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Trending on Billboard When the Rodgers family began restoring Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Okla. — roughly eight months after purchasing the dilapidated 1924 building and business — they found handfuls of ticket stubs that read “dime-a-dance.” The tickets dated back to when venue founder Madison Cain opened the space as Cain’s Dance Academy in the 1930s, during which men who lived off Tulsa’s booming oil and gas business would spend 10 cents for a dance lesson taught by a man named Howard Turner. “Turner would hold these dances where he would have women…there to provide dances for men who would buy a 10-cent ticket and come in,” says Chad Rodgers, who currently co-owns Cain’s Ballroom alongside his brother Hunter Rodgers. “Then and the venue would split the proceeds with the women.” Related More than 100 years later, the venue still has a painted sign inside advertising dancing at Cain’s on various nights of the week — and it’s not the only relic that remains. The log cabin-patterned dance floor still bounces as it did in the 1930s on what was rumored to be truck springs under the floorboards. The ballroom walls also boast large sepia-toned portraits of folks like Oliver

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In April, BTS returned to the Boxscore charts with a vengeance, leading the Top Tours chart for the first time in four years with monthly earnings of more than $75 million. In May, they maintain their crown while leveling up. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, BTS grossed $127.8 million and sold 641,000 tickets over 12 shows between May 2-28, repeating as the month’s highest-grossing and best-selling touring act. Further, the group achieves the biggest monthly gross by a group since the chart began in 2019, surpassing The Rolling Stones’ $95 million from August 2019 by 35%. Related This marks BTS’ fourth month at No. 1 on Top Tours, after leading in May 2019 and April 2022, in addition to April of this year. Only five acts have spent more time on top since the chart’s launch in 2019: Bad Bunny, with nine months; Beyoncé, Coldplay, and Elton John, each with seven; and Trans-Siberian Orchestra with five. Of BTS’ four chart-toppers, this is its biggest yet. At $127.8, the group’s May is the fifth biggest monthly gross in the chart’s history, ranked behind three months by Beyoncé and one by Kendrick Lamar & SZA. After opening the Arirang World

Pride Month may officially be winding down, but that doesn’t mean the queer community stops celebrating. For many players, tabletop gaming has become their favorite space to experience and engage with their queer identity. With that has come a growing cohort of LGBT designers and, naturally, games with LGBT themes. While many may think of the big, dramatic games like Thirsty Sword Lesbians, one of the sleeper hits in this genre has been a game with…the name LGBT. Which in this case stands for Longsword, Glock, Bat Taser. Designed by Jonathon Boyle with art by Brighid de Danann, and released by their publishing company Bright Bard Games, the 2024 release has gotten a brand new second edition that funded on Backerkit earlier this month. To learn more about where the game came from and what’s in this new edition, I sat down with Jonathon and Bri for a chat. Dan Arndt: So, tell me the exact origin point for this How do you go from a Tumblr post to something that you thought could be a game  Jonathon Boyle: We transport ourselves back to Pride 2024,  which I believe is 10 years after the original posting of the meme that

When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. Here are some of the best adventure links we’ve discovered this week. A Dozen People Will Spend 8 Months Trapped in Arctic Ice: Next month, 12 scientists and crew members will deliberately freeze themselves into the Arctic sea ice in a custom-built research vessel. They will spend the next eight months drifting. The Tara Polaris I expedition’s goal is to answer biological questions about life in the central Arctic Ocean, from whether fish reproduce beneath the ice to how ecosystems are changing as the region warms. The floating research facility will be the most remote in the world, and though they will be in constant contact with land teams, help will be at least one week away.  Swim parallel or not? Everything You Know About Surviving Rip Currents is Wrong: For decades, beach safety advice has been simple: if you’re caught in a rip current, swim parallel to shore. But research by Jaime MacMahan suggests that guidance isn’t always the safest option. Drawing on years of field experiments, MacMahan argues that many rip currents naturally circulate back toward the beach, meaning staying calm and

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FX is locking down serious star power for its upcoming adaptation of the blockbuster video game franchise. Emmy nominee Lizzy Caplan has officially joined the cast of FX’s highly anticipated Far Cry television series, Variety reports. A Powerhouse Creative Team First announced in late 2025, the series is being spearheaded by a formidable creative duo. Noah Hawley (FX’s Fargo and Alien: Earth) is executive producing via 26 Keys. Hawley is joined by Rob Mac (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), who co-created the series and will star. He will also executive produce under More Better Productions. Mirroring the format of the hit Ubisoft video games, the series will debut as an anthology. It will completely reset cast, setting, and storyline each season. While exact plot details and Caplan’s character are being kept strictly under wraps, fans can expect the franchise’s trademark blend of chaotic survival, lawless frontiers, and larger-than-life villains. The original game, released in 2004, is set on a mysterious, sun-drenched tropical archipelago. The story follows ex-Special Forces operative Jack Carver as he hunts for missing journalist Valerie Constantine. What begins as a straightforward rescue mission rapidly spirals into a brutal fight for survival. Jack is hunted by a ruthless

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Trending on Billboard Imagine a concert bill co-headlined by Michael Jackson and Prince. That’s one example of how principals involved with Usher and Chris Brown’s The R&B Tour (aka Raymond & Brown) are describing the upcoming trek’s level of impact. The superstar duo initially revealed their North America stadium tour via an X post on April 10. Four days later, Live Nation announced a 33-date itinerary. That number has since increased to 51 — and counting, according to a spokesperson. Now, after rehearsals in St. Louis, Usher and Brown will kick off the hotly anticipated tour in Denver on Friday (June 26). Related “Rarely do we see these kinds of combinations,” says Usher’s manager Ron Laffitte, one of the principals whom Billboard spoke to ahead of the tour’s anticipated launch. “We can point to Jay-Z and Kanye ‘Ye’ West’s Watch the Throne or Elton John and Billy Joel coming together. What would Michael Jackson and Prince have looked like? Unfortunately, we never had the blessing of seeing those two share the stage.” He adds, “Bringing these icons of R&B together elevates the entire concert experience, showcasing their singing, performance athleticism and the most incredible song catalogs. The love and respect

PHOTO: Roy C. Barnes, Project Coordinator, Mobile Prostate Screening Program, Winship Cancer Institute and Jo Lahmon, South Region Manager, Cobb County Public Library The Cobb County Public Library distributed the following news release about the success of the eight Winship Mobile Prostate Cancer Screening bus visits: The recently completed series of eight Winship Mobile Prostate Cancer Screening bus visits in May and June to Cobb County Public Library locations resulted in the clinics serving 129 men. Ahead of the final event in the series, organizers were committed to promoting the June 24 South Cobb Regional Library event to push the total significantly above the 100-men-tested milestone – and were successful in getting a community response with 32 men tested during the clinic at the library in Mableton. The screening events for men ages 40-75 – a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test, no physical exam – are organized to eliminate barriers to prostate cancer detection and care, especially for men at high risk. Launched in September, this Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University program is made possible through generous support of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation and in collaboration with Mount Sinai Health System of New York. The South Cobb event occurred