Source: Icon Sportswire / Getty Man In Georgia Scams Friends And Family With Fake Super Bowl Tickets Georgia police are currently looking for a man who reportedly made over $750,000 after scamming friends and family with fake Super Bowl tickets. WSB-TV Atlanta is reporting that Ketan Shah is wanted for allegedly scamming a number of people he was close with–which includes his very own mother. His wife has commented saying that she hasn’t seen her husband since she reported him missing back in January. An alleged victim of the scam, Alan Tartt, said that Shah took off with $20,000 of his money and never delivered on the promise of some premium Super Bowl tickets. “It’s just crazy, mind-blowing,” he said. “Everything seemed legit.” Tartt also cited that before this specific incident, Shah had a seemingly reliable business image and it’s easy to see why so many people were fooled by him. Shah’s own mother says she was scammed out of a whopping $36,000, but she won’t be pressing charges. “It was a similar promise to all the other people who bought tickets,” explained Minish Shah, who isn’t related to Shah but claims to have known him closely. “One hundred level seating with access to the concierge lounge and a few pre-parties. I find the whole situation kind of bizarre, and hopefully, there will be some kind of logical explanation.” “Right now, what we know of is just slightly over three quarters of a million dollars scammed out for Super Bowl-related stuff,” Gwinnett County police spokesperson Wilbert Rundles explained. “It’s not that he posted some ad and random people are contacting this guy for tickets and being scammed. He’s known these people for many years. One of them, he’s known his whole life because it’s his own mother, and he’s taken advantage of them.” Four Atlanta men have filed theft by deception reports on Shah, who still hasn’t been found.
Beyonce has no problem gathering her fans, the BeeHive to gather round and do what she asks but her recent task is not for the faint of heart. Queen Bey is asking fans to live a plant based life style with her and her husband Jay Z’s new innovative, the “green print.” Now you might be thinking… “I’m not going vegan for Beyonce,” but the reward is priceless. “The greenprint” promises to reward fans with a life time supply to Beyonce and Jay Z tickets to any tour the couple or as individual acts. This offer last for up to 30 years! Beyonce took to social media to let her fans know how they can participate and how she plans to use her green print: The singer vowed to only eat plant based and go meatless on Mondays. You can go to the Green Print website to sign up for your chance to win a life time supply of Jay Z and Beyonce tickets. If you want the latest update on Jussie Smollett attack and what Lebron James did to make sure Octavia Spencer made equal pay as everyone on set, tune into Leah’s Lemonade above to find out.
Source: Paramount Pictures / Paramount Pictures Win tickets to the HOT 107.9 screening of “What Men Want” starring Taraji P. Henson, Tuesday, February 5th at 7:00PM at Regal Atlantic Station. _____ ____ WHAT MEN WANT (Paramount Pictures) Release Date: Friday, February 8th Rating: Rated R (for language and sexual content throughout, and some drug material) Directed By: Adam Shankman Produced By: Will Packer and James Lopez Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Richard Roundtree, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Tracy Morgan Source: Paramount / Paramount Synopsis: Ali Davis (Taraji P. Henson) is a successful sports agent who’s constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. When Ali is passed up for a well-deserved promotion, she questions what else she needs to do to succeed in a man’s world… until she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts! With her newfound power, Ali looks to outsmart her colleagues as she races to sign the next basketball superstar, but the lengths she has to go to will put her relationship with her best friends and a potential new love interest (Aldis Hodge) to the test. WHAT MEN WANT is the latest comedy from director Adam Shankman (HAIRSPRAY) and producers Will Packer and James Lopez (GIRLS TRIP), co-starring Tracy Morgan, Richard Roundtree, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Josh Brener, Tamala Jones, Phoebe Robinson, Max Greenfield, Jason Jones, Brian Bosworth, Chris Witaske and Erykah Badu. #WhatMenWant
Source: Wojtek Zagorski / Getty The polar vortex has been quite offensive these past couple of days. As of Thursday, it’s already taken over a number of states in the U.S. with the Midwest being hit the hardest. According to ABC 6 , some states in this area are experiencing temperatures in the negative 30s, and if you add wind chills to the mix, states like Illinois have experienced weather that feels like negative 57 degrees . According to The New York Times , eight weather-related deaths have already been recorded in the Midwest while the east coast isn’t that much safer with cities like New York experiencing single digit temperatures. But despite all this, folks will still find a way to capture the madness on camera. You can blame it on snowed-in boredom or you can blame it on plain curiosity. But whatever the reasoning, people are playing in the snow in the most bizarre and hilarious ways. First, a few people are putting their dogs on the line to test the weather. Some pet owners have been letting their canines out into the cold just to find out if they’d be thrilled for a walk. For many, the answer was a hard no. Just let Twitter user @IamNPaterson and her dog tell it… My dog when the #polarvortex arrives in #newjersey “No. Absolutely not.” @njdotcom pic.twitter.com/uUFKWu2BzV — Natalie Paterson (@IamNPaterson) January 30, 2019 Then, there were people who put their scientist hat on to discover the shocking effects of freezing temperatures. One Twitter user posted a video of herself soaking a T-shirt then sticking it outside in the cold. The results were a clothing item that could stand on its own after just a little over an hour outside. It’s no joke out here. One of the most viral videos, however, is a challenge that carried over from previous years. People have been boiling water and throwing it into the freezing air, creating a snow-making affect. Peep the slow motion spectacle below. According to Wired , because the water is so hot, it has enough energy to transition from liquid to gas quickly. When the hot water is projected into the cold air, a few things happen. First, the hot water is making water vapor thanks to evaporation. Second, the water is breaking into smaller blobs of water as it moves through the air. Both the evaporation and smaller blobs cause the water to cool off quickly. In addition to this, the cold air can’t hold a lot of water vapor (which is why the air is much drier in the winter), so the water vapor doesn’t stay in the air, but it condenses out. Viola. Instant snow. People across social media have been trying their luck at the phenomenon whether it be -10 degrees temperatures or -20 degrees outside. Whatever the case might be, make sure to stay warm and stay safe. The polar vortex will still disrespect you and your entire video.
Source: Wojtek Zagorski / Getty The polar vortex has been quite offensive these past couple of days. As of Thursday, it’s already taken over a number of states in the U.S. with the Midwest being hit the hardest. According to ABC 6 , some states in this area are experiencing temperatures in the negative 30s, and if you add wind chills to the mix, states like Illinois have experienced weather that feels like negative 57 degrees . According to The New York Times , eight weather-related deaths have already been recorded in the Midwest while the east coast isn’t that much safer with cities like New York experiencing single digit temperatures. But despite all this, folks will still find a way to capture the madness on camera. You can blame it on snowed-in boredom or you can blame it on plain curiosity. But whatever the reasoning, people are playing in the snow in the most bizarre and hilarious ways. First, a few people are putting their dogs on the line to test the weather. Some pet owners have been letting their canines out into the cold just to find out if they’d be thrilled for a walk. For many, the answer was a hard no. Just let Twitter user @IamNPaterson and her dog tell it… My dog when the #polarvortex arrives in #newjersey “No. Absolutely not.” @njdotcom pic.twitter.com/uUFKWu2BzV — Natalie Paterson (@IamNPaterson) January 30, 2019 Then, there were people who put their scientist hat on to discover the shocking effects of freezing temperatures. One Twitter user posted a video of herself soaking a T-shirt then sticking it outside in the cold. The results were a clothing item that could stand on its own after just a little over an hour outside. It’s no joke out here. One of the most viral videos, however, is a challenge that carried over from previous years. People have been boiling water and throwing it into the freezing air, creating a snow-making affect. Peep the slow motion spectacle below. According to Wired , because the water is so hot, it has enough energy to transition from liquid to gas quickly. When the hot water is projected into the cold air, a few things happen. First, the hot water is making water vapor thanks to evaporation. Second, the water is breaking into smaller blobs of water as it moves through the air. Both the evaporation and smaller blobs cause the water to cool off quickly. In addition to this, the cold air can’t hold a lot of water vapor (which is why the air is much drier in the winter), so the water vapor doesn’t stay in the air, but it condenses out. Viola. Instant snow. People across social media have been trying their luck at the phenomenon whether it be -10 degrees temperatures or -20 degrees outside. Whatever the case might be, make sure to stay warm and stay safe. The polar vortex will still disrespect you and your entire video.
Source: Larry Busacca/PW18 / Getty Beyoncé isn’t always vegan, but she’s known for going on a strict vegan diet before huge events like while training for her momentous Coachella performance in 2018. With this information in mind, it’s pretty safe to assume Bey feels her best when she’s vegan–so why wouldn’t she want all of her fans to feel their best, too? That along with the obvious fact that going vegan is best for all our little animal friends and the planet makes for a pretty good case, but a lot of people still don’t have the discipline or the desire to completely give up meat and all other animal products. Well, Beyoncé has a solution for that: because if anything can make us all go vegan, it’s the promise of some free Jay Z and Beyoncé tickets. Mrs. Knowles-Carter took to Instagram and posted a picture of her “Greenprint,” which is basically what she does in order to reduce her carbon emissions. For Bey, this means eating a plant-based breakfast and also doing “meatless Mondays”. Other options on the Greenprint website include eating plant-based meals at work, eating two plant-based meals a day, and eating plant-based meals only throughout the week. Like I mentioned before–Beyoncé promoting her healthy lifestyle is great…but what fans are most intrigued by is the caption for this instagram post. The star wrote, “Click the link in my bio for a chance to win tickets to any JAY and/or my shows for life.” You read that right. Free tickets to any Beyoncé and/or Jay-Z concert FOR. LIFE. Just for eating your fruits and veggies. Yeah, we can manage that. As you might imagine, just like any time something happens with Bey, fans were absolutely freaking out over this opportunity. Yes, they’re willing to go vegan for Beyonc é and yes, the reactions were absolutely hilarious. holdon…. Beyoncé offering lifetime tickets to all her shows if we win a contest for going vegan? bitch hand me some lettuce. — ZÉ TAYLOR (@FATHERBONNET) January 31, 2019 “b**ch hand me some lettuce” just might be the best quote of 2019. Meat??? Never heard of her pic.twitter.com/Y1idgsQMre — Satans Wifey (@thollandhugs) January 31, 2019 me forcing myself to go vegan to win those free beyoncé tickets pic.twitter.com/rFOybqOrBo — alexis (@alexiswellss) January 31, 2019 Beyonc é knows how loyal her fans are, so it’s really no surprise that they’d all be so ready to drop meat for some free tickets. If Beyoncé & JAY-Z thinks i’m gonna eat their vegan shit for free tickets, they absolutely right. pic.twitter.com/BHf6REBKKU — BTK (@BTKTHERAPPER) January 30, 2019 Wait…Beyoncé giving out free tickets for life for going vegan?! pic.twitter.com/7CpzxW3nTY — Raincloud Anderson (@unprECEded) January 31, 2019 Me eating meat after I entered the contest to win Beyoncé concert tickets for life for being vegan pic.twitter.com/95bFeLQAws — t (@tayywurrr) January 31, 2019 Well…listen. We all want free tickets, okay? But sometimes we also wanna keep eating things other than lettuce. But some fans are dedicated enough to get their whole family in on it. Even the bed bugs. ALL my family are going vegan. my momma, my dog. even my bed bugs PERIOD. we all seeing Aunt Beyoncé https://t.co/rQr7LWFQsP — ora (@needyora) January 31, 2019 And other fans are just wheeling and dealing to get what they really want. beyoncé wont leave us alone about being vegan… she been buggin for years the same way we’ve been begging for the formation world tour. so why don’t we make a deal. you give us the formation world tour dvd, we’ll do your vegan challenge @beyonce pic.twitter.com/TaNXfT6prT — reney (@YonceMadeMeDoIt) January 31, 2019 So when the statistics come out in a few years and show a rise in veganism in 2019, we all know what happened. Thanks, Beyonc é.
Source: Larry Busacca/PW18 / Getty Beyoncé isn’t always vegan, but she’s known for going on a strict vegan diet before huge events like while training for her momentous Coachella performance in 2018. With this information in mind, it’s pretty safe to assume Bey feels her best when she’s vegan–so why wouldn’t she want all of her fans to feel their best, too? That along with the obvious fact that going vegan is best for all our little animal friends and the planet makes for a pretty good case, but a lot of people still don’t have the discipline or the desire to completely give up meat and all other animal products. Well, Beyoncé has a solution for that: because if anything can make us all go vegan, it’s the promise of some free Jay Z and Beyoncé tickets. Mrs. Knowles-Carter took to Instagram and posted a picture of her “Greenprint,” which is basically what she does in order to reduce her carbon emissions. For Bey, this means eating a plant-based breakfast and also doing “meatless Mondays”. Other options on the Greenprint website include eating plant-based meals at work, eating two plant-based meals a day, and eating plant-based meals only throughout the week. Like I mentioned before–Beyoncé promoting her healthy lifestyle is great…but what fans are most intrigued by is the caption for this instagram post. The star wrote, “Click the link in my bio for a chance to win tickets to any JAY and/or my shows for life.” You read that right. Free tickets to any Beyoncé and/or Jay-Z concert FOR. LIFE. Just for eating your fruits and veggies. Yeah, we can manage that. As you might imagine, just like any time something happens with Bey, fans were absolutely freaking out over this opportunity. Yes, they’re willing to go vegan for Beyonc é and yes, the reactions were absolutely hilarious. holdon…. Beyoncé offering lifetime tickets to all her shows if we win a contest for going vegan? bitch hand me some lettuce. — ZÉ TAYLOR (@FATHERBONNET) January 31, 2019 “b**ch hand me some lettuce” just might be the best quote of 2019. Meat??? Never heard of her pic.twitter.com/Y1idgsQMre — Satans Wifey (@thollandhugs) January 31, 2019 me forcing myself to go vegan to win those free beyoncé tickets pic.twitter.com/rFOybqOrBo — alexis (@alexiswellss) January 31, 2019 Beyonc é knows how loyal her fans are, so it’s really no surprise that they’d all be so ready to drop meat for some free tickets. If Beyoncé & JAY-Z thinks i’m gonna eat their vegan shit for free tickets, they absolutely right. pic.twitter.com/BHf6REBKKU — BTK (@BTKTHERAPPER) January 30, 2019 Wait…Beyoncé giving out free tickets for life for going vegan?! pic.twitter.com/7CpzxW3nTY — Raincloud Anderson (@unprECEded) January 31, 2019 Me eating meat after I entered the contest to win Beyoncé concert tickets for life for being vegan pic.twitter.com/95bFeLQAws — t (@tayywurrr) January 31, 2019 Well…listen. We all want free tickets, okay? But sometimes we also wanna keep eating things other than lettuce. But some fans are dedicated enough to get their whole family in on it. Even the bed bugs. ALL my family are going vegan. my momma, my dog. even my bed bugs PERIOD. we all seeing Aunt Beyoncé https://t.co/rQr7LWFQsP — ora (@needyora) January 31, 2019 And other fans are just wheeling and dealing to get what they really want. beyoncé wont leave us alone about being vegan… she been buggin for years the same way we’ve been begging for the formation world tour. so why don’t we make a deal. you give us the formation world tour dvd, we’ll do your vegan challenge @beyonce pic.twitter.com/TaNXfT6prT — reney (@YonceMadeMeDoIt) January 31, 2019 So when the statistics come out in a few years and show a rise in veganism in 2019, we all know what happened. Thanks, Beyonc é.
Source: NBC / Getty Kenan Recalls His Super Bowl Experience With Kel Mitchell With the Super Bowl coming up, it’s fresh in everyone’s mind just how coveted ad expensive everything surrounding the big game is. From high-priced tickets to crazy Airbnb rates in Atlanta, people fly from all over the country just to witness the biggest game of the season–but back in their Nickelodeon days, Kenan Thompson and his partner-in-comedy Kel Mitchell weren’t so impressed. Kenan stopped by The Tonight Show this week and told an absolutely hilarious story about him and Kel receiving free Super Bowl tickets from their employer at the time, Nickelodeon. Spoiler alert: they don’t end up making it to the game, because they’ve got some other priorities.
Over the weekend, social media exploded with the Fyre Festival. Not because there was a new one planned but because of the two documentaries, on Hulu and Netflix respectively released on January 14 and January 18th. Fyre Fraud on Netflix and Fyre Festival: The Greatest Party That Never Was show different sides of the fallout from the 2017 festival created by rapper Jah Rule and serial entrepreneur William “Billy” McFarland. Here are five reasons you should watch. (A picture is painted of the shenanigans that took place in each documentary but for the purposes of this story we are referencing the Netflix doc. 1.THE AUDACITY OF CAUCASITY: William ‘Billy” McFarland is a scammer and a criminal mastermind. He is also now a convicted felon though six years seems too little for a man who ran multiple scams of which the Frye Festival was the largest.And all by 25 years old, mind you. The New Jersey native, raised by parents that are real estate developers, first ran a company called Magnesis that produced and provided access to luxury events. Through the connections he made there, McFarland creates an artist booking app and hooks up with rapper Jah Rule to conceive a luxury music festival on a private island in the Bahamas. Without ruining it for you, McFarland uses a shoot with top models and social media influencers to advertise the festival which sells out. With $27 M in hand, McFarland soon either finds himself in over his head, or he knows from the beginning he can’t pull it off, because one of the doc’s unanswered questions is if the money wasn’t used for booking acts for festival infrastructure, where did it go? 2. FOLLOW THE RULE Rapper Jah Rule was the festival’s hype man and McFarland’s partner, who seems largely to have been used as celebrity bait. Somehow, even though the festival was geared to millennials, Rule had just enough star power to make it legit. But by the time the festival came to its inevitable downfall, you’re not sure how much he knew or didn’t know, especially as it seems he never actually makes it to the island on the day of the festival. After the docs aired, Rule born, Jeffrey Atkins says that he, too was hoodwinked, but there’s a scene in the doc that suggests once he knew the extent of the Fyre Festival deception, he was more interested in spinning it than making the situation right. Haha nice try homie you ain’t getting the goods over Twitter… but I will tell my truth real soon… AND I HAVE RECEIPTS!!! https://t.co/O03JD3VQOl — Ja Rule (@Ruleyork) January 20, 2019 3. THE MODELS Had McFarland chosen to use his powers for good, The Fyre Festival could have been a huge success. Like many scammers, McFarland’s greatest talent was to convince a lot of people that nothing was something. A marketing video shot on the private island where the festival was initially supposed to take place on with top models/influencers Chanel Iman, Emily Ratajkowski, Hailey Baldwin Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid went viral. Those models have now been subpoenaed about their participation for the bankruptcy case arising from the failed festival. McFarland also reportedly paid influencer Jenner $250K for the orange square post that when simultaneously posted by an army of influencers also went viral and created demand for tickets, despite the fact that the advertised acts would have barely sold out a day at Made In America or any other U.S. festival. 4.FOMO IS REAL FOMO, the condition known as “Fear Of Missing Out” was apparently the impetus for thousands to sell out the festival days after it was advertised. That was one of the things that may have made McFarland decide that the stress of actually putting on a festival and the work and money it required would have been too hard, when just keeping the money would be easier. Once the marketing effort was over with, the doc is a descent into chaos that seems very clearly was never going to be pulled off. Aside from the questions of funding, organization and infrastructure, there was also just plain bad juju that hovered over the festival in its planning stages. Despite the young talent McFarland amassed to build the artist booking app that was to become and integral part of Fyre Media pre-and post festival, they were mostly wasted as the festival, the app and the company were all casualties of the mess he created. 5. WHAT PEOPLE DO FOR WATER Event producer Andy King will go down in documentary history as the individual most willing to take one for the team. His testimony about what happened when the Bahamian government denied festival organizer access to four trucks filled with Evian water became meme and social media gold after the doc aired. We won’t spoil it for you here but let’s just say, if you had to pull off a near impossible event with little resources and an egomaniacal con man at the helm, he’s the guy you want. Here are the trailers for both docs: Which one are you checking out? PHOTO: Netflix HEAD BACK TO THE BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM HOMEPAGE
Canal Street Hits Theaters January 18th Source: Rhyan Lamarr / Rhyan Lamarr Canal Street is a modern-day thriller telling the story of a teen, Kholi Styles, trying to get by in an unwelcoming new world. After the mysterious death of a classmate, all eyes fall on Kholi, the new kid at his high school. It’s up to his father, Jackie Styles, an up-and-coming lawyer from the slums of Chicago, to defend his son in court and battle an outraged public before time runs out. Jackie fights to keep his faith and prove his son is not the monster the world has made him out to be. CANAL STREET OPENS IN THEATERS EVERYWHERE JANUARY 18, 2019! Be sure to get your tickets!
