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Memphis rapper GloRilla is having one hell of a year. Her breakthrough single, “F.N.F (Let’s Go)” dropped in May, which led to her inking a deal with Yo Gotti’s Collective Music Group label. She then dropped the track “Tomorrow 2” featuring Cardi B which saw her reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and now just received her first-ever Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance at the 65th Grammy Awards.

So why stop now? Her debut EP on CMG, Anyways, Life’s Great, came out last week and now GloRilla has announced her first-ever US headlining tour. GloRilla’s 2023 Anyways, Life’s Great Tour begins on January 27 at the underground in Charlotte, NC, and closes on February 25 at Union Stage in Washington DC.

Check out the complete list of GloRilla 2023 Tour dates below and get tickets here.

01/27 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground
01/28 – Atlanta, GA @ Hell At The Masquerade
01/30 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio
01/31 – Dallas, TX @ The Cambridge Room at House of Blues
02/02 – Phoenix, AZ @ Aura
02/03 – Las Vegas @ Hakkasan
02/08 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
02/09 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
02/14 – Denver, CO @ Cervantes’ Other Side
02/16 – Chicago, IL @ Avondale Music Hall
02/20 – Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
02/22 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
02/23 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
02/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
02/25 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage

The abrupt collapse of crypto firm FTX has brought yet another moment of crisis to the cryptocurrency community. The value of various currency has plummeted, customers are left with nothing and the company’s founder may be in serious trouble about literal billions of real dollars missing from FTX’s books.

That spells a lot of trouble for a lot of people, and those who used their platforms to encourage people to use companies like FTX may be in trouble as a result. That includes Tom Brady, who was an investor in FTX and reportedly lost big when the company went belly-up last week. Brady most notably was in a Super Bowl ad back in February along with his then-wife, Gisele Bündchen.

The entire purpose of the ad was to show how “in” the now-former couple was on crypto as an investment. Even Fireman Ed was involved.

But just eight months later, all that remains of FTX is a crater and possibly some significant criminal exposure for its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. And, just maybe, all the people who were “in” on crypto in a very public way. Like Brady and Gisele Bündchen. According to the New York Post, celebrities like Brady, Bündchen, and even Larry David could be in legal trouble with FTX evaporating.

Investors not only are suing Sam Bankman-Fried, but also celebrity endorsers of his bankrupt crypto company FTX, including Tom Brady, ex-wife Gisele Bündchen, Larry David, and sports stars like David Ortiz, Steph Curry and Shaquille O’Neal.

Attorneys including star litigator David Boies filed the lawsuit on behalf of Edwin Garrison, an Oklahoma resident who had an FTX yield-bearing account which he funded with crypto assets to earn interest, and others like him.

Celebrity endorsers such as David, who filmed a Super Bowl commercial for FTX, are accused of engaging in deceptive practices to sell FTX yield-bearing digital currency accounts, the suit claims.

That’s bad news for anyone who got the bag for touting crypto, especially if other companies continue to fail and the market fallout continues. And it’s really incredible to consider just how quickly everything changed for both FTX and Brady, who just eight months ago was heading to retirement, still married and finding more ways to make money with crypto. Now FTX is toast, he’s divorced and he’s somehow back playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers despite already announcing a retirement. The lesson here may be: careful how you invest. And if you’re famous: what you promote.

The 2023 Grammy Award nominations were announced this week. The ceremony is set to take place on Saturday, February 5th at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and Kendrick Lamar leads all rappers with six total nominations. And for Lamar’s continued success at the Grammys, there are also a number of rappers who garnered their first-ever Grammy nominations like Latto, Tobe Nwigwe, and breakout star GloRilla.

Memphis’s GlorRilla seemingly came out of nowhere this past May with her breakthrough hit “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” featuring HitKidd and her star has soared ever since. Now signed to Yo Gotti’s Collective Music Group, she dropped her debut Anyways, Life’s Great… EP for the label last week which includes her newest hit “Tomorrow 2” featuring Cardi B.

But that first breakthrough single, “F.N.F. (Let’s Go),” is the one that has brought her Grammy consideration. GloRilla is nominated in the Best Rap Performance category for “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” featuring Hitkidd. She’ll have her work cut out for her to bring home a win because the other nominees include Kendrick Lamar for “The Heart Part 5,” Doja Cat for “Vegas,” Gunna & Future Featuring Young Thug — “Pushin P,” and “God Did” by DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend & Fridayy. Power to GloRilla because simply being nominated will surely supercharge her already surging career.

Check out the complete list of nominees for the 65th Grammy Awards here.

After Candace Cameron Bure kicked off a wave of controversy that even has her longtime Full House co-star Jodie Sweetin shading her, The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has entered the fray. At issue is a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal where Bure says her new home at Great American Family network, where she also serves as Chief Creative Officer, will only produce Christmas movies that focus on “traditional marriages.” (Read: No gay stuff.)

One Tree Hill star Hilarie Burton was one of the first stars to slam Bure and Great American Family for “openly admitting their bigotry.” Her tweet caught the attention of her husband Morgan, who backed up Burton for calling out Bure’s anti-gay agenda.

“How’d I miss this twit?! Who the f*ck is this person?” Morgan tweeted before giving his wife a shout-out. “Hey Hil? You’re awesome. We lucky to have ya.”

After calling Bure a “twit,” The Walking Dead star swung back around to fire off another supportive tweet for Burton. “‘Make your money honey.’ Lol… cooked kids dinner and was laughing whole time. Wife has words AND timing.”

On Wednesday, Bure issued a very long, and notably very non-apologetic statement to Variety where she addressed the mounting controversy. She did not walk back her “traditional marriage” remarks, but instead, doubled down on her Christian values and called out the media who “fan flames of conflict and hate.” But she’s not mad.

Bure wants it known that she loves all people. You just can’t be gay and in her Christmas movies. God bless!

(Via Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Twitter)

Anya Taylor-Joy starred in The Witch, but she is not a witch (probably). Anya Taylor-Joy is the voice of Peach in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but she is not a princess (again, most likely). Anya Taylor-Joy described herself as a “mud-caked ferret” in The Northman, but she is not a ferret (I feel pretty comfortable about this one).

So, even though Anya Taylor-Joy played a chess prodigy in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, don’t expect her to keep a spare pawn in her purse.

“People are genuinely surprised that I don’t travel with [a chess board] underneath my arm at all times. It is quite strange and I hope I never disappoint people, but you have to learn new skills for these new jobs,” The Menu star told the Hollywood Reporter.

When Taylor-Joy finished The Queen’s Gambit, “I became very, very good at cold weather exposure because I had to be,” she said, referring to The Northman. “And the second that was done, I got very good at guns and cars and motorcycles [for Furiosa]. So I hope I never disappoint anybody by not playing them.” Don’t worry, it’s impossible to be disappointed by someone who chose The Witch over a Disney Channel pilot.

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

“I got a Kanye-related tattoo in 2016 and ever since he’s been the most colossal f*ck head on the planet,” read a tweet from Londoner Alex Jones (no relation). It seems as though reading Jones’ tweet has inspired London tattoo removal studio NAAMA to reach out to him and others like him and offer free tattoo removal services.

“Yeezy come, Yeezy go. Got a #kanyewest tattoo? Tag us,” NAAMA said on Instagram. It’s not hard to expect fans (former fans?) of West to regret their body art decisions following the rapper’s recent barrage of antisemitic remarks, his inexplicable tirade on why “White Lives Matter,” and then some. For Jones, he took NAAMA up on the offer to remove his tattoo of an alternative cover art design of the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album. “It’s really kind of depressing to see someone that you like, who was your hero, start saying awful things about entire groups of people,” Jones told Metro UK. “So yeah, it’s been quite a sad journey.”

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NAAMA Studio’s Briony Garbett spoke to Metro UK and said, “People with Kanye tattoos were coming to us and you could hear how triggering it was for them, how embarrassing and shameful they felt, given he’s been making the headlines for the wrong reasons.” Adding that, “I don’t think there’s any shame in people having got the tattoos in the first place.”

If you’re having second thoughts about that Kanye West tattoo you got way back when, NAAMA’s website is here.

The Sandman fans can officially look forward to a Season 2 on Netflix. The buildup will undoubtedly include speculation about who the hell might play Delirium while trolls are still hung up on the “woke” casting of Season 1. Neil is still firing back at those weirdos because they almost certainly don’t realize that the comic was “woke” long before woke was a thing. Yet diverse casting can really get people steamed, and they won’t even dare to admit that not making Death a perky goth girl worked so incredibly well for “The Sound Of Her Wings” as a live-action story.

It’s time to discuss other casting matters, though, which fortunately happened during a new Inverse interview with Neil. As fans already know, Gwendoline Christie does the most regal version of Gaiman’s Lucifer Morningstar on record (Michael Sheen, who does the character on Audible, will probably not be upset about this observation), but the comic book character was actually based upon David Bowie’s likeness. So, that’s a perfect opportunity for Inverse to ask whether a still-alive Bowie would have been a contender, and Gaiman was happy to answer:

“I wouldn’t have cast David Bowie as he was before he died, because the whole idea was that Lucifer is meant to look like a beautiful angel. I absolutely would have cast David Bowie if we had a time machine and a cloning device and we could have had David at any time between his 20th birthday and let’s say his 50th birthday, and I would have done the casting then. But, I suspect that David might well have been keen seeing Gwendoline play the part because he was somebody who was asked who he’d like to portray him in a biopic and his answer was Tilda Swinton. So he probably would have loved to have seen Gwendoline.”

I gotta agree that I can’t see anyone pulling off the character in this production like Gwendoline did. And I love hearing niche fan questions like this one, and the one about Neil revealing what would happen if a werewolf bit a goldfish. Neil has good questions, too. Just ask George R.R. Martin.

(Via Inverse)

We all know that seahorses are some of the most unique and fascinating creatures that Mother Nature has to offer.

For one thing, they’re gorgeous. Who has ever looked at a seahorse, with all its vivid colors and delicate, otherworldly shapes and gone, meh? No one, I tell you.

Plus they’re basically the mascot for cool, supportive dads everywhere. Not every creature in the animal kingdom can say that.

Yet, for as much as we know about the seahorse, there are even more thrilling stories swimming around—particularly when it comes to how it got here in the first place.

A video published by PBS Eons explains that today, seahorses are found in all of the world’s oceans. And yet, they are pretty terrible swimmers. So how on Earth could they have traveled such far distances to spread across the globe?

As it turns out, the answer is possibly hiding even further below the surface.

Throughout at least the last 55 million years, the ocean floor around southeast Asia has been whirling with tectonic plate activity, with the most important shift happening at the end of the Cenozoic era.

As deep channels between continents became more shallow and surfaces were thrust upward toward the sun, more aquatic plant life was able to grow and expand. Experts think that meadows of seagrass in particular helped ancient seahorses travel away from the waters of the Indonesian region (where they likely originated) and across the world. Yep, just like land horses, seahorses wildly gallop into unknown terrain. Actually, they prefer to simply hold onto traveling seaweed and raft into unknown terrain. Still majestic though.

You can watch the full video here:

How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses

The surge in seagrass might have even caused seahorses to trade in the long, horizontal shape of most traditional fish for their signature upright posture. As the video explains, the grass beds might have supported their ambush hunting technique, allowing them to obtain a longer reach and blend in with the grass blades before striking. Ambush hunting seems OK for a seahorse, but kind of terrifying if you think of land horses doing the same thing. Thank goodness the latter are herbivores.

PBS Eons is a virtual treasure trove of lesser known evolutionary stories. Its YouTube channel covers everything from the domestication history of cats to why we have 10 toes. If you’re looking to go down the coolest educational rabbit hole ever, you can check out its videos here.

A series of break-ins in an upscale neighborhood in Oak Bay, British Columbia, are not what they seem. On two separate occasions, homeowners thought they were the victims of home invasions when, in fact, they were being visited by a mischievous owl.

The first “break-in” happened Nov. 10 when police received a 911 call from a homeowner in distress. “Sure enough we found the perpetrator perched on a very expensive leather couch in the living room,” Oak Bay Police Constable Steven Twardy told CTV News.

The officers were able to escort the owl out of the home after chasing it with brooms. The constable named the owl “Winky” because it tended to close one eye. It appears to have suffered some type of injury.

Three days later, a woman was checking in on her friend’s home when she found it seemingly ransacked. “Pictures off the walls, vases on the floor and lamps and stuff,” Tina Gaboury told CTV. However, it wasn’t a burglar but Winky the owl who had hit up another Oak Bay home.

“I was walking around thinking it was a home invasion, then out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of an owl hanging on a chandelier in the living room,” Gaboury said.

No one knows how Winky has been entering the homes though some believe the feathered felon may be getting in through the chimney. But the big question is, when will Winky strike next?

CTV has been on top of the story and posted this pun-tastic report.

It feels pretty safe to say that having a car stolen is universally traumatic. The invaded privacy, potential loss of irreplaceable items (everything from expensive equipment to silly trinkets that might hold immense sentimental value), and financial strain are enough to be devastating for anyone. And for those whose livelihoods depend on their vehicle, this stress is exponentially greater. The fact that people choose to inflict this kind of damage upon others is enough to make one lose faith in the human race.

However, despite humanity’s potential to commit truly awful acts, it always holds an equal amount of potential to help each other in times of need.

For landscaper Andres Benitez, paying the bills and putting food on the table relied heavily on the family’s work truck, along with the tools used for their business inside. According to NBC Los Angeles, it was something that the Benitez family saved up for years to afford. Then, on Nov. 9, it was stolen and used in a chaotic two-hour police pursuit from Orange to L.A. County in California.

The car thief broke into the Benitez home, stole the keys, then sped away—driving the wrong way on narrow two-lane roads, running red lights and crashing into multiple cars. By the time the illegal driver was arrested, the family’s work truck was heavily damaged.

To make matters worse, even though the truck was insured, it was now considered evidence and would possibly not be returned for a very long time—if at all.

If you saw that insane #carchase last night in #LosAngeles and #OC you know the #Benitez family needs help getting back to their landscape biz.
Work Truck Stolen With Tools https://t.co/bx621rrssa

— Cocolicious (@CocoLicious_11) November 10, 2022

Benitez might have been initially heartbroken, but he would soon be surprised that in his darkest hour, he would be met with compassion. He shared in an Instagram post that within only an hour of the incident unfolding, people showed up with trucks and tools to share, and were even offering volunteer work.

Benitez would later set up a GoFundMe page, initially only to raise enough money to replace the lost landscaping tools. But as of Nov. 15, the page has raised more than $100,000, allowing the family to get a new truck and continue earning a living.

As Benitez shared in a subsequent Instagram post, the whole thing was a “tragedy turned into a blessing,” one he plans to pay forward by getting in touch with and helping another victim in the incident who similarly used his van for work.

The young landscaper might describe the episode as a “life changing experience,” but fortunately, in this case it’s an uplifting use of the term.

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“[It’s] truly heartwarming and unbelievable… [it] puts a big smile on my face knowing there’s people out there who truly care about helping me and my family get back on our feet…it’s just insane and still feels very unreal. I really am truly thankful and appreciate every single one of you for helping us out,” he said.

While it’s true that car theft is a serious issue (and one that has increased at an alarming rate over the past couple of years) it’s still a comfort to know that no matter the statistic, the world is full of people willing to step in and help. When egregious acts are seemingly plentiful, it becomes crucial to look at what right things are happening.