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The NBA announced Saturday that it has set the date to celebrate its new Hall of Fame inductees, including the late Kobe Bryant. The San Antonio Spurs’ Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and Bryant, the beloved Los Angeles Lakers icon, will join the sport’s greats at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in May 2021…

The annual riotous boozing in the streets by thousands of Santa Clauses will not be seen in New York City this year. Organizers of the annual SantaCon pub crawl said Thursday that the event scheduled for next month has been canceled. “All of the reindeer got the ‘rona,” a post on the event’s website says, “so the…

The inspirational Gay Chorus Deep South will make its broadcast premiere Sunday, December 20 at 9:00 PM ET/PT on Pop and Logo and Pluto TV. Directed by David Charles Rodrigues and produced by Bud Johnston and Jesse Moss for MTV Documentary Films', Gay Chorus Deep South tells the story of the San Francisco Gay Men's…

It’s been a tough year for many. So in separate announcements, basketball legend Michael Jordan and the cast of The Goonies are stepping up to channel funding toward feeding the hungry. Jordan will be donating $2 million from his HBO retrospective The Last Dance to the Feeding America charity and its member food banks…

The fifth annual Esports Awards today honored Riot Games as Publisher of the Year, while Team Secret took home three awards, including Esports Player of the Year for Michal “Nisha” Jankowski and Esports Team of the Year for its Dota 2 roster. Riot Games also took Esports Game of the Year honors in association with The…

KISS is kissing off a dismal 2020 for the concert industry with a live New Year’s Eve show at the Atlantis resort in Dubai. Like most acts, the band has been idle for most of the year, as the pandemic shut down all but a handful of shows in the live music industry. KISS was in the midst of yet-another farewell tour…

Tencent Music Entertainment Group acquired an undisclosed minority stake in LA-based Wave and the two have inked a strategic partnership to catapult the interactive virtual entertainment company into China. The agreement calls for TME, China's leading online music platform, to air Wave experiences on all its…

Film diversity non-profit Film2Future will honor The Walking Dead and Shameless writer LaToya Morgan at its first-ever virtual gala on Thursday. The annual gala and fundraiser, named “Origins In the Beginning,” honors Morgan with its 2020 Changemaker award. "Growing up in a L.A., I dreamed of the day I could create my…

The WWE will bid adieu to a legend later this month, as it announced that Undertaker's Final Farewell will take place at Survivor Series on Sunday, November 22 at 7 pm ET on the WWE Network. The streaming series will cap a 30-year career for the wrestler. Undertaker made his WWE debut at Survivor Series on November…

Film2Future will celebrate its 2020 class of emerging filmmakers and with an upcoming virtual gala in November. Rachel Miller, the founder of the diversity-focused professional filmmaking program, said that as odd as times may be, the celebration of this year’s group of young creators couldn’t come at a better…