Wednesday has a way of forcing the issue. You’re too far in to pretend things aren’t moving, stargazer, and the sky is firmly in agreement — Saturn opposing Venus is two days from exact, and the pressure on relationships, desires, and what you actually want is at full strength. Jupiter’s conjunction with Mercury closes today: whatever you’ve been building toward saying, this morning is the last call before that reach drops. Moon squared Mercury early, putting friction on the words; tonight Sun squares the Moon and pulls feeling and forward drive apart. The week is asking everyone to stop circling and decide something. Most of you already know what it is.

Read your horoscope for the week, and see what the stars have in store for your sign today. 

Aries: March 21 – April 19

The fog that’s been sitting on your drive all week is lifting — Mars square Venus wraps up today and the push-pull between what you want and how you’ve been going after it finally starts to ease. You’ve had two days of listening and sitting with things. That was necessary, Aries. Now you can actually move again. Pick one thing. Just one. Go.

Aries monthly horoscope

Taurus: April 20 – May 20

The aspects that have been softening Venus all week drop away today, and what’s left is Saturn opposing your ruling planet with nothing buffering it — two days from exact and fully felt. That’s not as uncomfortable as it sounds. All week you’ve been circling something you needed to decide, Taurus. Today the circling stops. You already know what you think. Say it.

Taurus monthly horoscope

Gemini: May 21 – June 20

Jupiter’s conjunction with Mercury closes out today — the window that’s been making your ideas travel further, and your reach feel broader all week is wrapping up. That’s not bad news; it’s a deadline. Whatever you’ve been sitting on, whatever draft is still unsent or conversation still unstarted, this morning is the last call, Gemini. The amplification doesn’t carry over. Send the thing.

Gemini monthly horoscope

Cancer: June 21 – July 22

Yesterday the knowing was clean and wordless — you didn’t need to explain it, you just had it. Today, Moon squaring Mercury means someone wants you to put it into language, and the words keep missing the mark. That’s not a sign you were wrong, Cancer. You’re just not ready to articulate it yet. Hold it a little longer. The right words are coming.

Cancer monthly horoscope

Leo: July 23 – August 22

You made a call this week that felt right — and it was. Tonight, the Sun squaring the Moon introduces some second-guessing, the emotional undertow that follows any decision that actually meant something. Don’t let late-night doubt talk you out of what you knew this morning, Leo. The discomfort isn’t a verdict. It’s just the feeling that comes with doing something that counts.

Leo monthly horoscope

Virgo: August 23 – September 22

Jupiter’s conjunction with Mercury wraps up today, and you’re the sign most likely to exhale at that news. All week the thinking has been pushed toward bigger, bolder, further — useful in doses, exhausting to sustain. Mercury operating without Jupiter’s thumb on the scale means you get your natural frequency back: precise, careful, detail-first. That’s not small, Virgo. That’s where you do your best work.

Virgo monthly horoscope

Libra: September 23 – October 22

You’ve known the answer to Saturn’s question longer than you’ve been willing to admit — the hold-up was never figuring out what you want; it was accepting that wanting it clearly might make things complicated. Saturn opposing Venus doesn’t do inconvenient timing, Libra. Two days from exact and it’s done being patient. Stop protecting everyone else from your actual preference. Say the thing.

Libra monthly horoscope

Scorpio: October 23 – November 21

Two days of excavation and now the thing is sitting in plain view — uncomfortable in a different way than the not-knowing was. Tonight, Sun squaring the Moon is the first quarter push: knowing isn’t enough anymore; the next move is doing something about it. Conditions won’t get more perfect, Scorpio. You’ve done the hard part. What’s left is the easier one.

Scorpio monthly horoscope

Sagittarius: November 22 – December 21

The big amplified energy of this week is winding down, and what’s replacing it is less flashy but considerably more durable. Saturn trine Jupiter in the background isn’t the exciting aspect — it’s the one that means what you’re building will actually hold up, Sagittarius. The vision was always good. Today the sky starts putting the bones underneath it. That’s the part that counts.

Sagittarius monthly horoscope

Capricorn: December 22 – January 19

Saturn retrograde opposing Venus surfaces commitments you made when your priorities looked different. Some still fit. Some don’t, and you’ve known it for a while. This isn’t about blowing anything up, Capricorn — it’s about getting clear on which obligations still belong to you and which ones you’ve just been carrying out of habit. Today is a good day to tell the difference.

Capricorn monthly horoscope

Aquarius: January 20 – February 18

The aspects giving your ideas favorable reception all week are winding down — what’s left is you and the follow-through, which is the less exciting part of any good idea. Aquarius runs on inspiration, and you’ve had plenty this week. Today the tailwind is gone, and the work is just the work. That’s not a problem. That’s how things actually get finished.

Aquarius monthly horoscope

Pisces: February 19 – March 20

Three days of wandering through the fog, and today, Neptune retrograde wants to know what the fog is actually made of — not where you’re going, but what’s driving the going. That’s the retrograde doing what retrogrades do: pulling the lens inward. You’ve been moving, Pisces, which was right. Now take a breath and ask yourself what you’re actually moving toward. The answer might surprise you.

Pisces monthly horoscope

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Harrison Ford came dangerously close to making his final film appearance in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. While preparing to shoot a scene aboard the Millennium Falcon one day, Ford was knocked to the ground and crushed beneath the ship’s door, which was described as weighing about the same as a small car. The hydraulic metal door was reportedly operated by another person, who’d apparently pressed the button to make it go down while Ford was standing underneath it. Ford was badly injured and unable to continue working on the movie for two months.

As Ford told Jonathan Ross in December 2015, the design of the Millennium Falcon had evolved significantly since the 1970s, when the doors were controlled using a pulley system. “Now we had lots of money and technology, and so they built a f—king great hydraulic door which closed at light speed,” Ford explained.

“And the door came down and hit me on my left hip because I was turned to my right,” he continued. “And then it flung my left leg up and it dislocated my ankle, and as it drove me down to the floor, my legs slapped on the ramp up to the Millennium Falcon and broke both bones in my leg.”

Harrison Ford Was Crushed by a Millennium Falcon Door and Nearly Died

The company responsible for the incident, Foodles Production, was later fined £1.6 million (more than $2 million). During one hearing, prosecutor Andrew Marshall said that the accident nearly cost Ford his life.

“It could have killed somebody,” Marshall told the court. “The fact that it didn’t was because an emergency stop was activated.” Had it not been pressed in time, Marshall asserted, things might’ve turned out very differently.

Though production was halted as Ford recovered, the actor was eventually able to complete his scenes. Director J.J. Abrams recalled that Ford’s injuries had actually helped bond the crew on set. When Ford finally returned, Abrams claimed he was “better and stronger than ever.” Abrams went on to say that there was “a fire” in Ford’s eyes that you can see in the final cut of the movie.

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Though 2000’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas ended up being a huge hit, the experience of making it was not a fun one for Jim Carrey. In fact, the comedian came very close to walking away from the production early on because of the costume and the grueling makeup process.

“The first day in makeup took eight hours,” Carrey told Vulture in 2025. “And I went into the trailer and asked Ron [Howard] and Brian [Grazer] to come in, and I told them that I wouldn’t be able to do the movie and I was quitting.”

Carrey even offered to pay back all the money he’d gotten for the role—with interest. Things got so bad that Carrey started having panic attacks in between takes. Howard remembered seeing Carrey lying on the floor breathing into a brown paper bag at one point. Finally, Grazer found a man named Richard Marcinko, who’d trained CIA officers and special-ops people to endure torture (he later developed SEAL Team Six). 

Jim Carrey Nearly Quit ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ Because the Makeup Was So Brutal

Marcinko was very instrumental in getting Carrey through the movie. “He gave me a litany of things that I could do when I began to spiral,” Carrey explained. Among Marcinko’s suggestions for Carrey were punching himself in the leg as hard as he could, punching a friend in the arm, and smoking cigarettes as much as possible.

“There are pictures of me as the Grinch sitting in a director’s chair with a long cigarette holder,” Carrey recalled. “I had to have a holder, because the yak hair would catch on fire if it got too close.”

Interestingly, another thing Carrey credits with putting him at ease was listening to the Bee Gees. Carrey said that they eventually got the makeup process down to just three hours, and he spent that time going through the entire Bee Gees catalog. According to Carrey, their “joyful” music really helped take the edge off.

“I’ve never met [Bee Gees singer] Barry Gibb, but I want to thank him,” Carrey joked.

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The Beatles had a very casual attitude about sex, by their own admission. And, as it turns out, there were plenty of occasions where the different members witnessed each other getting down and dirty. Paul McCartney, for example, recalled how he’d once walked in on John Lennon and saw “a little bottom bobbing up and down with a girl underneath him.”

McCartney went on to say, “It was perfectly normal. You’d go, ‘Oh…sorry,’ and back out the room.”

But that’s nothing compared to what happened the night George Harrison lost his virginity. As Harrison explained in 2000’s The Beatles Anthology, sex wasn’t easy to come by for them in England during the late 1950s. “The girls would all wear brassieres and corsets, which seemed like reinforced steel,” Harrison remembered. That all changed in the ‘60s, when he and the rest of the band were invited to play in Hamburg, Germany.

The Rest of the Beatles Were There When George Harrison Lost His Virginity

While in town, the quartet—which was then made up of Harrison, McCartney, Lennon and drummer Pete Best—shared a room. Harrison met a buxom German dancer at one point, and that’s where things start to get a little weird. After bringing the girl back to the room, Harrison found his other bandmates in their beds. For whatever reason, this didn’t deter the teenage Harrison, who was a virgin up until that point, and he proceeded to have sex with the young woman anyway.

According to Harrison, the rest of the Beatles watched as he did his thing—to some extent, anyway. “We were in bunk beds,” Harrison revealed. “They couldn’t really see anything because I was under the covers, but after I’d finished, they all applauded and cheered,” he continued.

“At least they kept quiet while I was doing it,” Harrison joked.

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A trailer for the new Oasis documentary is here, and someone must be cutting onions because these ol’ blue eyes of mine are MISTY.

The film is titled Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger, and it follows the story of the band from their early beginnings to now. Revealing Oasis’ trajectory from their rise to superstardom to an embattled place in rock history, the film ends at their 2025 reunion tour. It was an event for the ages that many were skeptical would finish, if they even believed it would get off the ground at all.

This new teaser indicates that fans are getting a fairly comprehensive and vulnerable look at the lives of Noel and Liam Gallagher, their contentious relationship, and overcoming their sibling rivalry to reclaim their alt-rock throne.

A description of the film reads: “Alongside the band’s sold-out world tour, the film also explores the profound emotional impact of this phenomenal global cultural moment and what their music means to audiences and generations worldwide.”

The Oasis documentary has some acclaimed filmmaking names behind it

The new Oasis documentary is produced by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. Southern and Lovelcase are known for helming the renowned LCD Soundsystem documentary: Shut Up And Play The Hits.

Knight previously spoke about the film, saying, “The Oasis world tour united generations, cultures and countries and spoke to a broken world about reconciliation. Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger is not only your ticket to the show – it’s a backstage pass and a seat at the table when Liam and Noel sit down together for the first time in 15 years and tell it how it is and how it was.”

NME also noted that Noel Gallagher previously offered some comments on the film. “I’ve only seen a tiny little bit of [the film], and it’s difficult to have an opinion on it because I’m only looking at little snippets,” he said. “Everyone who has seen it, or seen more of it than I have, has said that it’s amazing. If it even captures five per cent of what that tour was, it’ll be astonishing. Looking forward to it.”

Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger will premiere in theaters and IMAX on September 11, 2026. It will be available to stream on Disney+ sometime later this year.

Photo by Michel Linssen/Redferns

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As previously reported, ZZ Top cancelled their August 5 concert at the Hollywood Bowl. They were set to co-headline with Cheap Trick. This was a last-minute cancellation, and future dates were cancelled as well. Initially, it was reported that this was due to “unforeseen personnel matters”. Confused by the cancellations, fans have finally found an answer. Longtime ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard has died at the age of 77.

In an Instagram post, guitarist Billy F. Gibbons announced the passing of his longtime bandmate. “Today, Elwood and I lost a great friend and collaborator, and the world lost one of the most naturally innovative drummers and a great and true son of Texas. His signature backbeat was key to keeping ZZ on top.”

Additionally, band management announced, “Following Frank’s passing, ZZ Top has cancelled its upcoming shows in Salt Lake City and Colorado Springs. The band will resume its current The Big One! Tour this weekend with two dates at Austin City Limits, one of Frank’s favorite venues and in a city that had been something of a second home for him”.

In 2021, the band’s longtime bass player, Dusty Hill, died in his sleep. It was Beard who introduced Hill to guitarist Billy F. Gibbons, and the three formed ZZ Top.

a brief history of zz top

Initially, drummer Frank Beard and bassist Dusty Hill performed together in multiple groups during the mid-to-late 1960s. In May 1969, Frank Beard joined a band called The Moving Sidewalks, which featured blues-rock guitarist Billy F. Gibbons. Beard introduced Gibbons to Hill, who joined the band shortly after. Beard’s drums were a crucial key to the band’s signature sound. Once the trio honed in on their trademark “Texas boogie blues-rock”, they recorded the band’s debut.

Brilliantly titled, ZZ Top’s First Album was released in 1971, and their sophomore album, Rio Grande Mud, in 1972. It would be their third album, Tres Hombres, that broke the band into mainstream rock radio, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard 200. Their single, “La Grange,” was the first of many signature blues-rock tracks the band would release throughout the 70s and 80s. They followed up with “Tush” in 1975, which peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In 1981, the band rebranded itself for the decade ahead. Ultimately, their eighth studio album, Eliminator, became the band’s most commercially successful release. Four high-charting singles, “Gimme All Your Lovin'”, “Sharp Dressed Man”, “TV Dinners”, and “Legs,” all became rock radio staples for decades to come.

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The 2026 MTV VMA nominations have been released, and we’re crowding the halls like high school drama kids trying to see who scored the lead in the musical. Madonna tops the list with 11 nominations this year, beating her own previous record of nine. Taylor Swift has the second most nominations with nine of her own, then Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter each with seven, then Bruno Mars, PinkPantheress, and Zara Larsson have five each.

Notably, past Video of the Year winners Grande, Madonna, and Swift are nominated for the big winner category once again. There are of course first-time nominees, some promising Best New Artist nominations, and the return of the Best Dance category after seven years.

But with all the announcements from the MTV VMAs, some categories are worryingly absent. Two big genre categories, to be exact. Best Rock and Best Afrobeats were not included among the nominees. They were included in last years awards, but not heavily featured during the broadcast.

It’s possible that these categories just haven’t been announced yet, and the nominations are on the way. However, a Billboard report claiming to be the full list is missing these two genres. Several other crucial categories are also missing. These include Best Pop Artist, Push Performance of the Year, Best Album, Video for Good, Best Long-Form Video, Best Group, and Song of Summer.

The MTV VMAs Caters to Mainstream Music, Which Means Fewer Subgenre Categories

Speculating on whether or not these categories have been axed won’t reveal any new information. Truly, we won’t know until we know. Still, it’s interesting to consider why the MTV VMAs would get rid of several categories that seem like they’d be pretty important for a music award show.

Generally, the award show format is a popularity contest for mainstream entertainment, and it’s always been that way. Plus, there’s absolutely no way for a single award show to represent every aspect of music and nominate without bias and satisfy everyone who has a stake in it. By design, popularity contests leave a lot of room for disappointment.

At the heart of it, the VMAs are awards for music videos. The best albums, artists, and performances are better represented by the Grammy Awards. Although the Recording Academy has its own problems. But for a music video award show to leave out nominations for two video-based categories like Video for Good and Best Long-Form Video is strange. All that, and we’re missing Song of the Summer? Perhaps the VMAs need to get their priorities straightened out.

I Want My MTV (To Reevaluate What They Think ‘Alternative’ Means)

However, there’s some good news. Looking at the full list of genre specific categories, the representation is pretty decent. Pop, Hip-Hop, Alternative, R&B, K-Pop, Dance, Latin, and Country is not a bad mix, all things considered. However, that also means we get Noah Kahan, Olivia Rodrigo, mgk, and Tame Impala next to Geese and Twenty One Pilots in the Alternative category.

As mentioned above, there’s going to be some disappointment when you’re dealing with a general music award show like the MTV VMAs. They cater to the mainstream, which means a lot of pop music and fewer, if any, subgenre categories. All told, this isn’t a bad spread. Just don’t expect to see Best Haunted Carnival Metal on the nomination list any time soon.

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There are probably not a lot of people who can say that Janet Jackson is the reason they quit smoking weed. Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, however, is one of them.

The story came up while McConaughey was speaking to Rolling Stone for the outlet’s My Life In 10 Songs feature. On his list, the Rivals of Amziah King actor included Jackson’s 1993 single “That’s The Way Love Goes”.

“What a cool, groovy little tune,” McConaughey said, then revealing how impactful the song really was on him. “It’s also the reason I quit smoking weed.” After a chuckle, he explained that, “right around the time weed started turning hydroponic,” he heard the song and was taken aback by the marijuana’s hallucinogenic capabilities.

“That’s the Way Love Goes” was the first single of Janet Jackson’s fifth album

“A lot of y’all don’t remember, but weed used to be: you could roll a joint, smoke it, pass it around, everyone giggles, gets the munchies, and maybe runs off and tries to get some snuggle time,” McConaughey reflected. “Well then it started getting this hydroponic stuff where one toke, the subplots could become unmanageable, and people would implode.”

“I was headed to my own birthday party,” he went on to share. “We’d taken over the club for my birthday party. I’m gonna drive myself. Before I go, my buddy hands me this joint; he goes, ‘Here, man. Have some of this, super fun.’ I get there, and I take the toke in the car. It was not like the weed I’d smoked before.”

McConaughey continued, “I listened to Janet Jackson’s ‘That’s the Way Love Goes’ 24 times in a row, and when I finally got out of the car to go into my birthday party, no one was in there, ‘cause it was over. They’d all left.”

“I sat in the frickin’ car listening to ‘That’s the Way Love Goes’ 24 times because I thought, at the time, that that was more important than going to my own birthday party,” he concluded. “Love the song, didn’t love the weed. Still like the tune, though.”

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