Larry King, the award-winning TV and radio host who became a household name with his long-running CNN show Larry King Live, died Saturday morning at the age of 87. “With profound sadness, Ora Media announces the death of our co-founder, host, and friend Larry King, who passed away this morning …
Read More »Fauci Warns U.S. Virus Death Toll Could Surpass 400,000 by March
As Covid-19 spreads throughout the United States at an alarming rate — a million cases in the last six days — Dr. Anthony Fauci delivered some dark news on CNN’s State of the Union. Fauci said that a recent University of Washington model projection that estimated the country could see …
Read More »Early Data Suggests a Successful Covid-19 Vaccine Could Be on the Way
More than eight months into humanity’s fight with Covid-19, American drugmaker Pfizer has announced that an early vaccine trial has been successful in preventing the virus, suggesting that it is more than 90% effective in patients with no previous exposure to Covid. According to The New York Times, the information …
Read More »As Trump Declares Surrender to the Coronavirus, GOP-led Senate Punts on Pandemic Relief
With the hasty, hypocritical business of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court completed, the Republican-led Senate has gone into recess for the next two weeks — meaning there will be no action on a new economic relief bill before the election. The move by majority leader Mitch McConnell …
Read More »The Dirty Knobs Stick It to Coronavirus in 'F-ck That Guy' Video
The Dirty Knobs, the new band led by Mike Campbell, have released the single “Fuck That Guy” from their upcoming album Wreckless Abandon, out November 20th via BMG. Co-written by Campbell and Chris Stapleton, the song is accompanied by an appropriate “fuck you” to the horrible pandemic we’re all living …
Read More »'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm': Sacha Baron Cohen's Holy Fool Returns With a Vengeance
So it’s about … does the plot matter? It’s Borat. And the full title of this sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, does sort of say it all. It’s been 14 years since Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron …
Read More »Winter Is Coming. Concert Venues Are Terrified
Todd Mayo says it was like finding buried treasure when he started The Caverns. Mayo was spelunking, excavating a cave on a plot of land he’d purchased — when he realized that the scenic space in Pelham, Tennessee could be an impressive outdoor music venue. Since its founding in 2018, …
Read More »Trump's Positive Covid-19 Test Is a Public Health 'Nightmare'
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump‘s positive test for Covid-19 has triggered a public-health crisis at the highest levels of American government and set the stage for a vast contact tracing effort to understand how the president and First Lady Melania Trump got infected and to whom they might have spread …
Read More »Tony Awards to Take Place Virtually in Fall 2020
The 74th Annual Tony Awards will be presented virtually this fall due to Covid-19, Tony Award Productions and the American Theatre Wing announced on Friday. A date and platform for the ceremony will be announced soon along with final eligibility determinations for this year’s nominees. Broadway League president Charlotte St. …
Read More »Trini Lopez, 'If I Had a Hammer' Singer and Actor, Dead at 83 From Coronavirus
Trini Lopez, the guitarist and singer whose renditions of “If I Had a Hammer” and “Lemon Tree” climbed the charts in the 1960s and an actor who appeared in films including The Dirty Dozen, has died of complications from COVID-19, the Hollywood Reporter reports. He was 83. The news was …
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