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Over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend in the Nation’s Capital, Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment held the first ever “DC in D.C.” event, bringing together the stars and creators of television and comics to celebrate and honor the diversity of the DC Universe’s superheroes. We also finally announce a Patreon and ask you for your support!

The Nerds of Color was lucky enough to get invited to participate, along with our friends from Joe and Patrick from New Release Wednesday, pictured above. So for this special 100th episode of Hard NOC Life, we’re giving you the sounds from the press room where we got to speak with Chris Chalk, who plays Lucius Fox on Gotham; David Harewood, who plays Martian Manhunter on Supergirl; Salim and Mara Brock Akil, the creators and showrunners of Black Lightning, novelist Alice Randall and artist Denys Cowan, who are both working to bring Milestone 2.0 back to comics; Brandon Routh, who plays Ray Palmer/The Atom on Legends of Tomorrow, Cress Williams, who plays Jefferson Pierec/Black Lightning on Black Lightning; and Oscar-winner John Ridley, who is writing The Other History of the DC Universe.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently sat down with Nina Totenberg at Sundance to discuss her career, her life, and an upcoming film about her. As part of the discussion, Totenberg asked what Ginsburg thought about her periodic portrayal by Kate McKinnon on Saturday Night Live. “I liked the actress who portrayed me,” Ginsburg said, “and I would like to say ‘Gins-Burn’ sometimes to my colleagues.” Hearing RBG imitate McKinnon’s signature drawl is exactly the smile I needed today. You can see Ginsburg’s impression at either around the 58:40 mark in the above video or in the tweeted video below.

“I liked the actress who portrayed me (Kate McKinnon) and I would like to say “Gins-burn” sometimes to my colleagues.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg #SNL pic.twitter.com/10opnFf2wJ

— Kate McKinnon News (@UpdatedMcKinnon) January 21, 2018

• You can watch the premiere of Black Lightning FOR FREE on the CW app (if you live in certain regions).
  

  See #BlackLightning in action on the series premiere for FREE now: https://t.co/VOJ8Ja85nw pic.twitter.com/LpWIjOX5yh

  — Black Lightning (@blacklightning) January 21, 2018

• Illustrator and cartoonist Joamette Gil has put together a list of everyone who has ever been nominated for the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. She calculated that, of the 212 total people who’ve been nominated so far, only 18 have been women, of which 3 were women of color. You can see the names of the inductees and nominees at her website.
• Hot Toys has a new figure of Henry Cavill’s Superman from Justice League., and his eyes light up with terrifying red LEDs to simulate heat vision. (via Nerdist)
• Disney has chosen Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, director of 28 Weeks Later, to direct its live-action remake of The Sword in the Stone. So that cheery, colorful cartoon you remember might be gettin’ real gritty this time around. (via /Film)
• Alas, Jason from The Good Place‘s beloved Jaguars will not be headed to the Super Bowl this year.
  

  THIS IS THE BAD PLACE. #JAXvsNE pic.twitter.com/b5enfU1EKd

  — The Jaguars ARE STILL Quite Good Place (@nbcthegoodplace) January 21, 2018

That’s all I’ve got for today, TMSers! What’d you spy out there?

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Shawn “Jay Z” Carter’s 4:44 album has gotten a lot of buzz since it debuted this past summer, with themes of black economic empowerment, celebrity family feuds, infidelity, and social injustice becoming hot topics of discussion among fans and critics. (The album even inspired a financial fitness book by Ash “Cash” Exantus, a 2017 pick for BE Modern Man and financial literacy advocate who has created quite a buzz of his own.)

The momentum for 4:44 hasn’t stopped. According to reports, despite slow ticket sales, it was the highest-grossing solo tour, raking in more than $48 million in November and December for the 32-show tour.

Last year, Jay Z used a “slow ticketing model,” according to Billboard, “blocking out bots and scalpers that instantly buy up tickets by pricing premium tickets higher and closer to their actual value.” Lower-priced $6 tickets were being sold on sites like StubHub for less desirable seats. The result: When aggressive pricing is applied to front-row seats, VIP experiences, and platinum tickets, ticket resellers are faced with a major challenge because those tickets are closer to the actual market value—a major win for Jay Z and Live Nation in terms of capturing more revenue and creating little opportunity for brokers to hike up ticket prices for the best seats.

Some saw the low-priced tickets as a sign of soft interest in the tour but the rapper, along with Live Nation, has proven skeptics wrong with the latest gross earnings. Billboard also reports that average gross for the 4:44 Tour’s completed shows is up 21% over his 2013 Magna Carter Tour. Platinum-selling artists including Radiohead, the Weeknd, One Direction, and U2 have all presented sellout shows using the slow-ticketing model.

Jay Z’s use of the model comes as yet another major boss move the hip-hop mogul has made in the past year, having just cut another 10-year Live Nation deal that mostly covers his tour business and has reportedly shifted away from the full 360 model initially brokered. He also joined the likes of Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds and Berry Gordy when he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (with recorded congrats from former President Obama himself). And 2018 began with wins: The $810-million music industry leader was honored this month with four NAACP Image Award nominations, including one for “Entertainer of the Year,” and another for “Outstanding Album” for 4:44.

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Juliet, Naked is a hilarious adaptation of Nick Hornsby’s book that centers on a quirky man’s obsession with one rockstar that hinders a romantic relationship. Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke) is a rockstar who ghosted from the limelight decades ago for seemingly no reason. He creates a breakup album called “Juliet,” about a brief tryst he [...]

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