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Tupac Musical Holler if Ya Hear Me Silenced on Broadway After 6 Weeks
In the end it may have been too much for Holler if Ya Hear Me to carry. The Tupac musical was supposed to be a bridge between the gritty streets of hip-hop and the highbrow Broadway scene. Holler opened to lukewarm reviews, struggled to find an audience, and after some 38 performances and 17 previews…
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Tracy Morgan Speaks for the 1st Time Since Accident: ‘I’m OK. I Feel Strong’
Looks like Tracy Morgan will be back to his old tricks in no time. Morgan spoke out for the first time since a Wal-Mart truck crashed into his limousine, killing his good friend and mentor, James “Uncle Jimmy Mack” McNair, and leaving him hospitalized with a broken nose, broken femur, cracked ribs and a broken…
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8th-Grade Metal Band Signs $1.7M Record Deal
They may not be old enough to see an R-rated movie without a parent, but that doesn’t mean they can’t rock out. With gigs at this year’s Coachella Festival in California and opening for metal heavyweights Guns N’ Roses, three black eighth-graders—guitarist Malcolm Brickhouse and bassist Alec Atkins, both 13, and drummer Jarad Dawkins, 12—who…
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Florida Cops Linked to KKK Are Off the Force
Two members of a Florida town’s police department are off the force after an FBI report allegedly linked them to the Ku Klux Klan, the Orlando Sentinel reports. According to the Sentinel, Fruitland Park Deputy Chief David Borst offered his immediate resignation once the FBI released the report to police Chief Terry Isaacs. Isaacs dismissed…
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Here’s the Atrocious Way George Zimmerman Spent the Last Year
It’s hard to imagine a George Zimmerman-less world. He burst into the American collective consciousness with the welcome and expectation of an acid-filled, busted fire hydrant after his brazen attack in February 2012 on an unsuspecting teenager whose trip to the store for Skittles and iced tea would be his last. On July 13, 2013,…
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Police Use Breast Implants’ Serial Numbers to ID Dead Woman
A Gary, Ind., woman who had been missing since July 3 was found dead in the trunk of an abandoned car, having suffered several stab wounds and blunt force trauma to the head, the Lake County (Ind.) Coroner’s Office told the Chicago Sun-Times. The woman, whose body was found Monday, was identified Wednesday as Decarol…
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NC Man Sits in Hot Car to End Hot-Car Deaths
Terry Williams is tired of hearing that children have died after being left in a hot car, so he has taken his fight, and a challenge, to social media. “I’m sitting in the car with the windows rolled up ’cause I want to know how it feels to be left in the car,” the Greensboro,…
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Jerry Sandusky’s Son Tells Oprah His Story of Abuse: ‘At Bedtime, His Ritual Began’
Matt Sandusky, the adopted son of former Penn State assistant coach and convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky, will appear in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey on July 17 in which he reportedly discusses his personal account of sexual abuse he suffered from Sandusky. According to Philly.com, this will be the first television interview…
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Husband of Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Gets 8 Years in Prison
Apollo Nida, husband of Phaedra Parks, the Southern-fried lawyer who stars on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and was sentenced to eight years in prison, the Associated Press reports. Nida, 35, was also ordered to pay $2.3 million in restitution to victims of the stolen-check-and-tax-return scheme in which Nida was…
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NY Mother in Custody After Baby Abandoned on Subway Platform
On Monday around 11:50 a.m., a young mother riding the New York City subway with her 7-month-old baby waited for the subway car to come to a stop at Manhattan’s Columbus Circle station. Once the doors opened, the mother pushed the red-and-white polka-dot stroller that the baby was seated in onto the subway platform. The…
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