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Cyndi Lauper fires back at heckler at Las Vegas concert: ‘I’m gonna come for you’

Cyndi Lauper fires back at heckler at Las Vegas concert: ‘I’m gonna come for you’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Cyndi Lauper has proved that she’s not to be messed with after one audience member showed their true colours at the opening night of Las Vegas residency. The singer, 72, challenged a heckler at the concert, telling them mid-show: “If you’re trying to shade me, b****, I’m gonna come for you.” Lauper, who is best known for her hits “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” and “Time After Time”, kicked off her first-ever residency at Caesars Palace’s Colosseum on Friday (24 April). However, while the Grammy-winner was introducing her song “Sally’s Pigeons”, she was interrupted by a heckler in the audience. After the heckler shouted something unintelligible, Lauper replied: “I don’t know what the f*** you’re saying, hon.” “But please remember where you are, OK? Because if you’re trying to shade me, bitch, I’m gonna come for you,” she continued, to applause from …

‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death | Prince

‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death | Prince

Published by Sam Flores

‘To me, he was a new version of Sly Stone’ George Clinton, singer and leader of Parliament-Funkadelic Tight for years … George Clinton at the the 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Photograph: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Songwriters Hall Of Fame It feels deep that Prince has been gone 10 years. When he died, it felt like I couldn’t even move my mouth, but I’m able to talk about it now. I first met him when he came to my show in 1977, when he was 19. He had the swagger and looked like he was in [Clinton’s band] Funkadelic. To me, he was a new version of Sly Stone. He was excellent on the guitar, could write on keyboards, and play bass and drums as good as hell. His [pianist] daddy had been an arranger, so he knew how to arrange music, and he could dance like James Brown. As a rock star he was perfect, but he was more than a musician. He was special. I took his music to a pirate …

SNL skewers Melania Trump over ‘insane’ Epstein statement: ‘Gonna make everyone way more suspicious’

SNL skewers Melania Trump over ‘insane’ Epstein statement: ‘Gonna make everyone way more suspicious’

Published by Sam Flores

Saturday Night Live kicked off its latest show, riffing on both First Lady Melania Trump’s out-of-the-blue Jeffrey Epstein message and the so-far unsuccessful peace negotiations between Iran and the U.S. The show’s cold open began with Ashley Padilla playing White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is preparing President Donald Trump’s infamous tweet threatening to destroy the entire Iranian civilization ahead of the two-week ceasefire agreement. After dismissing the press secretary, Trump — played once again by James Austin Johnson — makes a call to Tiger Woods as played by Kenan Thompson for a quick laugh about the golfer’s recent DUI scandal. The “president” hangs up on Thompson’s Woods, after which the president’s phone rings. The number isn’t one he recognizes. “Who’s this? I don’t recognize the number,” the faux Trump says. Saturday Night Live’s April 11 cold open featured James Austin Johnson as President Donald Trump speaking to Chloe Fineman’s First Lady Melania Trump about her upcoming Epstein remarks (NBC/screengrab) Upon answering, he is greeted by Chloe Fineman’s take on First Lady Melania Trump. …

Patrick Ball Reveals The Pitt Saved Him From ,000 in Debt: “I Thought I Was Gonna Die With It”

Patrick Ball Reveals The Pitt Saved Him From $80,000 in Debt: “I Thought I Was Gonna Die With It”

Published by Sam Flores

HBO Max’s Emmy-winning medical drama The Pitt is all about saving lives onscreen—and redefining them offscreen. The TV series revived the star of Noah Wyle, who plays Dr. Robby on the show after an 11-season run as Dr. John Carter on E.R. in the 1990s and 2000s, and introduced talents like Patrick Ball, who plays Dr. Frank Langdon in The Pitt’s currently-airing second season. Ball makes his major Hollywood debut playing a young doctor who works in the Pittsburgh emergency room. But the project has been more significant for the previously struggling actor than one could imagine. During a recent interview with Cultured magazine, Ball revealed how the series helped save him from $80,000 worth of student loan debt. “I paid off my student loans like three months into The Pitt, and that was a really profound moment ’cause I thought I was gonna die with it,” Ball said, pausing as he began to cry during the interview. “It’s a huge burden to carry, and a lot of people carry it.” The actor said the …

The Pitt star Patrick Ball reveals show helped him pay off ,000 debt: ‘I thought I was gonna die with it’

The Pitt star Patrick Ball reveals show helped him pay off $80,000 debt: ‘I thought I was gonna die with it’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The Pitt star Patrick Ball has revealed how the hit medical drama helped him pay off $80,000 (£59,615) of student debt, crediting the show with freeing him from the “really heavy” thought that he would never be financially secure. Ball plays the divisive resident doctor Frank Langdon in the HBO Max series, which has won huge praise since debuting on the streaming platform last year. In a new interview, the 36-year-old actor explained how life-changing the role has proven to be, breaking down in tears as he tells Cultured magazine about his financial situation. “I paid off my student loans like three months into The Pitt, and that was a really profound moment because I thought I was gonna die with it,” he said. “It’s a huge burden to carry, and a lot of people carry it. “I was $80,000 in …

‘Get Down! Get Down! They’re Gonna See Us!’: Six Months of Hiding From ICE

‘Get Down! Get Down! They’re Gonna See Us!’: Six Months of Hiding From ICE

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The ICE raids in Chicago that have terrorized immigrant neighborhoods like Ava and Sam’s have been both highly performative and extremely random. Six weeks earlier, on September 9, Greg Bovino, the G.I. Joe look-alike who previously served as ICE’s “commander-at-large,” arrived in town with a caravan of unmarked, black-tinted vans to patrol Chicago’s immigrant-heavy neighborhoods. Three days later, ICE agents shot and killed Silverio Villegas González, an undocumented father of two from Mexico who worked as a line cook, and who had no criminal record, after he tried to drive away from them. ICE officers began lurking on sidewalks, downtown, at grocery stores, at the Cook County courthouses, in parking lots, at intersections, in alleys, and in neighborhoods like Ava and Sam’s. By the end of September, allegedly following a “tip” about reported gang activity—later found to be a complaint about squatters—ICE agents swarmed a South Side apartment building in the middle of the night, rappelling down from a Black Hawk helicopter and patrolling the sidewalk outside with masks and rifles, arresting 37 people. They …

Jimmy Kimmel takes aim at Trump and Melania documentary at Oscars: ‘Oh man is he gonna be mad’

Jimmy Kimmel takes aim at Trump and Melania documentary at Oscars: ‘Oh man is he gonna be mad’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Donald Trump while presenting an award at the 2026 Oscars. Kimmel kicked his rivalry with the U.S. president back into gear when announcing the winner for Best Documentary Feature – poking fun at Melania Trump’s critically maligned documentary released earlier this year. “Oh man, is he gonna be made his wife wasn’t nominated for this,” Kimmel said without specifically name-checking Trump. A documentary about the First Lady was released in January and, despite struggling to sell tickets ahead of time, it surpassed expectations, grossing $7 million on its opening weekend. open image in gallery Jimmy Kimmel was up to his old Trump-mocking ways at the Oscars as he present the award for Best Documentary Short Film (Getty Images) Kimmel previously commented on the takings, saying on his show:“Speaking of rigged outcomes, the Melania documentary. A lot of …

CEOs Say Yeah, AI Might Be a Bubble, But They’re Gonna Keep Shoveling Money Into the Furnace Because All Their Friends Are

CEOs Say Yeah, AI Might Be a Bubble, But They’re Gonna Keep Shoveling Money Into the Furnace Because All Their Friends Are

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A new survey by accounting firm KPMG US found a contradiction in how CEOs are thinking about AI: though a full quarter of the 100 execs polled said they believe we’re in the midst of an AI spending bubble, an overwhelming 80 percent said they plan on pouring money into the tech anyway. “The sentiment about deploying AI is most certainly accelerating,” KPMG US CEO Tim Walsh told Business Insider of the dissonant findings. There was also a pretty stunning gap between what CEOs felt about their companies and about the economy overall. Though 83 percent of those surveyed had confidence in their company’s continued growth over the next year, just 55 percent felt the same about the US economy, the report found. That survey comes on the heels of another survey by Boston Consulting Group in January, which canvassed 2,360 executives across nine industries. In all, a whopping 94 percent of CEOs said they’ll continue investing in …

Hate Windows 11? You’re gonna hate Windows 12 even more

Hate Windows 11? You’re gonna hate Windows 12 even more

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JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. We are at a rare moment in Microsoft history, when the company that defined the modern PC is supporting a single version of its flagship operating system. Windows 10 is officially unsupported as of October 2025. Windows 11 now stands alone in the market, with a billion active users, according to Microsoft’s most recent quarterly earnings report. In October 2026, Windows 11 will celebrate its fifth anniversary — which is traditionally the halfway point in Microsoft’s 10-year support lifecycle. Also: I’ve been studying Windows telemetry for a decade – here’s the only setting I turn off That all suggests that the next version of Windows — let’s call it Windows 12 — will be here before you know it, ready or not. In fact, this week PCWorld, a reliable source of technology news, published a startling report (translated from its German counterpart, PC-Welt) claiming that Windows 12 would be arriving in 2026. On Reddit, a post discussing the article went viral, gathering 18,000 upvotes …

The Streets Are Saying Bitcoin Is Gonna Fall to ,000

The Streets Are Saying Bitcoin Is Gonna Fall to $30,000

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images The digital Beanie Baby has had a rough week. Last week, whispers of impending crypto regulation sent Bitcoin prices into a nosedive. The preeminent blockchain asset dipped just below $75,000 over the weekend, sending crypto bros into a frenzy. And now, the true believers are now whispering even darker prophecies: the real crash hasn’t even started. If you take the pseudonymous blockchain influencer Crypto Bitlord’s word for it — and why wouldn’t you? — Bitcoin could fall as far as $30,000 by the time all is said and done. “The next major support for bitcoin is $30k,” the poster predicted to over 430,000 X-formerly-Twitter followers over the weekend. “Unfortunately.” That cynical take was echoed by Benjamin Cowen, founder of crypto analytics platform Into The Cryptoverse. “I do think Bitcoin is in fact in a bear market,” Cowen said in a video uploaded to his YouTube channel. “In terms of cycle length, the length of this cycle was literally the same length as …