Despite the insistence of one of James Brown’s daughters, the Godfather of Soul’s body has not gone missing from its mausoleum in Georgia. LaRhonda Pettit had told the Daily Mail she believed her dad’s cadaver had been hidden to prevent an autopsy, but Brown’s family, funeral-home representatives, and the Aiken County sheriff’s office have all refuted her claims. [Guardian UK]
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The Will Smith image-rehabilitation tour ramped up over the weekend with the release of “You Can Make It,” a stormy gospel rap tune featuring Philadelphia singer-songwriter Fridayy (DJ Khaled’s “God Did,” Lil Baby’s “Forever”) and Ye’s Sunday Service. Arriving just weeks after Bad Boys: Ride or Die unveiled the dancehall-and-breakbeats Sean Paul collab “LIGHT EM UP,” “You Can Make It” signals Smith’s interest in releasing a new album somewhere on the horizon, his first since 2005’s Lost and Found.
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopic first book was a surprise hit. He’s using his second to ask harder questions. Photo: Shawn Theodore This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.
When Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was in high school and college, he worked at a clothing store in the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack, where he spent his lunches and time between shifts at the Barnes & Noble upstairs — reading half a story, going back to work, then returning on his next break with the words still alive in his head.
viewing guide Oct. 29, 2020 Which NXIVM Docuseries Is Right for You?Fear not: Keith Raniere’s strange obsession with volleyball will show up regardless of which of these three docuseries you pick. By Kathryn VanArendonk
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Yael Stone. Very few of the inmates at Litchfield Penitentiary are shy about sex on Orange Is the New Black: Getting it on always requires a little creativity and zero shame. Season four is no exception, particularly for one newlywed Lorna Morello (Yael Stone) and her new husband, Vincent Muccio (John Magaro), who manage to climax in a crowded room during visiting hours. And yes, they both succeed in reaching orgasm without touching one another.
Soon, she’ll get better. Catching feelings is a dice roll. Suddenly, someone means the world to you, and short-term happiness is contingent upon how well they handle that. Maybe you luck out and find someone kind, thoughtful, and quietly sophisticated, and you feel like you’ll never meet the day where you stop being impressed and surprised. Maybe you get led on and let down. Putting yourself out there is a gamble; sometimes love is a losing game.
last night on late night Mar. 15, 2013 Timberlake, Fallon: 2 Singing Summer Camp DorksPlus: Despite what the Spring Breakers have been saying, James Franco didn’t actually stay in character the whole time, and more, on our daily late-night roundup. By Caroline Shin ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGefocauvNSsZKGZo2KzorjLnqVo
As devoted followers of my Emily in Paris reporting know, I have been on a quest since the day Emily Cooper abandoned Chicago, home to a boring boyfriend and a blah life, and absconded to Paris to be mediocre at her job and make underwhelming romantic and sexual decisions. I honestly still don’t know what Emily’s goals are, exactly, but I do now know what I have sought out from the very beginning, the one question I need answered: How old is Emily?
There’s a moment late on Meek Mill’s DC4 that seems at once incidental and revealing. Halfway through “Tony Story 3,” the mixtape’s penultimate track, Paulie, the narrative’s protagonist, finds himself alone in a parked car in the darkest hours of the morning. His driver’s seat is all the way reclined; he’s lurking while waiting for one of his kept women to arrive at her residence. Kee, he’s deduced, has been telling the police about his drug- and gun-related crimes, and Paulie plans to murder her to cover his tracks.