’s latest release, Songs of Surrender, debuts at five on theBillboard200 Albums chart this week. The Irish rockers moved 46,500 equivalent album units of Songs of Surrender to land their 13th top 10 record.
With the new chart placement, U2 is now the fourth group to chart a top 10 album in each decade from the 1980s to the 2020s. The others are AC/DC, Def Leppard and Metallica.
As previously reported, Songs of Surrender, which has U2 rerecording and reimagining 40 of their classic hits, has already topped the U.K. Official Albums chart, making it their 11th U.K. number one.
Madonna is taking a stand against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Tennessee and other states.
The Queen of Pop has announced an additional concert on her upcoming Celebration Tour: She’ll perform in Nashville on December 22. A portion of the proceeds from the show will go to trans rights organizations. Tennessee recently passed a bill restricting drag performances in public spaces or “in the presence of children.”
Addressing the more than 100 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that are currently before state legislatures nationwide, Madonna says in a statement, “The oppression of the LGBTQ+ is not only unacceptable and inhumane; it’s creating an unsafe environment; it makes America a dangerous place for our most vulnerable citizens, especially trans women of color.”
She adds, “These so-called laws to protect our children are unfounded and pathetic.” She tells fans that she’ll “see you from the stage in Nashville where we will celebrate the beauty that is the queer community.”
In addition to the Nashville show, Madonna has added seven new tour dates: in Philadelphia, Sacramento, Palm Springs, Washington, D.C., Phoenix, San Francisco and Las Vegas. All those new dates will take place between December 2023 and January 2024.
Tickets — except for the Philly show — go on sale March 31 at 10 a.m. local time via madonna.com. Madonna’s fan club members have a presale on Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time. A presale for Citi cardholders begins Tuesday at 12 p.m. local time.
Daniel Radcliffe and longtime girlfriend girlfriend Erin Darke are expecting their first child, a rep for the Harry Potter alum tells People.
Radcliffe, 33, and Darke, 38, started dating after playing love interests in the 2013 movie Kill Your Darlings. They worked together again on the 2016 movie Don’t Think Twice and season three of Radcliffe’s TBS series Miracle Workers.
Radcliffe told People last year that he and Darke, 38, were “really happy” together, adding, “I’ve got a really nice life. I’ve been with my girlfriend for a decade, pretty much.”
A day after announcing that her new album would be called Chemistry, Kelly Clarkson has announced a Las Vegas residency of the same name.
chemistry…an intimate night with Kelly Clarkson will kick off July 28 at Bakkt Theater — formerly Zappos Theater — at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
“I am so excited for these shows and couldn’t think of a better place to get back on stage than Las Vegas!” Kelly said in a statement. “The crowds in Vegas are such an amazing collection of people that simply want to have a great time and that’s what we’re going to do!”
She added, “So many of my musical idols have had, and still have, incredible residencies on The Strip, and I’m so excited to create my own!”
On Instagram, Kelly wrote, “I’ll be singing all of your favorites… and yes, I’ll be singing some new ones, too!”
Kelly was originally set to play a Vegas residency called Invincible in 2020, but that was postponed until 2021 due to the pandemic and never materialized.
Tickets for the new residency go on sale March 31 at 10 a.m. PT via ticketmaster.com/KellyVegas. A fan club presale starts Tuesday, March 28 at 12 p.m. PT. Citi cardmembers can access a presale that same day a 10 a.m. PT via Citientertainment.com.
Meanwhile, members of Caesars Entertainment’s loyalty program and Live Nation and Ticketmaster customers can get tickets starting March 29 at 10 a.m.
Kelly’s last time performing live during was 2019’s Meaning of Life tour. So far, 10 Vegas residency performances have been scheduled: July 28 and 29, and August 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 18 and 19.
In an update to fans on his Instagram stories on Sunday, Marvel movies star Jeremy Renner proved he’s back at it, getting in a walking working out on a specialized treadmill following his near-fatal snowplow accident.
Renner, 52, is seen conversing with a person about the so-called anti-gravity treadmill, which secures the user’s pelvis and provides weight relief, allowing them to walk normally but with less of their body weight on their legs as they recover.
The Mayor of Kingstown actor explains he’s walking using “40% of my weight” as he puts in the work.
He captioned the snippet, “Now is the time for my body to rest and recover from my will.”
Renner was seriously injured when he was pulled under the tracks of his snowcat snowplow machine on January 1. He suffered more than 30 broken bones and blunt force trauma in the accident.
The Avengers and Hawkeye star was airlifted from the scene and underwent emergency surgery, then spent weeks in intensive care before continuing his recovery at his home outside Reno, Nevada.
