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Drummer Dave Grohl looks out to the audience during The Bird and the Bee's performance at The Last Weekend Rally presented by Swing Left at the Palace Theatre, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, in Los Angeles.

Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl is having an epic drum battle with a 10-year-old prodigy

August 31, 2020 at 2:41 p.m.

No one has surrendered yet in an epic drum battle between Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and 10-year-old prodigy Nandi Bushell. This month, Bushell challenged the former Nirvana drummer by...

Instacart's drive toward productivity helps its profit margins, but shoppers say company policies often ignore the realities of the job, leaving them in constant fear of termination over things out of their control.

Instacart shoppers say they face unforgiving metrics: ‘It’s a very easy job to lose’

August 31, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.

Five days a week, Ryan Hartson scours the picked-over aisles of Mariano's Fresh Market in Chicago to fill grocery delivery orders for Instacart. He clocks in for his shift exactly...

Mary J. Blige arrives at Netflix's The Umbrella Academy Season 1 Premiere held at the Arclight Hollywood on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 in Hollywood, Calif.

With a new show on Starz, Mary J. Blige has nothing to prove. Except to herself

August 31, 2020 at 8:59 a.m.

When Mary J. Blige had a brush with history recently, she almost missed the celebration. The singer-actress was not tuned in to the Democratic National Convention when Sen. Kamala Harris...

Sterling K. Brown, from left, Sydelle Noel, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Isaach de Bankole, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o and Angela Bassett from the cast of "Black Panther," accept the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture at the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019, in Los Angeles.

Watch Chadwick Boseman’s indelible SAG Awards speech on being ‘young, gifted and Black’

August 29, 2020 at 8:46 a.m.

When Chadwick Boseman accepted the 2019 SAG Awards' top film prize with his "Black Panther" castmates, he borrowed some potent words from the Nina Simone song "To Be Young, Gifted...

FILE - This Jan. 26, 2020 file photo shows Dua Lipa at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Dua Lipa released her sophomore album "Future Nostalgia" on March 27. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File

Review: Dua Lipa, with some help and inspiration from Madonna, revives the remix album

August 28, 2020 at 3:31 p.m.

Dua Lipa didn't need to put a song called "Love Is Religion" on her new remix album to conjure memories of Madonna. For one thing, the English pop singer teamed...

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in the film "Bill & Ted Face The Music."

How the team behind ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ assembled a band that could save the universe

August 28, 2020 at 1:57 p.m.

Ever since the 1989 cult comedy "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" sent them traveling through time in a cosmic phone booth, slacker friends Ted "Theodore" Logan (Keanu Reeves) and Bill...

President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Trump’s acceptance speech draws 21.6 million TV viewers, trailing the audience for Biden

August 28, 2020 at 1:52 p.m.

The final night of the Republican convention which featured President Trump's acceptance speech from the White House South Lawn, had an average audience of 21.6 million viewers Thursday, putting it...

Second season of ‘High Fidelity’ would have focused on Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Cherise

August 28, 2020 at 11:33 a.m.

The first season of Hulu's "High Fidelity" explored the top five heartbreaks of record store owner Rob (Zoe Kravitz) and her employee/ex-boyfriend/close friend Simon (David H. Miller). Which left fans...

Lele Pons arrives at the 61st annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Spotify ramps up podcast deals with influencers

August 27, 2020 at 2:57 p.m.

Los Angeles-based influencers Rickey Thompson and Denzel Dion are pros at posting funny videos to their millions of followers on social media platforms. But they've never had their own podcast...

Comedian Trevor Noah attends A+E Network's "HISTORYTalks: Leadership and Legacy" at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

The ‘unnatural evolution’ of Trevor Noah and ‘The Daily Show’

August 28, 2020 at 10:15 a.m.

"The Daily Show With Trevor Noah" has gone from being jokes about the news to, more and more, the news with some jokes. If comedy is tragedy plus time, perhaps...

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