Mamadou DiabatéMamadou Diabate is an award winning balafon master and composer born in Burkina Faso. He is coming from a traditional “Jeli” family of music making and story telling of the Sambla peoples. He was 5 years old when his professional education began. His virtuosity is outstanding - some people say, he would have more than two hands. Explicit techniques allow Mamadou to play balafon solos, which create the impression, that three balafonists play together.

After starring in the first two Transformers films, she wanted a change. Fox, 28, took supporting roles in comedies like Friends With Kids and This Is 40, and last year, she starred in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. "I don't sit back and have a game plan and make decisions about my career like other actors do. I have no ego tied up into my career at all. If I get pitched into a movie I do it and that's that; it doesn't matter if it's weird or small or huge,"

When film critic Roger Ebert left the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Do the Right Thing in 1989, he had tears in his eyes. Few film-going experiences, he reflected in a 2001 essay, rivaled that first viewing of the Spike Lee classic. A meditation on race in late-twentieth century America, the film's power comes from Lee's ability to avoid taking sides. He missed nabbing an award that year — something that would continue to happen again and again, over the years, not only at Cannes, but at the Oscars as well.

A 19-foot Burmese python — the longest ever recorded — was caught by local hunters in South Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve this week. To put the catch into perspective, the snake is as long as an adult giraffe is tall. It was caught on Monday by 22-year-old Jake Waleri, who brought the python to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in his hometown of Naples, the conservancy said. Officials there measured the snake at 19 feet and 125 pounds, and said it set a new world record for length.

The video includes a fight scene with Grimes, who Poarch calls "one of the coolest friends I've ever had." TikTok superstar Bella Porch is back with a brand new single and kick-ass video, “Dolls.” It’s Poarch’s third single, following “Build a Bitch” and “Inferno,” a collaboration she did with Sub Urban. Speaking with Variety, Poarch, who has 90 million followers on TikTok and 14 million on Instagram, said her latest release was inspired by her viral debut, “Build a Bitch.