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American Scoreboard The Trump Administration will present the next installment of its series of live dramatic political readings on Monday, October 23rd from 700 p.m. to 820 p.m. at Pace University's Schimmel Center, 3 Spruce Street in downtown New York City, featuring Lilla Crawford Annie as Senator Patricia Murray, Syndey Lucas Fun Home as Senator Elizabeth Warren, Sam Poon The King and I as Senator Bernie Sanders, Nicholas Barasch Big River, 2017 Encores as Senator Al Frankin, Edward O'Blenis as Senator Lamar Alexander Law amp Order Svu, and Tracy Shayne Bronx Bombers, Chicago as Betsy DeVos.

She's a married woman! Solange Knowles tied the knot with video director Alan Ferguson in New Orleans on Sunday in front of about 200 family and friends, People confirms. The happy couple said "I do" at the Marigny Opera House in New Orleans. Around 2 p.m., the pair arrived via white-painted vintage bicycles, and it was all about the details: The bride's basket held flowers! "Beaming. Calm. They looked pretty calm, relaxed on their wedding day," one onlooker tells People. "Definitely happy." As for their arrival attire, the bride rocked a cream pantsuit with a cape and plunging V-neck (accenting her...

A pair of contestants on the short-lived Fox game show "Million Dollar Money Drop" who claim that they were duped into losing more than $500,000 on the show are taking their case to court in hopes of reaping the windfall that they allege they were bilked out of. In a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Andrew and Patricia Murray say that the staff of the show repeatedly reassured them that there would be "no deceptive, subjective or trick questions," and that the Murrays should "go for it" if...

Here's a question worth more than a half-million bucks in a new court case: According to the data-security firm Imperva, what is the most common computer password? Choose one of these three possible answers: "Password" "123456" "I Love You" On the premiere episode of Fox's Million Dollar Money Drop -- which ran for 12 episodes from December 2010 to February 2011 -- contestants Andrew and Patricia Murray decided that the answer couldn't be "I Love You." They opted for "Password" and bet all $580,000 they had remaining from the $1 million they started with. They could have split

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Question: What is the most common computer password? A) PasswordB) 123456C) I Love YouAnswer: Depends on who you ask ... because two former game show contestants are now suing the people behind "Million Dollar Money Drop" claiming they guessed correctly ... but were hosed out of the $580k prize. TMZ obtained a lawsuit filed by Andrew and Patricia Murray ... who appeared on the Endemol-produced game show back in 2011. In the suit, the Murrays claim they wagered $580k...

Thanks to the efforts of the Hero Initiative and comics fans and pros, Robert L. Washington was able to receive a proper funeral.

On Monday, June 25th, a funeral service was held for Robert L. Washington III in the Bronx borough of New York City, with a second service to come in Detroit, Michigan. The service was attended by various comic book creators, classmates, and friends from Robert’s various creative, work, and hobby circles.

Through the actions of Robert’s friends from Milestone Media, Inc. and his classmates from The Roeper School, The Hero Initiative was able to use all of your donations to pay for the service and provide Robert’s mother and two of his sisters with the means to travel from Detroit, Michigan to New York and give him a proper funeral.

via The Hero Initiative.

There were over 300 contributors to his cause, and we honor them below.

In 1969 in Buffalo, N.Y., a wiry, middle-aged chain smoker sat in on piano during a jam session and earned a spot in the band of legendary bluesman Muddy Waters.

By then, Pinetop Perkins had already performed with the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson and slide guitarist Robert Nighthawk. The old school bluesman with the aggressive keyboard style and gravelly voice had played the rickety bars among the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta, and toured with rock pioneer Ike Turner in the 1950s.

"Muddy came by, and heard him jamming, and he liked what he heard. The rest is history," said Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, who was a drummer in the band.

By the time he and Waters hooked up, Pinetop was in his 50s and "had more energy than us younger folks did," Smith said.

That verve kept him playing the blues and collecting Grammy Awards until shortly...