After a four-year hiatus, Frank Ocean returned to the music scene in 2016 with the Endless video album to fulfill his obligations to Def Jam. Ocean’s second studio album, Blonde, was independently released one day after Endless.
Blonde, the top-ranked album of the 2010s according to Pitchfork, expanded on Ocean’s experimental musical aesthetic. It was his first album to peak at number one on the US Billboard 200, and it received platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Read More...
Explore More Five people were injured in two separate shootings less than a mile from each other in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, over the weekend, police said.
In the more recent incident of gun violence in the neighborhood, two women and a man, all 19, were shot Sunday at around 5:33 a.m. after coming out of the A/C Nostrand Avenue train station, at the intersection with Fulton Street.
Investigators believe the group of teens and the shooter got into an argument at the subway station, before he followed them out and fired at them in the street, police said. Read More...
Getty ImagesIrrfan Khan was one of Indian cinema's finest actors and among its most successful exports to Hollywood.
A veteran of nearly 80 films, he almost gave up acting in his 30s - after an unrewarding decade in TV soaps.
Khan lacked the looks for a traditional Bollywood romantic lead but made his name as a character actor in Hindi cinema and in Hollywood productions like Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire and Jurassic World. Read More...