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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Finneas and Ashe Announce ‘An Evening With the Favors' Tour
Ashe and Finneas are bringing their collaborative project on the road. This fall, the pair will embark on the An Evening With the Favors Tour. Their debut album as a band, The Dream, set for release on Sept. 19, will arrive just in time for the live run, which kicks off Sept. 18 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. The Favors will hit the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, and Central Park Summerstage in New York. The pair will also perform during both weekends of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. More from Rolling Stone Blackpink's Deadline World Tour Is a High-Voltage Homecoming Paul McCartney Reveals Got Back 2025 North American Tour Dates Jay Som Cracks Open Comeback Album 'Belong' With Two New Singles and 2025 Tour Dates Tickets for Los Angeles, New York, and Morrison will be available beginning Friday, July 18 at 10 a.m. local time. Ashe and Finneas will be joined on the road by their collaborators Marinelli and Ricky 'Rat' Gourmet. 'I cannot tell you how highly I recommend starting a band with 3 of your best friends,' Finneas wrote on Instagram last month. So far, the Favors have previewed The Dream with singles 'The Hudson' and 'The Little Mess You Made.' 'This is the way every artist dreams of making an album,' Ashe shared in a statement. 'I want you to feel simultaneously warm, fuzzy, and heartbroken at the same time.' Finneas added, 'People don't sing together anymore when they're recording, but it was so romantic and fun. It's a true 'long-play album' in its real intended meaning. Hopefully, you can have friends over, cook a meal, and play this on vinyl front-to-back.' The Favors Tour DatesSept. 18 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Forever CemeterySept. 26 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks AmphitheatreOct. 1 — New York City, NY @ Central Park SummerstageOct. 3 — Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music FestivalOct. 10 — Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
Singer-songwriter Ashe talk wrapping up solo tour, collaborating with Finneas
BC News' Juju Chang sits down with singer-songwriter Ashe to talk joining forces with Grammy and Oscar winner Finneas to form The Favors and what to expect in debut album 'The Dream.'
Chicago Tribune
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
David McGrath: Fighting the anti-media forces a task for real-life ‘Supermen'
The trailer for the new 'Superman' movie directed by James Gunn shows fictional newspaper reporter Lois Lane angering the Man of Steel by asking tough questions in an interview. Her grit is what I liked about her TV and comic book character when I was a boy growing up in the 1960s — this, despite her puzzling inability to recognize Clark Kent as Superman when disguised in a suit and eyeglasses. Otherwise, she always did whatever was necessary, no matter the risk, to extract and write the truth for readers of the Daily Planet. Later, in the 1970s, I found a real-life role model in Lawrence Ashe. He was a talented columnist for Tempo, the student newspaper of Chicago State University for which I was a writer in my junior and senior years. It's been a long time and I've lost track of Ashe, but I have never forgotten the 20-year-old's bravery. After penning a column in which Ashe criticized the campus police for too much loafing in the cafeteria while neglecting areas around the buildings where students felt unsafe, one of the security guards came to the Tempo office to express his displeasure and demand that Ashe stop writing about them. The following week, students and faculty were atwitter after reading Ashe's follow-up commentary, a satirical piece that would have made Jonathan Swift proud. Ashe imagined a hypothetical scenario in which the school's security force became like Haiti's notorious secret police, the Tonton Macoute, whose officers not only threatened newspaper reporters, but also assaulted, extorted and tortured innocent citizens. Ashe's doubling down response to the security guard's attempt at intimidation led to a positive change as officers were henceforth noticeably absent from the cafeteria while more present in the school's trouble spots. Today, while some newspapers and networks are kowtowing to pressure coming directly or filtering down from the Trump administration to stifle criticism, it is encouraging to see there are still plenty of Lawrence Ashe-types sticking up for freedom of the press and the sacred duty of the fourth estate to highlight truth and alert the public about what their elected representatives are up to. Such as columnist Ruth Marcus, who quit The Washington Post after the paper killed a piece she wrote that was critical of the editorial restrictions owner Jeff Bezos had imposed to please the president. She was the favorite of my wife's, partly because Marianne's mother's name was Ruth, but mostly for Marcus's enlightening commentaries on the U.S. Supreme Court. My own favorite is Eugene Robinson, the syndicated columnist who also left the Post in opposition to Bezos' White House appeasement. I valued Eugene for utilitarian reasons, having passed out his columns year after year in my college rhetoric classes to expose my students to Aristotelian logic and writing that was so clear, it glistened. And when Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson tried to whitewash the Jan. 6 insurrection by falsely portraying those breaking and entering the U.S. Capitol building and assaulting police officers as innocent tourists and patriots, two of his Fox colleagues, journalists Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg, called him out for his falsehoods and distortions before taking their leave. As for network news, the 'Lois Lane Award' goes to Bill Owens, executive producer of '60 Minutes.' As pressure built on Owens to go easier on the Trump administration since CBS brass was seeking a favorable ruling for a corporate merger from Trump's FCC, Owens resigned rather than comply. '60 Minutes' correspondent Scott Pelley subsequently and courageously praised Owens on air while slamming his bosses at CBS' parent company Paramount for compromising journalistic standards. Finally, one of the most inspiring chapters in the battle for freedom of the press unfolded after cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit when The Washington Post would not publish a cartoon mocking Bezos's relationship with Trump, with caricatures of Bezos and other CEOs genuflecting in front of the president. Several weeks after her departure, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In her official citation, the Pulitzer committee referenced the 'fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years.' Lately, as the Trump administration threatens to defund National Public Radio while attacking The Associated Press, CNN and other news providers for what it considers anti-Trump bias when they report his lies or befuddling actions, commemorating the Fourth of July in 2025 is more important than ever. Especially as we move forward, and freedom of the press to uncover truth becomes a matter of life and death in the war involving Israel, Iran and now the U.S. So let us celebrate intrepid journalists who continue the fight for the freedoms that our forefathers won 250 years ago, making possible the honest reporting of facts and the exchange of divergent opinions here and in all the other principled publications in the United States of America.
Rhyl Journal
06-07-2025
- Sport
- Rhyl Journal
Wimbledon diary: Arthur Ashe remembered and Kasatkina's earring causes problems
Ashe became the first black player to win the men's singles title after beating fellow American Jimmy Connors 6–1 6–1 5–7 6–4 in the final on July 5, 1975. It was his third and final grand slam success following victories at the 1968 US Open and 1970 Australian Open. He also captained the US Davis Cup team. Champion. Trailblazer. Activist. Icon. Remembering the late, great Arthur Ashe, 50 years on from his 1975 gentlemen's singles triumph.#Wimbledon — Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 5, 2025 To celebrate the anniversary, Wimbledon have an installation in the International Tennis Centre tunnel and a new museum display about him. Growing up, Ashe, who died aged 49 in 1993 after contracting AIDS from a blood transfusion during heart surgery in the early 1980s, had been refused permission to play tennis in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia because of his skin colour. **** British and Irish sporting stars crammed into the Royal Box on day six. World Cup final hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst, five-time Olympic rowing champion Sir Steve Redgrave and former cricket star Lord Botham were among the special guests. They were joined on Centre Court by Olympic champions Dame Denise Lewis, Dame Kelly Holmes and Sir Jason and Dame Laura Kenny, in addition to a host of Paralympians, including 19-time gold medallist Dame Sarah Storey. As is tradition on middle Saturday of the Championships, the host of famous faces from across the sporting spectrum were invited by All England Club chair Debbie Jevans. **** Britain's Jodie Burrage had a mixed day. The 26-year-old was up early to watch boyfriend Ben White make his British and Irish Lions debut in a 26-10 win over New South Wales Waratahs in Sydney. She then joined forces with Sonay Kartal in the women's doubles, losing 6-3 6-1 to 11th seeds Beatriz Haddad Maia and Laura Siegemund. **** Women's 16th seed Daria Kasatkina endured a day to forget. During a straight-sets exit at the hands of Liudmila Samsonova, which featured two rain delays, she lost a game after her earring become caught in her shirt. 🗣 "I've never seen that before!" 👂🏻💍 Not an ideal way to lose a game 😬#Wimbledon — BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 5, 2025 **** 'It's really not easy, part of you is telling yourself to just put a bunch of balls into the court and that's all you have to do but she is an amazing player, injuries or no injuries.' – Emma Navarro on defeating defending women's champion Barbora Krejcikova, who required medical treatment during the match. Cloudy changing to light showers by late morning, with highs of 24C, according to the Met Office.
Powys County Times
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Powys County Times
Wimbledon diary: Arthur Ashe remembered and Kasatkina's earring causes problems
Wimbledon remembered trailblazer Arthur Ashe – 50 years on from his historic Centre Court triumph. Ashe became the first black player to win the men's singles title after beating fellow American Jimmy Connors 6–1 6–1 5–7 6–4 in the final on July 5, 1975. It was his third and final grand slam success following victories at the 1968 US Open and 1970 Australian Open. He also captained the US Davis Cup team. Champion. Trailblazer. Activist. Icon. Remembering the late, great Arthur Ashe, 50 years on from his 1975 gentlemen's singles triumph. #Wimbledon — Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 5, 2025 To celebrate the anniversary, Wimbledon have an installation in the International Tennis Centre tunnel and a new museum display about him. Growing up, Ashe, who died aged 49 in 1993 after contracting AIDS from a blood transfusion during heart surgery in the early 1980s, had been refused permission to play tennis in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia because of his skin colour. **** British and Irish sporting stars crammed into the Royal Box on day six. World Cup final hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst, five-time Olympic rowing champion Sir Steve Redgrave and former cricket star Lord Botham were among the special guests. They were joined on Centre Court by Olympic champions Dame Denise Lewis, Dame Kelly Holmes and Sir Jason and Dame Laura Kenny, in addition to a host of Paralympians, including 19-time gold medallist Dame Sarah Storey. As is tradition on middle Saturday of the Championships, the host of famous faces from across the sporting spectrum were invited by All England Club chair Debbie Jevans. **** Britain's Jodie Burrage had a mixed day. The 26-year-old was up early to watch boyfriend Ben White make his British and Irish Lions debut in a 26-10 win over New South Wales Waratahs in Sydney. She then joined forces with Sonay Kartal in the women's doubles, losing 6-3 6-1 to 11th seeds Beatriz Haddad Maia and Laura Siegemund. **** Women's 16th seed Daria Kasatkina endured a day to forget. During a straight-sets exit at the hands of Liudmila Samsonova, which featured two rain delays, she lost a game after her earring become caught in her shirt. 🗣 "I've never seen that before!" 👂🏻💍 Not an ideal way to lose a game 😬 #Wimbledon — BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 5, 2025 **** Quote of the day 'It's really not easy, part of you is telling yourself to just put a bunch of balls into the court and that's all you have to do but she is an amazing player, injuries or no injuries.' – Emma Navarro on defeating defending women's champion Barbora Krejcikova, who required medical treatment during the match. Picture of the day Stat of the day Sunday's weather forecast
