
Oscar-winning film and TV composer James Horner whose decades-long career included work on films such as Braveheart, Apollo 13, and Titanic, died Monday after his single engine aircraft went down north of Santa Barbara, CA.
by Kipp Jones23 Jun 2015, 5:58 AM PST0

Agency for Games, a consultancy firm headed by games blogger Leigh Alexander, “didn’t help sales one bit,” according to Tale of Tales, an independent video games company that recently announced its closure.
by Milo Yiannopoulos23 Jun 2015, 5:43 AM PST0

Nintendo’s third-person shooter game Splatoon has been “datamined” to reveal upcoming content. There are two new maps, 33 new weapons, and three new modes.
by Robert Shimshock23 Jun 2015, 5:20 AM PST0

(Reuters) – Hollywood composer James Horner, who scored the Oscar-winning film “Titanic” and its mega-hit theme song “My Heart Will Go On”, died in a plane crash in southern California on Monday, U.S. media reported. The aircraft came down in
by Reuters23 Jun 2015, 1:13 AM PST0

UCLA campus police arrested Sean, “Puff Daddy” Combs on an assault with a deadly weapon charge on Monday afternoon.
by Daniel J. Flynn22 Jun 2015, 6:20 PM PST0

Rapper Lupe Fiasco penned a lengthy three-part open letter addressed to “White Supremacy” over the weekend in response to the horrific killings of nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina last week.
by Daniel Nussbaum22 Jun 2015, 2:35 PM PST0

Late-night comic and South Carolina native Stephen Colbert joined thousands of marchers in Charleston on Sunday to form a “unity chain” in response to the murders of nine people at a black church last week.
by Daniel Nussbaum22 Jun 2015, 1:10 PM PST0

It took just 12 hours for Taylor Swift to crush the most powerful brand on the planet by taking to Tumblr to accuse Apple’s post-Steve Jobs management of being greedy corporate scum trying to cheat artists out of their royalties in the launch of Apple Music.
by Chriss W. Street22 Jun 2015, 12:31 PM PST0

A careless shepherd makes an excellent dinner for the Wolfe.
by Kipp Jones22 Jun 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

Rapper Kanye West addressed last week’s racially motivated mass murder in Charleston, South Carolina during a guest performance at a concert in Atlanta on Saturday, and made one thing clear: he has no idea where Charleston is.
by Kipp Jones22 Jun 2015, 10:43 AM PST0

Social media platforms give millions of people around the world the ability to instantly share thoughts and details of both their personal and professional lives.
by Kelli Serio22 Jun 2015, 8:52 AM PST0

At E3, Microsoft announced backwards compatibility for a limited but growing number of Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One. Some of these titles, namely Mass Effect, N++, and Perfect Dark Zero have since been tested on Xbox One for visuals and functionality by Eurogamer. General observations included a 1080p graphics quality that resembles the games when played on an Xbox 360 and no screen-tearing but at the expense of lower frame-rates.
by Robert Shimshock22 Jun 2015, 8:46 AM PST0

Apple just announced that iPhone and iPad users of its upcoming iOS 9 operating system will get a disruptive new app by the name: “News.” With the Apple Watch slumping fast, Taylor Swift torpedoing Apple Music, and the “News” looking like a “wanna-be” New York Times, the first three post-Steve Jobs era products seem to indicate in the words of the immortal BB King that for Apple, “The Thrill is Gone.”
by Chriss W. Street22 Jun 2015, 6:17 AM PST0

Obama used the word during a conversation about racism in America, in which he challenged the notion that just because it wasn’t polite to use the word in public, the nation no longer had to struggle with it.
by Charlie Spiering22 Jun 2015, 5:07 AM PST0

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons bashed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a radio interview on Thursday, calling him a “b**ch” for not doing enough to enact meaningful police reform in the city.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 Jun 2015, 5:58 PM PST0

“True Detective” could drive you to drink. Its second season (Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO) arrives under cover of such darkness and psychic pain it seems to beg its audience to keep a bottle close by in a display of unity with its hard-drinking protagonists.
by Breitbart News21 Jun 2015, 1:58 PM PST0

President Obama and Hillary Clinton weren’t the only two top-level Democrats on the West Coast this weekend – on Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) fired up the progressive base at a pair of L.A.-area fundraising events to benefit his 2016
by Daniel Nussbaum21 Jun 2015, 11:36 AM PST0

The Irish actor appeared on the show with fellow actor Vince Vaughn and host Jimmy Fallon to promote the second season of gritty cop show “True Detective,” premiering Sunday night on HBO.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 Jun 2015, 11:35 AM PST0

In the wake of the horrific shooting deaths of nine people at a Charleston, South Carolina church on Wednesday, comedian Marc Maron was not sure his interview with President Obama was going to go on as scheduled.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 Jun 2015, 11:18 AM PST0

On June 19, President Barack Obama gave an interview to WTF with Marc Maron in which he described guns as part of “a legitimate set of traditions” that need to be subject to “common sense” controls.
by AWR Hawkins21 Jun 2015, 9:30 AM PST0

The times are a-changin’, even in the fictional world of superheroes.
by Kipp Jones21 Jun 2015, 6:02 AM PST0

Valve’s recently released its Reborn beta for multiplayer online battle arena game Dota 2, which boasts Valve’s new Source 2 game engine, enhancing the game’s performance and graphics
by Robert Shimshock20 Jun 2015, 12:46 PM PST0

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and even your transgendered: Orange is the New Black transgender actor Laverne Cox is appearing as the Statue of Liberty on the latest cover of Entertainment Weekly.
by Kelli Serio20 Jun 2015, 12:23 PM PST0

Hillary Clinton, who raised $3 million for her presidential campaign in Los Angeles back in May, returned to the entertainment capital Friday to attend two star-studded fundraisers, reports Variety.
by Kelli Serio20 Jun 2015, 11:45 AM PST0

On June 18–the day after Dylann Roof allegedly shot and killed 9 people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina–President Obama urged Hollywood elites to renew their efforts to help me pass more gun control.
by AWR Hawkins20 Jun 2015, 4:00 AM PST0