Diddy and Swizz Beatz are vowing to boycott Adidas after Kanye West claimed the company allegedly copied his designs.
“This war wasn’t about money. It was about control of our families, of our business, of our story,” Ye commented on Instagram. “I gave them the opportunity to settle this quietly.”
Diddy is now demanding that Adidas properly respect West.
“Since the era of Run-DMC, @Adidas has always used Hip Hop to build its brand and make billions off of our culture,” the Bad Boy Entertainment founder commented. “BUT WE ARE MORE THAN JUST CONSUMERS NOW, WE’RE THE OWNERS. @KanyeWest and @Yeezy are the reason Adidas is relevant to culture. WE KNOW OUR VALUE! I’m done wearing Adidas products until they make this right!! We have to support each other!!”
Swizz Beatz also stood with Kanye in protesting against Adidas.
“I usually mind my business but this is DEAD WRONG! If we let them do this to @kanyewest it will happen to us also! This man created this groundbreaking innovation and it should be respected as a creative!” the Grammy winner wrote.
“YE is only asking for his work to be respected and not stolen that’s not crazy to me!!: he continued. “We not buying these !!!!!!!!!!!!@adidas you’re supposed to be original do the correct thing please!!!”
Jack White has added a pair of acoustic concerts to his ongoing Supply Chain Issues solo tour.
The unplugged dates will take place September 17 in Chattanooga, Tennessee and September 29 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, September 9 at 10 a.m. local time. Members of White’s Third Man Records Vault subscription service will have access to a presale beginning Thursday, September 8 at 10 a.m. local time.
The Supply Chain Issues tour, which first launched in April, supports White’s two new solo albums, Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive. The U.S. leg is currently scheduled to wrap up October 1 with a performance at Eddie Vedder‘s Ohana Festival.
“9 to 5,” “Jolene,” “Islands in the Stream” and “I Will Always Love You” are just a few of the essential Dolly Parton tracks that will appear on a new, career-spanning greatest hits album from RCA Records and Legacy Recordings.
Called Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection, the album will revisit some of the most essential songs from the country legend’s past, as well as the sampling of her more recent hits. From her 1971 hit “Coat of Many Colors” to “Faith,” her 2020 collaboration with Galantis and Mr Probz, Diamonds & Rhinestones will offer a look at all the different sides of Dolly’s extensive, multifaceted career.
“Every one of these songs has a special memory behind it for me,” Dolly explains in a note to her fans. “I hope that you make some special memories of your own while listening to them.”
Diamond & Rhinestones is due out on November 18. It’s currently available for pre-order as a digital version as well as on CD and 12” vinyl.
As has become tradition, Bruce Springsteen will perform at the 2022 edition of the annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit event, which will take place November 7 at the David Geffen Hall in New York City’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
The show supports the Bob Woodruff Foundation’s efforts to help wounded service members, veterans and their families.
Now in its 16th year, the Stand Up for Heroes benefit offers an evening of music and comedy, held in conjunction with the annual New York Comedy Festival. This year’s lineup also includes The Lumineers, Broadway performer Amber Iman and comedians Jon Stewart, Jeff Ross, Iliza Shlesinger and Hasan Minhaj.
“After an incredible in person return last year, we are thrilled to welcome everyone back for another night of laughter, healing, and appreciation of our nation’s heroic veterans, featuring some of the funniest comics and most talented musicians on the planet,” says Bob Woodruff, ABC News correspondent and co-founder of the Bob Woodruff Foundation.
He adds, “Stand Up for Heroes celebrates our veterans, military and their families highlighting their remarkable stories of resilience and service.”
Big Fish and Go screenwriter John August is the co-host of the Scriptnotes podcast, and in his career, he’s taken some notes of his own on the things that bug him in movies and TV shows — but he’s not alone.
Kicking things off with “seeing contact lenses in period movies,” August polled his Twitter followers as to what their biggest pet peeves were when watching, and he received thousands of replies.
Actors holding empty coffee cups that are supposed to be full was a common complaint, so much so that August linked to a separate article on how Hollywood is pushing back about it. In fact, there’s been a Twitter hashtag dedicated to it called #EmptyCupAwards.
Another common complaint: Actors’ earring holes when their character wouldn’t — or can’t — have one. Chris Evans‘ can be spotted while he’s playing Captain America, and the spangly hero out of time would decidedly not be sporting one.
“The worst was Keanu Reeves in The Matrix,” one user agreed. “He spent his entire life in a pod, when did he have time to go to Claire’s?
Other offerings included: “getting out of bed after [sex] with UNDERWEAR on! sometimes a bra too – who sleeps in a bra? who puts underwear on after sex ?”
Another posted, “When drivers look at their passengers while talking to them.”
On a related note, an actress waking up with full makeup/hair done was also a common complaint.
(CUPERTINO, Calif.) — Apple is expected to release a new line of iPhone models and other updated products at a launch event on Wednesday.
The event, which starts at 1 p.m. ET, will take place at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to present the newest products for the occasion, which Apple has promoted with the teaser tagline “far out.”
Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:
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Apple stock flat on Wednesday ahead of launch event
Shares in Apple stood largely unchanged on Wednesday morning prior to the company’s product launch event.
As with many tech companies, Apple’s stock has taken a pummeling this year. The stock price has fallen more than 13% since the outset of 2022, and dropped nearly 7% over the past month.
Despite a difficult year, Apple stock has outperformed major indices like the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq. The S&P 500 has fallen more than 17% in 2022, and the Nasdaq has dropped more than 25% over that period.
Since the Apple launch event last year, on Sept. 14, the company’s stock is up about 3.5%, as of Wednesday morning.
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Apple event expected to feature new iPhone model
The event on Wednesday is the first of the company’s annual product launch events to take place in person since 2019, prior to the pandemic.
Apple is expected to release a set of four iPhone models that could be called the iPhone 14. The new line is widely expected to feature an improved camera, among other updates.
Besides the standard 6.1-inch iPhone 14, the company is expected to release a bigger 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Max.
In addition to the iPhone, the company could announce a new line of Apple Watches and AirPods.
The company is developing new health-related features that could alert a person to an increase in blood pressure as well as a change in body temperature related to fertility, The Wall Street Journal reported last September.
Coldplay‘s Music of the Spheres tour was almost brought down by “money stuff.”
In an interview with the fan site ColdplayXtra, frontman Chris Martin reveals that the group’s worldwide trek became so “financially stressful” that cancellation became a real possibility.
“We’ve never really had a big financial crisis before,” Martin shares. “This was the first time where there was a point where we felt like we probably couldn’t do the tour, ’cause of all the money stuff.”
Ultimately, the production received “some help,” which Martin says “saved the day.”
“The whole point of this tour is to be trying new things,” Martin explains. “Some of them work and some of them don’t, and that’s OK. We’re so lucky that we can survive certain losses and it’s OK.”
Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour kicked off in March in Costa Rica and hit the U.S. in May and June. They’ve spent the summer touring through Europe and their native U.K. and will launch a South American run this weekend.
(WASHINGTON) — Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are returning to the White House Wednesday, reuniting with now President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden to unveil their official portraits and introduce the artists behind them — a long-held secret in Washington after an unusually long wait for their reveal.
“President Biden and Dr. Biden are honored to have former president Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama back to the White House for the unveiling of their portraits, which will hang on the walls of the White House forever as reminders of the power of hope and change,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday.
The ceremony is returning to the White House after a 10-year hiatus. It was then-President Obama who last held such a ceremony, when he welcomed back former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush for an unveiling of their official portraits back in 2012.
The public unveiling of presidential portraits as we know it today started in 1978 during the Carter administration, according to White House Historical Association President Stuart McLaurin.
“The Carters were the first to invite the Fords back for the reveal of their portrait. Prior to that, they were just kind of hung up when they were done,” McLaurin said.
Since then, an unofficial tradition began of the current president hosting their most recent predecessor at the White House for the event with few exceptions — events that have often been bipartisan with some good-natured ribbing.
“George, I will always remember the gathering you hosted for all the living former presidents before I took office, your kind words of encouragement. Plus, you also left me a really good TV sports package. I use it,” Obama joked in 2012 of George W. Bush.
The tradition was notably broken during the Trump presidency, with the former president eschewing the event — a perhaps unsurprising decision, given Trump’s baseless claims that Obama spied on his 2016 presidential campaign, and was not born in the United States.
Despite the wait, McLaurin said the event at the White House on Wednesday will be “happy, positive” moment for the Obamas.
“There’s a sense of anticipation and excitement about it. And the President and First Lady who are depicted in those portraits have seen them of course, but the reality of having them unveiled in full scale size right there in the East Room of the White House. It’s just a moment — it’s almost like a Christmas morning,” he said.
The process for creating the portraits begins at the end of an outgoing president’s term, with the selection of an artist they’d like to complete their portrait. The White House Historical Association, a non-profit, non-partisan organization started in 1961 by first lady Jackie Kennedy, then contracts the artist to complete the historic image.
According to McLaurin, it typically takes three to four years for the portraits to be completed, but there is no hard and fast deadline for the process.
The Obama portraits have been completed for “a few years,” he said.
As for Trump’s official portrait, McLaurin said the artists have been identified and contracted for the former president and first lady’s portraits, but did not have more details about where in the process they are.
“Typically they would have conversations or they would talk about style and process and things in the background. Sometimes presidents or first ladies put things that have some meaning or purpose or tell a story behind them,” McLaurin said.
“I don’t know how much of that has happened with the Trump’s. I do know that their artists have been identified,” he added.
After its creation in 1961, the White House Historical Association undertook the task of acquiring portraits for every former president and first lady to complete the collection of iconic images of the nation’s leaders.
“You know, with the Founding Fathers and the early presidents, Americans did not know what their presidents looked like,” McLaurin said. “Americans depended on these images that were created and disseminated across the United States.”
“In contemporary modern presidents, we are supersaturated every day with what they look like. So, to me, the interesting take on these portraits is this is really how a president and a first lady see themselves and how they want to be remembered,” he added.
(SEATTLE) — Sue Bird said her goodbyes to fans Tuesday night as the Seattle Storm lost to the Las Vegas Aces in Game 4 of the WNBA Semifinals.
The 97-92 loss marked the end of the 41-year-old guard’s legendary two-decade career in Seattle. She wrapped up the night with eight points and eight assists.
Bird began her career in 2002 when she was chosen by the Storm as their first overall pick in round one of the WNBA draft. She closes out her time in the league with four WNBA championships and five Olympic gold medals.
The hit singer is getting ready to release the fall boot line for her Idyllwind clothing brand, and she’s giving fans a sneak peek.
Miranda took to Instagram to show off the new looks that will soon be hitting shelves, with styles ranging from tall boots to short boots coming in various colors and sizes. Among the fresh looks are powder blue, metallic blue and purple, black with gold decals, bright pink with rhinestones and metallic silver accented by pink.
“If you can’t tell by my face, this is my happy place,” Miranda says with the collection of boots behind her. “Happiness,” she adds in the caption. “Which of @idyllwind’s fall boots is calling your name?”
“We are so excited for y’all to see what’s comin’ this Fall!” Idyllwind comments.
