“Defendants egregiously failed in their duty to protect the health, safety, and lives of those in attendance at the concert,” the lawsuit reads, “including but not limited to the failure to provide adequate security personnel to implement crowd control measures, proper barricades, and the failure to provide a sufficient amount of emergency medical support.”
A press release from Chris and Nichole Hilgert, the 14-year-old’s parents, asserts that the couple wants to reform concert presentation, with changes including assigned seating in general admission areas and increases in security and medical personnel on-site. “This pain should never be felt by anyone over a loved one attending a live concert,” Chris said in the statement. “Our sole aim in filing this lawsuit is to prevent this type of tragedy from ever happening again at a live concert. There is no excuse for the poor crowd design, event execution, and lack of response that was exercised at this festival that resulted in the tragic death of our son and nine others along with scores of other people that were innocently injured.”
Mark Hoppus had a challenging battle with cancer earlier this year, but the good news is that he seems to be doing fine now: A couple months ago, he revealed that he was officially cancer-free. So, this Thanksgiving, he had a lot to be thankful for, and in a post to mark the holiday, he looked back on a particularly tough moment from his chemotherapy treatment.
On Instagram yesterday, Hoppus shared a photo of himself, bald and sitting on the floor in front of a toilet. In his caption, he explained, “I have so much to be thankful for today. This photo is from June, halfway through chemo, no idea if it was working or not, relegated to the bathroom floor, retching. If I ever complain about something trivial or unimportant, please show me this photo to remind me of how bad things can be, and how truly blessed I am. I hope you all have an amazing day with friends and family. Happy Thanksgiving.”
In an interview from earlier this month, Hoppus’ former Blink-182 bandmate Tom DeLonge spoke about how Hoppus was doing, telling James Corden on The Late Late Show, “He’s doing super good. He’s healing. He’s got a long journey of getting his strength back, but I think, miraculously, to have all of the cancer gone from him… he was stage 4. And then it wasn’t just remission: It was complete remission. So obviously, he was emotional, I was emotional, everyone’s emotional. The fans are excited and happy. I just think everyone’s good energy really kind of cured him. So it’s a big deal, we’re really excited for him.”
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The Cleveland Cavaliers have struggled without prized rookie Evan Mobley on the floor. Mobley, the No. 3 pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, suffered an elbow injury against the Boston Celtics earlier this month, and Cleveland has been on a losing streak ever since. While the team has dropped their last five in a row — including four straight with Mobley on the sideline — there is cause for optimism due to Mobley’s apparent return.
According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, both the Cavaliers and Mobley plan on having him in the lineup on Saturday evening when the team plays host to the Orlando Magic. This marks a return that would be a little earlier than expected, so long as he does not have any setbacks in the lead-up to the game.
The original timetable for the former USC standout’s return was 2-4 weeks, but if he were to come back on Saturday, that would mean he was out for 11 days with the injury. Arguably the frontrunner for Rookie of the Year despite the fact that he spent some time, Mobley has been a revelation for the Cavs and has showcased a skillset that makes him a legitimate building block for the franchise going forward. He’s averaged 14.6 points, eight rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.6 blocks, and a steal in 33.7 minutes per game while playing some of the best defense that we’ve seen out of a rookie big man in recent memory.
Emily Ratajkowski has dealt with body shamers throughout her career. Back in 2019, she replied to trolls making shady comments about a photo with her friend Caitlin King on Instagram, writing, “I love my friend’s body and both her and I think she looks great here! And I’m proud she’s rocking my suits. All these haters are crazy. Just because you’re used to seeing one body type on the internet doesn’t mean that that’s the only kind that should be considered beautiful.” Recently, she almost didn’t post photos of herself wearing an abs-baring outfit because she was concerned about a potential “controversy.”
Ratajkowski shared photos of her look at the CFDA Fashion Awards earlier this month on Instagram on Wednesday, but as the supermodel and author wrote on Instagram Stories, “Almost didn’t post this cause I knew the controversy it would stir up but hey it’s my damn body and I’m not going to lean into the shaming! God bless!”
A similar caption appeared in this Instagram post, but it’s since been deleted.
Ratajkowski, who accused Robin Thicke of groping her on the “Blurred Lines” set, recently published her first memoir, My Body. “I do think that my experience as a public persona has so much been about image and that’s been my doing as well – that’s what I put out into the world,” she said in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar. “So I’ve had a hard time finding a way to communicate the nuance behind that image.”
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it’ll be holiday gift shopping time before you know it. Every year, gift buyers are faced with the unique challenge of trying to figure out what they should be getting for their loved ones to show their love and affection. Luckily, we here at Uproxx got some of our favorite artists to help get the juices flowing with the Uproxx Holiday Gift Guide, letting the world in on the best gives they’ve ever given, received, or ones they wish they had thought of.
First up is Noa Kirel, the Israeli pop star who released her first English-language single earlier this year. “Please Don’t Suck” is what Caitlin White called in a July issue of the Pop Life newsletter “the kind of old school earworm that is destined to blare out of boomboxes, car stereos, and DJ sets all summer long.” Now, Kirel is recommending tickets to Disneyland, her new beauty collection, and more in the first Uproxx Holiday Gift Guide.
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What’s the album (not your own) that makes the best holiday gift, and why do you love it?
I’d say anything by Bruno Mars. It’s just such feel-good music and Bruno is one of a kind.
What’s a perfect gift for your significant other, and why?
I currently don’t have a significant other, but the best gift for me is a vacation abroad. Sharing experiences, seeing new places, and being together in a new setting.
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it’ll be holiday gift shopping time before you know it. Every year, gift buyers are faced with the unique challenge of trying to figure out what they should be getting for their loved ones to show their love and affection. Luckily, we here at Uproxx got some of our favorite artists to help get the juices flowing with the Uproxx Holiday Gift Guide, letting the world in on the best gives they’ve ever given, received, or ones they wish they had thought of.
Next up is Shinedown, who are marking the holidays with a cover of John Lennon’s “Happy X-Mas (War Is Over).” To celebrate the new cover, vocalist Brent Smith sat down to recommend handmade gifts, cash, and vinyl in the latest Uproxx Holiday Gift Guide. Check out their holiday sale here.
What album makes the best holiday gift and why do you love it?
The album that I would give as a gift would either be Back In Black by AC/DC or Appetite For Destruction by Guns N’ Roses. They’re iconic. They are also an introduction into the awesome world of rock n roll, and they’re great records.
What’s the perfect gift for your significant other and why?
Well, the perfect gift would be your love because that should be given all year around. But, also, I think if your significant other really means a lot to you, it’s always cool to do something by hand, whether it’s a card or whether you make them something. It’s just a different way of giving somebody a gift instead of going out and buying it at a store or online. If you make something for them, a lot of times they feel that that is much more significant and quite special.
Mom and dad can be the hardest to shop for. What’s a great gift for the parental figure in your life?
That really just depends on a lot of different things, but most of the time, you know, they kind of give you subtle hints through the years what they want. It’s usually stuff for the house, or, I remember a couple of years ago, I bought my mother a Mercedes because she hadn’t had a brand-new car in over 25 years. So, you just have to listen to your parents, and they kind of give you subtle hints with what they could use or what they might need.
What’s the one merch item of yours that you think makes a great gift and why?
Definitely the vinyl records because we spent a lot of time on those. We’ve got a lot of different reissues and what have you, so definitely vinyl is always a cool gift.
Some of the best gifts are experiences. What’s an experience you think would make a great gift?
Any time you can travel the world, any time that you can go to a different country and experience that culture, that’s always a great gift. So that’s what I would say. A family trip or even just a trip to a different country with friends. That’s always a great gift and a cool, cool experience.
Is there a gift not covered in these questions that you want to highlight?
There is, actually. And that is your time. Your time to sit and be present with the people that you love and respect and, you know, just listening sometimes is one of the greatest gifts that you can give, and you can give that gift all year around.
After Dave Chappelle’s alma mater disinvited him from an event, he showed up with cameras for a surprise appearance. It did not go well.
To briefly recap: Chappelle’s The Closer controversy continues to swirl with the comedian continuing to crack trans jokes on tour dates, after he declared in his Netflix special that that he is “Team TERF” (so-called for the trans-exclusionary radical feminist position held by J.K. Rowling). In response to the furor, his former high school, Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Georgetown, quietly cancelled a fundraiser where he was the guest of honor, and the school also pumped the brakes on renaming a theater after the comedian. Dave’s onstage response to this event cancellation: “They’re canceling stuff I didn’t even want to do.”
Well, Dave did show up to the campus despite the event cancellation. He performed at a surprise Tuesday event, where approximately 580 students gathered in an auditorium for a Q&A with the comedian. Amid a chorus of boos and cheers, Chappelle didn’t apologize to the students who had expressed concern for his trans jokes in The Closer. Instead, he cracked more jokes, even in response to their questions, as detailed in a Politico article. The piece notes that some Duke Ellington students have received “death threats” after protesting The Closer, and in turn, the school beefed up security, and students can no longer leave for lunch. And here’s some of the exchanges that went down:
During a Q&A session, one student stepped to the mic and called Chappelle a “bigot,” adding, “I’m 16 and I think you’re childish, you handled it like a child,” according to two students present. The comments were confirmed by Chappelle’s spokesperson Carla Sims.
NO APOLOGIES: Chappelle responded, as recalled the next day by the students, “My friend, with all due respect, I don’t believe you could make one of the decisions I have to make on a given day.” That peeved some students who were hoping for an apology or some semblance of one from Chappelle.
The confrontational atmosphere continued with Chappelle essentially telling any antagonistic students off with no subtlety to be found:
In response to another antagonistic question, Chappelle roughly told the student body of artists: “I’m better than every instrumentalist, artist, no matter what art you do in this school, right now, I’m better than all of you. I’m sure that will change. I’m sure you’ll be household names soon.”
The students recalled that another student in the audience shouted at him, “Your comedy kills,” and Chappelle shot back, “N—— are killed every day.” He then asked, “The media’s not here, right?”
That wasn’t all. Students told Politico that Chappelle didn’t appear to take student’s questions seriously (he frequently laughed or fired back with more jokes), and when one student walked out, he called attention to her departure: “Of course she left early.”
However, the piece does note that Chappelle spoke out against death threats received by students. The comedian reportedly then referred to the student body as his “family” while declaring, “I don’t want to hear about any threats to these kids. These kids don’t deserve that.’” In response, one student told Politico, “If [only] he [had] acted that way the whole time … There was no reason to be mean to us. He was just laughing at kids.”
For decades now, Madonna has been one of music’s premiere figures when it comes to pushing boundaries. Just last month, for example, she made Jimmy Fallon tremendously uncomfortable by straddling his desk and flashing her rear end on The Tonight Show. Now, it’s Instagram the singer is rubbing the wrong way, as she recently shared some racy photos featuring her nipples, photos that were later removed from the platform.
In the photos (which were preserved by Pop Crave), Madonna lays in, around, and even under a bed, all while striking a series of provocative poses, some of which include exposed nipples. After the images were taken down, Madonna re-shared them on Instagram, albeit censored by emojis this time around.
In her caption, she expressed her displeasure with the situation, writing, “I’m reposting photographs Instagram took down without warning or notification….. The reason they gave my management that does not handle my account was that a small portion of my nipple was exposed. It is still astounding to me that we live in a culture that allows every inch of a woman’s body to be shown except a nipple. As if that is the only part of a woman’s anatomy that could be sexualized. The nipple that nourishes the baby! . Can’t a mans nipple be experienced as erotic ??!! And what about a woman’s ass which is never censored anywhere. Giving thanks that I have managed to maintain my sanity through four decades of censorship…… sexism……ageism and misogyny. Perfectly timed with the lies we have been raised to believe about the pilgrims peacefully breaking bread with the Native American Indians when they landed on Plymouth Rock! God bless America #artistsareheretodisturbthepeace.”
How is Mike Lindell’s multi-day Thanksgiving “marathon” to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election going? Let’s see: he called it quits for the night after 90 minutes; he disappeared to eat his Thanksgiving dinner (“Maybe some of you have already had your Thanksgiving meal. I haven’t had mine yet”), and the teaser for his interview with former-president Donald Trump was met with yawns. It’s going great! Lindell also claimed that the “whole world” would be watching his marathon. About that…
Just after midday, Mr. Lindell claimed: “There are probably millions of people watching right now.” However, just 24 people were tuned into his Freedom Patriot Network YouTube channel.
On Mr. Lindell’s World-Wire website, which was also streaming the broadcast, it wasn’t clear how many people were watching, but around 90 people were participating in a live chat at the time.
I know it’s all my family could talk about during Thanksgiving dinner. “Wow, I can’t believe that’s how Mike Lindell wrote ‘Get Back.’ What a great song, and it was made right there in the studio!” Wait… Mike Lindell wasn’t in the Beatles? Never mind. We didn’t talk about him, or his frequently debunked conspiracy theories, even once.
In this week’s special Thanksgiving episode, Steve and Ian return to the Indiecast Hall Of Fame. In case you don’t recall, the honor was designed to honor albums in the indie rock and alternative rock realm that were influential and beloved at the time of their release, but have since been lost to the test of time and sadly — some might say shamefully — left out of the widely accepted canon of the genre. After paying tribute in past episodes to albums by Counting Crows, The Promise Ring, Saves The Day, Secret Machines, and many more, Steve and Ian are now turning their attention to albums from Jane’s Addiction, Robbie Robertson, The Stills, and The Jealous Sound.
In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is vibing with Frailty, the new album from dltzk that is the first digicore album he’s ever really liked. Steve is enjoying Highway Butterfly’s The Songs Of Neal Casal.
New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 67 on Spotify below, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts here. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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