Also, any production involving Godzilla or Kong now stands in the shadow of the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One. There’s no excuses anymore. If writer/director Takashi Yamazaki can craft a heart-felt script with three-dimensional characters. If Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takashi and Tatsuji Nojima can conjure eyeball-entrancing visual effects so stunning they garner the ultimate achievement in artistry, an Academy Award. Then any filmmakers who come after them can step up. If they really want to.

Florida’s premier Grateful Dead tribute band will help you celebrate National Guitar Month at Old Town Untapped, everyone’s favorite cultural arts and music block party on April 5, 2024. Come to Bailey Contemporary Arts Center to meet the featured artist in residence of the month, Oscar Montoya, and explore his studio and his beautiful classical style oil painting. Enjoy a night filled with live music and a local DJ, gallery exhibitions, local art vendors and food trucks. Old Town Untapped takes place on the first Friday of the month from 6 – 10 pm and is FREE for all ages to attend.

     As previously reported by The Root, on Monday, both of Bad Boy producer’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security Investigations in relation to an alleged federal sex trafficking investigation. This comes nearly two months after yet another bombshell lawsuit was lobbed against him by one of his former producers Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones in which he alleged Combs sexually harassed, assaulted, threatened and drugged him. Jones also claimed he recorded damning footage of Combs and his associates “engaging in serious illegal activity.”

  Laws’s older sister Jovita Cheryl Moffett confirmed the rapper’s death in a phone call with The Times. Laws died Monday at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, Mich.