Review: Billy Joel and Sting light up Petco Park on a cool, sometimes wet Saturday night

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Take a bow, mother nature!

Thanks to some uncharacteristically wet April weather during Billy Joel’s sold-out concert with Sting at Petco Park on Saturday night, pop-music’s famed piano man has achieved an elite — if not entirely coveted — distinction. He now joins the Rolling Stones, Miles Davis and Tony Bennett on the very short list of legendary musicians whose open-air San Diego concerts saw them forge ahead in a noble quest to reign in the rain.

Richard Lewis, Comedian and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Star, Dies at 76

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Richard Lewis, the stand-up comedian who also starred alongside Larry David in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” died Tuesday night at his Los Angeles home due to a heart attack, Variety has confirmed. He was 76.

Lewis announced last April he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and was retiring from stand-up comedy. He most recently appeared in Season 12 of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” currently airing on HBO.

In 2021, Lewis announced he would not appear in Season 11 of “Curb” in order to recover from three surgeries.

Goodbye, Pokemon Let’s Go Johto

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Pokemon Let’s Go Johto seems to have missed its window, and I am officially giving up

I am officially retiring from rooting for a new Pokemon Let’s Go game. The writing has been on the wall for a while now. The last best chance we had was an appearance at today’s Pokemon Presents, but that has now passed us by. Let’s Go Johto is right there, but it seems to be just out of reach.

‘Shogun’ Episode 1 ‘Anjin’ Review: A Captivating Series Premiere

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Complex feudal politics. A ship lost at sea, most of its crew dead from starvation, scurvy or worse. A nation on the brink of war. Strange customs and perilous encounters as cultures come crashing together like waves on rock. The end of one era and the beginning of another. Feudal Japan in a time of upheaval, its Catholic Portuguese allies and the newly arrived English and Dutch protestants at one another’s throats, and some of the best cinematography,

AI-generated nude images of Taylor Swift went viral on X, evading moderation and sparking outrage

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Some of the singer’s fans said mass-reporting campaigns took the images down.

Nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift went viral on X on Wednesday, amassing over 27 million views and more than 260,000 likes in 19 hours before the account that posted the images was suspended.

Deepfakes portraying Swift nude and in sexual scenarios continue to proliferate on X, including reposts of the viral deepfake images. Such images can be generated with AI tools that develop entirely new,

Jada Pinkett Smith Says She and Will Smith Separated in 2016

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“We live separately,” the actress and talk show host revealed in an NBC News interview, but they have not divorced.

Rumors about one of Hollywood’s most famous couples have now been put to rest: The actress Jada Pinkett Smith has confirmed that she and Will Smith have been separated, though not legally divorced, for about seven years. Pinkett Smith, also a talk-show host, shared the revelation in an interview with NBC News, previews of which were shown on Wednesday.

Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles, dies at 77

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Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added high harmonies to such favorites as “Take It Easy” and “The Best of My Love” and stepped out front for the waltz-time ballad “Take It to the Limit,” has died, the band said Thursday.

Meisner died Wednesday night in Los Angeles of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the Eagles said in a statement. He was 77.

The bassist had endured numerous afflictions in recent years and personal tragedy in 2016 when his wife,

‘Teen Wolf: The Movie’ and ‘Wolf Pack’ pack a pretty toothless one-two punch

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There aren’t many teen wolves in “Teen Wolf: The Movie,” but there is a pack of them in “Wolf Pack,” the series premiering the same day, from the same producer and on the same streaming service that is definitely not a spinoff of “Teen Wolf,” but rather adapted from a book series. If that sounds confusing, get in line, but either way, these two Paramount+ projects ultimately feel pretty toothless.

Having set its own course using the title of the 1985 Michael J.

Tommy Lee’s nude photo on Instagram fuels debate over platform’s censorship double standard

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Rocker Tommy Lee’s penis was once again available for the public to see but this time it appears to be his choice.

The Mötley Crüe drummer, 59, posted a full-frontal nude photo on Instagram and Facebook Thursday. “Ooooopppsss,” he captioned the post.

The photo, showing a naked Lee sitting on the edge of a bathtub, has since been removed from both social media platforms. It’s unclear, however, whether he or the social media sites took the photo down.

Kathryn Kates, ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ actor, dies at 73

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Kathryn Kates, ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ actor, dies at 73

Kates died Saturday after a long battle with lung cancer, her representatives said.

Kathryn Kates, an actor who appeared in “Seinfeld” and “Orange Is the New Black,” died Saturday after a lung cancer diagnosis. She was 73.

“Kathryn passed away peacefully this past Saturday surrounded by her brother Josh, his wife Sue Ann and her sister Mallory,” Headline Talent Agency said in a statement.