q news: Remembering Merle Haggard

q news correspondent Mitch Pollock scans the latest arts and entertainment headlines to keep you in the know. Today: 

• Country legend Merle Haggard passed away on his birthday yesterday from pneumonia. Haggard was famously serving a sentence in San Quentin prison when Johnny Cash dropped in to play a show — a moment that changed his life and set him on his musical trajectory. He was 79.  
   
• A controversial bill passed in North Carolina requires that all bathrooms in the state be used according to the biological sex on individuals' birth certificates. The bill also excludes LGBT people from anti-discrimination protections and blocks municipalities from adopting their own anti-discrimnation rules. As entertainment companies threaten boycotts, some productions are moving out of state to Canada. 
   
• Drake has been accused of threatening a photographer at Toronto's Polson Pier. A helicopter apparently landed near some people who were taking photos of the city skyline and when Drake popped out, one of them started to take pictures of him. One of the photographers alleges that Drake scaled the fence separating them and proceeded to berate them into deleting the picture.