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A new update for Team Fortress 2 has been released. It will be automatically applied when you restart the game. Key changes include: Summer 2025! Introducing 10 new community maps: Citadel, Aquarius, Fulgur, Cargo, Conifer, Boardwalk, Blowout, Mannhole, Demolition, and Pressure Added the Summer 2025 Cosmetic Case Features 23 new community-contributed items Included 4 new...
Ethel Cain performs during All Points East Festival 2024 at Victoria Park on August 18, 2024 in London. Joseph Okpako/WireImage Despite exploring themes of love in her music for years, Ethel Cain says she’s never dated anyone — until now. While speaking to The Guardian in an interview published Thursday (July 24) — just a...
Billy Joel performs at Mohegan Sun Arena on February 22, 2025 in Uncasville, Connecticut. Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Images There’s nothing more New York than wheeling around the city streets in the back of a pedicab while listening to “New York State of Mind” — unless Billy Joel himself is there, too. In a recent video...
Tasha Cobbs Leonard Drea Nicole Photography Over a decade since gospel singer-songwriter Tasha Cobbs Leonard released her debut record, she’s become known for her live worship albums, recorded in churches and venues including Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. But on her latest project Motown Gospel project Tasha, which comes out Friday (July 25), she and her husband,...
Chuck Mangione in 1977. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Chuck Mangione, a leading figure in contemporary jazz and the musician behind crossover hit “Feels So Good,” has died. He was 84. The news was reported Thursday (July 24) by Rochester First, a local newspaper in Mangione’s hometown of Rochester, N.Y. The instrumentalist died two days prior,...
Bicep Courtesy of Ninja Tune The glacier was singing. Northern Irish duo Bicep were on a trip to Greenland, and when the pair’s Andy Ferguson visited the country’s famous Russell Glacier, he says he found it to be “like an orchestra of noise. The squeals and crashes that the ice makes were truly otherworldly.” While...
Harry Styles arrives at Valentino Pavillon des Folies Show as part of the Paris Fashion Week on September 29, 2024 in Paris, France. Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Harry Styles aims to please. On Thursday (July 24), the pop star unveiled a line of NSFW products on his Pleasing website, which is now selling sex toys...
June Freedom Kaito For Cape Verdean artist June Freedom, island time isn’t a state of being – it’s a way of living. Born in Boston, Mass., Freedom (real name Pedro Fontes Veiga Jr.) moved to the motherland when he was three and grew up listening to traditional Cape Verdean music like the sentimental morna and...
The listed bonuses and discounts are active in GTA Online until noon on July 31. New Feature “Motor Wars (Cayo Perico)” is a new variation of an old adversary mode on the well-known island. Changes The adversary mode “Supply Run” has been removed from the game, and several maps from other modes have been returned:...
Jamal Roberts Jen Rosenstein Someone has already suggested to Jamal Roberts, the 23rd and most recent winner in American Idol‘s long history, that his first post-Idol single should become the new state song of Mississippi. Born in Meridian, Miss., Roberts is sharing his first post-Idol single, “Mississippi,” today. It’s a biographical, emotional composition, and Billboard...
