Author: broebling

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a sweeping tax overhaul bill, moving the legislation on to the Senate for consideration. The bill passed 227-203. The 500-page, $1.5 trillion bill lowers the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, and the top individual tax rate from 39.6 percent to 37 percent. The Senate […]

Sandra Bullock gathers a crew of seven uniquely skilled women to plot a major jewel heist in the new trailer for “Ocean’s 8.”  Warner Bros. released the official trailer for the “Ocean’s” film spin off on Tuesday morning, December 19.  In the movie, Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of Danny Ocean (the […]

Michael Peña and Diego Luna will star in the upcoming fourth season of “Narcos.”  The announcement was made by Netflix in a short teaser video on Tuesday. Production of the new season is already underway in Mexico City, Mexico. The first two seasons of the Netflix drama focused on Pablo Escobar’s cartel, and Season 3 […]

Country rockers Zac Brown Band are the host band for March’s Castaway With Southern Ground destination music festival. The all-inclusive event featuring Zac Brown Band and a number of their musical friends will take place at the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico March 16 – 20, 2018. The third installment of Castaway will include two full ZBB […]

Sara Evans is teaming up with CMT for its fourth annual Next Women of Country Tour. The 2018 trek will kick off in New York on Feb. 12 and run through April 7. Along for the tour are openers RaeLynn and Kalie Shorr. “I absolutely love that CMT champions female artists with the Next Women […]

The legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin, where Nick Cave, David Bowie and Iggy Pop (amongst many others) recorded some of their greatest works, is getting a feature length documentary.  Hansa Studios: By The Wall 1976-90 is set to explore the historical, cultural and artistic significance of the fabled West Berlin Studios. The documentary will be broadast on the 10th of […]

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s formation, and many fans have been hoping that the band might acknowledge their anniversary. According to the group’s guitarist Jimmy Page, there might be new material to help mark the occasion. In a recent interview, Page was quoted as saying “there’ll be Led Zeppelin product coming out, […]

ESPN President John Skipper resigned Monday, citing a substance addiction problem, in a move that stunned the sports media business.  Skipper, who took over as president of the sports network in 2012, said in a statement he has battled substance abuse issues for “many years” and decided “the most important thing I can do right […]

An Amtrak train derailed on Monday in Washington State in its inaugural run on a faster route from Seattle to Portland, Oregon, sending passenger cars tumbling from a bridge onto a major highway, killing a number of riders and injuring nearly 100. The derailment caused multiple fatalities among the passengers, and as the train struck […]

Kim Jonghyun, the lead singer of the K-pop group SHINee, died on Monday, December 18. He was 27. Jonghyun was found unconscious at a rented apartment studio in Cheongdam-dong in southern Seoul, South Korea, and was then transported to a nearby hospital under cardiac arrest.  He received emergency CPR treatment but did not regain consciousness, […]