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Usher’s Lovers & Friends Festival lands at the Las Vegas Festival Ground on May 4. If you missed the chance to secure tickets via the Lovers & Friends website, a select number of tickets are available at Vivid Seat and StubHub.
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Keep reading for more information on the festival including ticket prices, and where to find the cheapest tickets online.
Lovers & Friends: How Much Do Tickets Cost?
Lovers & Friends tickets are split into three tiers: general admission, GA+ and VIP. Prices range from $325 to $695 on the festival website. (Tickets are sold out, but you can sign up for the waitlist.)
Besides entry into the festival, general admission gets you access to food vendors, bars, concession stands, free water stations, festival merch and more.
GA+ tickets allow you to enter the festival through a dedicated lane at the main entrance. The ticket includes access to air-conditioned bathrooms, while VIP entry includes access to a “preferred viewing area” near the main stage and charging stations.
Looking for cheap tickets to Lovers & Friends? Resale tickets are available on Vivid Seats, StubHub and Seat Geek, and if you grab them early, you’ll have a better chance of getting tickets for a decent price.
Tickets range from approximately $464 for general admission passes to more than $700 for VIP.
How to Get Lovers & Friends Tickets on Vivid Seats
Vivid Seats offers the lowest ticket prices for Lovers & Friends, compared to StubHub and Seat Geek. Right now, tickets start at $465 for general admission and $717 for VIP passes.
Want a discounts on your tickets? Use code BB2024 to save $20 off purchases of $200 or more.
How to Get Lovers & Friends Tickets on StubHub
In the race for cheapest tickets, StubHub takes second place against Vivid Seats and Seat Geek. Tickets start at approximately $485 for general admission and $758 for VIP.
Ticket are slightly more expensive at Seat Geek — around $100 more than StubHub and Vivid Seats. General admission starts at $507. However, most of the Seat Geek tickets are priced between $550 to more than $600. VIP passes are available for as low as $789 to more than $1,000.
The annual Lovers & Friends Fest launched in 2022 after being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s stacked lineup includes Usher, Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Lil Wayne, Gwen Stefani, Snoop Dogg, Brandy, Monica, Backstreet Boys, 6lack, Kelly Rowland, Nas, Nelly Fortado, Ciara, TLC, Ja Rule, Ashanti, Nelly, T-Pain, Ne-Yo, SWV, Tank, Xscape, Mya, Kelis, Keri Hilson, Lupe Fiasco, Fat Joe, E-40, Too Short, Cam’ron, Next, Blaque and 702.
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Four teams will meet on the ice for the 2024 NHL All-Star Star Game at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada on Saturday (Feb. 3). The game will air on ABC and stream live on ESPN+ at 3 p.m. ET/noon PT.
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ESPN’s NHL All-Star Weekend coverage launches Thursday (Feb. 1) with the NHL All-Star Player Draft airing at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN2 and ESPN+. The Player Draft, which will determine which four teams play in the All-Star Game, will feature Justin Bieber, Tate McRae, Michael Bublé and Will Arnett as celebrity team captains.
McRae is also slated to perform during the second intermission at the NHL All-Star Game on Saturday.
The NHL All-Star schedule includes the Alumni Man of the Year and Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) Showcase airing Thursday at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN and ESPN+, followed by the All-Star Skills Competition at 7 p.m. ET on Friday.
Read on for ways to stream the NHL All-Star Game live without cable.
How to Watch the NHL All-Star Game
The 2024 NHL All-Star Game will air on ABC and stream on ESPN+ in the U.S. The game will be broadcast on CBC, Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada.
If you don’t have access to cable channels, streaming is your best bet. You can watch the 2024 NHL All-Star Game by subscribing to platforms such as Sling TV, DirecTV and ESPN+.
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The 2024 NHL All-Star Game will stream live on ESPN+ on Saturday at 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET. The All-Star game will be available to stream in English and Spanish.
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Peacock is kicking off Black History Month with a documentary series chronicling the impact of Run DMC. Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story premieres Thursday (Feb. 1) on Peacock.
Directed by Kirk Fraser, the three-part documentary highlights the rise of Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and “Jam Master Jay” Mizell — three friends from Queens, New York, who went on to became one of the greatest rap groups of all time.
In the series, Rev Run and DMC get candid about everything from their early days in the group to finding superstardom and the loss of Jam Master Jay, who was gunned down in his recording studio in 2002. The murder trial against Jam Master Jay’s accused killers started this week — more than 20 years after his murder and nearly four years after the men were arrested.
The documentary also features appearances from Ice-T, LL Cool J, MC Lyte, Jermaine Dupri, Ice Cube, Questlove, Beastie Boys, Chuck D., Tom Morello, Doug E. Fresh, Big Daddy Kane, Ed Lover and more.
The series is executive produced by Rev Run, DMC, William H. Masterson III, Brian Hunt, Dan Goodman, Michael Lehman and Erik Blamoville, and produced by Believe Entertainment Group.
Read on for details on how to watch Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story on Peacock.
How to Watch on Peacock
Kings From Queens: The Run DMC dropped on Peacock on Thursday — and you won’t have to wait a week for new episodes to drop as all three episodes, “It’s Like That” “It’s Tricky” and Down with the King,” are streaming on the platform.
To watch the series, head to the Peacock homepage via the app or online at Peacocktv.com. Each episode has a runtime of 60-78 minutes.
Not subscribed to Peacock? You’re missing out on a huge selection of must-watch movies, TV series, sports, documentaries and more. Plans start at just $5.99/month for Peacock Premium, the ad-supported package that unlocks access to thousands of hours of entertainment. Peacock Premium Plus is $11.99/month to stream without commercials.
Peacock is packed with bingeworthy movies, TVs series and reality series such as The Traitors, Dr. Death, Ted, Love Island: Love Games, Couple to Throuple, Poker Face, The Holdovers, Five Night’s at Freddy’s and episodes of network favorites like Suits, Yellowstone, The Office and Saturday Night Live.
Looking for a free trial to Peacock? Xfinity offers free Peacock when you subscribe to NowTV ($20/month) and DirecTV Stream subscribers can add Peacock at a discounted rate of $3.99/month. Additionally, Peacock offers student discounts and annual plans that save you 17% off the regular price.
In honor of Black History Month, Peacock curated a collection of content starring Black leads. The “Amplifying Black Voices” hub features Peacock Originals such as The Best Man: The Final Chapters, Bel-Air, Praise This and Honk For Jesus: Save Your Soul; and other movies and TV shows such as Nope, Do Right Things, BlacKkKlansman, Found, Pearson, Grand Crew, Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks, The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Then and Now, I Am Not Your Negro, A Celebration of Tony Morrison and Woman in Motion.
Music fans will find classic documentary films such as The Night James Brown Saved Boston, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang of The Wu Clan, Time Is Illmatic and more.
Watch the trailer for Kings from Queens: The Run DMC Story below.
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Black History Month is here and, for many of us in the culture, the history and contributions of our people remain front and center all year long. On X, formerly known as Twitter, Black History Month became the top trending topic and sparked several replies we’ve gathered below.
Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Former President Daryl Michael Scott shared in an essay on the ASALH website that definitively explains the rich history of Black History Month and its founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson.
In the summer of 1915 in Chicago, Woodson, who attended the University of Chicago, traveled to the city to join in a celebration of the 50th anniversary of emancipation. With thousands of Black attendees at the event, Woodson and others held exhibits displaying varying articles related to Black history. For three weeks, crowds converged upon the Coliseum, which sparked Woodson to form an organization dedicated to studying Black life and history. On Sept. 9 of that year, Woodson met with A. L. Jackson and three others to establish the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH).
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He hoped that others would popularize the findings that he and other black intellectuals would publish in The Journal of Negro History, which he established in 1916. As early as 1920, Woodson urged black civic organizations to promote the achievements that researchers were uncovering. A graduate member of Omega Psi Phi, he urged his fraternity brothers to take up the work. In 1924, they responded with the creation of Negro History and Literature Week, which they renamed Negro Achievement Week. Their outreach was significant, but Woodson desired greater impact. As he told an audience of Hampton Institute students, “We are going back to that beautiful history and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements.” In 1925, he decided that the Association had to shoulder the responsibility. Going forward it would both create and popularize knowledge about the black past. He sent out a press release announcing Negro History Week in February, 1926.
Woodson chose February for reasons of tradition and reform. It is commonly said that Woodson selected February to encompass the birthdays of two great Americans who played a prominent role in shaping black history, namely Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, whose birthdays are the 12th and the 14th, respectively. More importantly, he chose them for reasons of tradition. Since Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, the black community, along with other Republicans, had been celebrating the fallen President’s birthday. And since the late 1890s, black communities across the country had been celebrating Douglass’. Well aware of the pre-existing celebrations, Woodson built Negro History Week around traditional days of commemorating the black past. He was asking the public to extend their study of black history, not to create a new tradition. In doing so, he increased his chances for success.
The 1970s saw a wider embrace of a longer celebration period, something Woodson advocated for in his lifetime along with other educators. At Kent State University, the Black United Students Group and other Black educators combined their efforts for a Black History Month celebration in 1970.
In 1976, the month-long celebration began taking root across the country after President Gerald Ford recognized the month during the celebration of the United States Bicentennial. Across the globe, Black History Month jumped off at varying intervals with the United Kingdom first celebrating the month in 1987, with Germany and Canada joining along in the 1990s.
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An important piece of the Tayvis timeline has finally been clarified, thanks to Travis Kelce. In a recent interview, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end revealed exactly how long he and Taylor Swift knew each other before she first broke the internet by attending one of his games at Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri late September.
“We had known each other for close to a month up to that point,” Kelce said on The Pat McAfee Show Wednesday (Jan. 31), smiling.
Leading up to that fateful Sept. 24 Chiefs vs. Chicago Bears game, the player had actually teased that Swift might attend on McAfee’s show. “I threw the ball in her court,” he said at the time. “I told her, ‘I’ve seen you rock the stage in Arrowhead, you might have to come see me rock the stage in Arrowhead.’”
Even so, Swifties and NFL fans alike were shocked when the “Anti-Hero” singer did show up to cheer Kelce on in a box suite alongside his mom, Donna. But, as No. 87 said in the new interview, “It wasn’t just an out of the blue, ‘Hey, come to the game.’”
“It’s exciting for me, but it was all brand new, man,” he added of the beginnings of his relationship with the musician. “From having the paparazzi follow me every single day into work to everybody having my name on their talk show every single day … It’s been a crazy, crazy ride that I could have never anticipated. But I’m having fun with it. The majority of the world is having fun with it, outside all the cranky NFL fans that just don’t want to see the Chiefs win.”
Swift herself previously cleared up that she and Kelce were already a couple by the time she went to her first game, telling TIME in her Person of the Year cover story, “We actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other.”
“I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game?” she continued in the December interview. “We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.”
Since then, the 12-time Grammy winner has attended about a dozen of Kelce’s games, and fans are hopeful she’ll make it to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas Feb. 11. At the AFC Championship game Sunday (Jan. 28), Swift joined the Ohio native down on the field at M&T Bank Stadium in Maryland following the Chiefs’ 17-10 victory against the Baltimore Ravens, kissing him in front of NFL cameras.
“I love it when Taylor comes and supports me and enjoys the game with the fam and friends,” Kelce gushed to McAFee. “It’s been nothing but a wonderful year, man.”
Watch Kelce on the Pat McAfee Show below.
We’re happy for you brother..”It’s been a crazy ride that I could’ve never anticipated and I’m having fun with it..Taylor and I knew each other for close to a month before she came to that first game”@tkelce #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/W38R6RYxzi— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) January 31, 2024
When Drake originally dropped his Carby Musk candles in 2020, they were marketed as being his personal scent for fans to smell just like the 6 God. The OVO hitmaker’s Better World Fragrance House returned on Wednesday (Jan. 31) with the launch of its new fragrance oils, and Carby Musk was the first to become […]
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The Conga Room — the nightclub that for years defined Latin entertainment in Los Angeles and featured artists like Celia Cruz, Carlos Santana, Fito Páez and Alejandro Sanz — is closing its doors after 25 years. Its final concert will be a private show March 27 featuring Puerto Rican salsa star Gilberto Santa Rosa and an array of friends, hosted by actor and producer Jimmy Smits and MC’d by comedian Paul Rodriguez, both co-owners.
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Established in 1999 by entrepreneur Brad Gluckstein, the Conga was — and still is — an anomaly in Los Angeles: an upscale, celebrity-studded nightclub devoted to Latin music and entertainment. Gluckstein’s co-owners at opening were luminaries Smits, Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez and Sheila E., all representing different sides of entertainment. In contrast with New York, which for decades boasted legendary nightclubs devoted to Latin music, Los Angeles didn’t have a Latin venue backed by star power and that sought to highlight a broad swath of Latin music.
Maluma performing at the Conga Room in 2016
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From the onset, the Conga did just that.
When it opened in its original Wilshire Boulevard location, it featured Celia Cruz as its first headliner, and artists who performed there included Buena Vista Social Club and Tito Puente, but also Carlos Santana and Alejandro Fernández. In 2008, the Conga Room moved to its current, ritzier location at L.A. LIVE, where it continued to expand its programming, bringing in reggaetón and Mexican acts; Maluma and Bad Bunny, for example, played there in the early days.
In 2013, Billboard hosted a show by norteño band Calibre 50, as part of its Mexican Music Awards. While the room also featured other genres, with shows by artists like Lenny Kravitz, Ed Sheeran and Avicii, its core remained Latin music. All told, the venue hosted more than 500 performances in both locations, in addition to special events.
Gilberto Santa Rosa performing at the Conga Room in 2021
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“The Conga Room brought Latin music to the forefront, presenting both international and local artists in an intimate and upscale setting,” said Gluckstein in a statement. “It also became part of the cultural fabric of Los Angeles, hosting cultural, political and community events for a quarter of a century.”
However, offered Gluckstein, “Unfortunately, with the pandemic, the lack of events at the convention center, and the difficulty in booking national acts with AEG and Live Nation controlling national routing, our business model was changed. Coupled with an inflammatory economy and high interest rates, [it changed] consumer behavior significantly.”
Although the venue is shuttering, the nonprofit organization Conga Kids will continue to operate. Founded in 2016, the program reaches roughly 50,000 elementary school children per year in largely under-resourced communities in LA County, offering a curriculum of dance and music of the Afro-Diaspora.
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Nintendo Switch is giving pastel pink vibes in celebration of Princess Preach. The gaming giant will release limited-edition, pastel pink Joy-Con controllers, to coincide with the release of the Princess Peach: Showtime video game out March 22.
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The Joy-Con controllers will be released the same day as Princess Peach: Showtime, Nintendo announced on Twitter last week. According to the announcement, the pastel pink Joy-Con controllers will be available at select retailers and the My Nintendo Store.
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You can pre-order the pink Joy-Con controllers online at Nintendo.com and major retailers such as Walmart and Amazon — while supplies last. The set includes a left and right Joy-Con controllers with wrists straps.
Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers are available in a range of colors, including pink pastel/pastel yellow, neon pink/neon green, purple/neon green, neon purple/orange and neon red/green.
Princess Peach takes the spotlight in her upcoming solo video game, which was announced last year following the success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The animated film starring Anya-Taylor Joy as Princess Peach, Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi and Jack Black as Bowser, raked in a whopping $1.36 billion at the box office and was the top-grossing film last year before getting dethrone by the Barbie movie.
The video game showcases different sides of Princess Peach as she transforms from Mushroom Kingdom royalty into Swordfighter Peach, Patissiere Peach, Cowgirl Peach and Detective Peach.
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