“You’ve really got to check out Cumbia,” Joe Strummer insisted, his intense stare burning a hole through me after one too many pints. “Cumbia?” I wondered. “What the hell is Cumbia?” I didn’t dare ask, but in those pre-internet days, I didn’t even know where to look, or if I’d even heard Strummer right. In some of our first meetings, already almost a decade before, he’d turned me on to everything from Charlie Parker and Woody Guthrie to dub reggae, but that music was relatively easy to find in my local record stores and library.

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Celebrity Big Brother star Todrick Hall is being sued for allegedly owing $60,000 in rent for a home he claimed he had purchased. Avi Lavian and Orna Lavian Hall agreed to pay $30,000 a month in rent in a court document obtained by People. He did not pay for February and March of this year, so the couple gave him a three-day notice on March 3 to pay rent or leave the property.

Tuppence Middleton is pregnant with her first child.  The actress, 35, unveiled her blossoming bump for the first time on Monday night as she attended the Downton Abbey: A New Era premiere at Leicester Square’s Cineworld.  Beaming for the cameras on the red carpet, an expectant Tuppence proudly cupped her stomach as she wowed in a gorgeous black gown.  Tuppence Middleton is pregnant! The actress unveiled her blossoming bump in a gorgeous black gown as she attended the Downton Abbey: A New Era premiere in Leicester Square on Monday night 

Ben Shakir is at his most academic on this case, and Aasif Mandvi brings real gravitas to the argument. Ben sees the whole experiment as a crutch for the church, and the commitment the actor brings to it is palpable. His mindset is diametrically opposed to this concept in the most analytically grounded of ways. Ben’s disdain of fringe science is countered well by David’s righteous curiosity, something he has in abundance.