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CNN
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
Hollywood Minute: Jennifer Lopez to launch a new Vegas residency
returns to Las Vegas, 'Captain America: Brave New World' hits streaming, and Lynyrd Skynyrd finally releases an official 'Free Bird' music video. Rick Damigella contributed to this story by David Daniel.
CNN
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
Hollywood Minute: Jennifer Lopez to launch a new Vegas residency
returns to Las Vegas, 'Captain America: Brave New World' hits streaming, and Lynyrd Skynyrd finally releases an official 'Free Bird' music video. Rick Damigella contributed to this story by David Daniel.
Time of India
7 days ago
- Sport
- Time of India
Clayton Keller shines as Team USA reaches gold medal final after huge win at World Championships
Clayton Keller shines as Team USA reaches gold medal final after huge win at World Championships (Image Source: Getty Images) Stockholm fans heard Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" repeatedly on Thursday, but it was Team USA who stole the spotlight at Avicii Arena. With a convincing 6–2 victory over Sweden, the Americans punched their ticket to the gold medal game at the 2025 IIHF Men's World Championship. Four of the NHL's newest franchise, the Utah Mammoths, players were big contributors to the big win. Logan Cooley and Clayton Keller power USA over Sweden From the opening puck drop, the United States dominated the game. Having won a tight one against Finland in the quarterfinals, Team USA seemed quicker, more crisp, and more powerful against the host country. They took an early 4–0 lead in two periods and fended off Sweden's third-period push with two additional goals to seal the 6–2 victory. Logan Cooley kept on impressing. Utah Mammoth sensation now boasts 11 points in nine games, four of them goals and seven assists, second-most on Team USA. His Utah Mammoth teammate Clayton Keller is closely behind him with 10 points (three goals, seven assists). 'I liked our start. We were simple. We knew how we had to start the game and how we had to play. So, I thought everyone chipped in and made an impact on the game today. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like How three Filipino cardinals eligible to be the next pope remember Pope Francis CNA Read More Undo We stuck to our game plan," Clayton Keller said after the victory. Michael Kesselring, Utah Mammoth defenseman and another key player contributed four points throughout the tournament. Forward Josh Doan contributed a single point. These impressive performances indicate just how much Utah's younger talent is contributing to the U.S. on the world stage. Also Read: Team USA's Trevor Zegras Eyes Redemption At The 2025 IIHF World Championship Gold medal game up next and put all eyes on Utah's draft Team USA will now face the winner of Switzerland vs. Denmark in Sunday's gold medal game. The last time the U.S. won gold at the Men's World Championship was in 1933 nearly 100 years ago. A win this weekend would be historic. It's a good feeling. There's one more game to win. We're going to focus on tomorrow,' Keller said. When the tournament is over, eyes will shift back to Utah Mammoth's next big time June 27–28's 2025 NHL Draft. Utah gets fourth overall and their newest draft pick will be the first in franchise history to lace up the Mammoth home sweater on stage. In the meantime, Utah fans will be cheering loudly this Sunday, praying their players take home gold. Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lynyrd Skynyrd to rock Huber Heights in June
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — An iconic rock band is coming to the Miami Valley in June. Lynyrd Skynyrd is scheduled to perform at Rose Music Center at 8 p.m. on Sunday, June 15. The band is known for many songs like 'Sweet Home Alabama,' 'Free Bird,' Simple Man' and more. Presale tickets will become available at 10 a.m. on April 8. General tickets go on-sale at the same time on April 11. Tickets can be purchased here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Guardian
16-03-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
If you're reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up
Wake up grandad and put your opinions in the pedal bin! If you even think you are well informed you are living a lie. What the world believes today depends on who is controlling legacy media's last feeble news fronts, like the head-bobbing slaphead Jeff Bezos's supine Washington Post, and on who programs digital social media sluices, such as Ketamine Ken's Twitter, currently X, essentially an ape with a megaphone standing in a crowded marketplace shouting unsubstantiated rumours at babies, and showing pornographic photographs to children. But was it ever thus? Did it just take the unalloyed unpleasantness of Elon Musk to make us see ourselves as we always were, toilet paper people fluttering on the whims of wealthy men's media outlets, 8 billion dogshit golems, Frankingsteins made of farts? A radio phone-in about social media on Monday made me understand, with sudden clarity, that horrible hysterical stories drive engagement more than thoughtful true ones. Sorry it took me so long. And so digital media surges right towards the money and JD Vance calls it freedom of speech, as if a barely sentient tapeworm reaching towards a clump of rotten offal was acting with some kind of moral imperative. A black-cab driver tells a passenger imprisoned in their back seat that Keir Starmer defended the Southport killer's father; your sister-in-law casually announces that most benefits are claimed fraudulently; and JD Vance informs Europe that it's illegal to pray in your own home in Scotland. The world thinks what rich men want it to and the truth is a touring lineup of Lynyrd Skynyrd with no original members that you're still listening to in the hope its version of Free Bird will kick ass. So what is the point of writing supposedly funny columns about current affairs for a broadsheet newspaper like the Observer? An adjudicated sex abuser is in the American White House, Boris Johnson is in a moated manor house, and I'm supposed to poke fun at them from a three-bedroom terrace house. Liberal media has failed and it doesn't have the funds to fight back. I've been writing these columns for 14 years now, and fascism and sea levels are still on the rise despite me doing some really good jokes about both of them. I am comedy's Cnut. Why feed myself through the news mincer when I'm still going to be looking at a world full of damp Hitlers when I die on the end of a Russian bayonet? Sometimes these screeds take me a few hours, slipping out like baby giraffes, wobbly and slimy but standing. And sometimes they take me dead-eyed haemorrhoidal days on end to finish, baking in the back passage of my brain like something malevolent that gestates in Donald Trump's colon after a week of KFC family bucket meals. Over the years I have come to love negotiating acceptable levels of profanity with the patient section editors, and trying to bury odd ideas in the prose to see what the brilliant artist David Foldvari will do with them. On balance, I've spent 7,000 hours writing 400,000 words of remunerated sarcasm. It's the longest piece of continuous employment I've ever had and is my last line of defence when people say, correctly, that I have never done a decent day's work in my life. I don't think I did this job especially well for the first 150,000 words. Was there any real value in anything I wrote in those pre-Brexit days of comparative political equilibrium? How many trees died just because I found politicians like David 'Dave' Cameron and George 'Pencils' Osborne merely inchoately reprehensible, instead of utterly contemptible, in those simpler sillier times? And then, as Dave said, 'doo, doo, doo, doo … Right.' And it was never the same again. Brexit was the making of these spews. It sharpened them because it exposed an interconnected web of corruption worming through Westminster, and made me appreciate the privilege of having a platform to piss on people from. But how many forests fell fruitlessly, five years ago, when I finally revealed the full secret cabbalistic name of Boris Piccaninny Watermelon Letterbox Cake Bumboys Vampires Haircut Wall-Spaffer Spunk-Burster Fuck-Business Fuck-the-Families Get-Off-My-Fucking-Laptop Girly-Swot Big-Girl's-Blouse Chicken-frit Hulk-Smash Noseringed-Crusties Death-Humbug Technology-Lessons Surrender-Bullshit French-Turds Dog-Whistle Get-Stuffed FactcheckUK@CCHQ 88%-lies Get-Brexit-Done Bung-a-Bob-for-Big-Ben's-Bongs Cocaine-Event Spiritual-Worth Three-Men-and-a-Dog Whatever-It-Takes I-Shook-Hands-With-Everyone Herd-Immunity I-Want-to-Thank-Po-Ling Squash-the-Sombrero Johnson? I had my own viral moment in miniature. But was it worth it? And yet, as I wandered the streets in lockdown, ordinary Observer readers and their dogs regularly stood at reasonable distances and told me these columns made them feel less alone, and for a moment I understood how Christ felt when all those lepers told him he was a really great bloke. I doubt anything like that ever happens to Giles Coren. Or to Jesus, to be honest, who was probably sick to the back teeth of all those selfish lepers. But here's the rub. I appreciate that, as someone who is too tight to advertise his tours, and who has not been invited on to The Graham Norton Show, the market penetration achieved by online circulation of a popular Observer column probably sells me more than a few standup comedy seats. Maybe I need this. That said, twice as many people come to see me live as read the Observer, though this can be explained by lots of angry middle-aged men bringing their bored wives with them. But since Elon Musk showed social media how to downgrade the visibility of liberal comment and monetise the outraged engagement caused by right-skewed clickbait, I have watched my online views wither. Social media is engineered to suppress the material you are reading now. If you have been directed to this column online somehow, then somewhere there's a rightwing billionaire that needs to rejig his algorithms. Stewart Lee tours Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf all year with a Royal Festival Hall run in July
