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In a year when many rap newcomers were defined by reckless buffoonery and sad-eyed earnestness, none arrived with the type of wallop that Valee delivered with "Womp Womp," his slinky collab with fellow Chicagoan Jeremih. The G.O.O.D Music signee, whose rap style his label boss Kanye West called "the most popular in rap," finds a way to twist and bend words into his flow to fit the beat, ("T-shirt VLONE, leave the coupe runnin’ won’t be long/ Chinese food, wonton, I might as well try that one time") while Jeremih sets the tone with his malleable vocals. A low burner that went off in the summer months. – DAN RYS

Onstage, Malek’s Freddie is a studded leather peacock, swoony and liberated, letting the life force pour out of him in a glorious tremolo, most extraordinarily during the film’s climactic sequence, a song-for-song, move-for-move reenactment of Queen’s legendary reunion set at the London Live Aid concert in 1985 (though the film drops the infectious Elvis bop of “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”). Malek, wearing a wife beater and arm band and Mercury’s signature honcho mustache, with liquid dark eyes that drink in the crowd and stare it down, struts and poses and leads the audience in vocal chants as if he owned the world (which, at that moment, Freddie sort of did).

Yeah, we want to make sure that we have a base to build from in terms of reserves, in terms of resources. The development we want to — it’s still a work in progress to figure out the development, hence why we’re looking at a roadheader to go in and do the development in advance. So, we think there’s a lot of different levers to pull before we will optimize this mine, and similar to what we saw at Casa Berardi.

Plunging tools into glowing-hot magma miles underground might sound fantastical. But in recent years, a handful of geothermal energy companies have done so without meaning to. The first documented case was actually at the Puna Geothermal Venture in Hawaii in 2005 — the same plant that has been scrambling this month to remove flammable chemicals and shut its wells before lava pours in from Kilauea’s ongoing eruption.  

In April 1962, organizers of the 31st annual Virginia duckpin bowling tournament waited for scores to be posted at the Willow Bowl, a bowling alley in the Willow Lawn Shopping Center in Henrico County. Charles Rao (center) was tournament director; he was flanked by assistant Bob Winston and Connie Thrift, the first local woman to fire a 200-plus game.

Yes. By definition stories that are not historically accurate are fiction. Dictionaries are fun! Also, in addition to the poetry and musical lyrics you mention in this bible book, I can’t help but notice that it also contains directives to murder gay people with rocks, sets the conditions for kidnapping and using people as slaves and then gives you directions on how to beat those slaves, sets the price in silver for a rapist to pay the father of his victim to then marry her… and even has a talking snake to make it all believable! Fun stuff this bible! (And I thought the only fun fiction book with a talking snake was Harry Potter!)

Grimes made all our cyberpunk dreams come true with the “Kill v. Maim” video. The singer previously explained that the song’s inspiration was for a fictional movie that was “a mixture of Godfather and Twilight,” but the video itself transports the viewer into a wild post-apocalyptic world: Imagine if Final Fantasy took place in the Mad Max universe… but was also shot in Harajuku in the ‘90s. And what better way to end this giddy mix of cult-film homages than with an ode to Blade’s bloody rave scene? – BIANCA GRACIE

In a world of viral campaigns and wall-to-wall marketing, few songs bubble up from Internet limbo to hit status simply because, well, people actually like it. That’s the trick, if you can even call it that, behind British breakout Ella Mai and “Boo’d Up,” which dropped in February 2017 but languished for over a year, until a domino effect of nightclub and radio requests triggered a slow but steady march to No. 5 on the Hot 100. Most R&B successes today belong to one of two camps: the trap-leaning, AutoTune-saturated style of contemporary hip-hop or the wavy, ethereal vibe of quiet storm. “Boo’d” — inspired by Johnny Gill’s Babyface-penned 1992 hit “There U Go” — captures the breezy nostalgia of decades past, anchored by Mai’s smooth and silky vocals. Plus, that nonsensical chorus (“Ba-do, boo’d up / Biddy-da-do, boo’d up”) cleverly plays off a heartbeat sound and is just too fun not to sing along with. Add it all up, and you’ve got cross-generational smash that’s an ideal backdrop for first kisses and 25th anniversaries alike. – T.A.

“Any other result will devastate oil and gas owners, lessees, producers, secondary suppliers, contractors, users, royalty interest owners, and the state of West Virginia and its local communities,” a joint brief filed by the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association and the Independent Oil and Gas Association said.

Scott Walker, the American singer who attained massive success as a pop star in England before veering off into avante-garde music, has died, according to his label, 4AD. He was 76; no cause or date of death was immediately announced. “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Scott Walker,” a post [...]

Iowa snow sculptor Hugh McCarron works on a block of snow as his eye lashes and eye brows freeze over in Lake Geneva, Wis., Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. He’s participating in the U.S. National Snow Sculpting Championship. Each team gets a cylinder of snow 8 feet across and 9 feet high, to carve with saws, axes, files, scaffolding, shovels and other homemade implements. The entries will be judged Saturday on creativity, technique and message. Competitors choose the winner. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)

A ground-breaking, feature-length science fiction story, written and designed for VR and AR, “Eleven Eleven” is a multi-linear narrative experience inspired by immersive theatre, from NBCUniversal International Networks. (World Premiere)