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At first, Richard Gordon didn't believe it.

Free tickets to Thursday's Beyoncé concert for some of the hardworking students at Robeson High, where he is principal?

"It sounded too good to be true. It wasn't. It's amazing," said Gordon, whose West Philadelphia public school enrolls 300 students.

In fact, the entertainment company Live Nation gave the Philadelphia School District enough tickets to allow 68 high schools to send a number of deserving teens.

How many tickets?

"A lot," spokesman Kevin Geary said.

Principals were given the tickets to distribute as they saw fit to seniors - Gordon chose honor students and English-language learners who had made great strides.

The giveaway has been in the works for months, but "it's not something that they wanted to publicize," Geary said.

Joining celebrity investors like Snoop Dogg, Ashton Kutcher, and Justin Bieber, Queen Bey is bringing her supreme business skills to the tech world. Beyoncé and the management company she started called Parkwood Entertainment have invested $150,000 into Sidestep, an app for buying concert merchandise and skipping the line to pick it up at the show.

Sidestep originally started selling t-shirts and posters for Beyoncé on her Formation World Tour. But after two weeks of seeing its success, Beyoncé and Parkwood invested in Sidestep’s seed round of funding.

Sidestep CEO Eric Jones tells me they “wanted Beyoncé’s tour to be very focused on tech”, and liked the idea of “a tiny scrappy startup doing the biggest tour in the world.”

Beyoncé previously invested in WTRMLN WTR, a watermelon beverage company, and is believed to have ties to juicing machine maker Juicero. With her investment in Sidestep, though, she could directly help artists earn more money.

Say hello to the Ivy Park Fall/Winter 2016 collection.

UTSA students enrolled in a new English course titled "Black Women, Beyoncé & Popular Culture" are delving into a raw, semester-long analysis of the singer's 2016 audiovisual project, "Lemonade," and its relativity to "black feminism."

In her course description, Professor Kinitra Brooks refers to Beyoncé's latest work as a "movement" and "meditation on contemporary black womanhood," which she chose to base her lessons on this fall.

The class meets three times a week and is sectioned into themes based off the album's tracks, kicking off with "Formation" and ending in December with "All Night."

"The purpose of this class is to explore the theoretical, historical, and literary frameworks of black feminism," Brooks explained in the class syllabus.

Though the idea of analyzing one of 2016's most popular releases is interesting many Roadrunners, Brooks warns students via the class syllabus that the curriculum, worth 3 credit hours, will force them to work harder "than ever before," as she will not "sugarcoat" her tone but will provoke thoughts outside of their comfort zones.

Beyonce leads the nominations for this year's MTV Europe Music Awards, earning a total of five nods. Make sure to support her and vote!

Best Video
Beyoncé – “Formation”
Coldplay – “Up&Up”
Kanye West – “Famous”
Tame Impala – “The Less I Know the Better”
The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk – “Starboy”

Best Female
Adele
Beyoncé
Lady Gaga
Rihanna
Sia

Beyonce performed during the Formation World Tour at Georgia Dome on Monday, September 26, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Before the last night's show in Atlanta, Beyonce had a rehearsal where she performed "6 Inch"!

Behind the scenes at the Formation World Tour's stop in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Beyonce and her family attended the Chicago Bears vs. Dallas Cowboys game at AT&T Stadium on September 25 in Dallas. Watch fan videos on Twitter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Film zamieszczony przez użytkownika Tina Knowles (@mstinalawson) 25 Wrz, 2016 o 6:48 PDT

Beyonce was spotted yesterday in New Orleans.

Beyonce performed during the Formation World Tour at Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Saturday, September 24, 2016, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A moving fan testimonial from The Formation World Tour's stop in Seattle.

Beyonce visited the Solid Gold Beauty Supply store in Houston on Friday.

Later in the day, the singer was spotted at Solange's house in New Orleans.

Beyonce performed during the Formation World Tour at NRG Stadium on Thursday, September 22, 2016, in Houston, Texas.

In this behind-the-scenes look of The Formation World Tour, we hear from Beyoncé’s dancers Kimmie Gee and Ashley Everett on learning the show’s choreography and bonding as a dance family on the road.

Life on The Formation World Tour goes beyond a single night’s performance. We hear from dancers Kimmie Gee and Ashley Everett on the rewards and challenges of constant travel and living on the road.

As The Formation World Tour returns to Houston, we take a look behind the scenes of the first leg's stop in the city.

Beyonce was spotted leaving the No Name club in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Here's the latest addition to the Beyonce Shop - Wake Pray Slay Journal. Black with gold edges, 240 pages, 5 3/4" x 8 1/5". Includes 3 Pencils, black with gold imprint. Pre-order now!

Now in its second season, Ivy Park is the activewear label co-founded by Beyoncé. Uniting technical sportswear with fashion-led casualwear, the new collection combines clean lines, urban prints and graphic logos with a relaxed, menswear-inspired silhouette. All in a rich colour palette of metallic silver, burgundy and muted tonal blues.

Ivy Park is a lifestyle brand designed for workout and play. This season marks a renewed focus on fabrications and finishes – with metallic parka jackets and bonded satin neoprene sweats set to elevate your downtime look. Activewear feels reinvigorated with graphic fishnet and camouflage prints off-set by a layer-led aesthetic of cutaway tanks, sheer inserts and laser cut logos. Explore both sides of the collection here.

The BROADWAY SINGS concert series will present its 13th installment with Broadway Sings Beyoncé at the Highline Ballroom on November 7th at 8pm. A cast of 15 Broadway stars from shows such as Hamilton, Spring Awakening, and Waitress will sing completely new arrangements of the pop queen’s greatest hits (including selections from her recent Lemonade album), accompanied by a 14-piece orchestra playing original orchestrations. Previous artists honored in the series include Adele, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Sara Bareilles, Billy Joel, and Whitney Houston.

The lineup will include Alex Boniello (Spring Awakening), Alysha Deslorieux (Hamilton), Russell Fischer (Jersey Boys), Alyssa Fox (Wicked), Amber Iman (Shuffle Along), Aisha Jackson (Waitress), Aaron LaVigne (Spider-Man), Corey Mach (Hands on a Hardbody), Jelani Remy (The Lion King), Ciara Reneé (Pippin), and Natalie Weiss (Everyday Rapture), with Alexa Green (Wicked), Bryna O’Neill, and Alexis Sims. More performers will be announced at a later date.

The concert will give tribute to this groundbreaking artist and her greatest songs, including “Love on Top”, “Irreplaceable”, “Single Ladies”, “Halo”, and a few selections from the Destiny’s Child catalog, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. The music will be orchestrated and arranged by Joshua Stephen Kartes.