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From the moment she stepped into the werkroom in a dress made entirely out of Polaroids of herself, season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race was Symone’s to lose. The Ebony Enchantress was one of those rare queens that doesn’t come along every day, the C.U.N.T. T.P. (T.P. for “total package,” and well, you know the rest). Armed with a preternatural beauty and sense of herself, Symone continued to raise the bar on the runway (the du-rag train, the boxer getup, the beads) and prove her talents as a performer in the commercial and acting challenges. [Read More]

“Life Is Good” will go off in clubs thanks to both artists’ Midas touch. Drake and Future are an odd couple, a duo with differing skill sets that often complement each other but sometimes don’t. They’ve scored classics together. (See: Honest’s “Never Satisfied,” Scorpion’s “Blue Tint,” DJ Drama’s “We in This 1.5,” Lil Wayne’s “Love Me,” FBG the Movie’s “Fo Real,” FUTURE’s “Used to This,” and the best songs from the collaborative album What a Time to Be Alive. [Read More]

Just look at this face!!! Drake’s normally all smiles, but he appears to be especially thrilled to perform alongside Lauryn Hill at Toronto’s OVO Fest. Lauryn started her set with “Doo Wop (That Thing),” which turned into a medley with Drake’s “Draft Day,” which samples “Doo Wop” itself. And that’s just one set: OVO also had Usher, 50 Cent, and Outkast.

But really, here’s more Lauryn:

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Poll: Lauryn Hill’s Fans on Her Legacy and Upcoming Imprisonment Lauryn Hill Showed Up at Drake’s OVO Fest

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Bad Bunny first teased a collaboration with Drake all the way back in January when he posted a video of the two on Instagram, in which Drake said, “I’m on the way.” Then Drake put out a whole album in June, with no Bad Bunny to be found. But now! Ten months later! “Mia” has finally arrived, and it features Toronto’s own doing his Drakesinging exclusively in Spanish before Bad Bunny comes in to carry it the rest of the way home. [Read More]

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Woodstock 50 Is Back on … MaybeThe festival has a new investor and the court on their side, but they’re not out of the woods yet.

By Ross Kenneth Urken

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Dua Lipa has pulled off yet another successful surprise. Last month, she shocked the audience at the Academy of Country Music Awards by popping up to sing with Chris Stapleton. On Friday, during her headlining set at England’s Glastonbury Festival, Dua brought out Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker to perform a duet of his band’s 2015 hit “The Less I Know the Better.” Missed the livestream? According to the BBC, you should be able to watch her full set online within 24 hours. [Read More]

Adele. “Hello, it’s me,” Adele said this morning, “I was wondering if after all this time you’d like me to perform at a series of North American arenas?” The answer was obvious, and so today the singer announced that next year, she’ll be touring North America for the first time since her tour for 23 was cut short due to vocal-cord issues in 2011. The new Adele Live 2016 tour kicks off in St. [Read More]

The first thing to know about Dear Mr. Watterson, Joel Allen Schroeder’s documentary about Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, is that it’s not really a movie about Bill Watterson. No, it’s a movie about Calvin & Hobbes. That may sound like a pointlessly subtle distinction, but it’s an important one. Watterson notoriously shuns the spotlight: He wasn’t a very public person when he was writing and drawing Calvin from 1985 to 1995, and, now that it’s over, he’s even less so. [Read More]

Eddie Izzard just added a bunch of October dates to his tour promoting his new memoir Believe Me, which features Izzard “discussing his life, sharing personal photos, and answering questions from the audience.” The tour makes stops in Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, Denver, and more from Monday, October 2nd through Friday the 20th. Here’s the full list of dates: 10/2 – Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank) 10/3 – The Merriam Theatre (Philadelphia) 10/4 – Byham Theatre (Pittsburgh) 10/5 – The Athenaeum Theatre (Chicago) 10/6 - The Athenaeum Theatre (Chicago) 10/7 – The Pabst Theatre (Milwaukee) 10/9 – The State Theatre (Minneapolis) 10/12 – The Paramount (Austin) 10/13 – The Majestic Theatre 10/14 – Rose State College Hudiburgh Chevrolet Center (Oklahoma City) 10/16 – The Paramount Theatre (Denver) 10/18 – The Balboa (San Diego) 10/19 – The Grenada (Santa Barbara) 10/20 – The Montalban (Los Angeles) Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10:00am, but presale tickets are available today using the code “BEES. [Read More]

Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Sasha Grey. When she joined the cast of Lost in season three, Elizabeth Mitchell’s calculating doctor, Juliet Burke, was not obviously a friend or an enemy to the survivors of Oceanic 815, and she unsettled viewers with her oddly calm demeanor and dubious motives. Since then it’s become clear that she was just as much a prisoner as anyone on the island, and fans gave her the nickname “Jacket” for her brief romantic interlude with Matthew Fox’s Jack Shepard. [Read More]