Let’s get it! Let’s gooooo!! We’re headed to VEGAS for a brand new residency at Park Theater at Park MGM April 1 – 18!! CITI presale starts Monday, 1/27 at 10AM PT???? pic.twitter.com/ZtSRlbhuhh

— Jonas Brothers (@jonasbrothers) January 24, 2020

WEST SIDE STORY reborn. The New York Times gets inside  the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.

OLYMPIC hopeful Jack Wooley says some opponents refused to shake his hand after coming out as bi.

While speaking to Extra.ie, the athlete has opened up about facing discrimination from fellow athletes, claiming some won’t shake his hand. He said: “It is tough, my sport. A lot of the top athletes would be Muslim, so you can’t be too open about it. I have had some opponents who wouldn’t shake my hand and I’m just thinking, ‘You need to cop on’. Some have, though. One of the top fighters in the world came up to shake my hand after I won the European silver. I appreciated that.”

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HIV Why do some men with HIV mistakenly believe they’re not contagious? Reuters reports, “Most men with HIV know whether they have enough of the virus in their blood to make them contagious, but a new study suggests one in five may mistakenly think they can’t spread the virus even when they can. For the study, researchers examined survey data from 314 HIV-positive men who have sex with men and were in relationships with HIV-negative partners. Participants got blood tests to see if they had undetectable viral levels: so little virus in their blood that it can’t be found in lab tests or transmitted to partners.

When asked, 72.5% of men accurately reported whether they were virally suppressed, with HIV at undetectable levels, or not. Most men who knew their status, 62.5% of the participants, said they were virally suppressed and this was confirmed by blood tests done as part of the study. Another 10% of men had lab work confirming their self-report that they were not virally suppressed, and were therefore contagious.

But one in five men said they were virally suppressed and had blood tests showing this wasn’t true. Another 7.5% of men said they were contagious, but based on lab tests done during the study, they were not.

These results suggest some HIV-positive men may not fully understand the public health message that “undetectable equals untransmittable,” or U=U, said lead study author Rob Stephenson of the Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

“U=U is a major advance in prevention science,” Stephenson said by email. “We know it works – virally suppressed men will not transmit HIV – but for U=U to work requires men to (know) whether they are virally suppressed.”

CAPTAIN MARVEL 2 should introduce Rogue & Mystique to the MCU. CBR says, “The newly announced Captain Marvel 2 is expected to continue Carol Danvers’ adventures following the events of Avengers: Endgame.

Many expect the film to entangle Carol once again with the Kree or some extra-terrestrial threat, but there’s a possibility that Captain Marvel 2 will explore one of the hero’s most iconic stories from the ’80s, one that involves the X-Men Rogue. During the ’80s, Carol, then Ms. Marvel, was written by Chris Claremont, most famous for his run on The Uncanny X-Men. During his tenure, Claremont introduced two characters who he’d later bring into his run on X-Men: Mystique and Rogue. In order to weave his multiple characters together, Mystique went from being a Ms. Marvel adversary to an X-Men one, but not before Rogue did something that would forever alter both her and Carol’s characters: she absorbed Carol’s powers.”

THIS.

THE BATMAN What do you want to see in the highly anticipated movie?

With some stills released.

Is this London or Gotham…..?
Filming The Batman ???? outside my offices this morning! ???? @empiremagazine pic.twitter.com/Mszt5wLcYG

— Wade Gravett (@WadeGrav) January 6, 2020

Boba Talks says, “As we get further into the production of The Batman, directed by Matt Reeves starring Robert Pattinson, I talk about what I want to see from the movie. The Batman movie has tapped The Penguin in Colin Farrell and Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth!. So far in the casting process it’s Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, James Gordon/Commissioner Gordon as Jeffery Wright and Pau Dano as The Riddler. The Batman  also will reportedly feature Firefly alongside Pattinson’s Batman. Also potentially includes The Mad Hatter, and Harvey Dent/Two Face.