TORONTO – A brother of the late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie says a weekend benefit concert performance of his “Secret Path” album was a “powerful” show and he isn’t ruling out making it an annual event, possibly in different cities. On Saturday musical acts including Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sam Roberts, Serena Ryder, Tanya Tagaq, and [...] Read More »

NEWPORT, R.I. – Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence got married over the weekend in Rhode Island during a ceremony and reception studded with Hollywood stars. The “Hunger Games” star tied the knot with New York art dealer Cooke Maroney on Saturday at a Newport, Rhode Island, mansion. Lawrence’s publicist confirmed to The Associated Press that the [...] Read More »

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A treasure trove of about 130 books once owned by a renowned Abraham Lincoln biographer has been donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. The books that once belonged to Benjamin Thomas could be a gold mine for Lincoln scholars as many of them contain the author’s handwritten [...] Read More »

LOS ANGELES – The Walt Disney Co.’s “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” has knocked “Joker” out of the No. 1 spot at the box office, but just barely. Studios on Sunday estimate that the film starring Angelina Jolie grossed $36 million in North America and $117 million internationally in its first weekend in theatres. The first [...] Read More »

NEW YORK – Naomi Wolf and her U.S. publisher have split up amid a dispute over her latest book, “Outrages.” Wolf and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced separately Friday that they had “mutually and amicably agreed to part company.” Neither Wolf nor Houghton immediately provided additional comment. Houghton had delayed a planned June publication of “Outrages” [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Autumn is here and besides pumpkin spice everywhere you know what that means, right? Mice. Disgusting mice everywhere. With temperatures cooling, those rascally rodents are looking for warm places to do whatever mice do for the night. And I have no clue what that is except [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Autumn is here and besides pumpkin spice everywhere you know what that means, right? Mice. Disgusting mice everywhere. With temperatures cooling, those rascally rodents are looking for warm places to do whatever mice do for the night. And I have no clue what that is except [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The mullet is back! For better or worse, that now-reviled hairstyle of the 1980s is having a renaissance. Lest you forgot what a mullet is, just watch televised NASCAR races for any crowd shots. You’ll surely see one. Or go to a tractor pull. Mullets — [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com When the primetime Emmy nominations were released recently, I figured “Game of Thrones” would be in the running for a few. Never in my imagination — which admittedly isn’t great — would I have thought it would nail a record-setting 32. The haul beat the previous record of [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al BeeberLethbridge Heraldabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Channel surfing has come a long way since the old days when we had three to choose from and no remote control. ItÕs almost hard to fathom we actually had to walk to the TV to manually flick from one black-and-white channel to another. Time and again. Granted, [...] Read More »