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Weezer surprised fans with a one-night-only show at The Glass House in Pomona, California, which Uproxx attended, relaying that the band attempted to “try a bunch of songs we don’t normally play and see what y’all think” ahead of their Indie Rock Road Trip summer tour.

On Wednesday, May 17, Weezer popped up unexpectedly again in California. This time, the beloved rockers played their tried-and-true hits for Writers Guild Of America members who were picketing outside of Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, per TMZ.

“Lead singer Rivers Cuomo was flanked by guitarists Brian Bell and Scott Shriner outside the major movie studio Wednesday, playing an acoustic concert for the writers who are continuing their strike,” the outlet stated. “The Writers Guild of America members surrounded the band as they performed from just outside the studio entrance with Weezer playing some of their biggest hits, including ‘Beverly Hills’ and ‘Buddy Holly.’”

Imagine Dragons did something similar on May 9, but their acoustic concert was held for picketers at the Netflix headquarters in LA.

“We just want fair compensation for people who put in the time and are incredible creators that drive so much of the entertainment that influences the world,” Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds told TMZ. “We have many friends who are writers.”

Reynolds added, “The writers are the ones who make all the magic happen, and creativity is what drives so much of the world – drives our joy. It’s my greatest joy comes from these people. Writers. They deserve to be compensated.”

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

The Boston Celtics appeared in control at halftime of Game 1, taking a 66-57 lead into the break with a dominant showing in the paint (40-14 advantage). Miami was hanging around thanks to some hot three-point shooting, but Boston was the team controlling the pace and getting seemingly whatever they wanted.

In the second half, things flipped, as Miami became the more physical team, led by Jimmy Butler but with contributions up and down the roster, as they turned that nine-point deficit entering the third quarter into an 11-point advantage by the time the fourth quarter arrived. While Bam Adebayo had a terrific night with 20 points, eight rebounds, and five assists and four other members of the Heat scored 15 points, it was Jimmy Butler who took center stage yet again in these playoffs.

Butler finished the game with 35 points, seven assists, six steals, and five rebounds, as he had his hands in everything the Heat were doing well on both ends of the floor. Boston struggled with how to contain Butler in the second half. When they left him single-covered, he got to his spots and buried bucket after bucket. When they sent doubles, he calmly sought out the open man who knocked down the shot more often than not — Miami shot 51.6 percent from three on the night.

As has been the case all postseason, Butler’s knack for knocking down demoralizing threes showed up again in Game 1. He shoots them sparingly (albeit, far more frequently in the playoffs), but that only makes his made threes feel like they’re worth even more. In the third quarter, as Miami had just taken the lead, he buried a corner three off some Steph Curry-like movement after passing the ball, relocating to put Miami up eight.

Then, in the fourth quarter, he sunk the dagger in the Celtics with a three that made Kevin Harlan simply exclaim “JIMMY FRICKIN’ BUTLER!” as Reggie Miller cackled at the absurdity of the shot.

While Butler refuses to acknowledge the existence of Playoff Jimmy, he was once again on full display on Wednesday night, stealing home court in the opener and forcing Boston to now play catchup. Butler certainly got help from the rest of the squad, as Gabe Vincent, Kyle Lowry, Max Strus, and Cody Martin all scored 15 points, knocking down key shots both early and late, in support of Butler and Adebayo. Still, this team will only go as far as Butler carries them, and to this point we haven’t found the limit of where that is.

For Boston, they failed to counter Miami’s adjustments to shut off the paint in the second half (and stop turning the ball over), as their offense stalled a bit and they struggled to create the same kind of looks they had gotten early in the night. Even so, they shot 51.9 percent from the field and 34.5 percent from three, which isn’t a catastrophe, which is why you’d expect a lot of their focus to be on the defensive end where they just could not get enough stops against a hot-shooting Heat team.

While it might be shooting variance, this is also the exact way Miami took down Milwaukee in the first round. This is a team that’s proven it can just keep doing this if you don’t make adjustments to take things away from them, and we’ll see if Boston can make those changes to try and slow down Playoff Jimmy and Miami’s shooters in Game 2.

Warning: This post contains a major spoiler about a part at the end of Fast X. Said spoiler has already been reported on, but we’re just trying to be nice here.

Fast X hits theaters this weekend, and however ridiculous it winds up being, it will still be a bittersweet affair: After all, it’s the penultimate entry in the main wing of the franchise. So much has changed since the first one in 2001. What started as a relatively modest affair about hot rodders who also do heists somehow, about two decades later, went to space (among other insanities).

In many ways, the Fast and Furious films have helped shape and define the modern blockbuster era. In other ways it adapts to trends, plays ball. One now-common aspect of big motion pictures is this: If it’s a franchse film, it almost certainly has a scene during or following the end credits.

So does Fast X have any post-credit scenes?

The answer is: Yes. Yes, it does. As per /Film, it only has one. Some of today’s blockbusters have multiple such scenes. But not this one. There’s more good news: Whereas many of today’s blockbusters have Scorsese picture-sized lengths, Fast X is “only” two hours and 21. For some perspective, that’s seven minutes shy of Goodfellas, though Marvel movies are now even longer than that.

Now for the slight spoiler (that was already spoiled by others): Said post-credits scene features a surprising return. As per The Wrap, it marks the (brief) return of Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs. Does that mean Johnson and Vin Diesel have patched things up? Was their beef a fake? Or did the Fast X team simply make sure Diesel was nowhere to be found when the filmed Johnson’s scene? We may or may not ever find out.

Fast X hits theaters on May 19.

The troubling allegations against Shy Glizzy are mounting. On Tuesday, May 16, TMZ reported that the Washington, DC rapper had been arrested last Saturday, May 13, “following a verbal altercation with his on-again, off-again girlfriend.”

The outlet noted that police claimed it “escalated to the point where Shy grabbed a firearm and made a threat.” After West Hollywood Sheriff’s Deputies finally located Glizzy later that evening, he was arrested on a felony charge of making criminal threats.

“Records show he was released after about 4 hours behind bars on a $50,000 bond,” TMZ‘s report stated. “Our sources say police did not find a gun on Shy when he was arrested … and he denied ever threatening the girlfriend, who we’re told he’s been dating off and on for four months.”

On Wednesday, May 17, TMZ gave an update, reporting that Amaya Colon, the aforementioned ex-girlfriend, has filed a request for a restraining order against Glizzy because “he’s threatening to kill her, her family, her friends, and any man she dates in the future.” A temporary restraining order has been granted.

TMZ obtained the documents and relayed more concerning details:

“Amaya claims Shy has repeatedly told her he will kill her and her mother. She says he’s been making the threats ever since she broke up with him in April … and she says he sent her a text message that said, ‘Ima f*** ya life up.’

Amaya claims she started dating Shy in December but broke up with him on April 28 because she says he has ‘anger issues. She says Shy did not take the breakup well and things reached a head on May 13, when he was arrested for allegedly threatening her.”

Glizzy also allegedly texted Colon’s unnamed best friend, wriring, “Imma get her a** beat.”

Shy Glizzy is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Five years ago Roseanne Barr torched her career. After a tweet of hers was condemned as racist, the once-beloved performer saw the newly revived Roseanne cancelled and name verboten in Hollywood. It’s no shock that she’s still mad about it, but it appears she holds extra ire for one person in particular.

As per Entertainment Weekly, Barr went on Megyn Kelly’s podcast, where she laid into Sara Gilbert, who played daughter Darlene. Instead of taking responsibility for her actions, Barr laid the bulk of her woes at Gilbert’s feet, who she said “stabbed” her in the back.

“It was her tweet that canceled the show,” Barr said. “And then she tweeted ‘It’s sad when one cast member,’ something about racist, blah, blah. And I was floored. I was just floored. And you know, but she ends up owning my work and Tom Werner becomes her partner in owning my work.”

Barr said she was particularly taken aback Gilbert, she said, had “begged me to come back saying, ‘I’ve got your back. This time I won’t let anyone at you. I won’t let anyone hurt you. I’m gonna protect you. I know you have mental health problems, but I’m gonna be there. I’m gonna stand in the way.’”

Of course, Roseanne may have been cancelled but it didn’t exactly die. Instead it came back as The Conners, which brough back everyone save Barr. Her character was killed off, which Barr perceived as a message.

“And you know, they just tried to kill me and I felt like they killed my character and my character,” she said, “but I thought they were sending a message over the airwaves because they knew I had mental health issues. I thought they wanted me to kill myself. And all my friends did too. They said, they’re trying to push you to suicide.”

Oddly enough, Barr has previously said she forgave Gilbert for publicly condemning her onscreen mom’s career-torching tweet. But clearly that was then.

You can watch Barr discuss Gilbert in the video below.

(Via EW)

Ed Sheeran released – (Subtract), his fifth (and final?) mathematics symbols album, on May 5. Uproxx lauded it as “a respectable return to form for Ed Sheeran after 2021’s = (Equals).”

On May 6, Sheeran began the North American leg of his Mathematics Tour at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. He played Houston’s NRG Stadium on May 13, and he will perform at Raymond Jones Stadium at Tampa, Florida this Saturday, May 20.

Before Sheeran’s 26-song set, including a few remixes, the stages have been occupied by openers Dylan and Khalid. They also joined Sheeran to perform their No. 6 Collaborations track “Beautiful People” from 2019.

According to SeatGeek, Khalid and Dylan will stay on as openers through Sheeran’s June 10 show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. From there, Khalid will be joined by Rosa Linn instead for five shows. On July 22 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Cat Burns will swap in for Linn, and the tandem of Khalid and Burns will handle five shows, ending in Denver on August 19.

Khalid’s final two shows will be on August 26 and September 2 in Seattle and Vancouver, respectively, alongside Maisie Peters. Then Peters will be joined by Russ for the final three shows: Las Vegas’ Allegiance Stadium on September 9, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on September 16, and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on September 23.

Beginning this Friday, May 19, Sheeran’s Mathematics Tour will overlap with his more intimate, shorter Subtract Tour. The first of 14 shows is set for Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida. Ben Kweller is the opener for select dates of the Subtract Tour. See all of Sheeran’s upcoming tour dates here.

Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour has given the Beyhive plenty to talk about since opening in Stockholm, Sweden last Wednesday, May 10. Whether it’s acknowledging the fan demand for the Renaissance visuals or tributing Tina Knowles-Lawson on Mother’s Day, Beyoncé is always the headline.

But on Wednesday, May 17, Beyoncé credited everyone making her Renaissance World Tour go. As expected with a tour this massive, there are a lot of names. People especially noticed one name, though: Natalia Bryant, the 20-year-old daughter of Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant, who tragically passed in January 2020. Bryant is listed as an intern for Beyoncé’s Parkwood Entertainment.

Bryant, an IMG model and student at USC, previously appeared in Beyoncé’s November 2021 Ivy Park campaign. “Love you so much Auntie BB,” Bryant wrote in an Instagram post at the time.

Funnily enough, Bryant’s latest Instagram post, from earlier today, featured the hook of Taylor Swift’s “Bejeweled” as the caption. Moreover, Forbes recently projected that the tour will out-earn Swift’s ongoing The Eras. According to the publication, Beyoncé “could clear nearly $2.2 billion … some $600 million more than the $1.6 billion Taylor Swift could earn from Eras.”

The Renaissance World Tour is in Cardiff, Wales, UK on Wednesday night (May 17) before jetting to Edinburgh for a show this Saturday, May 20. Beyoncé will begin her North American leg in Toronto on July 8-9 and end it in New Orleans on September 27.

On Wednesday, George Santos narrowly avoided comeuppance: The day after House Democrats announced a resolution to vote on his possible expulsion, House Republicans came to his defense by killing the motion. They may have only delayed the inevitable a little bit, but Santos was surely feeling a bit better about himself — even as had to endure the slings and arrows of his colleages’ heckling.

As per Mediaite, footage shows that, as Santos spoke to reporters after his carcass was spared (for now), he had to contend with a couple hecklers: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman (who, like him, both representing New York).

“You’ve got to resign, bro!” Bowman said, not loudly but enough that the camera picked up what he said.

Ocasio-Cortez agreed, saying, “You gotta go, man!”

They were in no way deafening, but their words were enough to throw Santos off. “I can’t continue to address you guys because there is a deranged member here,” he told reporters.

Soon thereafter Bowman found himself in a real shouting match with one of Santos’ fellow GOPers. Video caught him squaring off with Marjorie Taylor Greene, the two sparring over guns, over immigration, over Santos, etc. Eventually Ocasio-Cortez intervened, pulling Bowman away while informing him, “She ain’t worth it, bro.”

Anyway, and you thought your workspace was bad.

(Via Mediaite)

Over the weekend, Ja Morant was once again seen with a gun in his hand on an Instagram Live video, two months after being suspended for eight games for a similar video during a road trip in Denver.

After the first video, Morant pledged to be better and try to learn from his mistakes, which is why it was so stunning to see him doing the exact same thing mere months later. Adam Silver noted he was “shocked” to see the video when asked about it at the Draft Lottery, and reports indicate there could be a lengthy suspension coming Morant’s way. Morant issued a brief statement about the video during the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s Game 1 between the Lakers and Nuggets, noting correctly that at this point, his words hold little weight for most.

There has been ample discourse about Morant’s actions and what comes next in terms of punishment from the league, with some like J.J. Redick wondering why he should face a substantial punishment for something that isn’t illegal. On Wednesday night, prior to Game 1 of the Heat-Celtics series, the TNT crew had a strong discussion on the topic and addressed a lot of what they’d been hearing from other talking heads about the situation.

The full 10-minute conversation can be watched above, starting with Kenny Smith explaining how NBA contracts come with a morality clause and noting that he’s tired of hearing about how Morant needs new friends, because “at some point it’s not your friends, it’s you.” He also says that, the good news in the situation, is nothing bad has happened…yet. There’s time for him to make the changes and have the only thing he’s done be hurting his image, but that if changes don’t happen, he’s inviting something much worse from people who want the power, access, and money he has.

Charles Barkley, unsurprisingly, takes a more blunt approach, likewise calling for Morant to “look in the mirror,” while noting that when you’re in the position he’s in, you get held to a different standard than most people. “When you’re making $100 million a year to play sports, your life changes,” Barkley says. “There are certain rules and regulations you have to live by, plain and simple. You can’t do stupid stuff. That’s the trade off!”

Shaq followed that point up by saying that you’re one of the faces of a multi-billion dollar business, you can’t do those things, which Kenny piggybacks to point out that if something happens to Morant, that impacts an awful lot for the Grizzlies and the league.

It’s not often the entire Inside panel is on the same page on something, but in this instance they are and each hopes to see Morant accept the responsibility that comes with his position before something actually bad can happen.

Prior to the start of the Eastern Conference Finals, TNT aired a special sit down between Shaquille O’Neal and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The pair of Laker greats were never on the best terms during O’Neal’s career, but have reconciled of late, most notably after LeBron James passed Kareem as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer when the legend spoke with the Inside the NBA crew and made sure to let Shaq know that he loved him and was a fan of his game.

It was an incredibly touching moment that you could tell meant the world to Shaq and led to Wednesday’s interview between the Hall of Famers. In that interview, they touched on their history, with Shaq apologizing to Kareem for being distant and the two talking through why that was, but they also touched on lighter subjects as well. One of those was a story Charles Barkley has told before about the first time he met Abdul-Jabbar that Shaq had to get confirmation on.

The meeting happened at Barkley’s first All-Star Game, where in the locker room prior to the game he approached Kareem while he was reading the paper in the corner and Abdul-Jabbar told him to go away.

Kareem confirmed that’s how his first meeting with Chuck went, noting “there were times where I just couldn’t be bothered,” while noting Barkley’s now making him pay for it. It’s a very funny anecdote made better by how much Shaq enjoys the mental picture of a young Barkley getting snubbed by one of his idols.