Author: Arabian Media staff
Lauryn Hill ended up hitting the Superdome stage in New Orleans after 2:30 a.m. ET early Saturday (July 5) to close out night one of ESSENCE Festival, which took responsibility for her two-hour performance delay. With plenty of chatter surrounding her tardiness, the Fugees legend set the record straight with a lengthy statement clearing the air on Tuesday (July 8). The Grammy-winning artist admitted this wasn’t the first time production issues have caused her to delay concerts, and also defended her performance artistry and how much of herself she pours into every aspect of her shows. “Thank you Essence for…
Kate Middleton’s assistant Natasha “Tash” Archer is making a career switch. After spending 15 years as the Princess of Wales’ personal assistant, the 37-year-old is leaving the private household, Kensington Palace confirmed to E! News, to set up her own private consultancy. Natasha joined the royal family as a personal assistant to both Kate and Prince William—who share kids Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7—back in 2010, after which she also became Kate’s unofficial stylist. Famously, Natasha has chosen hundreds of elegant dresses for Kate, including those from high-end designers like Alexander McQueen and Jenny Packham,…
As BTS fans prepare for the release of the forthcoming ARMY documentary Forever We Are Young, a new clip of the film featuring Steve Aoki has arrived. In the 19-second clip, the producer describes the “magical moment” when BTS fans and K-pop’s rise in the U.S. “all surged into the ‘MID Drop’ remix and allowed it to break through.” The song that Aoki refers to, “MIC Drop,” was originally released in September 2017 as a B-side on Love Yourself: Her. Aoki’s edit landed two months later in November as the second single from the EP. In 2021, the video for the…
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Ex Says She Fainted After Reading Cassie Ventura’s LawsuitJane said during her testimony that parts of Ventura’s November 2023 lawsuit—which was ultimately settled—mirrored her own experience with Combs. “I almost fainted, in fact, I think I did,” she told jurors as she cried. “There was three specific pages that was just a harrowing reference to what I was experiencing.” Jane, who took part in “hotel nights, “said that it felt like she was reading “her own story.” It led to her confronting Combs via text messages. “I feel like I am reading my own sexual trauma,” she…
Dave Flebotte, the Emmy-nominated writer and producer who worked on Tulsa King, Desperate Housewives, Boardwalk Empire and The PJs, has died after a long battle with cystic fibrosis. He was 65. Flebotte died Tuesday in a hospital in Missoula, Montana, his wife, Sandra Lindqvist, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Writing to him was everything,” she said. Flebotte was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as a youngster and was told he wouldn’t live past age 12, his wife said. He had a double lung transplant 28 years ago. The son of a bookie, Flebotte was born in Hanson, Massachusetts. A teacher at Emerson…
UPDATE (July 9): Goo Goo Dolls are set to perform at the 39th annual Carousel Ball at the Hyatt Regency Denver on Oct. 11, honoring music icon Neil Diamond. Previous stars who’ve headlined the ball included Sir Elton John, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and John Legend. Goo Goo Dolls have landed two No. 1 hits on Billboard’s all-genre Radio Songs chart – “Iris,” which held the top spot for a then record 18 weeks in 1998, and “Slide.” “We’re excited to take the stage at The Carousel Ball and support an amazing cause,” said Goo Goo Dolls bandmates John Rzeznik…
Queer Eye is gearing up for one last round of makeovers. Netflix announced July 9 that the Emmy-winning reality show’s upcoming tenth season, which just started filming in Washington, D.C, will be its last. Queer Eye, which debuted in 2018, originally starred food expert Antoni Porowski, grooming expert Jonathan Van Ness (JVN), relationship expert Karamo Brown, style expert Tan France and interior design expert Bobby Berk as the show’s “Fab Five,” before Brent stepped in to replace Bobby for seasons nine and 10. “10 seasons. fab five. one last go ’round,” the show’s official Instagram account captioned a photo of its five stars standing…
Nvidia has flown past Microsoft and Apple to hit a record $4 trillion in market value, the latest sign of the AI boom.On Wednesday morning, the AI chipmaker became the world’s first company to be worth $4 trillion, ahead of the previous $3.9 trillion market value record set by Apple in December. (Though it has come down from its $4 trillion high, its share price was $163.25 for a market cap of $3.97 trillion at the time of writing.) Nvidia shares soared by as much as 2.5% on Wednesday to an intraday high of $164.42.Related: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Will…
Zinka Logistics Solutions, which operates trucking platform BlackBuck, has received a tax demand order of ₹28.55 lakh from the Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax (TDS), Bengaluru, for FY18. The order, received on July 7, cites non-deduction of tax at source on certain expenses flagged in the company’s tax audit, according to an exchange filing. The company said it plans to appeal the order, and added that it does not expect any material financial impact.Meanwhile, in a separate development, BlackBuck has initiated a postal ballot process seeking shareholder approval for key changes. including renaming the company to ‘BlackBuck Limited’, aligning with…
In keeping with the scientific concept that is its namesake, the universe of The Big Bang Theory keeps expanding. HBO Max has formally greenlit Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, a comedy that will center on comic book shop owner Stuart Bloom (Kevin Sussman), who had a heavily recurring role on the original CBS series. The show comes from Big Bang Theory co-creators Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady and Zak Penn (Free Guy, Beacon 23) — and unlike the original series and its other spinoffs, Young Sheldon and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, it will feature a heavy dose of sci-fi…