“Feeling Things”: Ingrid Andress to set out on headlining tour in US and Europe

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Ingrid Andress is “Feeling Things” on her upcoming headlining tour.  

The “More Hearts Than Mine” singer is launching The Feeling Things Tour this fall, which finds her visiting theaters across the U.S. and Europe. The U.S. leg begins on September 27 in Boston at Royale and includes a stop at the famed Troubadour in Los Angeles on October 11 before wrapping in Pittsburgh on December 10.

Ingrid then jets across the pond for 13 shows in Europe early next year, beginning in Dublin, Ireland on January 18. Along the way, she’ll makes stops in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm and more, finishing the tour on February 5 in Oslo, Norway. 

“I’m so excited to bring my debut album, Lady Like, to the stage and perform these songs that have been such a huge part of my life for the past few years,” Ingrid shares in a statement. “More importantly, I can’t wait to see all the fans that I’ve been missing for the last 18 months. As a songwriter, the human connection is one of my favorite parts of the whole experience of touring, so I’m really looking forward to that.”

The Grammy nominee will balance her headlining shows with an opening slot on Dan + Shay‘s The (Arena) Tour later this year. 

Visit Ingrid’s official website for the full list of tour dates.

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Steely Dan lines up fall US tour; band and frontman Donald Fagen releasing new live albums soon

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Steely Dan is getting ready to do it again — get back on the road, that is.

The Donald Fagen-led band has announced dates for a U.S. fall trek dubbed the Absolutely Normal Tour ’21, which kicks off with four concerts in Miami Beach, Florida, on October 5, 6, 8 and 9 and winds down with shows in Boston on November 17, 19 and 20.

The outing also includes multiple-night engagements in Orlando and St. Petersburg, Florida; Philadelphia; Morristown, New Jersey; and Port Chester, New York, as well as stops at various other East Coast venues.

Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, July 30, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Pre-sale tickets will be available starting this Thursday, July 29 at 10 a.m. local time. Visit SteelyDan.com for more details.

Meanwhile, Steely Dan and Fagen will be releasing new live albums in the coming weeks. Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! and Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly: Live both will arrive on CD and digital formats on September 24, while 180-gram vinyl versions of the albums will hit stores on October 1.

Northeast Corridor was recorded during recent tours by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group at four venues in the Northeastern U.S. The album showcases renditions of some of Steely Dan’s most popular tunes, including “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” “Hey Nineteen,” “Aja,” “Peg,” and “Reelin’ in the Years.”

The Nightfly Live features Fagen and the Steely Dan band performing Fagen’s acclaimed 1982 debut solo album in its entirety, culled from shows in New York City and Boston.

If you pre-order Northeast Corridor and The Nightfly Live, respectively, will receive free downloads of live versions of “Reelin’ in the Years” and “I.G.Y.“

Here’s the Northeast Corridor track list:

“Black Cow”
“Kid Charlemagne”
“Rikki Don’t Lose That Number”
“Hey Nineteen”
“Any Major Dude Will Tell You”
“Glamour Profession”
“Things I Miss the Most”
“Aja”
“Peg”
“Bodhisattva”
“Reelin’ in the Years”
“A Man Ain’t Supposed to Cry”

And here’s The Nightfly Live track list:

“I.G.Y.”
“Green Flower Street”
“Ruby Baby”
“Maxine”
“New Frontier”
“The Nightfly”
“The Goodbye Look”
“Walk Between the Raindrops”

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Tiffany Haddish dishes on her upcoming portrayal of Florence Griffith Joyner

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Tiffany Haddish says she’s definitely putting in the work for her upcoming portrayal of late Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo.

“This is going to be huge — and my legs are going to be amazing!,” Haddish told People magazine. “Florence Griffith Joyner was an amazing human being and the more I’m learning about her, the more I’m like ‘Wow!'”

Haddish, who is also producing the yet-titled feature about the late track and field star, says her recent 50-pound weight loss has helped in her process of transforming into the runner, aside from it also being a great ego boost.

“It feels good to be able to wear a two piece and not feel like, ‘Oh, I got to put a whole sarong on and a very large coverup. It feels good to be able to be free,” she said. “And the main thing about the whole transformation is my knees feel like they’re happy. And when my legs is happy, Tiffany’s happy.”

While the comedian didn’t share new details on the forthcoming film, which is said to chronicle Flo-Jo’s life and untimely death at age 38 from an epileptic seizure, the feature is expected to highlight Joyner’s impact on the world of sports. Haddish says she’s not only mentally preparing for the role — she’s plans to look the part as well.

“I have tried on some of the outfits and I must say, I look pretty darn good in them,” she joked. “I had the long nails over the summer. We don’t have long nails right now because… I’m in the process of writing my next book. So we need the fingertips so we can move quickly on the keyboard, but the nails will be back sooner than later.”

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Green Day’s “Rock and Roll All Nite” cover earns KISS’ approval

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The long-awaited Hella Mega tour featuring Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy finally kicked off over the weekend in Dallas, and the party reached even beyond the stadium full of fans.

Green Day’s set included a cover of the KISS classic “Rock and Roll All Nite,” which caught the attention of band members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons.

Both tweeted video of Billie Joe Armstrong and company’s performance while sharing their approval of the cover. “Thank you, Gentlemen,” Simmons wrote, while Stanley added, “Another reason to love @GreenDay!”

The official KISS Twitter account also shared some love for the cover, writing, “SO Cool! #KISSisEverywhere!”

The Hella Mega tour, which was originally scheduled for 2020 before being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to continue Tuesday in Atlanta.

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Pink offers to pay Norway women’s beach handball team’s fine over “sexist rules”

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After the Norway women’s beach handball team was penalized for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms during their recent championship match, Pink slammed the “sexist” treatment and offered to pay the team’s fine.

The European Handball Federation ruled that bikini bottoms are required to be worn during matches and handed down a $1,700 fine, charging each woman who opted to wear shorts instead of bikini bottoms $175 for being out of uniform.

Pink was incensed by the ruling and took to Twitter over the weekend, rallying in support of the athletes.

“I’m VERY proud of the Norwegian female beach handball team FOR PROTESTING THE VERY SEXIST RULES ABOUT THEIR ‘uniform,'” the three-time Grammy winner penned.  “The European handball federation SHOULD BE FINED FOR SEXISM.”

Pink praised the team, offering both vocal and financial support by concluding, “Good on ya, ladies. I’ll be happy to pay your fines for you. Keep it up.”

She later retweeted a photo of the men and women’s beach handball teams posing together, which showed a side-by-side comparison of their uniforms.  While the men are wearing shorts and tank tops, the women are wearing bikini tops and bottoms.

The team has yet to respond to Pink’s offer.

However, after the fine was imposed, the Norwegian Handball Association took to Twitter and called upon the European Handball Federation to change its rules about uniforms.

Translated into English, the tweet reads, “We are very proud of these girls who during the European Championships raised their voices and announced that ENOUGH is ENOUGH!”

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Report: Pete Davidson contemplating move to UK to be with Phoebe Dynevor amid ‘SNL’ hiatus

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Pete Davidson and Phoebe Dynevor may be taking their relationship to the next level. Reports state that the SNL star is considering a move to the U.K. to be closer to his new love. 

Sources tell OK! magazine that since the sketch comedy show has been on hiatus, “Pete’s been nesting with Phoebe across the pond, and the relationship is getting serious.”  Dynevor is from the U.K. and is currently filming season two of the steamy Netflix hit Bridgerton. 

The pair, who first sparked romance rumors in March, “are ready to take it to the next level,” the source adds, noting that Davidson’s contract with SNL is “coming up this year” and “it makes sense for him to think about moving.”

Davidson, 27, and Dynevor, 26, made their first public, and PDA-packed, appearance at Wimbledon on July 3, and while the insider notes that the two “may seem like an odd pairing,” they insisted “they’re the perfect match!”

Prior to Dynevor, The King of Staten Island star has been romantically linked to actress Kate Beckinsale and model Kaia Gerber, as well as pop star Ariana Grande, to whom he was engaged for five months. 

 

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US men’s gymnastics team comes in 5th at Olympics

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(TOKYO) — The U.S. men’s gymnastics team came in fifth in the team competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday.

The athletes were up against powerful teams from Japan and China, as well as athletes from Russia competing under the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). After going into the final rotation in fourth place, the U.S. dropped to fifth in the final scoring. Great Britain took fourth place.

It was a tight fight for the gold between the ROC team and Japan. The Russian athletes won in the end, with the last score determining who would come out on top. The difference between gold and silver was about two-tenths of a point.

China took home the bronze.

The U.S. team consisted of Brody Malone, Yul Moldauer, Shane Wiskus and Sam Mikulak, a 28-year-old veteran who returned for his third Olympics.

The group has become tight-knit and exuberantly supportive of each other as they sought success at these Games. After qualifying for the finals, Mikulak told his teammates in a huddle he had “never been on a team like this and he’d just had the time of his life out there,” Malone told People magazine.

Their strong finish featured impressive performances especially from Moldauer on floor and Mikulak on parallel bars.

An American men’s team has not medaled at the Olympics since 2008.

Although this was the final for the team competition, the men still have opportunities to medal in individual events.

Malone will compete in the all-around and horizontal bar event, Moldauer in floor, and Alec Yoder — who was not part of the official team but is competing as an individual for the U.S. — qualified for the pommel horse event final.

Of course, Mikulak is looking to bring home an elusive Olympic individual medal. He qualified for the finals in the individual all-around, taking place Wednesday, and in the parallel bars.

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Camila Cabello addresses controversy over backup dancer’s appearance

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Camila Cabello performed her new song “Don’t Go Yet” live on TV for the first time on Friday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, but some fans expressed concern over the appearance of one of her backup dancers.

The dance number included a diverse array of dancers dressed in 80s fashion — similarly to the song’s official music video.  However, critics claimed one backup dancer, who is white, darkened his skin with makeup.  This led to some accusing Camila of promoting “blackface.”

Camila denied the accusations when responding to the backlash and explained that the dancer was supposed to represent a white man with a bad orange spray tan.

Taking to Twitter, the Grammy nominee explained, “Hey! So this dude was just supposed to be a white man with a terrible spray tan. [W]e purposefully tried to pull together a multicultural group of performers, the expectation was not that everyone in the performance needed to be Latin.”

She continued, “There are white people, African American people, [L]atin people, etc. and so the point wasn’t to try to make everyone look Latin either. There are a lot of people in the performance who are not.”

“The point was to try to make each person look like an over the top 80’s character just like in the video, including a white dude with a terrible orange spray tan,” the “Havana” singer concluded, signing the note with a red heart emoji.

She also shared an Instagram story from the dancer in question, who posted a photo of his getup and captioned the snap, “In case you missed my spray tan last night.”

In a final tweet on Saturday, Camila teased fans that “Don’t Go Yet” is just the “appetizer of a full-course meal.”

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COVID-19 live updates: US faces summer surge as delta variant spreads

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(NEW YORK) — The United States is facing a COVID-19 summer surge as the delta variant spreads.

More than 610,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Just 57% of Americans ages 12 and up are fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

COVID-19 has infected more than 194 million people worldwide and killed over 4.1 million.

Here’s how the news is developing Monday. All times Eastern:

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Symptomatic breakthrough infections rare, CDC data estimates

New data shows how rare COVID-19 breakthrough infections likely are.

With more than 156 million Americans fully vaccinated, about 153,000 symptomatic breakthrough cases are estimated to have occurred as of last week, representing approximately 0.098% of those fully vaccinated, according to an unpublished internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention document obtained by ABC News. These estimates reflect only the adult population and do not include asymptomatic breakthrough infections.

But in Provincetown, on Massachusetts’ Cape Cod, at least 551 COVID-19 infections, many of them breakthroughs, were confirmed after the July Fourth weekend. Of the Massachusetts residents who tested positive as a result of the Provincetown cluster, 69% reported to be fully vaccinated, according to local officials.

Most people were symptomatic. Apart from three hospitalizations, symptoms from cases associated with this cluster were known to be mild and without complication, said Alex Morse, the town manager for Provincetown.

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Jennifer Lopez confirms romance with Ben Affleck in steamy new photo

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Jennifer Lopez is letting the world know she’s found love in an old flame and posted a photo of her and Ben Affleck sharing a sweet kiss over the weekend.

Lopez had jetted off to St. Tropez to celebrate her 52nd birthday and revealed that she had taken Affleck with her.

Sharing a slideshow of her beachy getaway on Saturday, JLo went Instagram official with her old flame.  The first three pictures show the “On the Floor” singer flaunting her toned physique while the final snap is of her and Affleck kissing.

“5 2 … what it do … [pink heart emoiji],” Lopez cheekily captioned the post — sending her 166 million followers and her famous friends, such as Laverne Cox and Kelly Rowland, into a frenzy.

In April, Lopez and Affleck sparked rumors they were back together. Then, last week, when Lopez’s friend Leah Remini shared photos from her 51st birthday bash, she included a snap of Affleck, 48, wrapping his arms around her and Jennifer — marking the first time the couple was captured together on social media.

Lopez’s snap confirms what fans have been hoping to hear since the spring: Bennifer has officially rekindled their flame. Their romance began in 2002 and the two announced their engagement later that year. Jennifer and Ben never made it to the altar, though, going their separate ways in 2004.

Affleck married actress Jennifer Garner and went on to have three children with her.  They divorced in 2015. Meanwhile, Lopez wed singer Marc Anthony and had twin children with him.  Their marriage ended in 2011.

Lopez later became engaged to Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, but the two ended it in April.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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