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(WARNING: Spoilers for the most recent Power Book IV: Force episode will be found below.)

We’re just two episodes away from the completion of Power Book IV: Force season two and things are going to get crazier as the season comes to a close. Tommy Egan has learned that there’s a snitch in the group thanks to intel from his lawyer and Diamond seems turning for the worse as he deals with the death of Leon, a young boy from the neighborhood that he took under his wing to mentor. With the deaths of Walter Flynn and Paulie, as well as D-Mac’s removal from Chicago, already in the books this season, there’s no telling what could happen next. We’ll just have to wait until episode nine to see where things go.

When Will Power Book IV: Force Season 2, Episode 9 Come Out?

The ninth episode in Power Book IV: Force season two, titled “Loose Ends,” will arrive on November 3, two weeks after episode 8 aired. It’s the only break in the week-to-week schedule for the current season as the season two finale will air the following week on November 10. As with previous episodes of Power Book IV: Force, episode nine will be available on Friday on the STARZ app starting at midnight EST/PST. The episode will later air on the STARZ TV channel at 8pm ET/PT. Here’s a synopsis for “Loose Ends”:

Tommy and Diamond suspect a snitch and put their inner circle to the test; Mireya gives Tommy a key piece of information; the war between Miguel and Mirković comes to a head.

New episodes of ‘Power Book IV: Force’ are available on the STARZ app on Fridays at 12:00 am ET/PT and on the STARZ TV channel at 8:00 pm ET/PT.

LaMelo Ball is getting set for his fourth season in the NBA, as he looks to get back to the form that made him an All-Star in 2021-22 and had the Hornets in the Play-In Tournament.

Last season was mostly a lost one for the young star guard, as he battled and injured ankle on and off all year before finally having to shut it down for the season, but in the 36 games he was on the court he produced at an even higher level than he had in his All-Star campaign. Ball averaged 23.3 points, 8.4 assists, and 6.4 rebounds per game in those 36 appearances, and will look to continue his growth into being one of the league’s most exciting offensive playmakers this year.

This is also LaMelo’s third season with a signature shoe from Puma, as his MB.03 launched earlier this fall, and the brand will introduce a new “Toxic” colorway this Friday (October 27) for the first week of the NBA season.

The MB.03 retails for $125 and there are few signature sneakers with a more unique look than LaMelo’s shoe, as he steers into his in your face style, both with how he plays on the court and how he dresses off of it.

John Oliver has made many enemies over the years. The rich and powerful certainly don’t like him, nor does Law and Order, and nor does the former mayor of Danbury, Connecticut. (Long story!) But surely those attending a gala for Sesame Street wouldn’t boo HBO’s most critical staffer. Right? Think again.

Per The Daily Beast, on Monday Oliver went on Late Night with Seth Meyers, during which he told the tale of his unexpectedly disastrous stint at this year’s Sesame Workshop Benefit Gala. Oliver is a guest at the event every year, and he assumed this time would be as “nice” as it always is. He was in for a rude awakening after he enraged the crowd.

“And I want you to think about how hard it is to make that happen,” Oliver joked. “The theme of the evening is kindness. That’s not easy to do.”

The problem, in Oliver’s eyes, is that the gala had a dodgy sponsor: Bank fo America. They even gave a “nonsense award” to one of its executives, who told the crowd (in Oliver’s telling), “I’ve been thinking about how appropriate it is that Bank of America and Sesame Street have teamed up tonight because we are two organizations built on kindness.”

That set Oliver off. “I snapped,” he said, fuming that an exec at the famously predatory bank would talk of being good to people. “And I walked out, and I said, ‘It’s been odd to hear talk of kindness from Bank of America, an institution that had the highest foreclosure rates since over the last 10 years.”

Instead of righteous applause, Oliver got boos. “Oh, that’s the opposite of the reaction in the room,” Oliver recalled thinking. “And the worst thing, the thing that has imprinted itself on my memory […] is Bert looking up at me with such disappointment in his eyes. Just ‘Why are you like this?’”

Oliver then looked directly into the camera, saying, “Sesame Street, have me back. I’ll be a good boy this time.”

You can watch Oliver’s Late Night appearance in the video above.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Charles Barkley has long been a critic of NBA players sitting out games due to load management. Unsurprisingly, when the topic came up on Tuesday night ahead of the start of the NBA season, Barkley made clear that he’s incredibly happy that the league did something about it.

Barkley and the rest of the TNT crew were visited by Adam Silver in the lead-up to the Denver Nuggets’ game against the Los Angeles Lakers. When the topic of the league’s new rules about players missing games without injuries popped up, Barkley made clear that he believes players should play so long as they don’t have an injury.

“I’m talking to the players,” Barkley said. “Man, forget the ownership, forget the fans. As a player, if you’re gonna make $50-60 million a year to play basketball three or four days a week, play basketball, man. Now, if you’re injured, don’t play. But everybody hurts after the first two weeks of the season — your legs sore, knee sore. If you’re injured, I don’t want you to play.

“But the notion that, number one, bless these guys,” he continued. “You’re making $30, $40, $50 million to play basketball four days a week, y’all got the best shoes, you got the best medical staff, you got these guys sleeping in chambers, you’ve got ice baths. Man, if you can play, shut the hell up and play.”

The NBA made a concerted effort to address load management this offseason, as it upped the penalties for players missing games on national TV and multiple stars sitting out the same game. In conjunction with all of this, the league claimed it had evidence that the practice of load management is not effective.

High Water Festival returns to Riverfront Park in North Charleston, South Carolina next April. Taking place over the course of two days, High Water boasts a promising line-up of indie, rock, and singer-songwriter acts. During the festival’s run, attendees are encouraged to “get high, stay try,” per the event’s official poster.

Kicking off the festival on Saturday, April 20, are The Dip, Leyla McCalla, Olivia Jean, Al Olender, The Walkmen, Houndmouth, and Courtney Barnett. Headlining that day are Fleet Foxes, Shovel & Rope, and Noah Kahan.

On Sunday, April 21, festivalgoers can look forward to seeing The Heavy Heavy, Cut Worms, Babe Club, The Linda Lindas, Kevin Morby, Briston Maroney and The Wallflowers. Grace Potter and Hozier are headlining that day, along with The Flaming Lips, who will feature Yoshimi Battles and The Pink Robots during their set.

Tickets for High Water Festival are available for purchase here beginning Thursday (October 26) at noon EST, and fans can purchase two-day passes beginning at $225 for general admission. Those who only wish to attend one day of the festival can purchase tickets for $135.

Check out the festival’s official poster below.

Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Netflix has been doing better lately, which is good news because they’re still shelling out big bucks for movies that don’t get wide theatrical releases. One of them is Leave the World Behind, a timely apocalyptic thriller starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Mahershala Ali. Perhaps the title sounds familiar. If it does that’s because it’s based on a novel about societal breakdown that dropped at the height of the pandemic.

Released in early October 2020, the book of the same name was written by Rumaan Alam. Like the movie, it concerns an affluent white Brooklyn couple crashing at a swanky Long Island Airbnb. Then the house’s Black owners show up, prompting some racial tension on the part of the liberal guilt-plauged white protagonists. Then it’s revealed that there’s some end-of-world transpirings afoot.

There is at least one major difference between the book and movie. In Alam’s source, the house’s owners are an older couple. In the film, the man, played by two-time Oscar-winner Ali, is around the same age as Roberts and Hawke’s marrieds. Instead of Ali’s character being joined by his wife, he’s with his daughter, played by Industry’s Myha’la.

Leave the World Behind — which on top of being a timely doomsday entertainment also comes from the Obamas-founded production company Higher Ground — hits Netflix’s coffers on November 22. You can watch the trailer above.

Do today’s Republicans even know how to do Congress stuff? It’s a fair question. After all, it appears they do not. On Tuesday, three weeks after an elite group of MAGA lawmakers ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the chamber’s GOP made their third attempt at a replacement. Third time wasn’t the charm. Mere hours after they voted for Majority Whip Tom Emmer, the guy who really controls the Republican Party — prolifically criminally charged former president Donald Trump — shanked him good.

All it took, of course, was a social media post. “I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors,” Trump seethed on Truth Social. “RINO Tom Emmer, who I do not know well, is not one of them. He never respected the Power of a Trump Endorsement or the breadth and scope of MAGA—MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Coincidence or not, Trump’s disparaging post dropped not long before Emmer announced he, like Steve Scalise before him, was removing himself from the race. He thereby missed the chance to be repeatedly humiliated in one defeating vote after another, as Jim Jordan did last week.

Naturally, Trump gloated when he learned Emmer had been driven from the race.

Trump also claimed to not know Emmer all that well. But of course there was a picture of the two, beaming like besties.

Emmer’s Speaker run lasted a mere few hours. It also meant some House GOP members flip-flopped from supporting him to denouncing him in record time.

Some on social media marveled at how short Emmer’s campaign lasted.

Others mused that the future of Congress being in the hands of a chaos agent with 91 criminal charges to his name is maybe a bad omen for the future of the Republican Party and, more importantly, of the nation.

Some of the reasons MAGA lawmakers detested Emmer sure were strange.

There were lots of jokes.

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One person who was happy about the news was Marjorie Taylor Greene, who thought Emmer exiting the race was now good news for…three-time loser Jim Jordan?

(Via The New York Times)

Prime minister antics rarely cease to entertain. Recently, there was (now former) Finland PM Sanna Marin, who caught hell for daring to party. There’s that time that Canadian PM Justin Trudeau gratuitously showed off his yoga arm balances. And there’s British pretend-PM Jason Statham, who could probably do a fine job while keeping a serious look on his face during antics.

Finally, there’s Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, who wants no part in public shenanigans of a certain variety. As Page Six relays (via a TV show called Striscia La Notizia, or The News Spreads), Meloni has dumped her long-term boyfriend, talk-show host Andrea Giambruno, after audio footage revealed that he was propositioning potential participants for group sex like this:

“Listen, I wanted to tell you something. Do you want to join our group? Will you join our working group? … You have to give us something in return … You have to do threesomes or foursomes with us … We f–k … Can I touch my package while I’m talking to you?”

Following the dumping, Meloni has issued a statement:

“My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which lasted almost 10 years, ends here … Our paths have diverged for some time, and the time has come to acknowledge it. I will defend what we were, I will defend our friendship, and I will defend, at all costs, a 7-year-old girl who loves her mother and loves her father, as I was unable to love mine.”

This situation is particularly not-ideal for Meloni as an espouser of family values, but Meloni, for her part, promised that her statement was her final word on the story. Awkward!

(Via New York Post & Politico)

New York prosecutors have just released a 115-page filing in their assault case against actor Jonathan Majors and the report contains some disturbing insight into the alleged domestic dispute that led to the star’s arrest.

On March 25th, Majors was taken into custody after an alleged dispute with his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, turned violent. The fight began in the back of a taxi after Jabbari saw a text message on the actor’s phone that was sent by another woman. When Jabbari grabbed the device, she claimed that Majors twisted her arm and middle finger, hit her, and pushed her back into the cab. Majors was arrested on charges of strangulation, which were later dropped. He’s now facing assault and aggravated harassment charges. And, according to the DA’s latest filing, there may have been more domestic disturbances in the actor’s relationship with Jabbari that pre-date the New York incident.

Prosecutors revealed they’re waiting on a London Metropolitan Police report from September 2022 that contains information on medical care received by Jabbari — who is a U.K. citizen. Majors was in the U.K. during that time, filming the second season of Disney+’s Loki. While the purpose of the request — and the details of the report — are still unclear, the filing did shed light on what happened during the confrontation between the pair just a few months later in New York. The couple was heading from a party in Brooklyn to their home in Chelsea when Jabbari saw a text on Majors’ phone that read, “Wish I was kissing you right now.” She grabbed the phone from his hand which allegedly prompted Majors to begin “grabbing the right side of Ms. Jabbari’s body and prying Ms. Jabbari’s right middle finger off the phone, causing bruising, swelling, and substantial pain.” The filing continues, claiming Majors “grabbed Ms. Jabbari’s arm and right hand and proceeded to twist Ms. Jabbari’s forearm, causing substantial pain to her finger and arm.” He then allegedly “struck Ms. Jabbari’s right ear, causing a laceration to the back of her ear and substantial pain.”

Once the actor retrieved his phone and the cab came to a stop, he exited the vehicle with Jabbari following. Prosecutors claimed Majors then “grabbed her, picked her up, and threw her back inside” which caused “substantial pain, including a fractured finger, bruising about her body, a laceration behind her right ear, and a bump on her head.” Majors legal team has denied these claims, pleading not guilty to all charges and accusing both the NYPD and the DA of racial bias in regard to the case. The actor’s lawyer has argued that Jabbari was the aggressor in the dispute, something the filing also references, revealing Majors’ defense team, “leaked and misrepresented court evidence, as well as attempted to have police create a wanted poster with Jabbari’s photo.”

Despite media reports, the DA currently has no plans to charge Jabbari in the dispute but it seems they’re committed to going forward with prosecuting the Marvel star in court.

(Via Variety)

Beyoncé has announced the launch of her latest perfume, Cé Noir. The perfume is already for sale on beyonce.com, while her Instagram announcement promises that the fragrance will ship in November — giving it enough time to arrive for the holidays. Per Harper’s, the scent is “both floral and gourmand,” with clementine, rose, and honey notes. Fans can get 1.7 oz bottles for $160.

Harper’s Bazaar has a full report on the new fragrance, writing:

The Cé Noir bottle is topped by a half-domed cap, with stairlike edges on its neck and a streamlined engraving of its name on one side. Since the fragrance is developed in France, “crafted and designed by Beyoncé,” and “encased in art,” it’s practically guaranteed to be a standout on your vanity. It is also anchored by a built-in stand for ultimate perfume elevation.

Earlier this year, Beyoncé teased an upcoming hair care line, writing, “I can’t wait for you to experience what I’ve been creating can’t wait for you to experience what I’ve been creating,” on Instagram alongside a throwback photo of herself at her mother’s hair salon. This led to fans believing that she’ll either be offering hair care products or a brand of actual hair for weaves or wigs.

Meanwhile, fans have plenty more Beyoncé to look forward to; her Renaissance World Tour concert film hits theaters soon.