Barry Brecheisen/WireImageThe Village People are not happy that Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort hired a lookalike group to play the venue.
Billboard reports that after video surfaced on Twitter of what appeared to be the band playing an event at the estate, Trump was sent a cease-and-desist letter by lead singer Victor Willis wife, Karen Willis, who manages the band.
The letter, which was sent to Trump s lawyer Joseph Tacopina, argues that the tribute band violates the disco group s federal trademark, noting the clip “has and continues to cause public confusion as to why Village People would even engage in such a performance. We did not.” Karen adds, “Though my husband has tolerated your client’s use of his Village People music, we cannot allow such use by him to cause public confusion as to endorsement.”
Willis insists that the confusion makes it look like the band is endorsing Trump and that the band has threatened to sue to keep him from using
Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for CMTGov’t Mule is currently back out on the road on their spring tour, and that’s exactly where frontman Warren Haynes loves to be.
Haynes tells ABC Audio being on the road is where he feels most comfortable.
“Having done it for so long, you know, you get better and better at doing it and at kind of navigating the road life," Haynes says. But he notes life on the road "is always a challenge.”
What was an even bigger challenge for Haynes was being off the road for so long due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making it even harder to get back out there. “Getting back to it is not as easy,” he says. “That was the longest I ve been off the road probably since I was 15 years old.”
But there were some positives about the downtime, with Haynes saying he “enjoyed the time off" because he got to spend a lot of it with his 11-year-old son.
“I was also, you know, kind of jonesing to get back on the road at the same time tr
Luiz C. Ribeiro for N.Y. Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) New York City s iconic Roosevelt Hotel reopened its doors over the weekend after nearly three years but this time, to a slightly different clientele.
The historic hotel, which was built in the 1920s and named in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt, is now hosting New York City s first "asylum seeker arrival center" amid an expected influx of migrants, Mayor Eric Adams announced Saturday.
Located in Midtown Manhattan near Grand Central Terminal, the Roosevelt Hotel is "serving as a centralized intake center for all arriving asylum seekers and providing migrants with access to a range of legal, medical and reconnection services, as well as placement, if needed, in a shelter or humanitarian relief center," according to Adams.
The mayor said asylum seekers arriving in New York City will be directed to the arrival center at the Roosevelt Hotel, which will also open up 175 rooms f
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(YUMA, Ariz.) At least seven people were shot, two fatally, during a gathering in Yuma, Arizona, late Saturday, police said.
No suspects were in custody Sunday as investigators worked to identify the person or persons who committed the deadly act, police officials said. A $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those responsible, police said.
The shooting unfolded just before 11 p.m. in a residential neighborhood southeast of downtown Yuma, said Lt. Craig Johnson of the Yuma Police Department.
Officers who responded to the scene found several people injured, Johnson said.
Several off-duty law enforcement officers were in the area when the gunfire erupted and quickly responded to assist with this incident, police officials said in a statement released Sunday.
A 19-year-old man found gravely wounded at the scene, was taken to a hospital by private car prior to police arriving, authorities said. The teenager
Logan Mock-Bunting/Getty Images(RALEIGH, N.C.) With the end of its spring semester last week, North Carolina State University concluded a tragic school year that saw the deaths of 14 students.
Seven students died by suicide, two fatally overdosed, four passed away from natural causes, and one student was killed in a car accident, according to Mick Kulikowski, NC State s director of strategic communications and media relations. Over a dozen students and mental health experts described the loss of life at NC State to ABC News as staggering and tragic, as well as a concerning example of national trends in student mental health.
“I really started feeling it once it got to the fourth student death, because it really started to feel like it was an epidemic on campus at that point,” said Mariana Fabian, a fourth-year student and opinion editor for NC State s student newspaper, The Technician.
The deaths have cast an outsized shadow on the Raleigh campus, where classes continued thr