Year: 2022

Courteney Cox knows a lot about spooky things, since she has starred in every Scream movie since the series began in 1996 (not counting the notably boring MTV series). So, when she suspected her house was haunted, she knew what to do: Run! Get out of there! Fast!

The former Friends star stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! and, naturally, the conversation progressed to talking about ghosts and hauntings, since Cox stars in the upcoming Starz horror-comedy series Shining Vale. The actress then admitted she had experienced a haunting before when she lived in Carole King’s old house.

“Carole King came over to my house and she said there had been a divorce that was really ugly, and there was a ghost in the house,” Cox told Kimmel. “And I was ‘Yeah, whatever.’ But other people who had stayed there with me — like, friends of mine — said they felt an encounter with a woman who was sitting on the edge of the bed.” Cox didn’t believe them and brushed it off. Red flag!

Still, for some reason, that wasn’t enough to get Cox to take the haunting seriously. The actress didn’t believe it until a delivery man stopped by one day. “I was at the house one day, not being a believer. And the doorbell rang. It was a UPS guy or something, and I opened the door and he said, ‘Do you know this house is haunted?’ And I go, ‘Yeah, why? Why do you think that?’ He goes, ‘Because there is someone standing behind you.’” That turned out to be the final straw, thankfully.

The Scream alum moved shortly after that encounter. She admitted, “I couldn’t sleep there alone ever again.” Kimmel, also a skeptic, joked that it was probably just the UPS guy who wanted to buy the house. Ghosts are real, everyone! They are real! Don’t mess with them!

Neneh Cherry has returned with an updated version of her signature song, “Buffalo Stance.” For the reimagination, she has enlisted the help of Swedish pop icon Robyn for new vocals and Mapei for an original take on the song’s rap. Dev Hynes also helped produce the new version of “Buffalo Stance,” giving the song his signature smooth, silky production.

Robyn and Cherry have been friends for nearly 30 years, and Cherry remembers feeling captivated the first time seeing Robyn perform in Stockholm.

“I love that I could write an essay with all the things I could say about Robyn and I love that she leaves me speechless at the same time,” Cherry said in a statement. “Her talent is soulful because she leads with her heart and spirit, she is absolutely there, ever present with honest intensity in her offerings which leave me blubbering with hairs standing erect on my arms and legs, dancing on my own talking to myself with a feeling that everything is going to be alright.”

Earlier this week, Cherry received the Icon Award at the NME Awards 2022. This new version of “Buffalo Stance” comes ahead of an upcoming collaboration from Cherry, due later this year.

Check out “Buffalo Stance” above.

Last month, rapper Jack Harlow showed off his basketball skills at the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game with teammates Kane Brown, Anuel AA, and Myles Garrett. This preceded news regarding his first ever on-screen role. In his acting debut, Harlow will star in 20th Century’s reboot of White Men Can’t Jump, according to Deadline.

Harlow’s debut role comes following a slew of hits over the past two years, including his own viral TikTok single “What’s Poppin’?” and his verse on Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby.” Kanye West even called Harlow one of today’s five best rappers and featured him on his album Donda 2.

While we know Harlow is skilled on the court, he reportedly wowed the filmmakers and producers during his first ever audition. The “Nail Tech” rapper will play a version of the role originally played by Woody Harrelson. In Ron Shelton’s 1992 original, Harrelson stars alongside Wesley Snipes. The two play basketball players who try to outplay each other, but ultimately decide to team up.

Black-ish creator Kenya Barris will produce the film through his company Khalabo Ink Society. Blake Griffin, Ryan Kalil, and Noah Weinstein will executive producer this adaptation through their label Mortal Media. Doug Hall, who wrote the script alongside Barris will also executive produce with E. Brian Dobbins.

Jack Harlow is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

One major question has loomed large over the Washington Wizards for the last few years: What is going to happen with Bradley Beal? While Beal has played his entire NBA career in the nation’s capital, his name has popped up in trade rumors for some time, as he hasn’t signed a long-term extension with the team and has expressed some frustration with how things have gone.

Despite that, Beal has always maintained that his preference is to stay with the Wizards. And on Thursday, we got our strongest indication yet that the 28-year-old Beal does not plan on going anywhere. Beal spoke with the media and was asked if it’s fair to say he’s leaning towards putting pen to paper on a max contract extension with the team this summer and said it is.

Beal has a player option for the 2022-23 season worth a little more than $36 million, but has the ability to decline it and become an unrestricted free agent. As Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN noted, Beal has the ability to make a whole lot more money if he decides to go down this route.

For now, Beal will continue to watch his team try to make a push for the play-in tournament from the sidelines. The All-NBA guard underwent season-ending wrist surgery last month. Washington is 28-33 on the year, one game back of the Atlanta Hawks for the 10-seed in the Eastern Conference.

Joy Behar was off to a rough start during Thursday morning’s episode of The View. While attempt to get into her seat at the table, the longtime host and comedian completely wiped out, causing her co-hosts and production crew to race over and help her up. Fortunately, Behar wasn’t hurt, and after being understandably shook for a minute, she was quickly cracking jokes with the rest of the panel. “25 years, that has never happened,” Behar quipped. “Who do I sue?!”

As the co-hosts composed themselves and checked on Behar several times, they made it abundantly known that they hate the elevated, spinning chairs that they use on set. Sunny Hostin revealed she’s also fallen out of the chairs before as Whoopi Goldberg demonstrated how wobbly they are. However, things took a serious turn as Behar reflected on the recent death of Bob Saget, who died after suffering a fall alone in his hotel room. Via The Wrap:

“The main thing — just to talk seriously — when Bob Saget fell, he died,” Behar said. “If you hit your head, and you feel dizzy or you have blurred vision, or you feel like you want to go to sleep, go to the doctor. Because that will kill you.”

Of course, immediately afterwards, Behar once again let everyone know that she’s fine before calling herself a “klutz.” But just as the commotion was about to die down, Whoopi had to take a minute to shut down a conspiracy theory that was forming that Sara Haines tripped Joy. “She did not do it, and stop sending us texts!” Whoopi told the camera.

(Via The Wrap)

Sometimes the silliest of mistakes can result in the sweetest of coincidences.

Shahid Davis had ordered dinner from the Chipotle app and was checking on the map to see how far away the driver was when he realized that the driver was half a continent away. Davis had been staying at a hotel in Iowa the last time he ordered, and he forgot to go back and change the delivery address to his home in Hagerstown, Maryland. He contacted Chipotle, but the customer service person told him they couldn’t do anything since it was already out for delivery.

So when the delivery person texted Davis to let him know they were there, he explained what happened.

“I’m here with your order,” the person texted.

“Take it with you bro and enjoy the lunch,” Davis responded. “I forgot to change my address and I currently in Maryland.”

“Umm…okay thhanks,” the person responded.

But then a short while later they sent another message that made Davis’ sharing of the story go viral.

“I wanted to thank you again,” they wrote. “It’s my brother’s birthday today and he is laid to rest not far from where you had me take this delivery. I’m having lunch with him today because of you. You have no idea how much that means to me. I truly appreciate it.”

Well shoot. Someone pass the tissues, please.

Davis told Upworthy that he was really happy to receive the message. “[I] felt like I made an impact in his life even though I don’t know the person’s name or anything about them. But it doesn’t matter at the end because I did something to help brighten his day up!”

“I think we humans all have a kind soul inside, we just have to push out the negativity and push out kindness,” Davis added. “Only we can make the world a better place.”

Davis’ Facebook story has been shared more than 100,000 times since he posted it on Sunday, and people in the comments celebrated the unexpected human connection.

“That’s wassup!!” wrote one commenter. “The universe always repays, good or bad. When your reward comes, you will know exactly why. Spread love, we all need it right now. Thank you.”

“Dude that’s simply amazing,” wrote another. “Just proves that you never know what someone is dealing with and how a kind gesture may impact their life.”

“That’s awesome, you definitely made his day,” wrote another. “I’m saying this as a mom who lost her baby and eats lunches with my baby occasionally this would make my day too.”

Truly, we are all connected in ways we can’t always see, so it’s lovely when something like this happens to show us how true it is.

Eighty-one-year-old Harry Smith—who uses an electric wheelchair—was walking his beloved 9-year-old beagle mix, Sarah Jane, near a lake in Port St. Lucie, Florida when the pleasant jaunt took a turn for the worse.

Smith says that the left wheel of the chair “grabbed and spun me” and he wound up rolling down a grass embankment into the water. Smith can’t swim, could barely keep his head above the water and without immediate help would have drowned.

Sarah Jane began to bark loudly, capturing the attention of Edward Suhling, 58, who was working on a trailer with Aby “Jacob” Chacko, 49. “Sensing his owner was in trouble, his dog began to bark loudly which alerted two bystanders across the street,” the Port St. Lucie police department wrote in a Facebook post.

At first, Suhling thought that the dog was being attacked by an alligator, then he saw Smith’s head poking out of the water. Suhling and Chacko ran over to the pond, flagging down a police officer along the way.

Harry was out walking his dog, Sarah Jane, when his wheel got caught in the mulch, turning him around and down into the pond. nnNeighbors heard Sarah Jane barking and Harry yelling u201cHELP!u201d nn@PSLPolice were flagged down. nnThey all helped him out, saving his life. @CBS12pic.twitter.com/0s8fygh5zx

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“As soon as I got here I saw the wheelchair and the dog and I recognized that’s Harry and I know he can’t walk,” Chacko said. Smith was in terror fighting for his life in the pond. “My legs don’t work,” he said. “I can’t push.”

“The dog was splashing in the water,” Suhling said. “So we both ran over here and I jumped in the water, and my buddy grabbed his arms and I grabbed his legs and we got him up on shore.”

After Smith was safely out of the water, the police officer administered medical attention and he was cleared to go home. Unfortunately, his wheelchair didn’t work, so the officer pushed him back to his home.

The Port St. Lucie Police Department later called the Suhlih, Chacko, and Sarah Jane heroes on its Facebook page. “We are thankful for Mr. Smith’s dog and the two bystanders that helped save his life!” the police department wrote on Facebook. “And as the saying remains true…A man’s best friend is his dog.”

“She’s such a good dog,” Smith later said about Sarah Jane. “Everybody in this neighborhood loves her, they all look out for her.” After the pair made it home safely, Smith was sure to give his dog a treat. “I love her, always have, always will,” he said.

While the dog’s heroics are pretty amazing, there are a couple of reasons why Sarah Jane knew that Smith was in danger and sprang into action. A lot of dogs have a strong fear of water. Not all of them love it like labradors. If Sarah Jane was afraid of the water, she would have sensed her guardian was in serious danger.

Secondly, a study from Arizona State University in 2020 tested whether dogs will help if they thought their owner was in trouble. For the study, owners called out to the dog while appearing to be trapped inside a box. In most instances, the dogs attempted to free their owners after hearing them cry for help.

The story of Sarah Jane and her guardian Harry Smith proves, once again, that we just don’t deserve dogs.

It’s hard to imagine an era when we couldn’t tell the time by checking our smartphone or wristwatch. But before a watch was even a thing, cities had bell towers that would bong every hour, on the hour, so the town’s folk knew the time.

During the Industrial Revolution, things became more technologically advanced, and clock towers popped up in public places so nobody was late to work.

Twelve years ago, at 12:02, the clock in the central tower at Grimsby Minster in eastern England stopped working. The church dates back to the 12th century and the central tower was added in 1365.

A group of experts that worked on the restoration of London’s Big Ben came out to the church and said that it would require scaffolding to get the old clock back in order and the cost would be somewhere between £40,000 ($53,250) and £50,000 ($66,600).

The church feared it would have to throw a massive fundraiser to get enough money to fix its historic clock. However, two guys that work on the church’s bells had a different idea. Rick Haywood, 47, and Jay Foley, 15, were performing routine maintenance on the bells when they decided to give the clock a look.

“We did not think we could do any more damage,” Haywood told The Sun. “We found various dead pigeons gumming up the bearings. Some of the bearings were very dry.”

Foley believes that the clock stopped running because of its age and the fact that its gears were “very dry” and “were not in the right alignment.”

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“The minutes, hours, and seconds all have separate sections, which were out of order,” Foley added. “We got the dead pigeons out and it slowly ticked along after we greased it and cleaned it out.”

“We gave it grease and WD-40 and managed to get it running,” Haywood said.

The difference in cost to the church was miraculous. It could have spent tens of thousands of pounds to get the clock running, but all it cost was £6 for two cans of WD-40, and the labor charges for Haywood and Foley.

The workers say the clock runs about two minutes slow because it took a little time to get everything aligned after they looked at their smartphones. The pair are proud of their work and glad they could save the minster a few quid.

“The church had one or two engineers from big clock companies and they were starting at £40-50,000 to get it running again. We saved them at least £40,000 so I am hoping for a meal invite,” Haywood said.

The church’s warden couldn’t be more pleased with the duo’s fine work. “It’s amazing because you would not believe how much hassle you get when a church clock is not working,” he said.

I don’t think there’s anything in the Bible about always asking for a second opinion after getting a quote. But it’s sure to be a lesson taught at Grimsby Minster for the foreseeable future.

After a couple of years spent building out the other parts of his resume, Joey Badass has been slowly but surely dipping his toes back into rap. Promising that his third album is “for sure” dropping this year, the Brooklyn-based rapper made his triumphant return to the rap game with his boastful new single “The Rev3nge.” Today, he unveiled his next new single, the defiant “Head High,” with a passionate performance of the song on popular YouTube music series A COLORS Show.

Standing in front of an icy blue background in a cream jacket and matching patterned pants, Joey recounts a conversation with XXXtentacion, comparing him to Joey’s own fallen compatriot Capital Steez, and ruminates on the cyclical nature of trauma and violence in the hood while refusing to give in to it. “Dancin’ with the devil, tryin’ not to lose my balance,” he mutters. “Look, God blessed the kid with many talents.”

Should Joey’s album drop as promised this year, it’ll be his first full-length collection of music since 2017’s All-Amerikkkan Badass, which solidified his talent as more than just a ’90s throwback homage artist.

Watch Joey Badass’ passionate performance of the defiant “Head High” for A COLORS Show above.

Something happened to Kevin Morby in 2017. Already a prolific musician in his own regard, his confidence and ability as a storyteller seemed to soar with the release of the instant classic City Music. Every release that has followed since has seen Morby operating at a higher level of consciousness. This is a songwriter in command of his craft, both in the studio and on stage. Today, he has announced what’s described as his “magnum opus” in his seventh album, This Is A Photograph.

He wrote the album (which is out on May 13th) and recorded the first demos while living in Memphis and spending his days traversing the city, connecting with its ghosts. Working with producer Sam Cohen, This Is A Photograph sees Morby tapping into the spirit of raconteurs like Bob Dylan and Jeff Buckley and working with collaborators like harpist Brandee Younger, jazz drummer Makaya McCraven, and singer-songwriter Cassandra Jenkins.

The lead title track single is a portrait of heartland nostalgia, featuring backing vocal harmonies by members of Memphis’ Stax Academy Of Music. The interplay of guitar and banjo speaks to Americana and highway rock and roll. Morby is fierce, driven, and on a mission as he sings, “This is what I’ll miss about being alive, this is what I’ll miss after I die.”

“It’s about the battle every family faces, that of chasing the clock, to live our lives and hold onto one another for as long as possible,” Morby said of the song in a statement. “That, and, the dreams that come with being a young family in America and where those dreams eventually end up.”

Watch the video for “This Is A Photograph” above. Check out the This Is A Photograph art and tracklist, as well as Kevin Morby’s tour dates for 2022, below.

1. “Intro”
2. “This Is A Photograph”
3. “A Random Act Of Kindness”
4. “Bittersweet, TN”
5. “Disappearing”
6. “A Coat Of Butterflies”
7. “Rock Bottom”
8. “Forever Inside A Picture”
9. “Five Easy Pieces”
10. “Stop Before I Cry”
11. “It’s Over”
12. “Goodbye To Good Times”

05/20 — Madrid, ES @ Tomavistas
05/21 — Biarritz, FR @ L’Atabal
05/22 — Montpellier, FR @ Le Rockstore
05/23 — Bordeaux, FR @ Rock School Barbey
05/24 — Paris, FR @ Le Bataclan
05/25 — Köln, DE @ Kulturekirche
05/26 — Antwerpen, BE @ De Roma
05/28 — London, UK @ Wide Awake at Brockwell Park
05/29 — Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
05/30 — Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefährlich
05/31 — Berlin, DE @ Metropol
06/01 — Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur
06/03– Angers, FR @ Levitation
06/04 — Clermont–Ferrand, FR @ La Cooperative de Mai
06/05 — Lille, FR @ Aéronef
06/03 — Bologna, IT @ Covo Summer
06/04 — Terni, IT @ Anfifteatro Romano
06/06 — Zagreb, HR @ Mochvara
06/07 — Budapest, HU @ Akvárium Klub
06/08 — Trencin, Slovakia @ Pohoda Festival
06/09 — Zittau, DE @ Lonesome Lake Festival
06/11 — Vienna, AT @ WUK
06/12 — Munich, DE @ Ampere
06/13 — Bern, CH @ Gurtenfestival
06/15 — Lisbon, PT @ Super Bock Super Rock
08/21 — Erlanger, DE @ Ewerk
08/22 — Hannover, DE @ Café Glocksee
08/24 — Copenhagen, DK @ Punpehuset
08/27 — Prague, CZ @ Meetfactory
08/28 — Darmstadt, DE @ Golden Leaves Festival
08/31 — Brighton, UK @ Chalk
09/03 — Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
09/04 — Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall
09/05 — Glasgow, UK @ Classic Grand
09/06 — Leeds, UK @ The Brudenell Social Club
09/07 — Dublin, IE @ Academy
09/28 — Sonoma, CA @ Historic Redwood Barn *
09/29 — San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore *
10/01 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco *
10/03 — Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole *
10/05 — Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf *
10/10 — Oklahoma City, OK @ Beer City Music Hall *
10/11 — St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway Nightclub *
10/12 — Bloomington, IN @ Buskirk–Chumley Theater *
10/14 — Memphis, TN @ The Bluff *
10/15 — Nashville, TN @ The Basement East *
10/16 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West *
10/18 — Jacksonville, FL @ Intuition Ale Works *
10/20 — Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel *
10/21 — Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall *
10/22 — Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club %
10/24 — Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair %
10/25 — Ardmore, PA @ Ardmore Music Hall %
10/26 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall %
10/28 — Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall %
10/29 — Ferndale, MI @ The Magic Bag %
10/31 — Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre %
11/01 — Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom %
11/02 — Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe %
11/03 — Kansas City, MO @ Knuckleheads Saloon %
11/05 — Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre %
11/06 — Fort Collins, CO @ Washington’s %
11/08 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The CommonWealth Room %
11/10 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall %
11/11 — Seattle, WA @ Showbox %
11/12 — Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre %

* with Cassandra Jenkins
% with Coco

This Is A Photograph is out 5/13 via Dead Oceans. Pre-order it here.