Wedding bells are in the air for Måneskin and Spotify.
On Tuesday, the streaming service shared an Instagram video of guitarist Thomas Raggi standing on a rooftop while shredding a rendition of the famed Felix Mendelssohn classical composition “Wedding March.” The clip ends by teasing something happening with Måneskin in Rome next Thursday, January 19. The post’s caption repeats the date, along with an engagement ring emoji.
As for what all this means, be sure to tune in next Thursday. Notably, Måneskin’s much-anticipated new album, Rush!, is set to drop the next day, on January 20.
Meanwhile, Måneskin has also been teasing a new, upcoming single called “Gossip,” which features Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello. To promote the track, which is due out this Friday, January 13, the Italian rockers revealed that frontman Damiano David had recently shaved his head.
Rush! also includes the previously released songs “Supermodel” and “The Loneliest.”
They’re three of the biggest names in pop music, but at the Golden Globes Tuesday night, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Rihanna all struck out when it came to taking home a trophy.
All three were nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture, for the songs they wrote or co-wrote for, respectively, Top Gun: Maverick, Where the Crawdads Sing and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Rihanna also attended the ceremony with her boyfriend A$AP Rocky, and drew admiring comments from presenter Niecy Nash, Billy Porter and even host Jerrod Carmichael, who told her, “You take all the time you want to get that album out, girl. Don’t let these fools on the internet pressure you into nothing!”
But ultimately, the winner in the category was “Naatu Naatu,” n catchy, super-upbeat song that soundtracks one of the major set pieces in the nominated Indian film RRR.
Meanwhile, Selena Gomez was nominated for Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy for Only Murders in the Building, but lost to Abbott Elementary‘s Quinta Brunson.
But all is not lost: Taylor, Gaga and Rihanna’s songs are all shortlisted for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards; they’ll find out if they’re official nominated on January 24.
Elton John was a close friend of the late Princess Diana and is also close to her sons, PrinceHarry and PrinceWilliam. But in his new memoir, Spare, Harry details a couple of disagreements the two have had over the years.
In the book, as reported by The Huffington Post UK, Harry recalls watching Elton perform a rewritten version of “Candle in the Wind” at his mother’s funeral in 1997, writing, “I do have one pure, indisputable memory of the song climaxing and my eyes starting to sting and tears nearly falling. Nearly.”
But according to Harry, when he asked Elton to play the song in 2007 at the Concert for Diana, held on the 10th anniversary of his mother’s passing, Elton declined, fearing it would be too “morbid.” Instead, he played “Your Song,” which, Harry writes, he sang with “a twinkle and a smile, aglow with good memories.”
Another time the two had a difference of opinion, Harry writes, was in 2019, when Harry, his wife, Meghan, and their son, Archie, were visiting Elton at his home in France.
During the visit, Elton said he was going to serialize his autobiography, Me, in the British tabloid The Daily Mail, which Elton, Harry and Meghan hadsued for defamatory stories. When Harry asked Elton why he’d chosen a paper that had made his life “miserable,” Elton explained that he “wanted people to read” the book.
Harry then notes that he decided not to push the matter further, writing, “I loved him. I’ll always love him. And I also didn’t want to spoil the holiday.”
Following that visit, Elton publicly defended Harry and Meghan after they were slammed by the British press for using a private jet to fly to France to visit him.
Def Leppard’s RickAllen is taking a short break from rocking with the band to help share his art.
The drummer is set to appear at the Wentworth Galleries inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on February 11 to support his latest collection. The appearance will take place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ahead of Def Leppard’s second of two shows with Mötley Crüe at the Hard Rock’s Arena that night.
Rick’s latest collection includes his painted drum series, mixed media originals and his first works on metal. It also features his “Legends Series,” which includes portraits of such late artists as Charlie Watts, Eddie Van Halen, Kurt Cobain and Johnny Cash, as well as his “Wings of Hope” series.
“Painting has been a passion of mine for quite a while and I was inspired to branch out and try some new techniques,” Allen shares. “One that I particularly enjoyed was working with metal as a medium. I’m really proud of how these new works turned out and I can’t wait to share them at the upcoming Wentworth Gallery Show.”
The event is free and open to the public, and a portion of the sales proceeds will go to Allen’s Project Resiliency, which helps war veterans.
It took more than 50 years, but Judy Blume‘s groundbreaking teen 1970 novel, Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret, is being adapted as a feature film by Broadcast News and Terms of Endearment producer James L. Brooks and Edge of Seventeen writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig. The story follows 11-year-old uprooted New Yorker Margaret — played by Abby Ryder Fortson — who faces puberty, new friends and a new school in suburban New Jersey. She relies on her mother, Barbara — portrayed by Rachel McAdams — who’s also struggling to adjust to life outside the big city, and her adoring grandmother, Sylvia –played by Kathy Bates — who isn’t happy with the move and remind them every chance she gets. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret opens April 28…
Paramount+ has ordered a live-action Dungeons & Dragons TV series, according to Variety. Dungeons & Dragons is the most popular tabletop fantasy roleplaying game of all time. Specific plot details of the the series are being kept under wraps. The Hasbro game combines humans, elves, orcs and hundreds of other creatures, who compete in a series of war games, treasure hunts, campaigns, camaraderie and reversals of fortune…
Woody Harrelson has boarded the cast of the Apple original film Project Artemis, joining Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, according to Deadline. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Project Artemis is described “as a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the 1968 Apollo 11 moon launch”…
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Philadelphia 147, Detroit 116
Toronto 132, Charlotte 120
Miami 112. Oklahoma City 111
Utah 116, Cleveland 114
Orlando 109, Portland 106
Phoenix 125, Golden State 113
LA Clippers 113, Dallas 101
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Tampa Bay 6, Columbus 3
Pittsburgh 5, Vancouver 4
Seattle 4, Buffalo 3
New Jersey 5, Carolina 3
Detroit 7, Winnipeg 5
NY Rangers 4, Minnesota 3 (SO)
Dallas 2, NY Islanders 1 (SO)
St. Louis 4 Calgary 3 (OT)
San Jose 4, Arizona 2
Florida 5, Colorado 4
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Kansas 79, Oklahoma 75
Tennessee 77, Vanderbilt 68
Kansas St. 65, Oklahoma St. 57
Virginia 65, North Carolina 58
Iowa St. 84, Texas Tech 50
Michigan St. 69, Wisconsin 65
Auburn 82, Mississippi 73
San Diego St. 74, Nevada 65
Here’s the complete list of winners for the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards, presented Tuesday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California:
MOVIES
Best Motion Picture – Drama The Fabelmans
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Austin Butler, Elvis
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Motion Picture – Animated Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Director — Motion Picture
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Naatu Naatu,” Kala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, Kala Bhairava, Rahul Sipligunj (RRR)
TELEVISION
Best Television Series – Drama House of the Dragon
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Zendaya, Euphoria
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Kevin Costner, Yellowstone
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy Abbott Elementary
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television The White Lotus
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Evan Peters, Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion
Paul Walter Hauser, Black Bird
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical-Comedy or Drama Television Series
Julia Garner, Ozark
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical-Comedy or Drama Television Series
Tyler James Williams, Abbott Elementary
Carol Burnett Award for Achievement in Television
Ryan Murphy
(NEW YORK) — When the hole in the ozone layer was first discovered in 1985, Paul A. Newman was shaken as a scientist.
“I lost a lot of sleep back then because we didn’t really know what was going on and then we didn’t know how it would really play out,” he told ABC News.
Scientists were soon able to discover the cause: chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs — chemicals commonly used in the production of aerosol sprays, refrigerators and air conditioners. Once broken down in the upper atmosphere by high ultraviolet radiation, they release ozone-depleting chlorine.
The Montreal Protocol, a universally ratified United Nations treaty that went into effect in 1989, phased out the production of ozone-depleting substances including CFCs. And the U.N.’s most recent four-year assessment of those efforts, published Monday, found that the ozone layer — which protects the planet against harmful radiation that’s linked to skin cancer and crop damage — is slowly continuing to recover.
“I’ve slept pretty well the last few years,” Newman, a co-chair of the scientific assessment, said. “There’s still problems with climate, but as far as the ozone layer, I think we’re moving to be in good shape.”
Ozone recovery
The latest report looking at the progress of the Montreal Protocol found that emissions of human-produced ozone-depleting substances like CFCs, which were once widely used, have “come down substantially,” Newman said.
The report confirmed the phase-out of nearly 99% of banned ozone-depleting substances, the U.N. said. A few years ago, there were unexpected emissions of one of the banned chemicals — chlorofluorocarbon-11, or CFC-11 — in eastern China, though those numbers have also gone back down to expected levels, Newman said.
The levels of ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere are also continuing to decline, despite the “hiccup” in CFC-11 emissions, Newman said. Chlorine levels are down 11.5% from a peak in 1993, while levels of bromine, another ozone-depleting atom, are down 14.5% from a 1999 peak, according to the report.
As a result, ozone is increasing in the upper stratosphere, Newman said. If current policies remain in place, the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 levels by 2040, while over the Antarctic, this recovery is expected by around 2066, the report said.
“That’s really good news. It really shows that the Montreal Protocol is working,” Newman said. “We knew that if you curtailed or if you stopped the growth of chlorofluorocarbons, and they came down, that ozone would recover. And not only do we see that recovery, but it’s recovery at the expected rate.”
Areas of concern
There are areas of concern that could thwart this expected progress, Newman noted, such as unexplained increases in banned ozone-depleting substances like CFC-11.
It is also unclear what impact technology like high-altitude aircraft or geoengineering — a method of artificially cooling the planet by introducing aerosols into the stratosphere to increase sunlight reflection — could have, he said.
For the first time, the assessment looked at the potential impact of geoengineering on ozone and found that an “unintended consequence” was that it “could also affect stratospheric temperatures, circulation and ozone production and destruction rates and transport,” the report said.
“Volcanoes, when they spew particles into the stratosphere, it has a direct impact on the ozone layer. So if man starts doing the same thing to cool the Earth’s surface, it’s going to have an impact on the ozone layer,” Newman said. “I think we’re in good shape, but we need to be vigilant to make sure that we don’t do something like this again.”
(WASHINGTON) — The new chair of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday notified the White House that his panel is investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified records from Biden’s time as vice president — some of which were found in November at an office Biden had used in Washington, D.C.
In a letter to White House counsel Stuart Delery, obtained by ABC News, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky asked the White House to provide all documents that were retrieved from Biden’s personal office.
The Oversight Committee is also seeking a list of those who had access to Biden’s office; all documents related to the handling of classified documents, including by Biden’s lawyers, and the status of their security clearance; and all documents between the White House, the Department of Justice and the National Archives and Record Administration, Comer wrote.
He asked for those documents by Jan. 23.
His letter was not accompanied by a subpoena.
“The Committee is concerned that President Biden has compromised sources and methods with his own mishandling of classified documents,” Comer wrote.
He also wrote to NARA’s acting archivist, Debra Steidel Wall, asking for similar materials.
In his letters, Comer compared Biden’s handling of sensitive documents to former President Donald Trump, whom federal authorities have said took classified records back to his Florida home after leaving the White House in 2021.
Court records show that the government engaged in a lengthy dispute with Trump in order to retrieve the classified and sensitive records he took with him, with FBI agents ultimately searching Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in August. He denies wrongdoing.
Comer told CNN in November that it “will not be a priority” for the Oversight Committee to look at Trump’s handling of documents in that case.
Writing to Wall at NARA on Tuesday, Comer took issue with the delay in learning about the documents found at Biden’s office, suggesting it “raises questions about political bias at the agency.”
ABC News and other outlets reported on Monday that the DOJ has launched a preliminary review of the matter — some two months after Biden’s attorneys say they first discovered the records at his personal office and notified NARA.
Comer requested that his committee staff be able to interview the NARA general counsel, Gary Stern, and its director of congressional affairs, John Hamilton, by Jan. 17.
“The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings,” Richard Sauber, a special counsel to Biden, said in a statement on Monday.
Sauber said the documents were found on Nov. 2 and NARA was notified by the White House on the same day, then took possession of them on Nov. 3.
Sauber said the documents were found by Biden’s personal attorneys while they were “packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center in Washington. “The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives,” Sauber said.
Biden told reporters on Tuesday in Mexico, while meeting with North American leaders, that he doesn’t know what is in the records and was “surprised to learn” they were found there.
The ninth studio effort from the “Midnight City” outfit will arrive March 17. You can listen to the first single, “Oceans Niagara,” now via digital outlets.
“I wanted this record to be very impactful live,” says frontman Anthony Gonzalez. “The idea was to come back with something closer to the energy of [2005’s] Before the Dawn Heals Us. The combination of guitars and synths is always in my music, but it’s maybe more present on this new record than on the previous ones.”
You’ll be able to experience that impactful live energy yourself when M83 launches a U.S. tour this spring, running from April 10 in Phoenix to May 16 in Oakland. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit ILoveM83.com.
Here’s the Fantasy track list:
“Water Deep”
“Oceans Niagara”
“Amnesia”
“Us and the Rest”
“Earth to Sea”
“Radar, Far, Gone”
“Deceiver”
“Fantasy”
“Laura”
“Sunny Boy”
“Kool Nuit” feat. Kaela
“Sunny Boy Part 2”
“Dismemberment Bureau”
