It might be the dead of winter but festival organizers are warming things up as a few summer lineups have been released.
Coachella 2023 is shaping up to be a memorable one with Bad Bunny, BlackPink, and Frank Ocean all slated to headline the three-day festival. Benito will set the tone on Friday, April 14 with some pretty amazing acts that will hit the stage before him.
Some of those artists include Kaytranada, Wet Leg, and Burna Boy. Rosalía, Charli XCX, and Kid Laroi are all set to perform before BlackPink headlines on Saturday, April 15. Then, on Sunday, the final day of the festival, hitting the stage before Frank Ocean, who hasn't dropped an album since 2016, are Kali Uchis, A Boogie, and Latto among others.
Coachella will take place at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California, on the weekends of April 14-16 and April 21-23.
Bonnaroo's lineup was also revealed. Headliners this year include Kendrick Lamar, Odesza, Foo Fighters, Zeds Dead, and Liquid Stranger.
The festival is slated for June 15 through June 18 in Manchester, Tennessee.
The power of Black Twitter, the name given to a loose network of black Twitter users behind both viral memes and social campaigns, is the premise of "Power Star Live," a 30-minute show that will live stream every Wednesday on the social platform. Jessie Woo and co-host Xilla Valentine aim to dissect how the Twitter users influence pop culture.
It was an urgent warning from a group of professionals not known for a proclivity to scare the public. "In our risk averse industry, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. It is unprecedented," the statement read in part. It was issued jointly on Wednesday, from the unions representing America's air-traffic controllers, pilots, and flight attendants.
The internet is moving away from an ad-based revenue system says Jack Conte, co-founder and CEO of Patreon, a platform that allows people to pay for access to exclusive content from digital creators. That trend is evidenced by the growth that Patreon saw in 2018, Conte said in an interview on Cheddar Wednesday, the same day the company announced it now has more than 3 million subscribers, or "patrons," with more than 100,000 creators on the platform. The company began 2018 with 2 million patrons supporting its content.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019.
Wellness advisor Joyce Chang left her job as editor-in-chief of SELF Magazine to experience an "'Eat, Pray, Love' moment." After returning from her travels and talking to other high-achievers in her life Chang realized she wasn't alone in her quest for more happiness ー despite the perks of a high-powered job.
Michael Liebman caught the financial bug young. At the age of 13, he started trading stocks. At 15, he got a job as a bank teller, and started saving for retirement at 16. Now in his early 20s, Michael has teamed up with his sister Rebecca Liebman to co-found LearnLux, an enterprise company that aims to help workers achieve the kind of financial wellness he has been chasing throughout his young life.
The NBA is transparent about its approval of legalized, regulated sports betting ー but the league is also clearly communicating that it wants a fair share of the money wagered on its games. "It's our view that if state governments are going to be authorizing private entities, in most cases casinos, to generate significant revenue ー billions of dollars of revenue ー off of the NBA competitions, that the NBA participate in some way," said the NBA's head of fantasy and gaming Scott Kaufman-Ross.
It has become a hallmark of the modern millennial: Babies? Maybe later. Fur babies? Absolutely. Seven out of 10 members of the millennial generation own a pet at an average cost of around $1,000 per pet yearly. Given that pets are increasingly treated as family members, more animal owners want to insure them against accidents and illness. Indeed, the gross written premiums for pets in North America doubled ー from $575 million in 2013 to $1.15 billion in 2017, according to the National Association Pet Health Insurance Association. Whether that's a smart use of funds is another question.
The addition of Netflix to the exclusive Motion Picture Association of America on Tuesday is likely to prompt a shift in policy, both for the movie industry and for the streaming giant.
"Netflix ($NFLX) is going to shape the MPAA's agenda as much as the reverse," Eriq Gardner, a senior editor at The Hollywood Reporter, told Cheddar.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Wednesday Jan. 23, 2019.
