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GQ: Financially, how dire would the consequences have been if the season had to be canceled?Adam Silver: I mean, I wouldn’t use the word dire, only because I tend to look at our business over a longer-term horizon. Even though we had an opportunity, of course, to restart the season, the financial implications are still

Grant has the rare ability to project absolute conviction of his own rightness, even when he’s playing guilty men, as if simply by saying something with a tone of heartfelt conviction is enough to make it right and true. In the fact-based A Very English Scandal, Grant plays disgraced politician Jeremy Thorpe with the confidence

I was going to ask what you think it means for Brooklyn drill to make it to the Grammys, but it sounds like you think it’s not there in the way it should be. Yeah, it should be there in its proper way, but they don’t want it to be, for whatever reason. But at

The Beverly Hilton When it comes to hotels, The Beverly Hilton is a Los Angeles icon as synonymous with glamour and sophistication as the glittering guest list of A-listers, film stars and royalty who have sunned themselves beside its Aqua Star Pool. Opened in 1955, while its original white exterior and red signage have stayed

There’s a scene toward the beginning of Asif Kapadia’s documentary, Diego Maradona, where Maradona is standing in some dusty locker room, somewhere in Argentina, waiting to be interviewed. It’s the early ‘80s: He hasn’t moved to Europe yet, hasn’t won the World Cup, hasn’t quite become El Diego. But he’s started to score goals, started

You know “Roses (Imanbek Remix).” Even in pandemic times, it’s omnipresent. The song, by SAINt JHN, is a smash, the kind that only comes once in a lifetime for some artists: peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100; almost 194 million views on YouTube; three million TikToks using it as a background track;

Three of this year’s five nominations are solo performances (Roddy Ricch for “The Box,” Travis Scott for “Highest in the Room,” and Anderson .Paak for “Lockdown”), and all of them feature rappers who both rap and sing. Meanwhile, The Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance nominees are rewarding charismatic, talented newcomers like Megan Thee

From the moment that Jeezy and Gucci Mane walked onto the stage at Atlanta’s storied Magic City strip club, the rap world held its breath. This was some prizefight-level programming by Verzuz. For more than 15 years the Atlanta duo have been nemeses—the real-deal kind, not the Instagram-beef kind—with a long, complicated, and violent history.

I went to London-town to cheer up my mind,Then on to Paris for the fun I could findI found I could not leave my memories behind,Where could I be without you? My mother, in turn, loved his passion, and how standing still seemed to make the soles of his feet itch. Life with him was

An introvert who prefers to move in silence, Carti finds quarantine to be his natural state. “I’m always at home by myself,” he says. “I don’t really go out like that at all, unless I have to. Studio and the house. That’s it.” After living in New York and Los Angeles for a spell, the

The term “‘90s sitcom” has become white noise. Thanks in part to the fight to secure streaming rights to all the iconic, nostalgia-inducing titles of yesteryear, it feels like the term has been uttered to the point of semantic satiation. But like all cliches, there was and remains a specific logic behind the catchall. The

The Glenmark, Glendale, A Tribute Portfolio Hotel A stone’s throw from trendy neighborhoods like Atwater Village and Los Feliz, plus iconic L.A. landmarks including the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Park, the once sleepy bedroom community of Glendale is a destination in its own right – one home to a vibrant downtown, destination eateries and now

The short-sightedness of this approach might be baffling to outsiders who assume the Democratic party puts its all on the line to win. But for the organizers I spoke with on Tuesday, it’s a myopic habit that defines the national party’s political approach in the state—which many described as neglect and disinterest—when it comes to

Johntá Austin (singer-songwriter, producer): They’ve been talking about [Verzuz] for a couple of years. Alicia Keys (singer-songwriter, married to Swizz Beatz): I was with the kids and I was doing something, and I checked on Swizz. He has this area downstairs where he’ll DJ and hang out and play music, and he’ll work on whatever.

If there was ever a time where we needed to see two warring adversaries come together for the greater good, 2020 is it, and hopefully tonight’s Verzuz between Gucci Mane and Jeezy will be that beacon. The two rappers share a beef that goes back 15 years, involving failed collaborations, diss tracks, slick comments in

Columbia Hillen So utterly sumptuous is Prestonfield House, a countryside mansion in south Edinburgh, it almost defies description. Therefore, for the purposes of this article, it’s probably best to step back from the blinding visionary feast it presents and begin at the beginning – entering through the property’s sturdy main gates. From here a stately

Clooney says once he learned to understand the exact impression he was trying to convey, he got better at conveying it. (This is true about Clooney off-screen as well, I can attest; you watch him gauge his effect as he goes.) Other actors are different, he says, but that’s how he does it. “Look, Daniel

Images credit the Doyle Collection What was once a forgotten spot on the tourists’ to-do list has now become a born again hot destination for jetsetters.  Dublin has again become the UK’s go-to destination with an exciting offering of cultural activities, shopping, nightlife, and fine dining. The address for the traveling elite and bastion for