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22 artists who never won a Grammy Award, including Nicki Minaj, Jennifer Lopez, and more

Updated Some of the most popular musicians of all time have never won Grammy Awards. Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, and Blake Shelton have several nominations but no Grammys. Rappers Busta Rhymes and Tupac both have at least one nomination but zero wins. Brian McKnight has 17 nominations but no wins. R&B singer Brian McKnight has been nominated alongside music icons like Prince. Jonathan Leibson/Stringer/Getty Images Nominated 17 times since 1993, singer-songwriter Brian McKnight has yet to win his first Grammy.

Blurbed to Death

How one of publishing’s most hyped books became its biggest horror story — and still ended up a best seller. Illustration: Zohar Lazar Illustration: Zohar Lazar This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. On a mild Monday this past February, a tense meeting unfolded in a skyscraper in downtown Manhattan. Four Latinx writers and activists sat on one side of a long conference table.

Kimora Lee Simmons Sells Beverly Hills Mansion

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Taylor Swift Wrote These Famous Songs For Other Artists And You Didn't Even Know It

Taylor Swift has cemented her status as one of the most popular pop stars of all time. The musician has written dozens of hit songs and created a fanbase that is among the most devoted in the entire world. Still, some of Swift’s biggest fans might not know an interesting fact about the singer — that she has been behind some hit songs sung by other people. Read on to learn how Taylor Swift became famous and what songs she has penned for other big-time singers.

Who From 'Full House' Was In It, and Who Was Missing?

The Netflix revival show Fuller House came to a close when the second half of season 5 dropped on June 2, 2020. The series finale saw lead characters DJ, Stephanie, and Kimmy get married via a triple wedding. And while plenty of characters from Full House were in attendance, a few were missing. [Spoilers for Fuller House Season 5] There: Danny, Jesse, and Joey A lot of things can be written off, but the finale wouldn’t have made sense if Danny, Uncle Jesse, and Joey weren’t there.

'Checkout 19' follows a life tracked through the lens of books

Rarely has a book astonished me as much as Claire-Louise Bennett's 2015 debut, Pond. Pond is a slow, dark burn of a book in which a young woman moves into an old cottage, rearranges her possessions, cooks a lot, and goes for some walks. It offers a sharply detailed portrait of its protagonist's inner life through almost nothing but solitary domesticity. Pond is so unusual, and so unsettlingly pleasurable, that I thought it would be greedy to hope Bennett's new novel, Checkout 19, would be better.

'Nancy Drew' Star Riley Smith Threw His Back Out While Channeling His Younger Self in Season 3 Episo

Fans of Disney Channel Original Movies in the early 2000s may know actor Riley Smith as Dean Talon, the teen heartthrob in Motocrossed. These days, the actor plays a slightly different role: Nancy Drew’s biological father, Ryan Hudson. Smith may not be a teenager anymore, but he got to channel his younger self in The CW‘s Nancy Drew Season 3 Episode 7 on Nov. 19. He spoke about the experience in a recent interview, revealing that the episode’s youthful stunts weren’t so kind to his body.

A New Indiana Jones Video Game Is Coming to Melt Your Face

Get your whips and fedoras ready — Bethesda Softworks is working on an Indiana Jones video game. The studio behind hit franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout released a teaser trailer on Twitter today announcing the new game, complete with a trailercore version of John Williams’s iconic theme song. The short video appears to show a desk — presumably Indy’s — cluttered with maps, books, and a passport stamped with Bethesda’s logo.

David Cameron blocks EU treaty with veto, casting Britain adrift in Europe | European Union

European Union This article is more than 12 years oldDavid Cameron blocks EU treaty with veto, casting Britain adrift in EuropeThis article is more than 12 years oldEU leaders poised to line up 26-1 in support of Franco-German blueprint, but PM had apparent blessing of Nick CleggDavid Cameron plunged Britain's position in Europe into the greatest uncertainty in a generation as he used his veto to block a new EU-wide treaty and left at least 23 other countries to forge a pact to salvage the single currency.