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Embracing God's Plan Through the Storms of Life: A Talk with Traci Akins — Hope Magazine
The depth of the soul can be seen through the eyes of a woman. When she is confident and excited, you can see the dancing sparks of light radiating from her heart. Yet, when she is sad and the painful portions of life penetrate the essence of who she is, you can see that too. Women wear the complex beauty of life with a smile. In the journey of life, every woman faces moments of uncertainty, struggle, and even doubt. But one thing can always guide us through: hope.
The Bond of Faith, Family & Friendship — Hope Magazine
In a world that often feels disconnected, where trust is harder to come by, and genuine connection seems increasingly rare. There’s a timeless bond that still has the power to ground us, make us significant, understood, and comfortable: friendship. Real friendship, you know the kind of relationship that transcends superficiality and endures through the ups and downs of life. The one that you can count on to be a source of strength, hope, and resilience.
Rhaenys Could End You With One Look
Princess Rhaenys had so many strengths: wisdom, fearlessness, her dragon Meleys (more on her below), tall wigs, enduring patience for Corlys’s bullshit, enduring patience for all of the men of this realm’s bullshit. But her greatest weapon was her face. One sharp glance from her across the Small Council table and you knew it was judgment day. Especially if that you is Daemon.
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Governors Ball 2024
This weekend, Gov Ball returned to Flushing Meadows Corona Park to wreak further havoc (complimentary — mostly) on an already busy 2024 for pop. This year’s lineup also presented a list of timely questions, like would SZA tease tracks from her next album Lana, and would someone’s dad ascend when the Killers performed “Mr. Brightside,” and how many inflatable swords would Carly Rae Jepsen be handed?
The ‘Love Is Blind’ Experiment Broke Itself in Season Five
A season defined by external drama reminds us why we’re really watching. We’re now seven episodes into Love Is Blind’s fifth season, and the mess is everywhere. At the end of episode four, the Netflix reality dating show revealed that Uche and Lydia, two contestants who were supposed to be complete strangers, had actually been in a long-term relationship prior to appear on the show.
The Highs, Lows, and Woahs of Governors Ball 2023
Grraaahh. Photo: Taylor Hill/WireImage For 12 years, the notoriously cursed Governors Ball has succumbed to thunderstorms, COVID, transportation nightmares, artist dropouts, and even more thunderstorms. While this year’s fest seemed to have all the makings of a classic Gov Ball disaster — with the air having turned a toxic chalky orange days earlier thanks to Canadian wildfires — it thankfully managed to go off without a hitch, save for a quick 15-minute downpour.
The Highs, Lows, and Woahs of Coachella 2023
Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photos: Getty Images We’ve been in a homogenous music-festival era for years. Today, organizers seem to relish copying each other’s lineup choices like they forgot to study for a test the night before. Even something as big and successful as Coachella isn’t been immune to the shift — well, except this year, where all three headliners (Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK, and Frank Ocean) decided to stick to Indio for the summer.
‘Love Is Blind’ Season 4 Reunion Shouldn’t Have Been Live
Technical difficulties were just the start of the Netflix reality series’ reunion problems. Photo: Netflix Occasionally, Vulture staff will convene an emergency discussion about something that’s been haunting us. This week, that topic is the Love Is Blind Live Reunion, which mostly managed to be a reunion but completely failed as a live event. Here, Vulture staffers Zoë Haylock, Dee Lockett, and Kathryn VanArendonk gather to discuss the factors that produced to a lackluster broadcast.
The Best Moments in Twitter History
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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer What is the value of Twitter? That question has been top of mind since the company agreed this week to be purchased by Elon Musk for $54.20 a share, giving the social network a market value of about $44 billion. A company’s stock price, of course, can change: Only a year ago, Twitter sold at $70 a share after the company announced goals to double its revenue by the end of 2023.
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Kofi Siriboe Has Nothing But Facts About Blackness in Hollywood
By Dee Lockett@dee_lockett Photo: Skip Bolen/Warner Bros. For six seasons, Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar has captured the richly complex reality and humanity of everyday Black life in Louisiana.
Spencer as a Comedy? Pablo Larraín Would Like to See It.
By Dee Lockett@dee_lockett “There was a version of Spencer that’s more funny,” Pablo Larraín told Vulture Festival 2021 attendees.
If an Insecure Movie Ever Happens, Just Know Issa Rae Is ‘Down Bad’
By Dee Lockett@dee_lockett Photo: HBO Max And just like that,the countdown to theInsecure finale begins. Then that’s it. No more. Fin. Many Saints of Inglewood? Please. Insecure: The Movie. Never, sigh. At Saturday night’s Vulture Festival event starring Issa Rae, Yvonne Orji, and a bottle of prosecco, Rae made the heartbreaking confirmation that she has “no desire” to join the canon of HBO series that’ve found a second (or third or fourth …) life as a feature-film length.
The Unfortunate Reason R. Kelly Is Credited on Drake’s Certified Lover Boy
r. kelly Sept. 3, 2021 By Dee Lockett@dee_lockett Kelly in 2019. Photo: Getty Images If you made it to the eighth track of Drake’s new album Certified Lover Boy (congrats to you, that’s a lot of work), and happened to peruse the details of that song, “TSU,” you might’ve caught a couple big names, one less offensive than the other. First: Justin Timberlake. Then, two names under him on the list of credited songwriters, R. Kelly. That’s Robert Kelly of both R&B and accused-predatory fame, the same R.
Taylor Swift to Repaint the Whole World Red This Fall, as Nature Intended
By Dee Lockett@dee_lockett It’s all too well. Photo: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Just when Taylor Swift Nation thought they’d outsmarted their overlord, running wild with the semi-educated guess that the pop star’s next installment of her re-re-recording series would be 1989, surprise, we’re actually going back to 2012 first.
Watch Kanye West Accept the Visionary Award at the 2015 BET Honors
Last month Kanye West accepted the Visionary Award at the 2015 BET Awards, which were televised Monday night. It was presented to him by none other than Dame Dash, a surprise given the two’s strained relationship following Dash’s split with Jay Z and Roc-A-Fella Records.
The Best Songs of 2020
best of 2020 Dec. 14, 2020 The only consistent thing this year was terrible news and terrific music to get us through it. By Justin Curto and Dee Lockett Best of 2020 The best entertainment of 2020, as chosen by Vulture’s critics. Click here to see selections for every subject and more.
The 100 Songs That Define NYC Rap and Hip-Hop, Ranked
Photo-Illustration: Stevie Remsberg Hip-hop started out in the parks and traveled around the globe and back, picking up new accents and flavors in every region and time zone, rubbing elbows with other genres and cultures, and adapting to new climates and temperaments. But the spark that inspired the early bombers, breakers, DJs, and rappers to revolutionize art, dance, fashion, music, and language endures in New York City, changing alongside the advancing generations.
Twister Is the Perfect ’90s Disaster Flick
And what a coincidence, it’s also perfect for your Friday night quar watch with us. Because you should definitely still be in quar! Photo: Amblin/Universal/Warners/Kobal/Shutterstock Every week for the foreseeable future, Vulture will be selecting one film to watch as part of our Friday Night Movie Club. This week’s selection comes from music editor Dee Lockett, who will begin her screening of Twister on July 17 at 7 p.m. ET.
Naya Rivera on Glee for Season 6? It’s not clear. But the show needs Santana Lopez.
Brow Beat If Naya Rivera is gone, Glee will have lost its best character. Fox Up until yesterday, it wasn’t clear if Naya Rivera and her character, Santana Lopez, would show up on the season finale of Glee. She’d previously appeared in nearly every episode of the fifth season, popping up last week as an Olivia Pope-esque publicist for the show’s star, Rachel Berry (Lea Michele). Off screen, Rivera has been in damage-control mode herself after a deluge of bad press.
T-Boz and Chilli plan to raise $150,000 in crowdfunding.
Brow Beat TLC haven’t released a new studio album since 2002’s 3D, and after the death of member Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes that same year, it seemed likely they never would. Since then, the group’s surviving members, T-Boz and Chilli, have made a slow comeback with a feature on J. Cole’s “Crooked Smile” and two new songs—as well as a VH1 biopic (for which they served as executive producers) in 2013.
A Roundtable Discussion on a Chaotic Week in Social Media
By Craig Jenkins, E. Alex Jung, and Dee Lockett How many New York Times staffers responded to the publication of Tom Cotton’s op-ed. Photo: Twitter In another week of protests against police brutality, social media has become a prism of the anger, activism, and allyship being expressed nationwide: there was the now-infamous blackout on Tuesday, performative displays of support from corporations, and the ongoing video documentation of police violence against protesters.
37 Albums We’re Excited to Hear This Summer (and, Someday, Live)
Your soundtrack for staying inside. By Dee Lockett@dee_lockett Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos by Getty Images and YouTube Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos by Getty Images and YouTube Not much about where 2020’s headed is certain, but take comfort in at least this one constant: There will be music.
An Accurate Representation of Quarantine Brain in One Music Video
By Dee Lockett@dee_lockett I can’t tell if 645AR is doing a bit or not. The 22-year-old South Bronx rapper writes songs about serious street shit delivered in a high-pitched squeal of a voice, flipping our expectations for how those stories are meant to be told and undercutting their darkness with humor. In January, his breakout song “4 Da Trap” filtered the compact swag rap of Chicago’s Valee (or the curt absurdity of Tierra Whack) with the voice of a Disney character.
2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Postponed Due to Coronavirus
By Dee Lockett@dee_lockett The show won’t go on anytime soon. Photo: picture alliance via Getty Image Following the cancellation and postponements of major live music events like Coachella, SXSW, and Ultra in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced that its show will also not go on, at least not anytime soon. The Hall is postponing its May 2 induction ceremony for the 2020 class, to be held in Cleveland, to an undetermined later date.
The Complete History of Kesha’s Fight Against Dr. Luke
The battle dates back to 2014 with no end in sight. Photo: Getty Images One of the biggest stories in pop music in the past ten years could just as easily have occurred at any given time in the history of the music industry: A young female pop star takes her Svengali-like big-name boss to court in a fight for her freedom.
32 Albums We Can’t Wait to Hear in 2020
By Craig Jenkins and Dee Lockett Photo: Vulture and Getty Images How many of us woke up on January 1 empty-handed, robbed yet again of a chance to luxuriate in Rihanna’s elusive new album? Oh, that’s right — all 7.8 billion of us. It’s a new decade and the same old story: Artists will do as artists do, which in the ’20s, just as it was in the ’10s, means just about anything goes. An album can exist in whatever form you want; you don’t even have to call it an album at all.
The Complete History of Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Controversial Career
timelines Updated 1:58 P.M. By Dee Lockett and Zoe Haylock Tekashi 6ix9ine. Photo: Shareif Ziyadat/WireImage SoundCloud rap has exploded over the last two years with rappers whose criminal pasts have led to uncertain futures. XXXTentacion was murdered last June while awaiting trial on charges that he brutally assaulted and threatened to kill his pregnant girlfriend in 2016, allegations which only heightened his notoriety online during his brief career.
The Best Songs of 2019
best of 2019 Dec. 10, 2019 Who’d have thought the real voice of a generation would be Lana Del Rey? By Dee Lockett@dee_lockett Best of 2019 The best entertainment of 2019, as chosen by Vulture's critics. Click here to see selections for every subject and more. If you’re looking for music made by people in search of hard truths or bliss or some wild combination of both, these songs will have you covered.
Let’s Predict the 2020 Grammy Nominations
By Dee Lockett@dee_lockett It’s set to be a changing-of-the-guard year but some familiar faces won’t go without a challenge. Photo: Vulture and Getty Images Fans, prepare to mobilize. The 2020 Grammy nominations are upon us, set to be announced on November 20 by Alicia Keys and Bebe Rexha. Which can only mean one thing: It’s that time of year to argue about how the Recording Academy did [insert your fave here] dirty.
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How Did Anna Delvey Just Instagram a Selfie From Rikers? The socialite scammer is living at Rikers while she awaits trial for fraudulently racking up thousands of dollars of debt.
The Complete History of Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Controversial Career
timelines Updated Sept. 18, 2019 By Dee Lockett and Zoe Haylock Tekashi 6ix9ine. Photo: Shareif Ziyadat/WireImage SoundCloud rap has exploded over the last two years with rappers whose criminal pasts have led to uncertain futures. XXXTentacion was murdered last June while awaiting trial on charges that he brutally assaulted and threatened to kill his pregnant girlfriend in 2016, allegations which only heightened his notoriety online during his brief career.
The Best and Biggest Albums to Listen to This Fall
From Tame Impala, Charli XCX, FKA Twigs, and more. Plus, four not-to-miss concerts. By Craig Jenkins and Dee Lockett Fall Preview The most anticipated releases of the season ahead. Photo-Illustration: Getty Images Fall Preview The most anticipated releases of the season ahead. Photo-Illustration: Getty Images Now that both Hurricane Taylor Swift and the Grammy eligibility deadline have passed, all signs would normally point to quiet months ahead going into the holiday season.
Doja Cat, Normani, and Rosalía Casually Won the Week in Music Videos
Well excuuuuse me. Photo: Vulture and YouTube Well, just when we thought every music video not creative-directed by god herself, Beyoncé, is just another [insert alcoholic beverage brand here], Beats, or TikTok commercial, a certain pop trifecta (from various parts of that world) unknowingly (hmmm) assembled to swiftly tell us to shut the hell up. Message received! This week, like every week, several music videos were released. Most, like every week, were tired.
The Best Songs of 2019 (So Far)
best of 2019 Updated 2:34 P.M. By Sam Hockley-Smith and Dee Lockett Photo: Vulture and Getty Images This list has been updated with July releases. It’s always exciting to see what shape music will take in a new year. What invisible connections will be made, and who will become a breakout star or a cult favorite. Halfway through the year, we’ve had exciting new music from indie veterans, career-best (so far) music from bubbling stars, and much more.
Everything to Know About A$AP Rocky’s Arrest and Detainment in Sweden
the week in rap Updated 1:37 A.M. By Paul Thompson and Dee Lockett Why the rapper has been charged with assault after three weeks of detainment. Photo: David Wolff-Patrick/Redferns/Getty Images Every week, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes most confusing rap releases and other news. In this installment: what happened with A$AP Rocky’s arrest and subsequent detainment in Sweden, J.
How Woodstock 50 Imploded Right Before Our Eyes: A Timeline
timelines Updated July 31, 2019 By Larry Fitzmaurice and Dee Lockett Welcome to Fyre Festival 2.0. Photo: Woodstock 50 The festival economy has been shaky for a minute now, but any broad ailments it’s faced pales in comparison to the drama surrounding Woodstock 50.
Everything to Know About A$AP Rocky’s Arrest and Detainment in Sweden
the week in rap Updated 7:35 A.M. By Paul Thompson and Dee Lockett Why the rapper has been charged with assault after three weeks of detainment. Photo: David Wolff-Patrick/Redferns/Getty Images Every week, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes most confusing rap releases and other news. In this installment: what happened with A$AP Rocky’s arrest and subsequent detainment in Sweden, J.
Listen to Drake’s Two New Songs Celebrating the Raptors’ NBA Championship Win
This will never end. Photo: Rick Madonik/Toronto Star via Getty Images Settle in for Drake’s long, loud victory lap. In (further) celebration of his beloved Toronto Raptors NBA Championship win, as promised, Drake has dropped two brand new songs just in case his undying support wasn’t somehow clear yet. (A day late, but who’s counting?) And, you know, because the man already prematurely made songs with the titles “Trophies” and “Big Rings,” he had to go back to the drawing board for the team.
The Best Songs of 2019 (So Far)
best of 2019 Updated 3:20 P.M. By Sam Hockley-Smith and Dee Lockett Photo: Vulture and Getty Images This list has been updated with May releases. It’s always exciting to see what shape music will take in a new year. What invisible connections will be made, and who will become a breakout star or a cult favorite. This year so far, we’ve got exciting new music from indie veterans, career-best (so far) music from bubbling stars, and much more.
Tom Petty’s Family Is Fighting About Salad Dressing
Tom Petty. Photo: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Tom Petty’s family has seen the drama unfolding over at the Prince and Aretha Franklin households and would like them both to hold their beer. “Page Six” reports that the late rock star’s widow and his two surviving daughters are currently locked in a bitter legal feud over — wait for it — salad dressing.
Summer Music Preview: Madonna, Ed Sheeran, and More Albums We Can’t Wait to Hear
By Craig Jenkins and Dee Lockett Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos by Getty Images It’s been a relatively slow-and-steady year for music releases so far (catch up with all the standouts right here), which can only mean one thing: Prepare to be exhausted by surprise drops all summer long.
The Whitney Houston Hologram Is Happening Whether We Want It or Not
Whitney. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Because a Whitney Houston hologram went so well the first time, her estate has announced that it’s going ahead with another, this time on a much bigger scale. Pat Houston, her sister-in-law and estate executor, tells the New York Times that there are now plans for Whitney’s hologram to tour and that we should also brace ourselves for the inevitable Whitney Broadway musical, Whitney brand deals, and a new Whitney album too.
Rihanna Doesn’t Know When Her New Album Will Come, So Stop Asking Already!
Rihanna. Photo: Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock While Rihanna has been occupied building a fashion and beauty empire, minding her business, and leaving Leo on read (we assume!), yeah, yeah, yeah her music has fallen a bit to the wayside. We know! Because her fans will not stop harassing her for her new album. First of all, how dare you? Second, all that spamming her Instagram comments has been for naught because Rih still doesn’t have any answers for you.
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of Rolling Loud 2019
Just about everything that could go wrong did. Photo: Jason Koerner/Getty Images Rolling Loud, the largest U.S. hip-hop festival, ran into an improbable number of hurdles in its fifth anniversary outing over the weekend in Miami. Marred by false threats of an active shooter, very real offsite shootings involving Young Thug and NBA YoungBoy, Kodak Black’s wild last-minute arrest, Lil Wayne’s no-show, and unpredictable weather, just about everything that could go wrong did.
Oh, So That’s What Taylor Swift’s Chickens in Sunglasses Clue Meant
Photo: Taylor Swift Give yourselves a round of applause and a shot of something potent, for we’ve survived yet another Taylor Swift easter egg hunt. (Or at least round one of the latest.) On Thursday night, Swift dropped her new single “ME!”, featuring Panic! At the Disco’s Brendon Urie, and its pastel attack of a music video. Said visuals are, of course, not just any ole’ music video – there’s subtext here, folks.
How Nice of Justin Bieber to End His Hiatus for Ariana Grande at Coachella
@ArianaGrande bought out @justinbieber at coachella ♥️ #ARICHELLA pic.twitter.com/pYtPBQIZhJ — 🧚🏽♀️ (@thatmelaninsis) April 22, 2019 Ariana Grande wasn’t going to bring out a guest for her second weekend headlining Coachella, having been there done that with NSYNC, Nicki Minaj, Diddy, and Ma$e just last week. But, hey, Justin Bieber just so happened to be in the area and they just so happen to share a manager, so what’s one little casual appearance gonna hurt?
Lizzo Made Coachella Her Bitch Despite More Sound Issues
Queen Lizzo. Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Coachella Lizzo’s star has : The singer just put out her major label debut to rave reviews, she continues to be required following on social media for the manual to self-love, and, once again, is making Coachella her bitch.
How Nice of Justin Bieber to End His Hiatus for Ariana Grande at Coachella
@ArianaGrande bought out @justinbieber at coachella ♥️ #ARICHELLA pic.twitter.com/pYtPBQIZhJ — 🧚🏽♀️ (@thatmelaninsis) April 22, 2019 Ariana Grande wasn’t going to bring out a guest for her second weekend headlining Coachella, having been there done that with NSYNC, Nicki Minaj, Diddy, and Ma$e just last week. But, hey, Justin Bieber just so happened to be in the area and they just so happen to share a manager, so what’s one little casual appearance gonna hurt?
The Best Moments From Beyoncé’s Homecoming Presented in 17 Perfect GIFs
Chances are if you had a pulse and a decent WiFi connection on April 14, 2018, you lived and relived every single nanosecond of Beyoncé’s historic Coachella performance. And if you were busy doing god knows what else that night, you’ve absolutely seen all the footage — since archived on social media — from the defining cultural event of our time. Still, somehow, we haven’t seen it all.
What It Was Like to Be in the Audience for Beyoncé’s Historic Coachella Show
beychella Updated Apr. 17, 2019 By Kyle Buchanan and Dee Lockett Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Coachella This post was originally published following Beyoncé’s groundbreaking 2018 Coachella-headlining performance. We are revisiting it again today in honor of Beychella coming to Netflix a year later in her new feature film, Homecoming.
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