“Attention Upper East Siders, your fav show returns with even more scandalous drama, and fashionable glamour, and the served tea, will be hot!”
The Stars of Broadway joined forces for a night of philanthropy, celebration, and joyful music!
“The English” is an action Western, with meaningful, historical context, and conversations within the story.
Frank Gillo portrays the man, the myth, the legend that is Ferruccio Lamborghini in Lionsgate’s new film, Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend.
Entertainment meets empowerment in Prime Video’s new film ‘Run Sweetheart Run.’
Season 2 of The Mysterious Benedict Society is now streaming on Disney+.
Following the success of season one of the Mysterious Benedict Society, the crew is back together for season two. In season one, this group of four ‘misfits’ Reynie, Sticky, Kate and Constance were brought together to stop the evil Dr. Curtain and save the world. They used their wit, intelligence, kindness and empathy to stop the evil schemes. In this new season, they return to help Mr. Benedict once again. When their leaders Mr. Benedict and Number Two are kidnapped, these kids must use their minds to find their leaders. This is a fun series for the whole family. Each episode is filled with mystery, beauty and humor.
The Knockturnal recently spoke with the cast and creators of this show. Tony Hale, who plays Mr. Benedict and his evil twin brother Dr. Curtain, shared his creative journey of developing these characters. Mystic Inscho (“Reynie Muldoon”), Marta Kessler (“Constance Contriare”), Seth Carr (“George “Sticky” Washington”) and Emmy DeOliveira (“Kate Wetherall”) are the four main heroes of this show. We spoke with them about the costumes, sets and exciting process of creating another season of this show. Gia Sandhu (“Ms. Perumal”) and MaameYaa Baofo (“Rhonda Kazembe”) told us about working with these young actors and the excitement that filled each new day of filming. We also spoke with the creators of this series Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin, Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. They shared their creative processes of collaborating on the Mysterious Benedict Society.
Watch The Mysterious Benedict Society season two now only on Disney+.
Embody the spirit of Halloween with this special cocktail. Cynthia Bailey, known for her role on the Real Housewives of Atlanta, teamed up with Seagram’s Escapes to create a Spooky Sangria, sure to be a hit at your Halloween party.
Made with Seagram’s Escapes Strawberry Daiquiri, red wine, pomegranate juice and an array of fruit, this five-minute is delicious and easy! If you really want wow your guests, Bailey suggests this one thing: icing.
Bailey says, the icing around the rim, takes the cake: “Especially when you do the ‘blood drippings’, it looks like it took a lot of work.” To do this, drip icing, preferably red, alongside a glass for that wow-factor.
From New Line Cinema, Dwayne Johnson stars in the action-adventure “Black Adam.” The first-ever feature film to explore the story of the DC Super Hero comes to the big screen under the direction of Jaume Collet-Serra.
If you’ve been on Tiktok at all lately, you’ve definitely heard Omar Apollo’s voice. He’s the singer of “Evergreen,” a track that has gone viral on TikTok and listeners truly can’t get enough of the beautiful mellow beat and stunningly written lyrics. The track’s widespread popularity has helped boost the song to enter the Spotify and Apple Music charts and eventually debut on Billboard Hot 100 at number 62 for the week ending of October 1st, earning Omar his first-ever entry on the chart. In response to the rising success, the song was chosen as the album’s next single and was later sent to contemporary hit radio on October 4th, making it his first-ever radio single. It’s been an incredible year for him, as in addition to his solo tours, Omar has also performed at Coachella, Something In The Water and All Points East festivals.
Omar has partnered with Buchanan’s Scotch Whisky for their upcoming Buchanan’s 200% Futuro campaign, celebrating those who are embodying 200% spirit – proudly living a 100% Hispanic and 100% American, and shaping today’s future. As one of music’s most exciting new artists, the Indiana-raised first generation Mexican-American artists’ 200% spirit shines in his unique musical style that bends genres and blends languages.
Hear more about Buchanan here!
We sat down with Omar to talk all about his music and what it all means to him. Check it out!
The Knockturnal: First of all, congratulations! I’ve been hearing the song all over tiktok, that’s so exciting. This is your first time charting on the billboard 100 with your recent chart breaking song evergreen, how does that feel?
Omar Apollo: I mean it feels really great because I feel that evergreen wasn’t me trying to make a song that was going to go on billboard. It came from a real place, and I really love soul music, so it’s really cool to get to make soul music.
The Knockturnal: You have a lot of really exciting things coming up, the deluxe edition of your album and your solo tour coming up, tell me a little about that.
Omar Apollo: In the summer I released the deluxe edition and now I’m getting ready to go on tour. I’ve been working on it for awhile, I’ve been working on stage design. It’s called the prototype tour, and I leave in like a week or something like that. Yeah, I’m excited.
The Knockturnal: You talked a bit about Evergreen being soul music and how when you were writing it, you wanted to channel something a little more. Tell me a bit about what you think that song means.
Omar Apollo: I feel like a lot of my music in the past few years has been about longing, and these torch songs. It was, I feel like, influenced by the music that my parents played me growing up. They’re all these romantic love songs from the 50’s in mexico.
The Knockturnal: You’re supporting some businesses through the 200% Futuro campaign,why would you say that it’s important to fuel the futures of these businesses and nonprofits? What does it mean to you?
Omar Apollo: I usually only want to partner with brands that i feel are are aligned with what I want to represent, and Buchanan’s has been a part of, I’ve seen my uncles drinking it since forever, so it’s been cool to partner with The Plant Shop and Tacos Sublime, and The Futuro Fund which is a fund that Buchanan started that basically donates one million dollars over the course of five years to these latino owned businesses and supporting these creatives, which I think is really sick.
The Knockturnal: What would you say it means to you to be a 200%er through your lens, being 100% Mexican and 100% Midwest?
Omar Apollo: I think it just means that in the land of cultures, I was fully born in Indiana but I had the influence of my parents and my cousins. The culture was still very much alive and brought to Indiana,and it still is and is surfaced in many different ways. Like the restaurants, the stores, the events, all those things are a new culture. We have spanglish, I go to Mexico and they probably won’t know some of the things I say, it’s a new thing I hear.
The Knockturnal: How would you say that you embrace your culture through your music/fashion/style?
Omar Apollo: For sure. My mom, she’s known that I’ve loved dressing myself for as long as I can remember. When I was younger I did a lot of Baile folklórico, mexican folk ballet, and since then I’ve been able to bring that kind of thing to stage, as well as the mariachi clothes and things like that.
The Knockturnal: What’s it like to be on tour? What are the emotions associated with that?
Omar Apollo: Being on tour, you definitely have to build a new tolerance for things. You have to go in knowing it’s going to be a stressful environment. This will definitely be a better experience because I have two tour buses now, before everyone was cramped in one. You have to be kind if you build this tolerance of preparing yourself mentaly. As long as you do that it’s very fun and rewarding for sure.
The Knockturnal: You’re absolutely blowing up lately. What do you want new listeners to know about you?
Omar Apollo: The way that things are represented, I think would be nice to have when I wanted to be in the music industry, I wish there were more latinos. So I hope that in that way I could inspire or push something and make somebody want to wake up and do something. I know that sounds corny but we all gotta do something, everyones gotta make money you know?
The Knockturnal: What are you most excited for in the coming weeks?
Omar Apollo: I have a Jimmy Kimmel performance that I’m rehearsing for today and then touring. I think all of my energy has been going into it, all of the specific styling and stuff. I think that’s what I’m most excited for?