Today: September 20, 2024
Today: September 20, 2024

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Nia DaCosta makes her mark on Marvel history with 'The Marvels': Fall Movie Preview

Nia DaCosta, director of the upcoming “The Marvels,” has a diagnosis for the recent struggles of superhero movies. It basically comes down to, she says, “Mo’ money, mo’ problems.” Success inevitably breeds bigger budgets. Box-office expectations get inflated. Even superhero spandex can’t sustain endless cycles of wash, rinse and repeat. “Growth has to stop at some point,” says DaCosta. “As you make more and more films, you want those films to be more interesting, more dynamic and to appeal to different audiences. But that requires risk. And there’s a conundrum where you’re so big that you

September 06, 2023
Nia DaCosta makes her mark on Marvel history with 'The Marvels': Fall Movie Preview
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Honorary Oscars event celebrating Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks pushed back amid Hollywood strikes

Angela Bassett is going to have to wait a little bit longer to get her Oscar. The 14th Governors Awards has been delayed from November until January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday. The Academy, which puts on the Oscars, decided to delay the event due to the state of the industry, in which Hollywood’s writers and actors are months into strikes for new contracts with major entertainment companies. Bassett, who was up for the best supporting actress award earlier this year, was selected to receive the prestigious honorary Oscar statuette along with Mel Brooks and

September 06, 2023
Honorary Oscars event celebrating Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks pushed back amid Hollywood strikes
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Tenor Stephen Gould says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer

Tenor Stephen Gould says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer. Gould withdrew this summer from the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, where he was to have sung the title roles in “Tannhäuser” and “Tristan und Isolde” and Siegfried in “Götterdämmerung.” Gould said in a statement Wednesday that he has bile duct cancer with complications. He said it is fatal with “an outlook of several months to 10 months,” he wrote. “There is no cure.” Gould said he made the announcement after the Bayreuth Festival ended last week because “I did not wish anything to cloud this years achievements.”

September 06, 2023
Tenor Stephen Gould says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer
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Burning Man is ending, but the cleanup from heavy flooding is far from over

The rain has passed, and the temple has burned. Now, as Burning Man slowly empties, it’s time to clean up. Burning Man organizers have three weeks to clean up the sprawling stretch of public land in the Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada, but a summer storm that left tens of thousands stranded in ankle-deep mud could alter that timeframe. The annual gathering, which launched on a San Francisco beach in 1986, attracts nearly 80,000 artists, musicians and activists for a week-long mix of wilderness camping and avant-garde performances. One of the principles of Burning Man

September 06, 2023
Burning Man is ending, but the cleanup from heavy flooding is far from over
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Grammy Museum to launch 50 years of hip-hop exhibit featuring artifacts from Tupac, Biggie

The Grammy Museum announced Thursday that it is launching the “Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit”, celebrating 50 years of the music and culture ’s global impact. The 5,000 square foot exhibit will include rare artifacts such as Tupac Shakur’s handwritten 1992 essay “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” — in which the young hip-hop superstar found parallels between one of the best-known speeches in American history, a cry for freedom given by founding father Patrick Henry at the Second Virginia Convention, and the experiences of being a minority in the U.S. The exhibit also includes

September 06, 2023
Grammy Museum to launch 50 years of hip-hop exhibit featuring artifacts from Tupac, Biggie
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Bruce Springsteen postpones September shows, citing doctor's advice regarding ulcer treatment

The Boss is taking an unexpected breather and canceling his September shows, citing doctors’ orders. Bruce Springsteen announced on his website Wednesday that he was postponing shows for the remainder of the month while he is treated for symptoms of “peptic ulcer disease.” The disease causes ulcers to form in the stomach or small intestine that can cause heartburn, nausea and stomach pain. The postponed shows including scheduled stops in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Albany and Syracuse in New York, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and shows in Connecticut and Ohio. “Over here on E Street, we’re heartbroken to have

September 07, 2023
Bruce Springsteen postpones September shows, citing doctor's advice regarding ulcer treatment
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‘That '70s Show’ actor Danny Masterson could get decades in prison at sentencing for 2 rapes

“That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson could get as much as 30 years to life in prison at his sentencing Thursday for the rapes of two women two decades ago. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo is set to sentence the 47-year-old actor after ruling on a defense motion for a new trial that she’s very likely to reject, and after hearing impact statements from the victims. A jury of seven women and five men found Masterson guilty of two counts on May 31 after seven days of deliberations. Both attacks took place in

September 07, 2023
‘That '70s Show’ actor Danny Masterson could get decades in prison at sentencing for 2 rapes
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Lainey Wilson leads the 2023 Country Music Award nominations for the second year in a row

It’s another landmark year for breakout country superstar Lainey Wilson, who tops the CMA Awards nominations for the second year in a row. Wilson was a first-time nominee in 2022, which means she’s made history in 2023 — becoming the first and only artist to top the nominations list in her first two appearances on the ballot. Last year, she claimed six nominations. This year, Wilson is up to nine, for album, song, music video, entertainer and female vocalist of the year, as well as two separate nominations in both the single of the year category

September 07, 2023
Lainey Wilson leads the 2023 Country Music Award nominations for the second year in a row
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Emerald Fennell on 'Saltburn,' class and Barry Keoghan: Fall Movie Preview

Countless English protagonists have for decades been making their way to grand country estates where their lives are irrevocably changed. “Brideshead Revisited.” “The Go-Between.” “Remains of the Day.” “Rebecca.” These are some of the books that Emerald Fennell grew up devouring. And when the dust had settled on “Promising Young Woman,” her incendiary Oscar-winning directorial debut, Fennell, too, wanted to make her way to a fictional stately manor. “I really wanted to make a movie that was a take on the classic English gothic story,” Fennell says. “It felt like an incredibly well-worn and therefore intriguing

September 07, 2023
Emerald Fennell on 'Saltburn,' class and Barry Keoghan: Fall Movie Preview
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Kimiko Hahn wins $100,000 award from Poetry Foundation for lifetime achievement

Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among this year’s winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of the poetry world’s most lucrative prizes. Hahn, a faculty member of Queens College in New York City whose books include “The Unbearable Heart” and “Earshot,” won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. Lilly was an heir to pharmaceutical tycoon Eli Lilly who in 2002 bequeathed $100 million to Poetry magazine. The Poetry Foundation was established the following year. “Kimiko Hahn’s poetry projects the soul and challenges the human spirit by inviting

September 07, 2023
Kimiko Hahn wins $100,000 award from Poetry Foundation for lifetime achievement
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Drake announces highly anticipated 'For All the Dogs' album will arrive this month

Drake has finally announced a released date for his highly anticipated eighth studio album: “For All the Dogs” will drop Sept. 22. The follow-up to 2022’s “Honestly, Nevermind” — which released without warning — was announced on the Canadian rapper’s Instagram on Wednesday night. Drake wrote the release date in the caption of the post, which featured video footage depicting his father, Dennis Graham. A representative confirmed the date on Thursday. Drake — who is currently on his “It’s All a Blur” tour — had teased the project for a few months, including at a July

September 07, 2023
Drake announces highly anticipated 'For All the Dogs' album will arrive this month
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Performing arts center finally opens at ground zero after 2 decades of setbacks and changed plans

In a mammoth room behind translucent marble walls, workers are setting the stage for the World Trade Center’s newest addition. It isn’t another office tower, nor is it a monument, at least explicitly, to the memory of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It’s a theater complex. Envisioned two decades ago to add vibrancy and draw people to a place of devastation and mourning, the Perelman Performing Arts Center is finally arriving at a very different ground zero. The site is ringed by new skyscrapers and located in a neighborhood that has more residents than before the

September 07, 2023
Performing arts center finally opens at ground zero after 2 decades of setbacks and changed plans
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Film festival season carries on in Toronto, despite a star-power outage

When the Hollywood actors union announced a strike this summer, Cameron Bailey, the longtime chief executive of the Toronto International Film Festival, dusted off his COVID-19 playbook. For two years, TIFF, the largest film festival in North America, had maneuvered through pandemic editions that persevered, one way or another, through travel restrictions, social distancing measures and other upheavals. Now, TIFF was faced with a sudden eclipse of star power. “This is the nature of running a festival,” Bailey says. “You have to respond to what the year gives you. We have good experience from recent years in

September 07, 2023
Film festival season carries on in Toronto, despite a star-power outage
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Annie Lennox plans to fundraise and entertain at Rotary event in Italy. She does not plan to retire

Annie Lennox is not retiring. Though her partner in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Eurythmics Dave Stewart recently posted that Lennox “ won’t be touring anymore ” and would not be part of the “Sweet Dreams 40th Anniversary Tour” this fall, the “Here Comes the Rain Again” singer told The Associated Press that she will continue to perform, especially at events that support causes she is passionate about and her own nonprofit work. “I’m not retiring from anything,” Lennox said. “I’m just stepping back because I spent decades on the road. And at

September 08, 2023
Annie Lennox plans to fundraise and entertain at Rotary event in Italy. She does not plan to retire
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From spaceships to 'Batman' props, a Hollywood model maker's creations and collection up for auction

From an early model of the iconic alien mothership from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” to a complete Stormtrooper costume from “Star Wars,” bidding opens Friday on thousands of pieces Hollywood model maker Greg Jein collected over his lifetime, including many he created during his nearly half-century career. The collection amassed by Jein, who died last year at age 76, will be offered up by Heritage Auctions next month in Dallas. Jein, who had an Oscar and Emmy nominated career making miniature models, was also a collector of costumes, props, scripts, artwork, photographs and models from

September 08, 2023
From spaceships to 'Batman' props, a Hollywood model maker's creations and collection up for auction
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Person shot and critically wounded at Lil Baby concert in Memphis, Tennessee, police say

One person was shot and critically wounded at a concert headlined by rapper Lil Baby in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday night, police and local media said. The Memphis Police Department posted on social media that officers responded to a report of a shooting at 10:23 p.m. at 191 Beale Street, which is the address of FedEx Forum. A male victim was transported to Regional One Health Medical Center in critical condition and no other injuries were reported, police said. The identity of the shooter was not known, the police statement said. Lil Baby was rushed off

September 08, 2023
Person shot and critically wounded at Lil Baby concert in Memphis, Tennessee, police say
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The beautiful pessimism at the heart of Jimmy Buffett's music

Buffett’s first hit, ‘Come Monday,’ was written when the artist was deeply depressed and suicidal. Bettmann/Getty Images With the death of Jimmy Buffett, the feathers of his loyal network of fans – affectionately known as Parrot Heads – collectively drooped. Over the course of his career, Buffett earned their love by transforming himself into a kind of musical shaman who offered transport from the banalities of everyday life to the bounty of a never-never land of eternal sun, endless sandy beaches and bottomless boat drinks: Margaritaville. As a young fan in the 1980s and 1990s, I marveled at the power

September 08, 2023
The beautiful pessimism at the heart of Jimmy Buffett's music
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For rave-ready electronic duo the Chemical Brothers, a 10th studio album is a feat and a challenge

Beloved British electronic duo the Chemical Brothers released their 10th album on Friday, more than three decades into their career. But does it get any easier with time? Not according to one-half of the outfit, Tom Rowlands. “I think it’s just more complicated” he said, speaking via Zoom from his studio in the U.K. “Everyone’s got a new theory on how to do it.” Prior to the album’s release, Rowlands and Ed Simons shared four singles from the forthcoming album, “For That Beautiful Feeling” — including their second collaboration with Beck, the track “Feels like I’m Dreaming.”

September 08, 2023
For rave-ready electronic duo the Chemical Brothers, a 10th studio album is a feat and a challenge
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Poet Rita Dove to receive an honorary National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement

Poet Rita Dove has a sharp, simple goal in response to receiving a National Book Award for lifetime achievement: “I want it to be a milestone, not a tombstone.” “It may seem like a rather macabre metaphor, but I simply meant — knock on wood — that I haven’t reached the end of my journey as an artist. I’m still observing, questioning, exploring,” she adds. The National Book Foundation, the nonprofit which presents the book awards, announced Friday that Dove is this year’s winner of its medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, an honor previously

September 08, 2023
Poet Rita Dove to receive an honorary National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement
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Artists want complete control over their public exhibitions. Governments say it’s not that simple

If things had gone as originally planned, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum would be launching its fall exhibition Friday. But officials postponed the show six weeks before the opening over concern that a painting by activist-artist Shepard Fairey could be seen as “disparaging toward some City of Mesa employees.” Now, the Phoenix suburb is ready to move forward and debut the show in October, albeit with a prominent disclaimer that the artwork represents only the artist’s views. All the original artists have been invited to remain in the exhibition. Thomas “Breeze” Marcus will not be one of them.

September 08, 2023
Artists want complete control over their public exhibitions. Governments say it’s not that simple
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Marc Bohan, former Dior creative director and friend to the stars, dies at age 97

Dior’s longest-serving creative director Marc Bohan, whose slim silhouette designs dressed the likes of Hollywood royalty including Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor, has died at 97, the luxury fashion house confirmed Friday. The son of a milliner, Bohan was asked to lead the French label after his predecessor Yves Saint Laurent was drafted into the French military in 1960. He would go on to oversee the brand as artistic director for nearly three decades, from 1961 to 1989, delivering elegant and tasteful tailored looks for the modern woman. In his first couture collection for the house in 1961, he debuted

September 08, 2023
Marc Bohan, former Dior creative director and friend to the stars, dies at age 97
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Hayao Miyazaki invites moviegoers to dream with him one last time

The loudest applause on opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival was for Totoro. When the Studio Ghibli logo of the magical creature from Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro” appeared on the screen Thursday night, it meant to the audience the premiere of Miyazaki’s latest and perhaps last film, “The Boy and the Heron.” For many at TIFF, it was the movie event of the year. A decade ago, Miyazaki, the anime master of “Spirited Away,” “Howl’s Moving Castle,” “Kiki’s Delivery Service” and “Ponyo,” said he was retiring from film and that 2013’s “The Wind That

September 08, 2023
Hayao Miyazaki invites moviegoers to dream with him one last time
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From piñata to postage stamp, US celebrates centuries-old Hispanic tradition

The U.S. Postal Service on Friday rolled out its latest special edition postage stamps, paying homage to a tradition with global roots that has evolved over centuries to become a universal symbol of celebration. The release of four new stamps featuring colorful piñatas coincides with a monthlong recognition of Hispanic heritage in the U.S. and the start of an annual festival in New Mexico where the handmade party favorites are cracked open hourly and children can learn the art of pasting together their own creations. Piñatas are synonymous with parties, although their history is layered and

September 08, 2023
From piñata to postage stamp, US celebrates centuries-old Hispanic tradition
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Ralph Lauren, a son of the Bronx, takes over Brooklyn in lavish return to NY Fashion Week

He may have been born in the Bronx, but designer Ralph Lauren took over a different New York city borough — Brooklyn — with a sumptuous event that marked his return to NY Fashion Week after four years and brought out stars like Jennifer Lopez, Julianne Moore, Diane Keaton, Mindy Kaling, Gabrielle Union, James Marsden and many others. After crossing the country last year to stage a lavish show at the grand Huntington Library in San Marino, California, Lauren returned to his home base of New York with Friday’s show in a cavernous warehouse space at

September 09, 2023
Ralph Lauren, a son of the Bronx, takes over Brooklyn in lavish return to NY Fashion Week
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Vicky Krieps on the feminist Western 'The Dead Don't Hurt' and how she leaves behind past roles

Vicky Krieps noticed that while there’s plenty of instruction for getting into a role, there’s curiously little about getting out of one. For Krieps, the disarmingly natural Luxembourgish actor of “Phantom Thread,”“Corsage” and “Bergman Island,” it’s not a small issue. It may even be the most important part of the process. If she’s still stuck the headspace of a character, she can’t keep moving forward. After struggling in the aftermath of her breakthrough in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” in which she starred opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, Krieps found a solution. She could put a capstone on the

September 09, 2023
Vicky Krieps on the feminist Western 'The Dead Don't Hurt' and how she leaves behind past roles

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