Tom Danehy: Tom pays tribute to Sam Borozan, aka Mr. NAU (Tucson Weekly)
Not long after he graduated, he established the Borozan Memorial Scholarship in honor of his late father. Over the years he would establish and endow several other scholarships, many (but not all) having to do with athletics. He worked in the school's financial aid office and often found creative ways to get (and/or keep) students in school. There is no way of knowing exactly how many "scholarships" magically appeared out of Sam's back pocket over the years. He would later work for NAU's Alumni Office and then for the athletic department until he finally retired in the 1990s.
Phil Torres: How Human Collapse Could Really Happen (Medium)
Because of science - because warnings that a cataclysmic rupture to human history lies ahead are based on evidence rather than faith and revelation. The freaked out climatologists and ecologists and oceanographers and zoologists are not like Christian pastors obsessed with the rapture. When scientists say that we human beings stand at a uniquely pivotal moment in history - a moment marked by unprecedented threats to our survival and one that demands immediate and profound changes to our way of life - we must take them seriously. There isn't a single problem facing us that isn't solvable. But solvable problems tend not to be solved if there's no solver trying to solve them.
Luke Kelly-Clyne: Lonely Batman Is the Hero We Deserve (Vulture)
Kind of makes you think: If there were superheroes, we'd probably become fairly desensitized to them after the first few city-saving missions. After a while, we might treat them like ordinary celebrities, approaching them for pictures and autographs and, eventually, mocking them for a drunken nightclub parking lot altercation caught by TMZ. One day, they might even become outcasts. Lonely Batman feels like the fruition of that hypothetical. Every frame is a joy. Frankly, you could watch this whole piece with the sound off and still laugh pretty hard. I mean, the friggin' guy's wearing a bat costume in the real world!
Jordan Crucchiola: Taylor Swift Read The Room And Removed The Worst Lyric From 'ME!' (Vulture)
Taylor Swift's "ME!" is not the height of her formidable songwriting powers, and the picture-book simple lyrics hit mid-tier Dreamworks animated feature level when she sings, "Hey, kids! Spelling is fun!" Well, those who purchase the song from iTunes will now find that declarative missing. It's still in the Spotify version of the track, but those putting their hard-earned cash down to actually own the music will now hear "ME!" as Swift and god intended, which is without the erroneous statement that spelling is fun enough to shout about it in an excited voice.
Gary Saul Morson: How the great truth dawned (New Criterion)
Russians revere literature more than anyone else in the world. When Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina was being serialized, Dostoevsky, in a review of its latest installment, opined that "at last the existence of the Russian people has been justified." It is hard to imagine Frenchmen or Englishmen, let alone Americans, even supposing that their existence required justification; but if they did, they would surely not point to a novel. Would we mention the iPhone? But to Russians Dostoevsky's comment appeared unremarkable.
Comicsgate (Wikipedia)
Comicsgate is a campaign in opposition to perceived "forced diversity" and progressivism in the content of North American superhero comic books and the kinds of creators who work in the industry; such as the "All New, All Different" campaign undertaken by Marvel Comics. The name is derived from Gamergate, a similar movement related to video games. Participants argue that "forced diversity" occurs in both hiring and comics content, and that this has led to a decline in sales.
Aunt Bee and Clara Johnson are both canning homemade pickles. Clara's are so good she's won the blue ribbon at the fair eleven years counting while Aunt Bee's taste like they've been floating in kerosene.
Aunt Bee is a wonderful cook but she just can't seem to make a tasty pickle. She's at it again, though, putting up another batch for the boys, who have never had the heart to tell her they taste terrible.
Rather than choke down any more of her "kerosene cucumbers", Andy, Barney, and Opie substitute good store-bought pickles for her bad homemade ones. Having lost to Clara Johnson in the best pickles contest at the fair eleven years in a row, Bee thinks her latest batch is a winner and decides to enter. Knowing it would be unfair to the other contestants, especially Clara, for store-bought pickles to be entered, the boys must eat every one of the substitutes so Aunt Bee will have to make another batch of her own for the contest.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Aunt Bee's pickles supposedly tasted like they had been floating kerosene.
Alan J answered:
Kerosene.
Randall wrote:
kerosene
zorch said:
Aunt Bee's pickles tasted like kerosene.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Pickles taste like kerosene
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
Aunt Bee's pickles tasted like kerosene.
Deborah wrote:
I'll be darned if I know - that wasn't a show I regularly watched. Although, as one who makes various kinds of pickles (dill, bread & butter, green tomatoes, green beans) I'm curious about the answer.
Celebrating 38 years being married to the same man today. I made him fancy coffee and served it to him in bed. We have nothing fancy planned, just like our many years together - and it's a good life.
Dave in Tucson replied:
Aunt Bee's pickles were considered to taste like....s**t, I don't know!
How were her brownies? :-)
Daniel in The City said:
Kerosene
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
The answer is: Aunt Bee's pickles taste like they've been floating in kerosene.
DJ Useo answered:
Kerosene! Hahaha! It's also funny you asked that, as I haven't watched that show since last night. How timely.
George M. responded:
Marty, I've watched enough episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" to know that Aunt Bee's pickles have the taste of kerosene - hence, Barney's nickname for them, "kerosene cucumbers"!
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
Kerosene
Cal in Vermont said:
Kerosene.
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• Opera tenor Luciana Pavarotti made an unsuccessful movie titled Yes, Giorgio. Perhaps it was unsuccessful because Mr. Pavarotti was known for his voice (and his weight), not for his acting. According to Hollywood lore, Kate Jackson of Charlie's Angels fame almost signed up to co-star with Mr. Pavarotti, but singer/actress Cher advised her, "Never, never, ever do a movie where you can't get your arms around your romantic lead."
• Tenor Luciano Pavarotti became quite fat late in his career, and people sometimes would ask him what he weighed. His usual reply was, "Less than before." Occasionally, people would want to know what his "before" weight had been. Mr. Pavarotti would then reply, "More than now."
• Jimmy Dorsey was a fabulous jazz musician but not always very good at communicating orally. On Bing Crosby's radio show, Mr. Dorsey once introduced an overweight opera star in this way: "And now we bring you that great opera steer …."
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• When Sarah Caldwell began working at Tanglewood, a music venue in Massachusetts, she worked very hard because she was afraid that she might be fired (and because she always worked hard). One opera set designer had been fired because he had not given 200 percent - his sets were not finished on time. Ms. Caldwell did not want that to happen to her. In fact, she worked such long hours that she did not have time to attend the Tanglewood concerts. This worried her because rumor had it that the bigwigs kept track of who attended concerts and who did not. In fact, when Ms. Caldwell attended her first concert, the biggest wig of all, Serge Koussevitzky, said to her, "Caldwell, how nice to see you at a concert!" She worried about this, and she attended a second concert, and Dr. Koussevitzky said to her, "So, Caldwell, you have come to another concert!" A little later, she said to him, "Dr. Koussevitzky, there is just one thing wrong with Tanglewood." She then explained that she did not know how she could give 200 percent and still find time to attend concerts. Dr. Koussevitzky hugged her and replied, "I never want to see you at another concert." By the way, when Ms. Caldwell began studying at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, her father gave her some good advice. She wrote in her autobiography, "He suggested that I major in professors. He said that if I found a wonderful, brilliant professor, it wouldn't make any difference what he was teaching. I should learn from him, try to determine how his mind worked, what he considered important, how he behaved, and how he reacted."
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart used to work for Hieronymus von Colloredo, an archbishop; however, they did not respect each other. The archbishop treated Mozart badly and did not pay him well; in return, Mozart called the archbishop an "archbooby." When Mozart's opera Idomeneo became a success in 1781, he decided to leave the archbishop's employ. They had a loud argument, and Mozart's employment ended. As a final humiliation, the archbishop's secretary kicked Mozart in the seat of his pants.
• As a young singer, conductor Richard Tauber especially liked to sing the role of Narraboth in Salome because the character is killed 20 minutes into the opera, then dragged off stage. This meant that he could leave the theater early and catch the last showing of a movie if he wished. Unfortunately, during one performance, the guards forgot to drag him off stage, so he was forced to lie on the stage, breathing shallowly for an extra 90 minutes.
• Sometimes, it doesn't pay to lie. Early in her career, to get a job in show business, Grace Moore decided to lie. Therefore, she went to the Packard Agency. When the manager asked Ms. Moore about her experience, she brazenly answered that she had been performing in the operetta The Lilac Domino on a West Coast tour. The manager looked her right in the eyes and said, "That ain't so, for that's our company."
• As an immigrant in Paris, Henny Youngman's father made a living as a professional applauder for opera performers. Any opera singer who wanted to be sure of making a hit could hire as many professional applauders as he or she felt was needed to ensure being called back for an encore. (Some professional applauders also made money by specializing in crying at sad numbers or laughing at happy ones.)
• Two of the giants of opera are tenors Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. Mr. Domingo actually has a double career in music; he often conducts. One day, after Mr. Domingo had conducted a concert, he said to Mr. Pavarotti, "It's wonderful to have this double career. Why don't you try it, Luciano?" Mr. Pavarotti replied, "What, with a voice like mine?"
• As a young man, English tenor Walter Midgley worked as a clerk at an iron and steel works, picking up extra money during his off-time by singing. He was so successful at this that he drove a better car than one of the directors, who wondered for a while if the young clerk might be getting his extra money through such extra-curricular activities as burglaries.
• Musicians can get tired of playing the same music - even great music - over and over throughout an opera season. Critic Patrick J. Smith remembers seeing a musician at the end of a performance of Götterdämmerung lean over and kiss the last page of the score.
The raccoons got into the newly potted passiflora last night.
Dumped some, tore up others. Grrrrrrr.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS fills the night with LIVE'NFL Preseason Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 7/29/19) are Idris Elba, Maude Apatow, and Perry Farrell.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 7/29/19) are Jeff Goldblum, Andie MacDowell, and Bishop Briggs.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 5/24/19) are Dana Carvey, Emily Ratajkowski, and Chloe Hilliard.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 8/13/19) are Jake Tapper, MJ Rodriguez, and Nate Smith.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 9/12/18) are Sanaa Lathan, Jaime Wyatt, and Science Fair.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'American Housewife', followed by a RERUN'Fresh Off The Boat', then 'What Would You Do>', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 8/13/19) are Henry Winkler, Roselyn Sanchez, and Daniel Caesar.
The CW offers a FRESH'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a FRESH'The Big Stage', then a RERUN'Hypnotize Me'.
Faux has a RERUN'BH90210', followed by a RERUN'MasterChef'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Ghostbusters', followed by the movie 'Ghostbusters II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Lost and Found
[7:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 8-Tunguska
[8:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 9-Terma
[9:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 11-El Mundo Gira
[10:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 12-Leonard Betts
[11:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 13-Never Again
[12:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 14-Memento Mori
[1:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 15-Kaddish
[2:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 16-Unrequited
[3:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 17-Tempus Fugit
[3:59PM] CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS (2004)
[6:00PM] THE CABLE GUY The Cable Guy (1996)
[8:02PM] ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE (1994)
[9:58PM] ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS (1995)
[12:00AM] ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE (1994)
[1:56AM] ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS (1995)
[3:58AM] THE CABLE GUY (1996) (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas', followed by the movie 'Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family'.
Comedy Central has 2½ hours of old 'The Office', followed by 'The Comedy Central Roast Of James Franco'.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon', followed by the movie 'Taken 3'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Declassified', 'Ancient Aliens', then a FRESH'The UnXplained'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Back to the Woods
[6:05A] The Three Stooges - Three Sappy People
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - Uncivil Warriors
[7:00A] Wayne's World
[9:00A] Wayne's World 2
[11:00A] The Campaign
[1:00P] Office Space
[3:00P] That '70s Show - Spread Your Wings
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Son & Daughter
[4:00P] That '70s Show - Keep Yourself Alive
[4:30P] That '70s Show - My Fairy King
[5:00P] That '70s Show - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
[5:30P] That '70s Show - We Will Rock You
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - Gorp. Fnark. Schmegle.
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Captain Terry's Spray-On Hair
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - That's Why They Call It Ball Room
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - Warning, It's Dirty
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - Fart Jokes, Pie and Celeste
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - Yay, No Polyps!
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - Crude and Uncalled For
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - Aye, Aye, Captain
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Tinkle Like a Princess
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - I Found Your Mustache
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - Ixnay on the Oggie Day
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - Keith Moon Is Vomiting in His Grave
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - The Squat and the Hover
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - Those Fancy Japanese Toilets
[1:00A] That '70s Show - Spread Your Wings
[1:30A] That '70s Show - Son & Daughter
[2:00A] That '70s Show - Keep Yourself Alive
[2:30A] That '70s Show - My Fairy King
[3:00A] That '70s Show - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
[3:30A] Sherman's Showcase - The Ladies of The Showcase
[4:00A] Sherman's Showcase - Enemies
[4:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Playhouse in Outer-Space
[5:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Pajama Party
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Reba Eats and Pterri Runs (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Law & Order
[3:00am] No One Saw a Thing - Cycle of Violence
[4:00am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show
[4:35am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show
[5:10am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show
[5:45am] The Mary Tyler Moore Show
[6:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:40am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:50am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:25am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] Exiled: A Law & Order Movie
[1:00pm] Law & Order
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] Law & Order
[3:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[3:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:55am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2', followed by the movie 'Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters', then a FRESH'Killjoys'.
Greenland, a country few thought about before President Trump said he'd like to buy it, is dominating the news. That's particularly true since the current owners - the country of Denmark - took great umbrage at the President's ad-hoc offer, deeming it "absurd" in their official comment.
Of course, whether or not Greenland is a good buy is something that only the experts really know. So it is that Conan O'Brien said tonight that he is in favor of the purchase, but would travel to Greenland as part of his "Conan Without Borders" feature segment to "kick the tires" on the country and see if it would indeed be worth the investment, should the Danes have a change of heart and it comes on the market.
Before he does that, though, the cautious Conan decided to get some advice from two of television's leading real estate experts - brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott of HGTV's The Property Brothers, who specialize in transforming under-valued and awkward houses into palaces through their renovation magic.
Jonathan Scott, the construction side of the brothers, made several suggestions to improve the barren land. "I would like to take out this glacier to get a more open concept, and maybe knock out this mountain to get more natural light coming in from the north side."
He had one more bit of advice: "If you buy Greenland, buy Iceland as well. It would make a terrific mother-in-law suite."
While many fans have rallied behind Disney in the wake of reports that talks had broken down between the company and Sony over future Spider-Man films, at least one person is standing behind Sony - Stan Lee's daughter.
In a statement to TMZ, Joan Lee said Marvel and Disney need to be "checked and balanced" as they seek total control of her father's creations.
"Whether it's Sony or someone else's, the continued evolution of Stan's characters and his legacy deserves multiple points of view," she said. While legendary comic book writer Lee created the Spider-Man character for Marvel comics in the 1960s, Sony has owned the film rights to the character for about two decades.
"When my father died, no one from Marvel or Disney reached out to me," Lee said. "From day one, they have commoditized my father's work and never shown him or his legacy any respect or decency. In the end, no one could have treated my father worse than Marvel and Disney's executives."
Former White House Press Secretary Spokesliar Sarah Sanders (R-Fabulist), who once sparred with journalists, has decided to join them.
Fox News said Thursday that Sanders has been hired to provide political commentary and analysis across all its properties, including Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network and the radio and podcast division.
Sanders was press secretary for President Don-Old Trump (R-Corrupt) from July 2017 through June 2019, quarreling with reporters who aggressively questioned her about any number of controversies involving the president.
In a statement, Sanders says she is "beyond proud" to join Fox. She will make her debut on "Fox & Friends" on Sept. 6.
US toymaker Hasbro announced Thursday that it is acquiring studio Entertainment One, which owns popular cartoon series "Peppa Pig" among other children's content, for approximately $4 billion.
Under the all-cash transaction, Entertainment One shareholders will receive 5.6 pounds ($6.86) per share, according to a statement from Hasbro.
In addition to Peppa Pig, the popular swine with a British accent who loves jumping in muddy puddles, the purchase includes the successful children's cartoon "PJ Masks," about a trio of young friends who become superheroes at night.
Hasbro is additionally banking on the success of the launch of yet another Entertainment One character, Ricky Zoom, a little red rescue bike, which it calls a "unique storyline with highly merchandisable content."
The cartoon will launch on September 9 on US children's network Nickelodeon, and in other major markets.
A new report from the nonpartisan non-profit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) shows that President Trump (R-Grifter) has more than 2,300 conflicts of interest since he's taken office - and counting. The conflicts stem from the president's ties to his businesses, despite his claim that he divested when he took office.
According to the study, the president "has created an environment where the actions of his administration, and those trying to influence it, can benefit the globe-spanning real-estate and branding empire that he still profits from." The report highlights over 2,300 specific conflicts of interest, but makes a point to note that the conflicts of interest that Trump has created are "at some level immeasurable."
CREW spokesman Jordan Libowitz says that the figures CREW has compiled could, in reality, be higher. "There is quite possibly many things that we have not been able to see," he told Yahoo Finance, adding that it's "an unfathomable amount."
"Presidents from both parties went out of their way not to have conflicts of interest," he said. "This is a president who seems to be courting conflicts of interest," noting that both Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush (resident George W. Bush also divested) put all their money in a blind trust, "so there was no way they could be influenced by what they owned business-wise."
When Trump became president, he created a revocable and non-blind trust. He's allowed to remove money from it with permission of the trustee - his son, Donald Trump, Jr. - meaning that the president can still draw on the profits made by the business.
Six people aged 62 to 85 have been arrested after police officers went into the woods to watch them having sex.
The group was arrested in a conservation area in Fairfield, Connecticut, which is some 87 acres in size.
Police said they had found posts online advertising the Grace Richardson environmental preserve as somewhere to meet and have sex, according to the Associated Press news agency.
They allegedly spotted the group of five men and one woman committing a number of breaches of the law before moving in, AP reported.
The six now face charges including public indecency and breaching the peace. They were released after promising to appear in court.
A team of German scientists has used a combination of cutting-edge physics techniques to virtually "unfold" an ancient Egyptian papyrus, part of an extensive collection housed in the Berlin Egyptian Museum. Their analysis revealed that a seemingly blank patch on the papyrus actually contained characters written in what had become "invisible ink" after centuries of exposure to light.
Most of the papyri in the collection were excavated around 1906 by an archaeologist named Otto Rubensohn, on Elephantine Island, near the city of Aswan. They've been gathering dust in storage for much of the ensuing decades, and because they are so fragile, more than 80% of the text within remains undeciphered. "Today, much of this papyrus has aged considerably, so the valuable texts can easily crumble if we try to unfold or unroll them," said co-author Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin. That makes noninvasive imaging methods essential to the project.
In 2016, an international team of scientists developed a method for "virtually unrolling" a badly damaged ancient scroll found on the western shore of the Dead Sea, revealing the first few verses from the book of Leviticus. The so-called En Gedi scroll was recovered from the ark of an ancient synagogue destroyed by fire around 600 CE. To the naked eye, it resembled a small lump of charcoal, so fragile that there was no safe way to analyze the contents. The team's approach combined digital scanning with micro-computed tomography-a noninvasive technique often used for cancer imaging-with segmentation to digitally create pages, augmented with texturing and flattening techniques. Then they developed software (Volume Cartography) to virtually unroll the scroll.
The artifacts analyzed by the German team were made of a different material, and hence a different approach was needed to uncover the hidden text. "The En Gedi scroll is parchment," said Mahnke. "We are dealing with papyrus." Papyrus is produced from the stems of the plant in two layers, perpendicular in the direction of the fiber, he noted. The varying thickness of the base writing material can make it harder to identify script. Also, the papyri he and his colleagues studied were folded along orthogonal lines, rather than rolled up, so that the objects took up the least amount of space. "Mathematically, a scroll is a roll, topologically identical whether it's a nicely rolled cylinder or heavily distorted," said Mahnke. A folded papyrus doesn't have that advantage.
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of August 21, 2019:
1. The Rolling Stones; $13,544,597; $228.41.
2. BTS; $12,386,483; $121.57.
3. Spice Girls; $9,750,671; $112.13.
4. Ed Sheeran; $7,257,072; $84.53.
5. Pink; $4,610,611; $116.73.
6. Paul McCartney; $4,528,507; $155.88.
7. Dead & Company; $2,725,223; $88.69.
8. Jennifer Lopez; $2,159,753; $137.94.
9. Phish; $2,053,497; $65.24.
10. Ariana Grande; $1,935,691; $119.03.
11. Michael Bublé; $1,782,078; $111.79.
12. John Mayer; $1,541,503; $107.10.
13. André Rieu; $1,480,762; $90.69.
14. Rod Stewart; $1,427,661; $106.50.
15. Cher; $1,338,225; $108.88.
16. Florida Georgia Line; $1,335,082; $70.92.
17. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band; $1,293,302; $109.15.
18. Elton John; $1,286,929; $114.26.
19. Dave Matthews Band; $1,228,105; $69.35.
20. Hugh Jackman; $1,211,391; $92.07.
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