The evolution of language is fascinating, and the etymology of specific words can be a fun little trip through human history as well as human creativity.
Many English words are derived from Greek and Latin, but other European languages make up a good chunk of our language as well. The roots of some words can surprise us, and so can the way certain words came to be. And in some cases, what we don’t know can be just as surprising as what we do.
Enjoy diving into the history of 15 words we use every day.
1. Dog
Dog is often one of the first words babies learn to say, and it’s one of the first kids learn to spell. But don’t let its simplicity fool you. This word is truly a mystery.
The word “dog” comes from dogca, a very rarely used Old English word, but how we started using it as our everyday name for canines, no one knows. “Its origin remains one of the great mysteries of English etymology,” according to the Online Etymology Dictionary.
Even more interestingly, no one knows the origins of the Spanish word for “dog” (“perro”), nor do they know the origins of the Polish (“pies”) or Serbo-Croatian (“pas”) words for our canine friends, either. Who knew dogs were so enigmatic?
2. Nightmare
It’s obvious where “night” comes from in “nightmare,” but what about “mare”? Surely, were not referring to a female horse here.
Horse, no. But female, yes. Female goblin, to be precise. In Old English, mare means “incubus, nightmare, monster; witch, sorcerer.” And “nightmare” started being used around 1300 to refer to “an evil female spirit afflicting men (or horses) in their sleep with a feeling of suffocation.” Yikes. Thankfully, now it’s just any old bad dream.
3. Jumbo
We’ve all seen animals named for words with certain meanings, but here we have the opposite. The word “jumbo” came from a large elephant who lived at the London Zoo. Zookeeper Anoshan Anathjeysari named him “Jumbe,” the Swahili word for “chief.” But his status as one of the largest African bush elephants in Europe in the 19th century caused his nickname, Jumbo, to become synonymous with enormousness.
4. Muscle
The Latin word musculus means “little mouse.” As hilarious as it sounds, they thought the movement of muscles looked like little mice scurrying under the skin, hence the origin. Kinda ick to think about, but also logical, so here we are.
5. Quarantine
Ah, a word with which we are all familiar, thanks to COVID-19. But do we know what it really means?
If you understand roots, you may guess that “quar” might have something to do with the number four, and you’d be right. In Latin, quadraginta means a period of 40 days. Our usage of “quarantine” to mean isolation from others comes from the Venetian policy of ships coming into port from plague-stricken countries in the late 1300s to remain in port for 40 days before letting people off. The usage to mean any period of time in isolation began being used in the 1600s.
However, it doesn’t mean you’re tied to the debt til you die, even if it feels like it. The death part means the deal dies either when you pay it off or when you become unable to pay. Doesn’t really change the fact that it feels a bit like you’re signing your life away when you buy a house, though.
The word itself comes from German, but its usage points to the Greek myth in which Ariadne gives Theseus a ball (or clew) of yarn to help him escape the labyrinth. Now we use it to refer to anything that helps us solve a mystery.
8. Nice
The word “nice” is nice and simple, right? It’s the most basic word we use for “pleasant,” a definitively positive word. But this seemingly simple word has been through quite the trek in its etymology.
From the Latin nescius, meaning “ignorant, unaware,” it was used to mean “timid” or”faint-hearted” before the year 1300. A couple hundred years later, it had morphed to “fussy, fastidious” or “dainty, delicate.” In another 100 years, it changed to “precise, careful.” Tack on another few hundred years and we’re at “agreeable, delightful,” and from there it was only short jaunt to “kind, thoughtful.”
What a nice journey from insult to compliment.
9. Shampoo
I would have bet money that the word “shampoo” was French in origin, but nope. It’s Hindi, coming from the term champo, and the original meaning was “to massage, rub and percuss the surface of (the body) to restore tone and vigor.” It’s only been used to refer specifically to lathering and washing out strands of hair or carpet since the mid 1800s.
10. Torpedo
Literally Latin for a stingray. As in the marine animal. That comes from the root word torpere, which means “be numb,” since a ray’s sting can numb you. It doesn’t become the word for a propelled underwater explosive until the last couple hundred years.
11. Ambidextrous
We know that left-handedness was seen negatively throughout much of human history, but even the word that means “able to use both hands equally” has a right-handed bias baked into it. The medieval Latin ambidexter literally meansliterally means “right-handed on both sides.”
Parents want to do right by their kids. Make them feel special, let them have fun and give them opportunities to enjoy magic before adulthood sets in. And yet, that desire can easily be suppressed by the need to keep up with the lavish events constantly seen on social media.
For many families, over-the-top activities are simply not feasible—especially ones that come year after year like birthdays. So many are going against societal expectations and instead choosing traditions that work for their unique situation. Opting for experiences over expensive gifts, for example, or having one-on-one family time instead of parties with friends.
For Marissa Light, it looks a little more like not even doing a birthday party every year.
“Under no circumstances will I be throwing my daughter a birthday party every single year,” Light said in a now-viral TikTok video. “Here’s the deal: She is getting a first birthday party, she is getting a Sweet Sixteen and she is getting a graduation party. Other than that, she is not getting any more birthday parties.”
And perhaps Light isn’t totally off-base in her reasoning. According to PBS, kids don’t even remember birthday parties until after they are three-years-old. That’s essentially $400 (the average amount parents spend on their kid’s party) going towards a core memory that won’t even exist.
Light went on to say that she had been to other kids’ parties which were “not enjoyable” and she didn’t want to force that experience on others unnecessarily. That being said, she added, “Now look, if you are someone who genuinely enjoys throwing your child a birthday party, pop off, Queen. Do what you want to do. I’m not telling anyone else how to live their lives. I just personally don’t find it necessary and I’m not going to be doing it.”
But that doesn’t mean that no celebrations will be had. The family will still have “dinner and cake with them every single year,” plus their daughter would get an ‘All About You’ day” where she would enjoy a “special breakfast” and activities of her choosing, like princess dress up, a trip to the trampoline park, etc. And when siblings come, Light’s daughter will be able to choose whether or not she wants them included in whatever birthday shenanigans are happening. So all in all, a pretty sweet deal.
This option just feels more exciting and less taxing, Light explains. While she understands that party planning is some people’s jam, she admits “it’s a lot of stress on my part to organize and plan and put on the party… I just don’t want a bunch of people sitting around at my house all day.”
Light’s video, as most parenting videos are wont to do, drew both heavy praise and criticism.
Many thought that her choices were depriving her daughter, and not really prioritizing her happiness. This was especially true for adults who didn’t have parties growing up.
“As someone who didn’t get birthday parties, please do that for your kid,” one person wrote.
Another added, “I never had bday parties growing up, and I was always jealous of kids in my class who got them.”
Still, others found promise in the idea.
““An introverted kid will love this. Just make sure that you’re celebrating that kid the way they’d like. Not the way you want to celebrate them,” one person commented.
“I LOVE the idea of experiences, so if they want to go to a show or an amusement park for their birthday.”
Some even offered up their own unconventional non-party ideas. One parent wrote, “I just bring my kids to the park with a bunch of cupcakes and any kid at the park is included.”
Whether you can or cannot get behind Light’s take on birthday parties, we can probably all agree that our energy is often best spent doing things we truly want to do. Maybe some parents will still want to arrange a get together for their friends every year. But hopefully this conversation can at least offer some permission to do so in a way that doesn’t take a huge toll. There are so many ways to make a birthday special, after all.
Have you ever seen something in a movie or online and thought, “That’s totally fake,” only to find out it’s absolutely a real thing? That’s sort of how this house in Pennsylvania comes across. It just seems too fantastical to be real, and yet somehow it actually exists.
The home sits between Greencastle and Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and houses a pretty unique public secret. There’s a cave in the basement. Not a man cave or a basement that makes you feel like you’re in a cave, but an actual cave that you can’t get to unless you go through the house.
Turns out the cave was discovered in the 1830s on the land of John Coffey, according to Uncovering PA, but the story of how it was found is unclear. People would climb down into the cave to explore occasionally until the land was leased about 100 years later and a small structure was built over the cave opening.
The idea was to make it accessible to visitors and use the cave as a tourist attraction, and the small structure was eventually built into a two-story house. But it was closed to the public in 1954 after the land was purchased for limestone mining and it remained closed for nearly 70 years. (In the words of Stephanie Tanner, “How rude.”) Sometime during that 70-year closure, the home that contains the cave was purchased by Dara Black, and in 2021, it reopened to the public.
Currently, the home is occupied by Black, but to gain access to the cave you can simply book a tour. The best part about booking a tour is that you only have to make a donation to enter. It’s a pay-what-you-can sort of setup, but since someone actually lives in the home, you can’t just pop in and ask for a tour. You have to go during the “open house” times available.
According to the Black-Coffey Caverns Facebook page, they treat the tours truly as an open house, complete with snacks and drinks. There’s a waiting room area where people can chat and eat their snacks while they wait for the tour to start. They also offer cave yoga once a month. According to Uncovering PA, the tour takes about 45 minutes to complete and there are about 3,000 feet worth of passageways.
Imagine living on top of a cave and just taking strangers on a waltz under your floorboards essentially. It makes me wonder if the house is quiet at night or if you can hear echoes of the cave sounds while you’re trying to sleep. From the Facebook page, it appears that the cave doesn’t have any lights, but there were pictures with some Christmas lights mounted to the cave walls. Otherwise, you have to use flashlights.
Hopefully, no mischievous children decide to play hide and seek or you just might have to call in a rescue crew. Literally. But what an unbelievable “pics or it didn’t happen” kind of story to tell. It’s not every day you run into someone that has a door that leads you to an underground cave.
If you want to see what a cave tour looks like starting from the outside of the house, check out the video below:
The idea of predicting the future has been the subject of countless books, movies and televisions shows (and is basically the basis of all gambling). Outside of a few uncanny instances, no one can tell exactly what the future holds, especially for the world at large. But people sure love to predict it anyway.
The BBC shared a video compilation of kids in 1966 sharing what they imagine the year 2000 would be like, and their predictions are fascinating. After five or six kids share, it becomes clear what some of the most pressing concerns of the 1960s were. Some kids thought we’d have bombed ourselves into oblivion. Others believed we’d be so overpopulated we would be packed like sardines and wouldn’t be able to build houses anymore.
Not all of the predictions were so dark. Some kids had some hilarious predictions about cabbage pills and robots. Others thought we’d have better cures for diseases and less segregation among the races, which we have.
Watch what these young folks envisioned nearly 40 years into their future—now more than 20 years into our past:
Thankfully, the year 2000 wasn’t as dire as many of these kids imagined it would be. In fact, hearing these predictions might even make us feel pretty good about how humanity has fared in the past 60 years.
How about the kid predicting the future of automation? Or the kid who said people would be regarded more as statistics than people? Or the one who predicted animals being kept in buildings instead of grazing so they could produce more?
And hey, props to the kids who didn’t predict an overpopulated nuclear hellscape. It can be hard to see negative news and not think the world is on a downward spiral. But if nothing else, seeing that these kids’ doom and gloom predictions didn’t come true is pretty heartening and a good sign that our own future may not be as dark as it sometimes appears.
This week, Schoolboy Q will release his first full-length album since 2019’s Crash Talk. The Top Dawg Entertainment OG has spent a few years out of the limelight enjoying fatherhood and working on his golf game, but this Friday (March 1) he’s dropping Blue Lips after spending much of the month promoting it. After announcing the album’s release date to begin the month, Q spent the next three weeks releasing new tracks to showcase its direction, including “Back In Love” and “Blueslides,” the defiant “Yeern 101,” “Cooties,” and “Lovebirds.” featuring Devin Malik and Lance Skiiiwalker.
Release Date
Blue Lips is out 3/1 via Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope. Find more information here.
To date, the only official single is “Yeern 101,” but Q has released teasers for “Back N Love,” “Blueslides,” “Cooties,” and “Love Birds.”
Features
Blue Lips will feature AZ Chike on “Movie,” Jozzy on “Lost Times,” Freddie Gibbs on “Ohio,” Childish Major on “Pig Fee,” Rico Nasty on “Pop,” Ab-Soul on “Foux,” and Devin Malik and Lance Skiiiwalker on “Love Birds.”
Artwork
Schoolboy Q
Tour
Schoolboy Q hasn’t announced a tour for Blue Lips as yet, but if he does plan to do so, it could be after the album rollout is complete.
Barack Obama was less than halfway through his second presidential term and Sun Kil Moon’s Benji was the toast of Music Writer Twitter. The Billboard singles chart was topped by “Dark Horse,” a Katy Perry song featuring Juicy J, because Juicy J was regularly doing features for pop stars at the time. The Seattle Seahawks won their first Super Bowl by beating the absolute shit out of a Broncos team led by Peyton Manning, who still had two more seasons left in his NFL career; the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bruno Mars played the halftime show. Perhaps you have more personally meaningful metrics to illustrate how February 2014 feels like a fucking eternity in the past.
Christian Holden can probably think of a few; two days prior to the release of their instant and future emo classic Home, Like NoPlace Is There, The Hotelier were still a largely unknown band from Worcester, about three years removed from a pop-punk debut they wrote in their teens and released under a different name, on a label that no longer existed. The de facto Home record release show was a five-band bill at Bridgeport DIY in La Puente, about 20 miles east of Los Angeles. Maybe two dozen people, myself included, were in attendance. Nearly ten years to the day, Holden addressed a crowd about 30-40 times as large at the Observatory in San Diego. Their coheadlining tour with Foxing felt like the coronation that I – and perhaps the bands themselves – imagined in the mid-2010s, where they’d command the same 1000-cap rooms as the buzziest indie acts of the time, validating that every r/emo and Absolute Punk and Property Of Zack rave should be taken at face value and not, “They’re great, for an emo band.”
But tonight couldn’t have happened in 2014, or 2017, or even 2022. Rather, the fact that it could have only happened as a 10th-anniversary tour felt like a pyrrhic victory, borne of nostalgia for a version of The Hotelier and Foxing that each spent most of the decade trying to leave behind.
Though the term “emo revival” likely helped Rhe Hotelier and Foxing more than it hurt them, it’s now clearer than ever that their progressive approach to the genre occupied a completely different time and space than the scrappier, shambling likes of Algernon Cadwallader and Snowing and Glocca Morra. While The Hotelier’s strident anthems were accessible enough to translate to Primavera and Pitchfork Festival, Home, Like NoPlace Is There was a thoroughly modernist treatise – “Projected map of the body / It’s crass, abject, colonial,” Holden rasped on “Among The Wildflowers,” one of the many songs that connected gender dysphoria to state violence and the many, many ways capitalism is completely unequipped to care for the majority of the people living under it. Though Holden eventually moved out of the anarchist collective in which they lived in 2014 and has a full-time, W2-requiring job, everything they said on Home has aged remarkably well; even the most awkward and/or misinterpreted lyrics on “Housebroken” were ahead of the curve in suggesting a clear link between “Blue Lives Matter” and domestic abuse.
Though inspired by religious trauma and ex-bassist Josh Coll’s military service in Afghanistan, Foxing were far less political in nature; the hooks on “The Medic” and “Rory” are, respectively, “I just want to be loved” and “Why don’t you love me back?” Not coincidentally, these are the most popular songs on The Albatross by a great distance. Still, even these uber-emo eruptions over romantic rejection sounded like nothing else before them, an ambitious alchemy of post-rock, orchestral indie, math, hip-hop, and hardcore (if the latter two seem out of place, go find live footage of “Bit By A Dead Bee, Pt. 1”).
Along with Whenever, If Ever and Wildlife, albums like these were often viewed as being at war for the soul of emo during that time; lest we forget, the “Emo Revival” was just as often credited to the various Emo Nights (or Emo Nites) touring the country at the time, purely crowd-pleasing picture parties that would just as often play The Killers or Pierce The Veil as they would Jimmy Eat World. The Hotelier and Foxing were celebrated amongst a small group of critics for reestablishing emo’s long-severed connection to punk principles, but the people had spoken – Emo Night is more likely to play a major festival than any actual emo band from the 2010s, to say nothing of When We Were Young weaponizing MySpace nostalgia into a bottomless revenue stream.
Yet, there’s something poetic about Foxing and The Hotelier battling through their (often publicly expressed) ambivalence towards The Albatross and Home; after all, what are those albums about, if not our inability to forget or discard or process the scars of our youth, let alone transcend it?
The Hotelier made some of the most powerful music of any genre during their initial run yet were often a hit-or-miss live act; surely, this was in part due to Holden’s aversion to touring and wariness of “playing the game.” But tonight, I got to see the version of The Hotelier I knew could win over the skeptics, the ones that could acknowledge The Occasion and rise to it. They proudly trotted out cuts from It Never Goes Out, an album that largely had been written out of their history, as well as “Housebroken,” a song previously retired after Holden got tired of explaining its central metaphor to people who took it in bad faith (“it’s called symbolism,” they joked tonight). In their current setup, they have three guitarists, one of which wore a floral button-down shirt a la Billy Corgan ca. Gish; they also played an extremely un-emo black Les Paul. All three guitarists traded vocals during the wonderfully theatrical bridge of “Dendron.” I’ve seen reunion shows of this nature lead to truly inspiring second acts – American Football, Braid, Mineral, maybe even Sunny Day Real Estate? Holden joked last year that there’s a fourth Hotelier album in the works…but it just hasn’t been written yet.
Whereas The Hotelier occasionally found it difficult to replicate the potency of their albums, Foxing were the exact opposite early on in their career; no band ever brought it as consistently as Foxing did, and you could make a pretty good festival lineup of the headliners I’ve seen them blow off the stage. Their compositional ambition and unmatched live intensity made them feel like a band with an unlimited ceiling, and when 2018’s Nearer My God arrived, the comparative points were Radiohead and TV On The Radio, which tend to be shorthand for “unlimited ceiling.” At least for some. The reception mirrored that of The Hotelier’s Goodness a few years earlier, an album that did pretty much everything its creators needed to in order to cross over to non-emo audiences, but somehow found itself stuck between stations – too indie for the emo kids who loved their earlier work, too emo for the indie crowd. What appeared to be a bat-flip home run ended up as a ground rule double. Still, there was a possibility that they could follow in the footsteps of their most consistent benefactors in Manchester Orchestra, a band that slowly amassed a cult of devotees that eventually exploded with a well-timed, alt-rock hit; 2021’s Draw Down The Moon seemed designed to do exactly that, but its overt pop leanings proved just as divisive as Dealer’s muted balladry.
The way Foxing operates in 2024 is bittersweet – inspiring in the way they keep pushing forward and making rewarding music, but also a bit disheartening that they have to keep pushing. I couldn’t help but notice that the crowd had thinned out a little bit by the time they had gotten to their encore, a mini post-Albatross Greatest Hits compilation; guitarist Eric Hudson hinted that LP5 might be ready in the fall, or they might just break up, which is pretty much what they say with every album. I’m sure it will be great and I’m sure that they’ll continue to be a tremendous live act. But I wish this didn’t feel like the last time I could see them fill a room as big as their ambition.
During Foxing’s set, Murphy took a moment to remember the last time the two bands toured together, when they were joined by Little Big League, a solid punkish/poppy indie band that knocked around on Tiny Engines and Run For Cover without doing too much to distinguish themselves from bigger acts in a similar lane like Swearin’ or Tigers Jaw. A year earlier, the frontwoman shared a debut split with Foxing under a new project name: Japanese Breakfast. As the Emo Revival began to die down in 2016, artists like Michelle Zauner and Julien Baker and Mitski and Jay Som and Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus and Soccer Mommy emerged out of the miasma of “feeling stuff music” to completely upend the “straight white guy” default character in indie rock; in retrospect, the Emo Revival was an evolutionary step, a Moment rather than a Movement.
The opener this time around presents a fascinating inverse; a decade ago, Foxing and The Hotelier would’ve been fortunate to open for Title Fight, perhaps the biggest band in the hardcore/emo-adjacent scene at the time. But after the band kind-sorta went on hiatus in 2018, Ned Russin has been performing as Glitterer, a project which first consisted of him singing over pre-recorded tracks at hardcore shows, a setup more in common with something like Majical Cloudz. At this point, Glitterer sounds a lot like Title Fight with more Nord keyboard leads, essentially The Smile to Title Fight’s Radiohead; yet, as even the positive reviews for their new album Rationale point out, the similarities have only amplified calls for a Title Fight reunion.
With all due respect to three of the greatest bands to emerge from this era, the way they’ve respectively dealt with their imposing legacy has caused me to spend most of the days leading up to this show thinking about Modern Baseball. This wouldn’t have been the case if I had caught the first, East Coast leg of this tour last fall. And it wouldn’t have been the case had the San Diego show taken place a week later, on the exact 10th anniversary of Home. Instead, I found myself immersed in reminiscence on You’re Gonna Miss It All, the most popular album from one of the most popular and beloved bands of their time – but not really something seen as an artistic triumph along the lines of The Albatross or Home or Floral Green, which has seemingly worked in its favor.
Nearly everyone who has written a 10-year anniversary piece on an album from this scene has felt it necessary to state their age at the time of its release – I’ve seen 15, 17, 21, “high school,” “college.” It was good to hear from that type of listener – the ones who were thinking about music critically at that time, but weren’t critics. MoBo looked like guys who came to their shows straight from a Drexel lecture hall, singing about things that happened to them just that day; they weren’t making high art, but their slice-of-life songs were there for these people when they needed them. They broke up to save their friendship and maybe even their lives and MoBo fans have been shockingly reasonable about it. Besides, Jake Ewald’s Slaughter Beach, Dog has built up a solid discography that sounds like the music Modern Baseball probably would’ve made if they’ve kept going and that’s reflected in the project’s popularity – they’ve got over 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and headlined at the Observatory a month earlier.
When I spoke to Foxing three years ago in the leadup to Draw Down The Moon, they had just recorded an episode of First Ever Podcast with Touché Amore’s Jeremy Bolm titled “It’s Okay If This Is As Good As It Gets”; “early on, critics like yourself or fans of ours or especially management people would always do this thing where they’d say, ‘I can’t believe I’m seeing you guys in a basement right now because you guys are gonna be an arena band,” frontman Conor Murphy told me. “It really did us a disservice because everything was a failure when we’re always looking at it in the context of how successful we should be.”
I should probably paste that quote to my desktop. Or, one that Holden dropped earlier in the night. Shortly into their set, Holden made a brief pause to reflect that, yes, it has been a lifetime since that album was released, but not a very long lifetime – as they put it, Home, Like NoPlace Is There is the age of someone who eats grilled cheese with the crust cut off. It’s a welcome bit of perspective for both the people in the crowd and on the stage, that they’re a lot closer to the source than they might think.
The performance of each band served as an argument that while the intensity that leads to creating or relating to “Your Deep Rest” or “Inuit” isn’t a perpetually renewable resource, it never really dies out, but shapeshifts with years of repression. Judging from the faces in the crowd, this might not have been the very first time they’ve reckoned with becoming the target demographic for a 10-year anniversary tour. But while I’m sure some of the more indie-inclined folks in their mid-to-late 20s were listening to, say, Atlas or St. Vincent or Lost In The Dream during Q1 2014, those artists continued to make music at a pretty similar emotional pitch from that point forward. And so whereas those might feel like 2014, “The Medic” or “Your Deep Rest” are more inextricable from being a teenager in 2014 – whether it involved feeling completely demoralized by your small town (usually), being driven to the brink of suicide (less often), unrequited love (more so with Foxing) or anarchist politics (more so with The Hotelier), no one had ever felt that way before, that strongly. At least until you went to a Foxing or Hotelier show.
ITZY recently kicked off their Born To Be tour on Saturday night (February 24) in Seoul, South Korea. The K-pop girl group took the stage at Jamsil Arena, delivering a massive setlist full of their biggest hits — which has obviously excited fans.
According to setlist.fm, they played nine songs from their Born To Be album during the second night in Seoul, including opening with the title track, “Crown On My Head,” “Mr. Vampire,” and more. They also kept the same list of tracks on the setlist for both nights, so while it’s still unclear, it is likely that they’ll keep this for other cities too.
For those heading to one of ITZY’s upcoming shows, here’s what songs you can expect. A complete list of dates, along with more information, can be found here.
There are some things might inherit from your parents, like eye color or height or even their signature style when it comes to making unsettling films with dark energy. Family is so important!
M. Night Shyamalan‘s daughter, Ishana Shyamalan, is making her directorial debut this year and it seems like she has inherited that signature Shyalaman spookiness we all know and only sometimes love.
The Watchers, not to be confused with The Strangers, The Watcher, or Watch What Happens Live!, stars Dakota Fanning as Mina, a young artist who somehow becomes stranded in an isolated forest alongside strangers being hunted by an unknown presence. This kind of stuff must run in the family. The movie also stars Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan, and Olwen Fouere.
Ishana, M. Night’s middle daughter, has previously directed episodes of Servant, her father’s Apple TV show. He also serves as a producer on The Watchers. Here is the official synopsis:
From producer M. Night Shyamalan comes “The Watchers,” written and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan and based on the novel by A.M. Shine. The film follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist, who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When Mina finds shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night.You can’t see them, but they see everything.
The movie hits theaters on June 7th, 2024. Keep in mind that The Strangers also hits theaters two weeks before that. It could get confusing if you don’t prepare yourself mentally.
We’re now just days away from the release of Ariana Grande’s new album, Eternal Sunshine. The project is set to drop on March 8, which naturally has some wondering if Grande plans to go on tour this year in support of the album.
Is Ariana Grande Going On Tour In 2024?
Maybe.
Grande sat down for an interview on Zach Sang Show recently, and during the chat, Sang asked if Grande is going to tour in support of Eternal Sunshine. She responded, “Um, TBD.”
Grande added:
“I would love to do shows. I love being on stage, I miss being on stage, I miss my fans so much, that’s the honest-to-God truth. I had a really hard time emotionally on my last tour, but I think that’s because of where I was at. So just like with music, I think I’m really excited to redefine my relationship to shows, when I’m ready, and to see what that looks like. I do have a very busy year, with this and with Wicked, and then the next year, I also have Wicked Part 2, so I’m interested to see what that would look like.
It would obviously be shorter. If it were anything, it would be a littler something, but I definitely do have the itch. I miss my fans and miss being on stage, but then again, I also am not ready to announce any sort of thing or get people too excited, because I don’t want to disappoint.”
Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson announced that they are joining forces for the Outlaw Music Festival, a tour event that Nelson first started back in 2016. Years later, he is bringing it back yet again with a truly incredible lineup: Willie Nelson & Family are headlining alongside Dylan. Other acts not to miss include Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Celisse, John Mellencamp, Brittney Spencer, Billy Strings, and Southern Avenue. The performers will change each stop along the way, making the shows all special and unique experiences.
For those looking to attend this year, here’s what to know about securing tickets.
How To Buy Tickets For Outlaw Music Festival 2024
Tickets for Outlaw Music Festival will first be available through a presale for Citi cardholders. This opened earlier this morning today (February 27) and will close on Thursday, February 29 at 10 p.m. local time. After that, the general sale of tickets opens to the public on Friday, March 1 at 10 a.m. local time.
More information can be found on the festival’s website. Below, find a list of the fest’s tour dates.
Outlaw Music Festival 2024 Tour Dates: Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson & Family
06/21 — Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre *#
06/22 — Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion *#
06/23 — Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park *#
06/26 — Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach *#
06/28 — Syracuse, NY @ Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview *#
06/29 — Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater *#
06/30 — Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center *#
07/02 — Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center *#
07/06 — Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts *#
07/07 — Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium *#
07/29 — Chula Vista, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre ^~
07/31 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl ^~
08/03 — Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre ^~
08/04 — Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheatre ^~
08/07 — Boise, ID @ Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater ^~
08/09 — Spokane, WA @ ONE Spokane Stadium ^~
08/10 — George, WA @ Gorge Amphitheatre ^%~
09/06 — Somerset, WI @ Somerset Amphitheater ^!
09/07 — Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre ^!
09/08 — St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre ^!
09/11 — Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center ^!
09/12 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center ^!
09/14 — Burgettstown, PA @ The Pavilion at Star Lake ^!
09/15 — Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre ^!
09/17 — Buffalo, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater ^!
* with Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
# with Celisse
^ with John Mellencamp
~ with Brittney Spencer
% with Billy Strings
! with Southern Avenue
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