Daughter Ashby 'Not a Fragile Flower'

 Posted on October 6, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  429 words  |  Reinaldo Massengill

At age 3, Nancy O’Dell‘s daughter Ashby Grace is already learning to hold her own with her two big brothers. “Ashby is so tough,” says O’Dell, who also has stepsons Tyler, 15, and Carson, 10, with husband Keith Zubchevich. “She can always defend herself at school because she has to do it at home. She’s not a fragile flower!” She’s also managed to change her night owl mom into an early bird. [Read More]

Historic Chemistry Lab With Links To Thomas Jefferson Discovered Behind Wall

 Posted on October 6, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  498 words  |  Martina Birk

A hidden chemistry lab was unearthed by a worker doing renovations to the iconic Rotunda at the University of Virginia, and school officials say the room is directly linked to the third U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson, who helped design the building. The "chemical hearth," which dates back to the 1820s, is thought to be one of the few remaining in the world. It featured two sources of heat for conducting experiments and a system for pulling out fumes. [Read More]

I've been to Las Vegas over 50 times. Here are the 8 restaurants I always recommend to first-time vi

 Posted on October 6, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1464 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Updated As someone who's been to Las Vegas over 50 times, I've eaten both on and off the Strip. My favorite fine-dining restaurants are The Mayfair Supper Club and Toscana Ristorante & Bar. I also stop at more casual spots, like Nellie's Southern Kitchen and Famous Foods Street Eats. During my 50+ trips to Las Vegas, I've eaten at countless restaurants both on and off the Strip. I enjoyed brunch at Spago, a popular Wolfgang Puck restaurant. [Read More]

Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain Make George & Tammy Sing

 Posted on October 6, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1092 words  |  Larita Shotwell

If music biopics often feel redundant, that’s because the lives of many famous musicians have taken similarly reckless turns. Success on the charts often goes hand in hand with drinking or drug problems, adultery, disagreements with managers, arguments with collaborators, and strained marriages. We’ve seen it all before in Oscar-nominated movies and pretty much every episode of Behind the Music. We see most of those things again in George & Tammy, the six-episode Showtime series premiering Sunday, December 4, about the passionate marriage and musical collaboration between country stars George Jones and Tammy Wynette. [Read More]

No, We're Not Over 2023's Biggest Celebrity Breakups Yet Either

 Posted on October 6, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  81 words  |  Larita Shotwell

Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann After 11 years of marriage, The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum filed for divorce from the former NFL player in May 2023. In the divorce proceedings, Kim—who shares Kroy Jr., 11, Kash, 10, and 9-year-old twins Kane and Kaia with Kroy, and is also mom to Brielle, 25, and Ariana, 21—is also requesting primary physical custody of the kids and joint legal custody. They called off the divorce in July but Kroy refiled in August. [Read More]

You Showrunner Sera Gamble to Develop Weetzie Bat Series for Peacock (EXCLUSIVE)

 Posted on October 6, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  711 words  |  Martina Birk

Sera Gamble is developing a series adaptation of the Francesca Lia Block book “Weetzie Bat,” Variety has learned exclusively. The series follows Weetzie, her best friend Dirk, and their found family as they traverse the sparkling, dangerous, secret world beneath the surface of 1980s Los Angeles. [Read More]

American Idol Vocal Coach Michael Orland Talks Reboot, Judge Chemistry, the Top 10

 Posted on October 5, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1577 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Says the series veteran: "There's no question it's going to get renewed." After completing a 14 year, 15 season run of being the pianist, arranger, vocal coach and associate musical director of “American Idol,” Michael Orland is back in the hot seat for the ABC reboot — and feels reborn. [Read More]

Gino Grimaldi, Producer of Knight Rider, Emergency, Dies at 74

 Posted on October 5, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  276 words  |  Martina Birk

Gino Grimaldi, a veteran TV producer known for such series as “Knight Rider” and “Emergency” died Friday in Newport Beach, Calif., according to his wife Nancy Grimaldi. He was 74. Grimaldi began his 20-year career at Universal Studios as a film editor, where he worked on the “Bob Hope Christmas” and “Vietnam” Specials. It wasn’t long before he committed to a 75 episode arc of “Emergency,” where he worked alongside Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe from 1973-79. [Read More]

Rod Wave Seemingly Quits Music In Latest Social Media Rants Amid Beef With Boosie Badazz

 Posted on October 5, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  446 words  |  Martina Birk

The beef between Rod Wave and Boosie Badazz continues to get spicier and spicier by the hour it seems now. This all began a couple of days ago when the Louisiana rapper called out the Florida R&B and rap star for biting off of one of his older tracks. In fact, it landed on Boosie's 2010 record Incarcerated, and was called "Long Journey." Rod has the same name on his latest commercially successful record, Nostalgia. [Read More]

SNL Star Bowen Yang Addresses Megan Amrams Explicitly Anti-Asian Tweets

 Posted on October 5, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  921 words  |  Aldo Pusey

“Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang published a thorough Twitter thread on Sunday night about “The Good Place” producer Megan Amram‘s offensive tweets from the early 2010s, which made fun of the Asian community, Jewish people and people with disabilities. [Read More]