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Camille Vasquez is shutting down romance rumors surrounding Johnny Depp. The high-profiled six-week defamation trial ended last week with the jury siding with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor against his ex-wife Amber Heard.The star was awarded more than $10 million, vindicating his allegations that Heard lied about Depp abusing her before and during their brief marriage. Vasquez, one of the movie star’s lead attorneys, quickly became a social media sensation during the televised trial.

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claims the five school districts are violating President Donald Trump’s recent executive order preventing schools that receive federal funds from affirming trans students’ gender identities.The group says that if all five jurisdictions are found to have violated Title IX and still refuse to end their gender-affirming policies, then those school districts should be stripped of all federal funds. “In each of those school districts, a ‘gender expansive or transgender student’ has access to the sex-segregated common restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex because it is consistent with their ability to be safe and comfortable in their subjective sense of ‘gender identity,'” the complaint reads.“But when other students whose ‘gender identity’ is the same as their biological sex object on the grounds that they now feel unsafe and uncomfortable in the common sex-segregated restrooms and locker rooms that have traditionally been designated exclusively for their sex, those students’ only option is to use a private restroom or an alternative that ‘minimize[s] the loss of instructional time.’“In other words, the relevant policies provide greater rights to students whose ‘gender identity’ does not match their biological sex than it does to students whose ‘gender identity’ matches their biological sex.

After years of wrangling, the Los Angeles City Council tomorrow will consider final approval for a proposed $1 billion expansion of Television City. Before doing so, members will hear from nine groups that filed appeals against the project over concerns it would harm the surrounding community.

Oasis will take their tour across the Atlantic for a string of shows next year.

Oasis have revealed the announcement time for the US and Canada shows that will be part of their 2025 reunion tour.On Thursday, NME exclusively revealed the list of cities in North America, Asia, Australia and South America that the Britpop legends will be playing as part of their 2025 comeback, in addition to the originally-announced UK and Ireland dates.Now, on the band’s official X account, they have posted four photographs of billboards of the band in major North American cities, alongside the caption: “MONDAY 8AM ET #OasisLive25”.MONDAY, 8AM ET#OasisLive25 pic.twitter.com/pTdgDirrpf— Oasis (@oasis) September 28, 2024No further information about the dates of the shows has yet been shared.Oasis’ last show in North America was on December 20, 2008 at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia as part of their tour in support of ‘Dig Out Your Soul’, their seventh and to date most recent studio album.The sale of the UK and Ireland shows proved to be a controversial affair, with some fans experiencing long queues and technical difficulties, and some tickets being sold at inflated prices due to “dynamic” surge pricing.In response, Oasis provided “a small step towards making amends for the situation” by announcing two extra Wembley Stadium dates that were sold in staggered batches via an invite-only ballot.

a press conference at the San Sebastián Film Festival for his new movie, “Modì – Three Days on the Wing of Madness,” and said he could relate to the film’s subject, Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, because of the media frenzy that surrounded his and Heard’s 2022 trial that ended in his favor.“Each [character] has their story, because I’m sure we can say that I’ve been through a number of things here and there,” Depp said.“But you know, I’m all right,” he added with a chuckle, as the audience also laughed.Depp went on, “And I think we’ve all been through a number of things, ultimately. Maybe yours didn’t turn into a soap opera.

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The Nutcracker with Winter Stories, featuring world-premiere works inspired by the cold of winter.We’ll see several world premieres to go along with Nutcrackers performed in every style, from ballet to cirque. And humor and joy pirouette throughout the season, which also portends intriguing turns into the shadows with productions like American Ballet Theatre’s Crime and Punishment at the Kennedy Center, and Manassas Ballet Theatre’s Dracula at Hylton Performing Arts.Bursting with ballerinas and acrobats and tap-happy Santas, it should be a killer fall and winter for dance around D.C.1333 H St.

True crime enthusiasts’ jaws will be on the floor over the wild homicide case coming out of Fairfax County, Virginia. A 39-year-old man has been charged in the deaths of his wife and another man this week — after the couple’s nanny was arrested for one of the killings!

A proposal to modernize and expand the Television City complex in the Fairfax District cleared a major hurdle today, as L.A.’s Planning Commission unanimously approved the $1.2 billion plan.

Sony Pictures Animation is currently making Goat, an original animated sports comedy from producers Stephen Curry and Erick Peyton of Unanimous Media, Oscar nominee Michelle Raimo Kouyate (The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, Silver Linings Playbook), and Adam Rosenberg (Creed 3) and Academy Award winner Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) of Modern Magic.

Finding the perfect summer handbag is no easy feat. I'm a bit like Goldilocks of the accessory world because every bag I find is either too big and bulky for daily use or it's too small to fit my essentials (ie, my Macbook).

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Warpaint have celebrated their 20th anniversary with new one-off single ‘Common Blue’. Check it out below, along with the band telling us about their two “psychedelic” two decades in rock.It was 20 years ago today (February 14) that the indie quartet first came together on Valentine’s Day on Fairfax Boulevard in Los Angeles. Now to celebrate, they’ve shared new single ‘Common Blue’ along with a nostalgic new music video.“It feels like an accomplishment,” singer and guitarist Theresa Wayman (aka TT) told NME, reflecting on a career that has seen the Los Angeles band – also featuring singer and guitarist Emily Kokal, bassist and singer Jenny Lee Lindberg and drummer Stella Mozgawa – release four celebrated albums straddling art rock, dream pop and psychedelia.Lindberg added: “I feel like there’s so many lives lived in the last 20 years.

Michaela Zee Tom Johnson, a writer and comedian whose credits include “The Daily Show,” “Lopez Tonight” and “The Jeselnik Offensive,” died Jan. 14 in his Los Angeles home. He was 55.

Michaela Zee Tom Shales, a Pulitzer-winning television critic at the Washington Post who spent nearly 40 years at the publication, has died. He was 79. Shales died Saturday at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va., from complications due to COVID-19 and renal failure, his caretaker, Victor Herfurth, told the Washington Post.

Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post, died Jan. 13 at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va. He was 79.

Squid Game The Challenge winner Mai Whelan claims she has yet to receive the $4.56 million first prize - 10 months after filming the Netflix show. The 55 year old won over viewers of the game show with her dramatic story of how she escaped the communist regime in her homeland of Vietnam after the fall of Saigon - as well as her cunning streak that saw her beat 455 other players to scoop the jackpot. In the final of the programme, which was inspired by Netflix’s smash-hit dystopian Korean series Squid Game, she beat 27 year old scuba instructor Phill Cain after multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors.

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On the first day of a temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rallied in the Fairfax District. A portion of the crowd marched through the streets and into The Grove as part of a nationwide effort demanding a lasting ceasefire in the war, as well as an end to U.S. aid for Israel.

Danica Roem (D-Manassas), who won the race for the state’s 30th Senate District in western Prince William County.With her victory, Roem became the first out transgender state senator in Virginia history, and only the second out transgender state senator in the nation, following Delaware’s Sarah McBride, who is now running for Congress. Roem won by 3 percentage points — the tightest margin of any winning Democratic Senate candidate — fighting back a barrage of last-minute money from Youngkin-aligned political action committees that flooded the district.She also faced attacks from her Republican opponent, Bill Woolf, who seized upon the issue of transgender student participation on female-designated sports teams — running transphobic ads that were temporarily pulled from airing on cable — in an attempt to cast Roem as out-of-step with Virginia voters.