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Description: Join Katie Cook (Star Wars ABC-3P0, Nothing Special) and Jim Zub (Avengers, Rick and Morty VS Dungeons & Dragons) for their fan-favorite con horror stories panel! What’s it like working as a pro in the business on the convention ‘circuit’? Ridiculous, embarrassing, always entertaining. Some stories will make you laugh out loud, some will make you cringe! This panel is recommended for those 16+ due to coarse language.

When he wasn’t creating iconic pieces of visual art, Jean-Michel Basquiat found time to earn production credits alongside Al Diaz on Rammellzee vs. K-Rob’s hit “Beat Bop,” a wild 10-minute track that brings instruments in and out of the mix (and adds and removes heavy reverb to the vocals) seemingly at random. Meanwhile, Kurtis Blow produced Sweet G’s “Games People Play” (one of the first rap songs to use Isaac Hayes’ soon-to-be-ubiquitous piano from “Ike’s Mood I”) and Gigolette’s pop-leaning answer record “Games Females Play.” He also helmed Fearless Four’s drum machine-heavy “Problems of the World” with Mr. Magic and the aforementioned “You’ve Gotta Believe” with Larry Smith. 808 innovator Arthur Baker cranked out multiple hits for his label Streetwise with New Edition, as well as club favorites like New Order’s “Confusion.” He was also behind Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force’s futuristic electro-funk classics “Looking for the Perfect Beat” and “Renegades of Funk”—the latter a track so ahead of its time that no one blinked when Rage Against the Machine covered it nearly two decades later. —Dart Adams

Jussie Smollett has refused to reimburse the city of Chicago for his hate crime investigation — and he’s now facing a civil lawsuit.

Myklebust calculated the city is spending $139,000 a year to fill Federal Aviation Administration requirements. That includes compensation for 12 firefighters for the 27 percent of their days when they are at the airport station or doing aviation firefighting training. It does not account for administrative costs or intangibles, such as when firefighters aren’t dispatched to other calls that come in too close to when a plane is landing.

Her profile soared, but despite this, she felt the conditions that came with the agency meant that they controlled her image. 

After she decided to go back to being Lilli Luxe, her social media following skyrocketed – but she was determined to shave off some pounds. 

ALL ABOUT NINA In a performance that volleys between raw anger and scalpel-sharp humor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, carrying every scene, plays a comic whose routines are at once a mask and an outlet for her demons. Eva Vives (who shared a story credit on “Raising Victor Vargas”) wrote and directed the film, a highlight of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

However, here are  a few of the key points for anyone wondering why Bitcoin is so hotly championed by those in the know to eventually replace gold.

When the Breaking Strength was reached, there was an instantaneous and catastrophic failure. In every case, it was not the twin steel hooks that failed, nor was it the metal frame of the ratchet assembly or the gear-like sprockets of the ratchet that failed either. In every test, there was webbing failure near the end where the twin hook was attached to the webbing. The webbing at the point of failure pulled apart as the 2-inch-wide webbing frayed and separated almost explosively. The red marker lines failed right along with the webbing itself, but they did not “pop out” as you may have been told they would. These lines simply indicate the tensile strength of the webbing per inch of width, nothing more.

A STAR IS BORN It’s an oldie but a goodie: Bradley Cooper directs what is at least the fifth screen version of this story, after “What Price Hollywood?” from 1932 and three movies with the title “A Star Is Born,” from 1937, 1954 and 1976. Lady Gaga steps into the shoes of Constance Bennett, Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. Mr. Cooper has the Lowell Sherman/Fredric March/James Mason/Kris Kristofferson role.

In 2007, the stars aligned for Kanye West, who on top of emerging as the year’s best rapper also delivered unmatched work from the production end. At the core was Graduation, which ushered in a “stadium status” sound inspired by his time on the road with U2. That vision came to life on the album, where Kanye successfully embraced genres and stylistic elements outside of his normal repertoire.

Carla moved to the U.S. from her home country of Peru in 2001. Her sister used to play this song all the time back in Lima, and it has special meaning for her now, in this country.