An exhibit dedicated to Pearl Jam at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture is set to close in April after five years.
Pearl Jam: Home and Away The Exhibition features over 700 original Pearl Jam artifacts, including personal instruments, stage props and handwritten lyrics. It is described as a “one-of-a-kind time capsule of Seattle’s musical, arts, and cultural history.”
The exhibit is scheduled to close on April 23. MoPop is set to host a closing party for Pearl Jam fans on April 14. Details and ticket information will be announced soon.
Pearl Jam: Home and Away The Exhibition opened in August 2018 to coincide with the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers’ two Home Shows, which took place August 8 and 10 at Safeco Field.
Long in ‘The Best Man: The Final Chapters’ — Peacock/Clifton Prescod
In an interview with The Cut, You People star Nia Long tells Hollywood she’s got a bit of a bone to pick for the movies she hasn’t been offered.
Specifically, the Best Man veteran really wanted to be Neytiri in James Cameron‘s blockbuster Avatar movies.
“I’ve felt passed over on things, for sure,” she says. “There have definitely been moments like, ‘Why wasn’t I considered for that?’ Like, why wasn’t I considered for Avatar? I think Zoe’s amazing,” she says of franchise star Zoe Saldaña. “But I wasn’t even a topic of discussion, you know?”
That said, Nia admits, “A lot of times, to be fair, directors know in their minds who they want.”
She adds, “I would love to do a film like Avatar because I’m really a fan and obsessed. I would even do a supporting role in a film like that because it’s so magical and beautiful, and there are so many lessons and a connection to Mother Nature, humanity, and race. I just think it’s fantastical.”
Her career is certainly big enough not to have to audition these days, but she offers, “for Avatar 5, I would.”
(NEW YORK) — Migrant apprehensions along the southwest border last month hit the lowest level since February 2021, according to new data released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Friday.
The Border Patrol arrested and detained migrants 128,410 times in January, down 42 percent from December 2022, according to CBP. Overall, authorities at the border encountered migrants 156,274 times, which includes migrants who cross at a land port of entry.
Administration officials on Friday credited the decline to recent plans involving more fast-track removals for migrants from Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba, which came along with new, yet narrow, pathways to asylum for migrants from those countries who meet certain criteria. The number of Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans stopped at the border dropped 97 percent since early January, according to CBP.
ABC News previously reported on the overall downward trend for January, which was confirmed Friday by the official tally.
Also last month, border authorities saw the lowest number of migrants from northern Central America since President Joe Biden took office. One official on Friday credited the decline to recent efforts, spearheaded by Vice President Kamala Harris, to increase public-private partnership and investments in underdeveloped regions of the Northern Triangle.
Under a court ruling, the Biden administration continues to implement a controversial public health order issued by the Trump administration’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The order requires border authorities to expel large number of migrants rapidly from the border, usually in a matter of hours.
The monthly total of Title 42 apprehensions remained at one of the lowest points of the past year, despite an increase of roughly 13,000 rapid expulsions from December.
Last month, the Mexican government agreed to accept the rapid return of Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and Cubans. Administration officials at the time said they intend to carry out these plans even if Title 42 ends. Immigration experts have said removing non-Mexicans to Mexico under standard immigration processes and outside of the emergency pandemic order would require full cooperation from Mexican authorities.
Border arrests and detainments last month remained significantly higher compared to the Trump years when monthly Border Patrol apprehensions bottomed out around 12,000 early in the former president’s term.
Legendary actor Laurence Fishburne takes an animated step into the Marvel Universe as the mysterious, mischievous and nearly all-powerful The Beyonder in the new Disney show Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
The series, which debuts Friday on Disney Channel and February 15 on Disney+, centers on 13-year-old super-genius Lunella Lafayette and her 10-ton T. rex, Devil Dinosaur. When an experiment accidentally brings the titular dino into the present day, the unlikely super duo team up to protect New York’s Lower East Side from danger.
Fishburne’s character introduces himself in an earworm-worthy song number, for which Fishburne told ABC Audio with a laugh, “I’m so sorry.”
The Matrix and John Wick franchise veteran explains, “I have been a lifelong Marvel fan,’ adding with a hearty laugh, “I am what Stan Lee would refer to as a True Believer.”
He goes on to say, “This character is unlike anybody I’d played before. You know, when Steve [Loter] first showed me the design of the character, I loved it. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s that’s super cool.’ Never did I imagine that I would wind up singing,” he adds self-deprecatingly.
The former black-ish star and producer continues, “But the whole process has been just a joy, you know, as a fan of animation, you know, as a student of, like, people like [voice-over legends] Mel Blanc and Daws Butler, it’s really kind of a dream come true to be not just executive producing the show, but to be acting in it, as well.”
Earlier this week, the Pink Floyd feud seemed to escalate when Polly Samson, wife of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, lashed out at his bandmate Roger Waters on Twitter. Days later things aren’t cooling down, with Waters now having a few choice words for Gilmour and his other bandmates.
While talking to The Telegraph, Waters seems to suggest the main issue is jealousy. “They can’t write songs. They’re not artists,” he said, referring to Gilmour and Rick Wright, who died in 2008. “They have no ideas — not a single one between them. They never have had, and that drives them crazy.”
Waters, who recently revealed that he’s rerecording The Dark Side of the Moon, also argued that he was really the brains behind the album. “Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap,” he said. “Of course we were a band — there were four of us, we all contributed — but it’s my project and I wrote it, so, blah.”
As for what fans can expect from the rerecorded TheDark Side of the Moon, the author of the article got to hear some of it and shared some insight. While he says “parts are very good indeed,” he notes, “But, surprisingly, Waters seems to have decided that what was wrong with the original album’s beautiful instrumental tracks was that they didn’t have Waters talking all over them. Now they do.”
(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security is bringing in an outside law firm to help deal with any GOP-led impeachment inquiry into secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a DHS spokesperson told ABC News Friday.
“The Department of Homeland Security has retained outside counsel to help ensure the Department’s vital mission is not interrupted by the unprecedented, unjustified, and partisan impeachment efforts by some Members of Congress, who have already taken steps to initiate proceedings,” a DHS spokesperson told ABC News in a statement. “DHS will continue prioritizing its work to protect our country from terrorism, respond to natural disasters, and secure our borders while responding appropriately to the over 70 Congressional committees and subcommittees that have oversight of DHS.”
A DHS official confirmed the agency has hired the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. The news was first reported by CNN.
House Republicans have promised impeachment articles against Mayorkas.
Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs earlier this month rolled out the articles, saying Mayorkas has “violated his oath of office, wreaking havoc on this country and he must be impeached.”
“He must be impeached because he is a public official who has lost public trust and is an imminent threat to the United States of America.”
Biggs, who previously introduced articles in 2021, said at a news conference he would be filing the articles while speaking alongside fellow conservative members, including Reps. Lauren Bobert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Bob Good, and others.
“Secretary Mayorkas has failed to faithfully uphold his oath and has instead presided over a reckless abandonment of border security and immigration enforcement, the expense of the Constitution and the security of the United States,” the articles read.
Biggs did not provide a hard timeline for when the articles would be moved forward in committee.
In response, Mayorkas told reporters he takes a “great exception” to the comments by Biggs and that he “disagrees profoundly” with some of the assertions made by Biggs.
“I take great exception to those allegations and I don’t necessarily ascribe one motive to all of them,” he said at a reporters’ roundtable at the Department of Homeland Security on Feb. 2. “I disagree profoundly with their assertion and it is my intention to see it proven successful.
“I don’t take it personally. I take my work for personally. This is this is what I do. I’ve done it for almost 23 years now.” He spoke of how the department’s work affects people “profoundly” on a daily basis — from taking criminals and other off the streets to the impact on the criminal justice system.
“I take my work personally and professionally. It’s an awesome responsibility, and it worked really hard to fulfill. I don’t take the accusations personally. I just heartily fully disagree with the assertions will not be diverted from the work that we’re doing because of it.”
Mayorkas said that he has instructed his department to comply with congressional committees conducting oversight.
He met this week with House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., who is expected to lead a fact-finding mission that may underpin a formal impeachment inquiry, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
Rihanna only has 13 minutes to perform on Sunday when she takes the Super Bowl field for her halftime show, but there’s a few songs H.E.R.‘s hoping she will sing.
“Man, I want to hear ‘Umbrella.’ I want to hear the classics,” she said in an interview with Apple Music 1. “I want to hear ‘We Found Love.’ I want to hear, man, it’s so many, I don’t even know. I know I want to hear ‘Love on the Brain.'”
H.E.R. knows how it feels to perform at the Super Bowl, as she sang “America the Beautiful” in 2021. Looking back on the experience, she said it was “one of my favorite performances that I’ve ever done just because I was so proud of myself and it was like a pinch-me moment.”
The experience also “empowered” her as she represented Black women on the Super Bowl stage.
“I knew, like, oh wow, this is something little girls need to see. This is something the world needs to see, especially in this climate,” she said. “I literally just had released my Fender collab. There’s no other Black woman that has a collaboration with Fender guitar. And I was up there playing it and it just meant the world to a lot of people. And I didn’t even realize it until afterwards. But it fueled me because that impact, you can’t beat that. It’s something that I think gives me purpose.”
“Ain’t No Harmin’ Me” is the new single from The War and Treaty‘s new album, Lover’s Game, which arrives March 10.
Breakout newcomer Bailey Zimmerman‘s just put out a new track, as his current single “Rock and a Hard Place” continues its run in the top 10. You can check out the lyric video for “Fix’n to Break” now.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of his 11th album, Next Big Thing, Vince Gill‘s released a remastered version of the video for his hit “Someday,” which he wrote with pop star Richard Marx.
“I’m Not Pretty” is the new track from “Tennessee Orange” hitmaker Megan Moroney.
Pete Townshend is teasing fans with new music. The Who rocker revealed on social media that he has a new solo single “coming soon.”
Although he didn’t reveal the title of the track, he says it was written by his wife, Rachel Fuller, and shared the artwork, which was by artist Damien Hirst.
The song is expected sometime this month, with proceeds being donated to Teenage Cancer Trust.
Pete did note in his announcement that he’s only releasing a single, not a solo album. His last solo studio album was 1993’s Psychoderelict.
(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team turned over a folder with classification markings found last month at his Mar-a-Lago resort to federal agents, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
It is unclear what type of classification markings the folder had or what material had previously been inside.
Additionally, sources tell ABC News that a laptop belonging to a current aide of the former president was also provided to federal agents.
Sources said the discovery occurred in mid-January as Trump’s team was searching through additional boxes amid the Department of Justice’s ongoing efforts to have Trump’s attorneys verify that Trump no longer still has classified documents in his possession.
The material was discovered in the Mar-a-Lago complex, and not in a storage facility within the complex that housed hundreds of classified documents prior to them being seized in August 2022, the sources said.
During the August search, investigators seized 46 folders with classified banners that were empty.
Trump attorney James Trusty turned over the folder with classification markings to federal investigators, and also informed agents that it had been electronically copied to a laptop of a current Trump aide, the sources said.
ABC News has also learned that after the information was recovered, federal agents retrieved the laptop from the aide. The laptop was not retrieved on the Mar-a-Lago grounds, the sources said.
“It is customary in circumstances such as this for investigators to search the computer to see if classified material is still on that computer,” said John Cohen, former acting undersecretary for intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security and now an ABC News contributor. “They will also seek to determine if classified material was transmitted electronically to other computers or devices via that computer.”
Neither Trusty nor a spokesperson for Trump immediately responded to a request for comment from ABC News.
The special counsel’s office also did not immediately respond.
The development comes as a separate special counsel is probing the handling of classified materials by President Joe Biden after he left the vice presidency. There have subsequently been multiple recoveries of documents from various locations tied to Trump, Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Federal investigators have reported mounting frustration with Trump, who some believe could still be unlawfully holding on to classified documents even after the FBI’s unprecedented August search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
ABC News reported in December that Trump had an outside team conduct a deeper search for any government documents at four properties, which turned up at least two more documents marked classified.
As ABC News previously reported, the Justice Department sought to hold Trump in contempt for not complying with their initial June subpoena for all documents with classification markings that were in his possession.
In December, a federal judge in Washington declined to hold Trump or his legal team in contempt of court and instead urged the Justice Department and Trump’s legal team to resolve the dispute themselves, sources told ABC News at the time.
Chief Judge Beryl Howell did not rule out the possibility that Trump could be held in contempt if their talks broke down further.
