Missy Elliott kicked off VH1’s Hip-Hop Honors: The ’90s Game Changers on Monday night with a fearsome performance of her 1999 single “She’s a Bitch.” Elliott recreated many aspects of the lavish,Hype Williams-directed video for the track onstage. At the Hip-Hop Honors event, Elliott and her dancers emerged from a …

The sport of boxing is having one of its biggest and best years in recent memory. However, the result of Saturday’s anticipated showdown between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin proved the sport still has all kinds of problems. Touted as one of the most meaningful boxing matches of …

It’s been nearly two years since a new episode of Nathan For You hit the airwaves. During that time, host Nathan Fielder was almost completely out of the spotlight, popping up only in bit parts on things like Transparent, Comedy Bang! Bang! and Tour de Pharamacy. That whole time he …

Jeffrey Tambor praised Transparent creator Jill Soloway on Late Night With Seth Meyers.“She’s exploring, and telling people what it’s like, and the humanity and the travails of the transgender community,” Tambor said. “And I think there is not a more opportune time to be talking about this.” The actor, who …

Amanda Nunes might not be someone you want to meet in an octagon, but she showed her kind nature this weekend once she stepped out of it.After capturing the UFC 215 championship belt on Saturday, she gave it to a 19-year-old cancer survivor whom she developed a rapport with, according …

There was a time, not long ago, when Downtown Los Angeles was a place to avoid, the rotting core of a famously centerless city. With its mirrored glass skyscrapers and historic Art Deco apartment buildings laid out in a dense grid, the neighborhood may have looked more like a conventional …

Irma, the storm that meteorologists have been nervously tracking for days, is now on the doorstep of America’s most vulnerable state. What’s coming is unlike anything that’s happened there before. As of Saturday afternoon, Irma had begun a 36-hour trek northward off the coast of Cuba, where it made landfall …

The 2016 presidential election and all that has ensued since has been a source of anxiety for a large percentage of Americans, including banjo virtuosos Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn. Now the performers have written something of a mantra for our contentious times. “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” is …

Bill Withers covers “(You’ve Been Quite a Doll) Raggedy Ann” as part of a tribute album dedicated to Little Jimmy Dickens, the famously pint-sized country singer and a Grand Ole Opry stalwart. Withers’ version of the song marks his first solo recording since 1985, when the man behind hits like …

Growing up in the same pocket of eastern Kentucky that once housed Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers took note of the region’s customs, challenges and characters. He sets that area to music with his newest album, Purgatory, an album of Appalachian-influenced Americana and raw, rural storytelling whose songs were co-produced by …