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Beyoncé leads nominations for 65th annual Grammy Awards

November 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Nominations for the 65th annual Grammy Awards were announced Tuesday, and Beyoncé
is this year’s leading nominee, with nine nods in total. She and her husband, JAY-Z, are now tied for the title of the most-nominated artist in Grammy history: Each of them have received 88 nominations.

Kendrick Lamar is next with eight nods. Mary J. Blige, DJ Khaled, Future and The-Dream all scored six each.

The Grammys air February 5 on CBS. Here are the nominees in the “Big Four” categories — Record, Song, Album of the Year and Best New Artist — as well as the nominees in the rap and R&B categories:

Record of the Year
“Don’t Me Down,” ABBA
“Easy on Me,” Adele
“Break My Soul,” Beyoncé
“You and Me on the Rock,” Brandi Carlile ft. Lucius
“Woman,” Doja Cat
“Bad Habit,” Steve Lacy
“The Heart, Pt. 5,” Kendrick Lamar
“Good Morning Gorgeous,” Mary J. Blige
“About Damn Time,” Lizzo
“As It Was,” Harry Styles

Album of the Year
Voyage, ABBA
30, Adele
Un Verano Si Tì, Bad Bunny
Renaissance, Beyoncé
Good Morning Gorgeous (Deluxe), Mary J. Blige
In These Silent Days, Brandi Carlile
Music of the Spheres, Coldplay
Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar
Special, Lizzo
Harry’s House, Harry Styles

Song of the Year
“abcdefu,” GAYLE: Sara Davis, Gayle & Dave Pittenger, songwriters
“About Damn Time,” Lizzo: Melissa “Lizzo” Jefferson, Eric Frederic, Blake Slatkin & Theron Makiel Thomas, songwriters )
“All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (The Short Film),” Taylor Swift: Liz Rose & Taylor Swift, songwriters
“As It Was,” Harry Styles: Tyler Johnson, Kid Harpoon & Harry Styles, songwriters
“Bad Habit,” Steve Lacy: Matthew Castellanos, Brittany Fousheé, Diana Gordon, John Carroll Kirby & Steve Lacy, songwriters
“Break My Soul,” Beyoncé: Beyoncé, S. Carter, Terius “The-Dream” Gesteelde-Diamant & Christopher A. Stewart, songwriters
“Easy on Me,” Adele: Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin, songwriters
“God Did,”DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend & Fridayy,Tarik: Azzouz, E. Blackmon, Khaled Khaled, F. LeBlanc, Shawn Carter, John Stephens, Dwayne Carter, William Roberts & Nicholas Warwar, songwriters
“The Heart Part 5,” Kendrick Lamar: Jake Kosich, Johnny Kosich, Kendrick Lamar & Matt Schaeffer, songwriters
“Just Like That,” Bonnie Raitt: Bonnie Raitt, songwriter

Best New Artist
Anitta
Omar Apollo
Domi and JD Beck
Muni Long
Samara Joy
Tobe Nwigw
Latto
Måneskin
Wet Leg
Molly Tuttle

Best R&B Performance
“VIRGO’S GROOVE,” Beyoncé
“Here With Me,” Mary J. Blige Featuring Anderson .Paak
“Over,” Lucky Daye
“Hrs & Hrs,” Muni Long
“Hurt Me So Good,” Jazmine Sullivan

Best R&B Song
“CUFF IT,” Denisia “Blu June” Andrews, Beyoncé, Mary Christine Brockert, Brittany “Chi” Coney, Terius “The-Dream” Gesteelde-Diamant, Morten Ristorp, Nile Rodgers & Raphael Saadiq, songwriters (Beyoncé)
“Good Morning Gorgeous,” Mary J. Blige, David Brown, Dernst Emile II, Gabriella Wilson & Tiara Thomas, songwriters (Mary J. Blige)
“Hrs & Hrs,” Hamadi Aaabi, Dylan Graham, Thaddis “Kuk” Harrell, Brandon John-Baptiste, Priscilla Renea, Isaac Wriston & Justin Nathaniel Zim, songwriters (Muni Long)
“Hurt Me So Good” — Akeel Henry, Michael Holmes, Luca Mauti, Jazmine Sullivan & Elliott Trent, songwriters (Jazmine Sullivan)
“Please Don’t Walk Away,” PJ Morton, songwriter (PJ Morton)

Best Rap Performance
“GOD DID,” DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, JAY-Z, John Legend & Fridayy
“Vegas,” Doja Cat
“pushin P,” Gunna & Future Featuring Young Thug
“F.N.F. (Let’s Go),” Hitkidd & GloRilla
“The Heart Part 5,” Kendrick Lamar

Best Rap Song
“Churchill Downs,” Ace G, BEDRM, Matthew Samuels, Tahrence Brown, Rogét Chahayed, Aubrey Graham, Jack Harlow & Jose Velazquez, songwriters (Jack Harlow Featuring Drake)
“GOD DID,” Tarik Azzouz, E. Blackmon, Khaled Khaled, F. LeBlanc, Shawn Carter, John Stephens, Dwayne Carter, William Roberts & Nicholas Warwar, songwriters (DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, JAY-Z, John Legend & Fridayy)
“The Heart Part 5,” Jake Kosich, Johnny Kosich, Kendrick Lamar, & Matt Schaeffer, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar)
“pushin P,” Lucas Depante, Nayvadius Wilburn, Sergio Kitchens, Wesley Tyler Glass & Jeffery Lamar Williams, songwriters (Gunna & Future Featuring Young Thug)
“WAIT FOR U,” Tejiri Akpoghene, Floyd E. Bentley III, Jacob Canady, Isaac De Boni, Aubrey Graham, Israel Ayomide Fowobaje, Nayvadius Wilburn, Michael Mule, Oluwatoroti Oke & Temilade Openiyi, songwriters (Future Featuring Drake & Tems)

Elvis Costello & The Imposters announce spring tour

November 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Elvis Costello is bringing his The Boy Named If & Other Favourites tour to the U.S. next year. For the tour, Elvis will reunite with his band The Imposters, made up of Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher, along with guitarist Charlie Sexton.

The tour will consist of 11 East Coast shows, kicking off February 23 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and wrapping March 10 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. ET.

The new spring dates launch just one day after Elvis completes his 100 Songs and More residency at the Gramercy Theater in New York. The residency will have him performing a completely new set every night, which will result in him playing more than 200 different songs over the course of the 10 shows.

Balenciaga says goodbye to Twitter amid Elon Musk’s takeover

November 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Balenciaga is saying “bye-bye” to Twitter.

Several users recently noticed that the luxury fashion label no longer had an account on the platform. Good Morning America has confirmed that the brand will no longer maintain a Twitter account moving forward.

While the brand has chosen not to make any further statements on its decision to leave Twitter, the news comes shortly after investor Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout of the company last month.

Prior to leaving Twitter, Balenciaga’s account had millions of followers.

Several other notable public figures, such as Gigi Hadid and Shonda Rhimes, have also left their Twitter accounts behind in the wake of Musk’s takeover. Some have expressed disapproval of Musk’s leadership, claiming his buyout was detrimental to the platform.

“I deactivated my Twitter account today,” Hadid said in an Instagram story alongside a screenshot claiming Twitter’s entire human rights department had been laid off. “For a long time, but especially with its new leadership, it’s becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate & bigotry, and it’s not a place I want to be a part of.”

The screenshot featured a tweet from Twitter’s former human rights counsel Shannon Raj Singh, who claimed on Nov. 4 that the company’s full Human Rights team had been “cut from the company.”

“I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and to defend the needs of those, particularly at risk of human rights abuse by virtue of their social media presence, such as journalists & human rights defenders,” Singh wrote at the time.

Musk’s Twitter takeover has been plagued with issues since day one. In addition to backlash over Musk’s decision to charge $8 for Twitter Blue subscriptions, which provide subscribers with a blue “verified” checkmark, the company has also faced internal upheaval, issuing mass layoffs, losing advertisers, and dealing with product issues that have caused some users to be locked out of their accounts, among other things. Additionally, Musk was forced to freeze new Twitter Blue subscription sign-ups after newly verified paid accounts began impersonating public figures, companies and legitimate media outlets.

The Federal Trade Commission stated last Thursday that it was “tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern.”

Meanwhile, a study from Montclair State University earlier in November showed a spike in hate speech on Twitter immediately following Musk’s takeover of the platform.

Balenciaga’s departure comes as other advertisers face increased pressure to consider their futures on the platform, with companies such as General Motors, GM, United Airlines, General Mills, and Mondelez International Inc. pulling ads from Twitter already.

Previously, Musk had threatened “a thermonuclear name & shame” of companies leaving Twitter, however he took a markedly different stance in a conversation with advertisers last week that was broadcast on the platform using the Twitter Spaces function. According to Reuters, over 100,000 listeners tuned into the conversation.

“I understand if people want to give it a minute … [but] the best way to see how things are evolving is just use Twitter,” he said, according to the outlet.

Musk has also attempted to smooth things over on his own official Twitter account. “Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months,” he tweeted on Nov. 9. “We will keep what works & change what doesn’t.”

Representatives for Twitter did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment for this story.

ABC News’ Melanie Schmitz contributed to this story.

Judge overturns Georgia’s 6-week abortion ban

November 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(ATLANTA) — A judge on Tuesday overturned Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, ruling that it is not constitutional.

The so-called “heartbeat bill” was signed into law in 2019 by Gov. Brian Kemp but was prevented from going into effect following legal challenges.

In July, three weeks after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a constitutional right to an abortion, a federal appeals court ruled the ban could go into effect.

The law prevents abortions from performed once fetal cardiac activity can be defected, which typically occurs at about six weeks’ gestation — before many women know they’re pregnant — and redefines the word “person” in Georgia to include an embryo or fetus at any stage of development.

Several groups — including the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective — filed a lawsuit arguing the ban violates the right to privacy without political inference protected under the Georgia Constitution.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney agreed and said it went against the law because the ban was signed before Roe was overturned.

“At that time — the spring of 2019 — everywhere in America, including Georgia, it was unequivocally unconstitutional for governments — federal, state, or local — to ban abortions before viability,” McBurney wrote, referring to the original passage of the 6-week ban.

ABC News’ Cheyenne Haslett and Ben Stein contributed to this report.

Jay Leno credits friend with saving his life after fiery garage accident

November 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Jay Leno might need skin grafts to repair the third degree burns he suffered in a car repair accident in his Los Angeles garage on Sunday, but the former Tonight Show host tells TMZ things could have been much worse.

From his hospital bed at the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles, the 72-year-old comic and avid car collector explained to the gossip site that he was working on his 1907 White steam car when gas from a fuel leak sprayed on his face and hands. A spark touched off an explosion and set him on fire.

However, Leno says his friend and fellow shop worker Dave acted quickly, jumping on him and smothering the flames.

Jay could spend as many as 10 days in the hospital, according to the site.

Higher surface temperatures will be detectable in Pacific Ocean decades earlier than previously predicted

November 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Higher ocean temperatures are expected to be detected in the Pacific Ocean by 2030, several decades earlier than previously predicted, new research suggests.

Natural climate variability in the Pacific is largely governed by El Nino–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which involves the warm phase, El Nino, when surface water becomes warmer than average and east winds blow weaker than normal, and La Nina, when the water is cooler than normal and the east winds are stronger.

Some of the most extreme weather events around the world in recent years, such as the droughts in the U.S. and Australia and heat waves around the world, have been spurred by ENSO events, Wenju Cai, one of the study’s authors and director of the Center for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research at Australia’s Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, told ABC News.

Previously, research suggested climate change was increasing the variability of ENSO events, but it was predicted that the change wouldn’t be detectable until the at least 2070, Cai said.

For this study, the researchers gathered 70 years of ENSO data — from 1950 onwards — and used some of the newest climate models to estimate when increased ENSO variability will be detectable in the eastern or central Pacific.

They found that climate change-associated temperature increases will likely be detectable around 2030 in the eastern Pacific, four decades earlier than previously expected. The warming is also expected to occur earlier in the eastern than in the central Pacific, driven by the faster warming of this region and therefore a larger increase in rainfall.

“In about 10 years time, we will be able to tell that global warming has changed El Nino,” Cai said.

The increased variability in ENSO events will also make extreme weather events, such as droughts, fires and floods, around the world more severe, Cai said, adding that even if the planet were able to stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, it would not stop the change in El Nino events predicted in the next several years.

It would take at least a century to make any significant reductions in changes of variability in ENSO events, Cai said.

“In the next 100 years, if we take action, we can reduce the increase by about 10% from the business-as-usual scenario,” he said. “But we cannot stop it completely.”

Is James Gunn teasing a Mister Terrific movie or just plain teasing?

November 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Lifelong comic book fan James Gunn came to fame when he turned the obscure Marvel team the Guardians of the Galaxy into a household name. And as reported, he’s now in charge of the fate of Warner Bros. Discovery’s deep bench of DC Comics-based heroes.

With that in mind, hopeful fans are eager to see what’s up his sleeve. If a new Instagram post is any hint, it could be Terrific. Specifically, he just posted, without comment, a rendering of the DC hero Mister Terrific.

The character, the second to take that mantle, is otherwise known in the books as Michael Holt, the third-smartest person in the DC Comics universe behind Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor. A polymath, Holt has earned dozens of Ph.Ds and has invented advanced nanotechnology that gives him all manner of nifty powers, all emanating from the black T-shaped face mask bearing the particles.

The character did appear briefly in CW’s so-called “Arrowverse” but remains — as the Guardians once did — relatively obscure to the casual fan.

So is Gunn teasing that Mister Terrific is ready for a close-up? Time will tell.

As one fan put it in reply, “Is teasing us like this one of the perks that comes with being the head of DC?”

KISS’ Gene Simmons is “fine” after “no big deal” medical procedure

November 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

KISS‘ Gene Simmons says he’s “fine” after undergoing a medical procedure this week to remove excess kidney stones.

In a tweet Monday afternoon, Gene’s wife, Shannon Tweed-Simmons, shared a photo of the rocker in the hospital alongside the caption, “@genesimmons getting #kidneystones blasted again! #poorbaby.”

Gene later posted his own hospital video thanking everyone for checking in on him.

“Honestly I’m fine,” Gene wrote. “Shannon took the video…Just cleaning the tubes for excess kidney stones. Looks awful, but really no big deal.”

“Took an hour, then drove to have a hot dog,” he added. “I appreciate your good wishes.”

Simmons was previously treated for kidney stones in 2019, which forced KISS to postpone several shows.

Victim statements for Christmas parade attack sentencing paused after threat on courthouse: Judge

November 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(WAUKESHA, Wis.) — A sentencing hearing for Darrell Brooks, the man convicted of murdering six people after driving his SUV through a Christmas parade in Wisconsin, was briefly suspended Tuesday due to a threat made on the Waukesha courthouse, the judge said.

Dozens of survivors of last year’s attack in Waukesha are planning to address Brooks during the two-day sentencing hearing, which started Tuesday morning.

About 90 minutes into the hearing, the court went into recess shortly before 10 a.m. local time after Judge Jennifer Dorow said she was advised by the sheriff “that their communication center had received a threat to the courthouse,” she told the court.

Court proceedings resumed over an hour later, around 11:15 a.m.

“The sheriff has assured me that this building is quite safe — ‘very secure,’ were his words — and that he has taken all reasonable measures to secure the courthouse this time,” she said.

Dorow apologized for the “abrupt disruption” to the victims’ statements.

“I am confident that we can go forward at this time,” she said.

Waukesha County Executive Paul Farrow said the sheriff’s office is investigating the credibility of “an anonymous threat” to the Waukesha County Courthouse.

“County offices are conducting business as usual,” he said on Twitter. “If you are in the Courthouse, you may notice an increased presence of law enforcement personnel.”

Brooks, 40, was found guilty last month on all 76 counts, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide, for barreling his SUV into a Christmas parade on Nov. 21, 2021. He dismissed his public defenders during the trial and went on to represent himself.

Prosecutors expect 45 people, including nine children, to make victim impact statements during the two-day sentencing hearing, ABC Milwaukee affiliate WISN reported.

Brooks’ sentencing has been scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

Bonnie Raitt extends tour into 2023

November 15, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Bonnie Raitt is extending her time on the road. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just announced her Just Like That tour will continue through 2023, adding more U.S. shows as well as dates in the U.K. and Ireland. The U.S. dates, which kick off March 10 in Indio, California, include a three-night stand at The Venetian Theater inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas.

The Sin City gigs will go down March 15, 17 and 18, with Bonnie backed by her longtime band. Not only that, she’s promising fans she’ll be joined by some “special guests.”

As for the rest of the tour, the U.S. shows run through May 23, and then, the U.K. and Ireland legs kick off June 1. Tickets are set to go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

The new dates follow a successful year of touring for Bonnie thus far; the legendary performer’s currently headlining a 75-date U.S. tour. She next hits the stage Tuesday night in Melbourne, Florida.

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