Month: August 2020

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Only in 2020 would you see Metallica play at an abandoned amusement park.  On Saturday night, the raging heavy-metal icons broadcast a show to hundreds of drive-in and outdoor theaters across the U.S. and Canada, as part of the Encore Drive-In Nights series, which has also aired performances by country stars Blake Shelton and Garth Brooks this summer.  We watched the concert special at Adventureland, a fairground-style Long Island staple that's temporarily closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Two small screens were erected in the park's expansive parking lot, where a shuttered roller coaster and Ferris wheel loomed overhead. Pint-sized train cars that normally circle the park now sat dormant, as dozens of people in Metallica T-shirts lined the train tracks waiti...

Exclusive Kanye West's looking to expand his empire in the Cowboy State ... so his family's horsies have more room to roam. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... the rapper and presidential candidate has visited the Double Doc Ranch in Cody, Wyoming and expressed interest in buying the property. The ranch -- which serves as a horse boarding, breeding, training, lessons and events facility -- is already home to 3 of the West fam's horses. Meet North’s Freesian horse. We have 14 gorgeous Freesians on the ranch. pic.twitter.com/TO87I25YKJ— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) June 29, 2020 @KimKardashian Back in Ju...

Photo: Getty Images for MTV The tweet announcing Chadwick Boseman’s death and honoring his legacy, posted by the actor’s official Twitter account on Friday, is now the most liked tweet in the site’s history. “Most liked Tweet ever. A tribute fit for a King,” Twitter announced on Saturday, “#WakandaForever.” The tweet currently has 6.2 million likes and nearly 3 million retweets and quotes, surpassing the previous record holder, former President Barack Obama’s tweet following the Charlottesville car attack. Twitter has reinstated the Black Panther emoji in honor of Boseman, explaining in a statement that “fans are also working to organize Black Panther Twitter watch parties using #...

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Bella Thorne responded to the controversy over her OnlyFans debut, apologizing and explaining that she had intended to “advocate for something bigger than [herself].” Thorne, who made over $2 million on the platform and drew criticism from sex-workers who rely on the site as a primary source of income, wrote that she had “wanted to bring attention to the site, the more people on the site the more likely of a chance to normalize the stigmas.” She explained that her original goal had been to “remove the stigma behind sex, sex work, and the negativity that surrounds the word SEX itself by bringing a mainstream face to it,” as well as to “help bring more faces to the site to create more revenue for content creators on the site.” Thorne continued, “Again ...