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Daniel Okafor
September 25, 2026 3:21 pm
Gillette Stadium was just the start — the nor'easter has now wiped out three East Coast festivals
Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean were supposed to mark 30 years of The Score on Central Park's Great Lawn on Saturday. By Friday afternoon, crews were taking that stage apart, and Ed Sheeran's was already in trucks outside Boston.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
September 25, 2026 1:37 pm
Keke Wyatt was arrested on child cruelty charges in Georgia — and the news took five days to get out
Five days passed between the booking and the first headline, and the reporting still disagrees on the one detail that matters most: which of Georgia's three very different versions of this charge she is actually facing.
Daniel Okafor
September 25, 2026 1:09 pm
Ed Sheeran's Boston concerts were canceled hours before showtime at the stadium that banned Macklemore
A protest was on the calendar, the replacement openers had quit within hours of being hired, and the stage crew in Foxborough had already downed tools. Then, on the morning of the first show, the whole weekend was called off — by the one party in this fight nobody gets to argue with.
Daniel Okafor
September 24, 2026 6:51 pm
Chris Brown's $12.9 million dog attack verdict is about to shrink by $5 million, and the judge gave the housekeeper one alternative
He didn't call 911 because he worried the recording would leak, and a jury made him pay for how that night went. The bill is now being rewritten from the bench, and the choice about what happens next isn't his.
Daniel Okafor
September 24, 2026 5:14 pm
Goalkeeper Maduka Okoye was in Milan with Cardi B while Nigeria trained without him: now the coach has 'decisions' to make
He went viral for one save, got crowned the internet's most attractive goalkeeper and landed next to Cardi B at a couture show. His national team coach, with a qualifier on Friday and a keeper short, is considerably less charmed.
Daniel Okafor
September 24, 2026 4:21 pm
Susan Sarandon and Hacks' Hannah Einbinder were detained outside Netanyahu's UN speech. Sarandon has done this before
One of them won her first Emmy a year ago and used the speech to make a point. The other has been arrested at protests since the Vietnam War era and says it is still costing her movie roles.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 7:56 pm
Netflix is donating the novels behind Frankenstein and Heartstopper to 100 UK public libraries
Six novels, a hundred public libraries and an undisclosed cheque for the archives. Netflix has signed a national partnership with the British Library in the year Britain recorded its lowest ever appetite for reading, and the books going out to borrowers are ones the company has already filmed.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 1:36 pm
Taylor Tomlinson's first book is a list of opinions she has reversed, and she names the one she never will
Taylor Tomlinson has spent fifteen years telling audiences exactly what she thinks about God, therapy, dating and her own family, with the certainty of someone who has worked the bit out on stage. Her first book is a list of the times she got it wrong, and one position she says she will defend to the grave.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 8:47 am
It took five Swedish unions to make Activision Blizzard blink
The people behind Microsoft's most reliable money printer asked for the most ordinary thing a Swedish worker can ask for — and now there's a countdown clock ticking in Stockholm.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 8:16 am
Marathon is turning into Destiny and Bungie should just say it
Bungie's rescue plan for its struggling shooter sounds suspiciously like a game you already played for a decade — the studio just refuses to use the word.