Midland, Cody Jinks, and LeAnn Rimes set to headline San Diego’s Wild Horses Festival

The Wild Horses Festival has announced its full lineup, with Midland and Cody Jinks serving as headliners.  A post on Instagram read:  “LOOKY HERE YA’LL! Big Velvet Paul Cauthen, and the lovely LeAnn Rimes, are riding with us along with Kassi Ashton, Nancarrow, Red Shahan, Jaime Wyatt, Erin Viancourt, Scott Ballew, and Nancarrow.  LIMITED ADVANCE SALE TICKETS REMAIN! Get your payment plan locked by July 22nd! We have a few pairs of tickets to give so tell us who you’re most excited to see and tag the whole crew below!”

The festival, now in its second year, is set to take place Sept. 24 and 25 at Petco Park in San Diego, California.  Also on the lineup is LeAnn Rimes, Paul Cauthen, Kassi Ashton, Red Shahan, Drake Milligan, Erin Viancourt, Nancarrow, and Scott Ballew.

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Willie Nelson’s ‘Outlaw Music Festival’ Tour adds new 2022 dates

Willie Nelson’s 2022 Outlaw Music Festival Tour has added additional dates due to popular demand. The festival has been extended the tour through October, with dates in Mountain View, Wheatland, and Irvine, California. These dates will feature Willie Nelson & Family, The Avett Brothers, Black Pumas, Larkin Poe, and Particle Kid.

The Outlaw Music Festival west coast dates are in addition to the 20+ stop tour currently running this summer and featuring Willie Nelson & Family, Chris Stapleton, The Avett Brothers, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Billy Strings, ZZ Top, Gov’t Mule, Brothers Osborne, Zach Bryan, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Allison Russell, Charley Crockett, Larkin Poe, The War and Treaty, Particle Kid and Brittney Spencer.

Said Nelson: The ‘Outlaw Music Festival Tour’ has always been about family and friends coming together for a great day of music and fun, and with the amazing group of artists joining us, this year promises to be our most special Outlaw Tour to date. I just can’t wait to get back on the road again.”

Tickets for the general public go on sale Friday, July 15th at 10 am PT via Ticketmaster. VIP packages will be available, including exclusive festival merchandise. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets now through Thursday, July 14th at 10 pm PT through the Citi Entertainment program.

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Lea Michele to star in ‘Funny Girl’ on Broadway, replacing Beanie Feldstein

The producers of the Broadway show “Funny Girl” announced that the former “Glee” star and Emmy nominee Lea Michele will be replacing Beanie Feldstein in the title role of Fanny Brice, beginning on Sept. 6.  Michele will be joined by four-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh, who will replace Jane Lynch in the role of Fanny Brice’s mother.

Michele wrote on Instagram after the news was announced:  “A dream come true is an understatement  I’m so incredibly honored to join this amazing cast and production and return to the stage playing Fanny Brice on Broadway. See you September 6th.”

Feldstein and Lynch were expected to leave the show on Sept. 25, however Feldstein just announced on Instagram that she would be leaving the Broadway musical on July 31, two months earlier than expected.  The 29-year-old wrote: “Playing Fanny Brice on Broadway has been a lifelong dream of mine, and doing so for the last few months has been a great joy and true honor. Once the production decided to take the show in a different direction, I made the extremely difficult decision to step away sooner than anticipated.”  Feldstein concluded, “The people I have had the great joy of bringing ‘Funny Girl’ to life with every night, both on and off the stage, are all remarkably talented and exceptional humans and I hope you continue to join them on Henry Street after I depart on July 31st.”

“Fanny Brice” standby Julie Benko is schedule to perform the play’s title role from August 2 to Sept. 4 and on Thursdays thereafter beginning Sept. 8. The show marks the first Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” since it premiered in 1964, with Barbra Streisand giving a now iconic performance as comedian Fanny Brice.

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2022 Emmy Nominations: ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Succession,’ and ‘White Lotus’ lead the nominations

The 2022 Emmy nominations were announced by J.B. Smoove and Melissa Fumero on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, with the drama series ‘Succession’ leading the field with the most nominations overall at 25. The comedy series ‘Ted Lasso’ and the limited series ‘White Lotus’ earned 20 nods apiece.

Euphoria, Ozark and Only Murders in the Building were also among the shows with multiple Emmy nominations. Zendaya became the youngest two-time Emmy acting nominee at age 25, and the youngest producing nominee for Euphoria. Her co-star Sydney Sweeney was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in both the comedy and drama categories for Euphoria and White Lotus.

32-year-old Quinta Brunson is now the first Black artist to earn three Emmy nominations for Best Comedy, Best Lead Actress in a Comedy and Best Writing for a Comedy for Abbott Elementary, and is also the youngest actress to be nominated for Lead Actress in a Comedy.

This year’s winners will be announced during the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 12, airing live at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.

For the full list of nominations, head here.

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2022 Emmy Awards Nominations

‘Succession’ leads the nominations for the 2022 Emmy Awards. T he HBO Max show has 25 nominations, followed by ‘Ted Lasso’ and ‘The White Lotus,’ which each earned 20.

‘Euphoria’ and ‘Squid Game’ also are among the shows with double-digit nominations.

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Bumble Bee Foods Issues Voluntary Recall

Bumble Bee Foods has issued a voluntary recall on a specific cans of smoked clams after FDA testing found detectable levels of chemicals in samplings of the product.

The recall only applies to a 3.75 can of Bumble Bee Smoked Clams with the UPC Label 8660075234 which came from a third-party manufacturer in China.

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To date there have been no reports of illnesses associated with this recalled product which was distributed nationwide to a limited number of retailers. The company issued the recall out of an abundance of caution after learning of the test results from the FDA.

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Twitter stock sinks after Elon Musk backs out of $44 million deal to buy the social platform

On Monday, the value of public Twitter stock sank at the start of trading, due to billionaire Elon Musk announcing he’s backing out of an agreement to buy the social platform. Shares peaked at $51.70 in April after Twitter’s board agreed to Musk’s buyout offer of $44 million. But by early Monday afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange, shares of Twitter had fallen by about 9.5%, after they declined by about 5% in premarket trading.

Musk announced on Friday that he wanted out of the Twitter deal, which was agreed to in April. However in May, Musk said the deal was on hold while the company determined how many of its daily monetizable users were phony or spam accounts. Musk said that same issue is the reason he’s abandoning the deal. In a letter to Twitter’s top legal officer, Musk said that Twitter officials have “not complied with contractual obligations” to assess the number of phony accounts. An attorney for Musk wrote in the letter: “Twitter has failed or refused to provide this information.”  Twitter has rejected Musk’s claim that it has refused to provide information about the phony accounts — and says it will attempt to force Musk to abide by the agreement in court.

On Monday, Musk mocked Twitter in two tweets. The first was a meme showing various facial expressions by Musk laughing at Twitter’s failing to disclose the number of “bot” accounts. The second was a photo of meme-popular actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris sitting at a chess board with the caption: “Chuckmate.”

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Biden administration says federal law protects patients; and hospitals must provide abortions in emergencies despite state bans

The Biden administration said Monday that hospitals must ensure patients can receive abortions when deemed medically necessary in emergency situations, despite bans in many states on the procedure.  The Department of Health and Human Services said a federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, stipulates that physicians must perform an abortion in an emergency regardless of state law.

In a news release Monday, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said: “Under the law, no matter where you live, women have the right to emergency care — including abortion care. Today, in no uncertain terms, we are reinforcing that we expect providers to continue offering these services, and that federal law preempts state abortion bans when needed for emergency care.”  In a letter to the nation’s health care providers on Monday, Becerra said a federal statute called the ‘Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act’ —  also known as EMTALA — protects providers’ clinical judgment and the actions they take to provide stabilizing treatment to pregnant patients who are under emergency medical conditions, regardless of restrictions in any given state. It specifically requires all patients get appropriate medical screening, examination, stabilizing treatment and facility transfer.  The statute applies to emergency departments and other specific clinical settings. Providers also will not have to wait for a patient’s condition to worsen to be protected.

The Biden administration said examples of emergency medical conditions include, but are not limited to, ectopic pregnancy, and complications of miscarriages. Stabilizing treatment could include abortion. Becerra said that if a state law bans abortion and does not include an exception for the life or health of the pregnant person, that law is preempted by the federal statute. A senior adviser with HHS said in a briefing: “We heard a lot from physicians that we needed to be clearer on these points because people were still too scared to treat people,” and the new guidance is “meant to try to provide that reassurance here on the clinical judgment of these physicians and hospitals.” HHS said it will do everything within its authority to ensure that patients get the care they need.

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Reba McEntire to launch ‘Live in Concert’ tour in October featuring Terri Clark

Reba McEntire will be hitting the road this fall, announcing on social media a new round of arena tour dates for fall 2022 called ‘Reba: Live in Concert.’ Reba’s ‘Live in Concert’ arena tour which kicked off late last year featured an ll-female lineup, and for this upcoming fall leg, Terri Clark will join Reba on all 17 dates.

The 67-year-old singer and actress will kick off the tour Oct. 13 in Lafayette, La., before wrapping up Nov. 19 in Wichita, Kan. McEntire said in a statement: “I can’t wait to see everyone out on the road again this fall. We had so much fun in the spring and I’m ready to get back out there with my buddy Terri Clark!”

Tickets for McEntire’s Reba: Live in Concert dates go on sale to the general public on Friday (July 15) at 10AM  – here.

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Margo Price teams up with Mavis Staples and Adia Victoria on anthem for human rights “Fight to Make It”

Margo Price has teamed ujp with Mavis Staples and Adia Victora for the new collaboration “Fight to Make It.” Sales of the song on Bandcamp will benefit ‘Noise for Now‘ and its mission of supporting grassroots organizations working for reproductive justice.  Victoria released her own single “In the Pines” to support the Carolina Abortion Fund in May, and Staples’ musical collaboration with the late Levon Helm was documented in the live album Carry Me Home. 

Price said in a statement about “Fight To Make It”:  “Every day I see more of our rights stripped away in America. The right to reproductive health in this country has become a luxury for the wealthy. The United States has a higher maternal death rate than any other developed country. Black women in particular experience maternal mortality at a rate two to three times higher than white women. When we stand together and sing together we are stronger.”

You can catch Price out on the road, with multiple festival stops scheduled through the end of the year. For a full list of upcoming concert dates and ticketing information, head to Price’s official website.

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