Nigerian highlife musician Victor Olaiya has died, the Nigerian newspaper Punch reports. He passed on February 12 in Lagos, Nigeria. He was 89. Olaiya, aka Dr. Victor Abimbola Olaiya OON, was a trumpeter known as “The Evil Genius of Highlife,” a Ghanian genre that fuses traditional Akan melodies with Western instruments. He first broke out
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Though not the primary antagonist of the popular Saw franchise, Amanda Young became the main killer of the asymmetrical horror game, Dead By Daylight in 2018. Amanda Young was first introduced in the first Saw movie in 2004 as a potential victim of John Kramer. She survived her trap, which has become known to fans as the “reverse bear trap”; Amanda
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As you may recall, Joe Carnahan (The Grey, Boss Level) has been developing a remake of Indonesian fight film The Raid, and an interesting update comes via Collider this week. Speaking with the site, Carnahan and star Frank Grillo have revealed that their take on The Raid isn’t exactly a Raid movie anymore, but rather an
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Instrumental records are often tailored to one specific audience over another, whether it be fans of jazz or heavy metal enthusiasts, but that’s hardly the case with the new virtuosic guitar album Lifting the Curse by Darren Michael Boyd. Though most of the material on Lifting the Curse qualifies as rocker approved, with tracks like “Circle of Sixes” and
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Kaitlin Bennett (L), a conservative pundit popular known as ‘the Kent State gun girl’, called a student (R) ‘obviously gay’ in Ohio, US. (Screen capture via Twitter) Far-right gun activist Kaitlin Bennett has been embroiled in controversy after appearing to call a college student “obviously gay” in a viral video. Josh, 19, posted the exchange
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Sponsored by Amazon Publishing and Don’t Look Down by Hilary Davidson. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney for $2.99. Get it here, or just click on the cover image below. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
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Metro Exodus has officially released its second DLC, called “Sam’s Story,” and its launch trailer certainly paints it as an action-packed adventure. Metro Exodus’s main campaign had no shortage of grisly combat with both humans desperate for survival and monsters created by nuclear radiation, and its masterful world-building across the series has been lauded as
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Last night Vanderpump Rules celebrated the annual SUR rite of passage: PRIDE! In order to survive in this alternate universe known as Lisa Vanderpump Land, which at this point is indistinguishable from Lisa Frank Land (and one will equally find themselves trapperkeeper’d), one must dress up in rainbow paraphernalia, endure hours of Scheana Marie warbling
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The first trailer has been released for Wes Anderson’s new movie The French Dispatch. The film arrives in theaters on July 24. Watch the tailer below. Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro, Owen Wilson, Elisabeth Moss, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Henry Winkler, Bob Balaban, Christoph Waltz,
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The 2020 LGBT+ Labour Leadership Hustings will take place in Manchester on February 20. Labour leadership and deputy leadership candidates will be quizzed on LGBT+ issues and how they’re going to return Labour to power at the 2020 LGBT+ Labour Leadership Hustings on Thursday, February 20. The event, presented by PinkNews, will be hosted by
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