Steve Dietl/Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Following the announcement back in June that Netflix would be the new home to Cobra Kai, the streamer revealed on Monday that season three of the Karate Kid sequel will debut in 2021.
Meanwhile, you can catch every episode from the show’s first two seasons beginning August 28.
Cobra Kai, featuring original Karate Kid stars Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, picks up decades after the original film. Courtney Henggeler, Xolo Maridueña, Tanner Buchanan, Mary Mouser, Jacob Bertrand, Gianni Decenzo, Vanessa Rubio, Peyton List and Martin Kove co-star.
A video announcement promoting the third season recapped the prior installments of the series, but also contained a key bit of new footage: apparerently Mr. Miyagi, the long-dead former sensei of Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso, had kept a secret from him that will be revealed.
Courtesy of Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Will Carole Baskin be joining the cast of Dancing With The Stars? Possibly.
Sources shared with E! News that Baskin, 59, is one of the celebrities in talks to compete for the coveted Mirrorball Trophy on Season 29 of the popular ABC dance competition series.
Baskin gained notoriety after being featured as one of the main subjects in the Netflix docuseries Tiger King andbeing accused of killing her ex-husband by the show’s star, Joe Exotic.
Tiger King aside, she is an animal rights activist and is the CEO of a non-profit animal sanctuary in Florida. She’s also a YouTuber.
Whether or not she will add DWTS contestant to that list remains a mystery, though — but not for long. The entire cast for the upcoming season will be announced on Wednesday, September 2 on Good Morning America.
The only confirmed cast member is former star of ABC’s The Bachelorette, Kaitlyn Bristowe. Sources revealed that other stars in talks of joining are Chrishell Stause (ex of This Is Us star Justin Hartley and star of Netflix’s Selling Sunset), AJ McLean (member of the Backstreet Boys), and Anne Heche (actress known for roles on Quantico and Chicago P.D.).
Cody VillalobosIs there anything more quintessentially country than a drinking song inspired by your mama?
In any case, it’s a feat Justin Moore‘s accomplished, as “Why We Drink” becomes his ninth number-one hit.
It all started one evening as Justin and his wife were out to dinner with his parents.
“It was taking awhile to get… our meal, and I had ordered two or three beer[s] before the food even got there,” he explains. “And my mom just simply looked at me, and she goes, ‘Why do you drink so much?'”
“Now she’s drinking a margarita at the time, mind you,” Justin adds. “But anyway, it gave me the idea to write this song.”
The moment of genius came when Justin took the idea to the man behind “Dust on the Bottle.”
“I threw out this idea and David Lee Murphy… said, ‘Because it’s Friday, because it’s Monday, because my team lost, because my team won,'” Justin recalls. “I go, ‘That’s it! That’s how to do it.'”
“And we wrote it probably, in honestly, twenty-five minutes. It was one of those that just kind of fell out. And those don’t come along very often, but certainly we welcome them when they do,” he laughs.
Now all that’s left is for Justin to settle up with his mother.
“I didn’t give her any writing credit,” he admits, “but I’m gonna have to give her a plaque or buy her a purse or something. Out of her and my dad, she’s the one I got my little bit of wild nature from, so she’s gotten a kick out of it.”
You can spot Charlene Moore giving Justin her seal of approval, as she makes a cameo in the “Why We Drink” music video.
(NEW YORK) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dedicated the East River State Park in Brooklyn to Marsha P. Johnson, making it country’s first state park to honor an LGBTQ person, according to the state.
Cuomo made the announcement on Monday, on what would have been the transgender civil rights icon’s 75th birthday.
“I’m proud to announce the dedication of East River State Park in Brooklyn to #MarshaPJohnson. Today, Marsha P. Johnson State Park becomes the first State Park to honor an LGBTQ person,” Cuomo tweeted. “NY is indebted to her for her brave advocacy and relentless fight for LGBTQ equality.”
The state plans to improve the park’s facilities and install public art celebrating Johnson’s life and her role in the advancement of LGBTQ rights, according to a statement, which called the move the largest investment in the park’s history.
Johnson, an early and outspoken advocate for transgernder women of color, is widely credited with helping instigate the Stonewall uprising in 1969.
New York City police officers raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, on June 28, 1969, to enforce a discriminatory law that made it illegal to serve alcohol to gay people. Johnson and others fought back, helping spawn the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement.
Johnson founded the Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries (STAR) — a group aimed at helping homeless transgender youth — before she died tragically at the age of 46 in 1992, when her body was found floating in the Hudson River. Her death was initially ruled a suicide, but police reopened the investigation in 2012 amid calls from her family, who claimed foul play.
Gov. Cuomo said the state wanted to honor Johnson’s work to make sure that her memory lives on forever.
“Too often, the marginalized voices that have pushed progress forward in New York and across the country go unrecognized, making up just a fraction of our public memorials and monuments,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Marsha P. Johnson was one of the early leaders of the LGBTQ movement, and is only now getting the acknowledgement she deserves. Dedicating this state park for her, and installing public art telling her story, will ensure her memory and her work fighting for equality lives on.”
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul said that the current social climate made this the right time to honor Johnson, who she called an “LGBTQ hero.”
“With the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, now more than ever we must continue the fight for LGBTQ equality and racial justice in our society,” Hochul said. “We have come a long way with the passage of GENDA [the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act] and legalizing gestational surrogacy, but we still have more work to do to combat division and hate and achieve true equality for all.”
The park’s dedication comes as protesters across the country call on institutions to confront long-standing systemic racism and discrimination.
Last year, New York Police Department Commissioner James O’Neill apologized for the violent Stonewall raid amid mounting pressure from local politicians and leaders.
“I’m certainly not going to be an expert of what happened at Stonewall. I do know what happened should not have happened,” O’Neill said at the department’s inaugural pride safety briefing last June. “The actions taken by the NYPD were wrong, plain and simple.”
ABC News’ Tony Morrison contributed to this report.
(WASHINGTON) — Firefighters battling a barrage of ferocious wildfires across California say they got a break from the weather when a forecasted dry lightning storm in the northern part of the state failed to materialize overnight. That gave them a chance to make progress in containing the three biggest conflagrations.
“Mother Nature’s helped us quite a bit,” said Billy See, an incident commander for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, aka Cal Fire.
Firefighters were able to increase containment lines around the so-called CZU Lightning Complex fire — multiple blazes in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, south of San Francisco — from 5% to 13% overnight and into Monday. They are working Monday to keep flames from reaching nearby freeways. CZU fire has burned 78,000 acres and destroyed 163 structures.
North of San Francisco, firefighters battling the LNU Lightning Complex and the CSU Lightning Complex fires, now ranked No. 2 and No. 3 respectively on the list of all-time biggest wildfires in California, were also able to make progress in their efforts to bring the blazes under control.
“The predicted weather that we were expecting overnight did not produce the lightning that we were expecting. This is great news,” said Shana Jones, the Cal Fire unit chief assigned to the LNU fire, said at a news conference on Monday.
The LNU conflagration — comprised of multiple blazes, some of which have merged — has already burned more than 350,000 acres across Sonoma, Napa, Lake, Yolo and Solano counties and was 22% contained on Monday, up from 17% on Sunday, according to Cal Fire. The fire has destroyed 871 residential and commercial structures and damaged another 234, according to Cal Fire.
Farther south, near San Francisco, the SCU Lightning Complex fire, also made up of multiple blazes, has scorched nearly 347,000 acres in Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties. The fire, which has destroyed or damaged 24 residential and commercial structures, was 10% contained as of Monday, the same as it was on Sunday, according to Cal Fire.
The promising news from the front lines of the conflagrations was tempered by the death toll from the fires throughout the state, rising to seven over the weekend.
Chief Sean Kavanaugh, the Cal Fire incident commander on the LNU blaze, said the latest victim to perish was a man whose body was found Sunday on a road in Solano County where the LNU fire swept through.
“Our condolences go out to the family and friends of that individual in Solano County,” said Kavanaugh, adding that five deaths have now been linked to the LNU fire.
A 70-year-old man was also found dead over the weekend in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where the CZU fire is burning, according to Cal Fire.
Meanwhile, Cal Fire officials said on Monday that some of the more than 100,000 people evacuated during the fires are being allowed to return to their homes.
More than 1.4 million acres have burned in California since Aug. 15, according to Jones.
“That is a little more than the state of Delaware,” she said.
During a news conference on Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said that at this stage last year, the state had 42 wildfires that burned about 56,000 acres.
Newsom said there have been 7,000 wildfires already this year in California and there are still several months left in the fire season, which runs through October.
Cal Fire officials said there are at least two dozen fires simultaneously burning throughout the state. At least 14,000 firefighters, including crews from Washington and Oregon, were battling the flames from the ground and air, officials said.
Other fires include the River Fire, just east of Salinas in Monterey County, that has burned nearly 50,000 acres, injured four people, destroyed or damaged 30 commercial and residential structures. The fire was 23% contained on Monday, up from 15% on Sunday.
In Southern California, firefighters have nearly extinguished the Apple Fire in the Cherry Valley of Riverside County, according to Cal Fire. The blaze, which ignited July 31, was 95% contained on Monday after burning more than 33,400 acres and destroying four structures.
In the Santa Clarita Valley of Los Angeles County, the Lake Fire, which started on Aug. 17 in the Angeles National Forest near Lake Hughes, was 62% contained on Monday, up from 52% on Sunday, after burning nearly 32,000 acres, officials said.
Steve Dietl/Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Following the announcement back in June that Netflix would be the new home to Cobra Kai, the streamer revealed on Monday that season three of the Karate Kid sequel will debut in 2021. 
