(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Final Houston 9 Boston 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Final L.A. Dodgers 6 Atlanta 5
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Milwaukee 127 Brooklyn 104
Final Golden State 121 L.A. Lakers 114
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Buffalo 5 Vancouver 2
Final San Jose 5 Montreal 0
Final SO Dallas 2 Pittsburgh 1
Final Florida 4 Tampa Bay 1
Final Washington 6 Colorado 3
Final New Jersey 4 Seattle 2
Final Detroit 4 Columbus 1
Final Nashville 2 Los Angeles 1
Final N-Y Islanders 4 Chicago 1
Final OT Minnesota 6 Winnipeg 5
Final Edmonton 6 Anaheim 5
Carrie Underwood is exposing her husband’s bad habits in a hilarious new TikTok video centered around her latest single, a duet with Jason Aldean called “If I Didn’t Love You.”
As the song plays in the background, Carrie pans the camera to piles of laundry on the floor, taxidermied animals hanging on the walls and an out-of-control hat collection. “I must truly love him…Who can relate?” she wrote in the caption of her video.
The hit duet will feature on Jason’s upcoming album, Macon, which is due out November 12. Carrie recently revealed that she and Jason had planned to work together for years, explaining, “I feel like I always knew at some point I’d probably sing with him officially, and this just seemed like the stars were aligning and it just seemed like it was going to be the perfect fit.”
“If I Didn’t Love You” is currently nearing the top spot at country radio.
Issa Rae is opening up about her wedding to Louis Diame and why she decided to share some of those moments with the world.
During an interview on the Tamron Hall Show, the Insecure creator and star revealed that the only reason she posted photos from her wedding day was to get ahead of the story.
“I worked with Vera Wang, who were really great, and they wanted to post the photo and at the time, I was like, ‘OK, yeah, no problem.’ And then later, you know, I was like, ‘Oh, they’re gonna post the photo before me.’ Let me tell it my way, in the best way I know how and that’s the only reason that I let it go,” she explained of the July Instagram post. “I wanted to release the photo my way first without having them release it.”
While Insecure star’s marriage may have come as a shock to fans, she shared that it wasn’t a surprise to friends and family. And the actress, writer and producer gushed that her wedding, overall, was “just a beautiful experience.”
“People tell you that it goes by fast, and they’re right,” Rae admitted. “But my thing was, it was a party. At the end of the day, it was just a big party. And it was a lot of fun. And I’m really blessed, I feel so blessed to be surrounded by people who took the time out to just come and celebrate and that’s something that I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.”
Of Mice & Men has announced a new album called Echo.
The seventh studio effort from the SoCal metal outfit — and their first since 2019’s EARTHANDSKY — will arrive on December 3. It consists of the songs from OM&M’s recent EPs Timeless and Bloom, as well as a third and final EP, Ad Infinitum.
“Echo is a snapshot of the last year-and-a-half of our lives,” OM&M says. “It covers loss and growth, life and impermanence, love, and the infinite — how the most wonderful and most tragic parts of the human experience are deeply intertwined.”
Along with the album announcement, Of Mice & Men has also shared another new song from the record, “Fighting Gravity.”
With the Timeless and Bloom EPs already out, along with the single “Mosaic” and now “Fighting Gravity,” there are actually only two songs left on Echo that have yet to be heard: the title track, and a cover of Crosby, Stills, and Nash‘s “Helplessly Hoping.”
In honor of late Rush drummer Neil Peart, Modern Drummer magazine has announced the launch of an annual scholarship in his name that’s geared toward inspiring a young drummer to pursue a career as a musician.
The “Neil Peart Spirit of Drumming Scholarship” will provide the chosen recipient with 52 weeks of free drum lessons from respected drum instructor Dom Famularo, as well as a one-year subscription to the Modern Drummer All Access service, and a selection of classic Rush albums.
Entrants must be between 14 and 21 years old, not a professional musician, and not under any entertainment contract or sponsorship that Modern Drummer would consider a conflict with scholarship’s spirit.
To be considered for the scholarship, potential recipients must submit a video displaying their drumming skills running two minutes or less, as well as a brief essay explaining why the scholarship will make a significant positive impact on their life and playing, and how they’ve been inspired by Peart and his legacy.
Submissions, which can be made at ModernDrummer.com, must be received before November 26 of this year.
The scholarship originally was announced during the 2020 Modern Drummer Festival by Neil’s widow, Carrie Nutall-Peart. The first recipient of the scholarship will be revealed at this year’s festival, and the honoree will be featured in an upcoming issue of Modern Drummer.
Peart, widely considered one of the greatest rock drummers of all time, died in January 2020 of brain cancer. He was 67.
Ken Jeong has starred in the blockbuster movies like The Hangover, had his own sitcom, Dr. Ken, and been a part of beloved TV shows like Community. But he’s also famous for being famously bad as a judge on The Masked Singer.
The Nick Cannon-hosted hit has Ken, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke trying to figure out whose pipes are piping out of a collection of crazy mascot-like costumes — and bad guesses turn out to be just as fun as the reveals.
Jeong, who pursued a dream of acting after years of being a physician, explained to ABC Audio that his gig on the show is all about having a good time.
“Personally, I’ve achieved everything I want to achieve, and then some, and I feel like the rest of my life is just trying to have fun…for the rest of my days,” he admits.
“Like if you watch me on The Masked Singer… I literally just have fun being bad at that game, you know?” he says with a laugh. “And so I think if the public now just senses that I’m just trying to have a good time, you know, all the time, I think that’s I think that’s part of connection. I think that’s part of entertainment.”
You can check out Ken doing what he does worst, and loving it, when The Masked Singer airs tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on Fox.
(CHICAGO) — A battle pitting the mayor of Chicago and the superintendent of the police department against some officers defying a vaccine mandate for all city employees heads to a courtroom on Wednesday where the police union is asking a judge for a temporary restraining order.
The courtroom showdown comes even as police Superintendent David Brown said compliance with the COVID-19 shot mandate by officers and civilian employees of his agency went up to 67% on Tuesday from 64% a day earlier.
“I will say and do anything to save an officer’s life,” Brown said during a news conference on Tuesday. “If it takes going through a counseling session, going to a no-pay status, going to internal affairs or a direct order, if that’s what it takes, I’m willing to do it.”
As of Tuesday, about 2,000 officers had yet to upload their vaccine or testing status on a city online portal and, so far, 21 officers have been stripped of their police powers and sent home without pay, Brown said.
Brown said “several hundred” hold-out officers were summoned to police headquarters this week and given a chance to change their minds and hear of the consequences they face for refusing.
“I don’t know if we’ve changed their minds or if they’ve made the decision themselves to get in the portal,” Brown said.
City officials released an update on the vaccine mandate on Monday showing that 79% of all city employees had complied and registered their vaccine status on the online portal. Officials said 84% are fully vaccinated.
The police department has the lowest level of compliance, officials said.
The mandate set a deadline of last Friday for employees to comply.
The Fraternal Order of Police, the union that represents officers, has asked Cook County Circuit Court Judge Cecilia Horan to issue a temporary restraining order against the mandate. A hearing on the issue is scheduled for Wednesday.
At the same time, the union is asking Horan to recuse herself from the case after she granted the city a temporary restraining order on Friday barring FOP President John Catanzara from publicly telling union members to defy the mandate.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Catanzara’s statements are allegedly putting the public in danger.
“By doing so, and by predicting that 50% or more officers will violate their oaths and not report for duty, Catanzara is encouraging an unlawful strike and work stoppage which carries the potential to undermine public safety and expose our residents to irreparable harm, particularly during an ongoing pandemic,” Lightfoot wrote in a court filing.
Following the ruling, Catanzara posted a video on the union’s YouTube channel informing members that he has been silenced.
“Everybody has to do what’s in their hearts and minds, whatever that is,” Catanzara said in the video. “But I will just leave you with this: policy starts at the top in this city and it has proven time and time again that the top of this city’s policy needs to change.”
Holding up a sign bearing a so-called “Thin Blue Line” flag with the words “John Catanzara for Mayor 2023,” he said “enough is enough.”
With Chicago in the midst of a surge in violent crime with shootings up 9% this year over 2020, some city leaders said they fear Lightfoot and Brown are playing with fire by taking officers who don’t comply with the vaccine mandate off the streets.
“We are simply not in a position to fire 2,000 police officers right now,” Second Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins told ABC station WLS in Chicago. “We can’t do that. That is not in our best interest.”
If you’re a female music star, it seems to be a rule that you have to release a signature fragrance. So, following in the footsteps of Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, Christina Aguilera and more, Billie Eilish is getting into the perfume business, too.
Billie announced that her new fragrance, called Eilish, is “coming this fall.” She paired the announcement with a glam shot of herself holding a bottle of the perfume, along with a link to the website BillieEilishFragrances.com, where you can sign up for updates on when exactly you can buy the stuff.
On the website’s Instagram account, you can get a good look at the bottle. It’s bronze-colored and is in the shape of a female bust that’s been cut off underneath the breasts; the top of the head above the nose is also cut off, as are the arms.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King has lasted 50 years, and now it’s being examined in a new concert documentary that’s coming to CNN and HBO Max.
The movie is called Carole King & James Taylor: Just Call Out My Name, and is being directed and produced by Frank Marshall. Marshall is pretty comfortable with projects involving superstars of the 1960s and ’70s: He directed HBO’s acclaimed Bee Gees documentary How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, and produced Hulu’s McCartney 3, 2, 1.
The documentary takes as its starting point the concert that Carole and James did together in 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Los Angeles’ famous club The Troubadour, where they’d first played together in 1970. The ’07 show, which featured them collaborating on songs like “You’ve Got a Friend,” led to a 2010 arena tour.
The film documents the tour and also features interviews with the now-legendary session musicians who played with the duo in 1970, 2007 and 2010, including guitarist Danny Kortchmar, bass player Lee Sklar and drummer Russ Kunkel.
On October 30, King will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for the second time; she was previously inducted as a songwriter in 1990. Inducting her will be Taylor Swift, who, incidentally, was named after James Taylor.
If you’re still in the hunt for a Halloween costume, Florence Pugh has an idea for you: go as her Black Widow character, Yelena.
On Tuesday, the actress took to Instagram to made a case for why people should dress up as the on-screen spy and assassin. The reason is actually really simple — because the vest has pockets, “a lot of handy pockets.”
Standing in front of a display window that featured costumes from Scarlett Johansson and David Harbour‘s Black Widow characters, Pugh wrote, “What the..Apparently Yelena didn’t make the cut.”
“GUYS. I LITERALLY TALK ABOUT POCKETS IN NEARLY EVERY SCENE. Halloween= A LOT OF FREE SWEETIES.”
May I remind you that the vest has A LOT OF HANDY POCKETS,” Pugh continued. “Costume+vest+POCKETS= someone who came prepared.”
“IT IS with great importance we understand how vital Yelena is for Halloween,” Pugh concluded, before adding, “Rant over, thanks for listening.”
So, what are you waiting for? After all, all that candy has to go somewhere.
