Entertainment

AUSTIN, Texas – Vanilla Ice has indefinitely postponed a Texas concert that drew fierce criticism due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 1990s rapper with the hit single “Ice Ice Baby” had been scheduled to play a lakeside concert just outside Austin on Friday, but on Thursday he announced it was being postponed. “Due to the [...] Read More »

1. “The Room Where It Happened” by John Bolton (Simon & Schuster) 2. “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo (Beacon Press) 3. “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi (One World) 4. “Stamped From the Beginning” by Ibram X. Kendi (Bold Type Books) 5. “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) [...] Read More »

LONDON – An accident requiring two screws in his ankle nearly prevented Scott Eastwood from portraying a real life soldier in Afghanistan in “The Outpost” – a role that required a level of athleticism. Eastwood was tight-lipped about how he was injured, but he said it led to an “interesting” shoot. Director Rod Lurie had [...] Read More »

In the new season of the documentary/reality TV show “Queen of the Oil Patch,” two-spirit Indigenous entrepreneur Massey Whiteknife embarks on an introspective, healing journey. Whiteknife is a businessman in the northern Alberta oilsands and also a glamorous female recording artist known as “Iceis Rain.” In season 2, which airs Sundays on APTN, Whiteknife moves [...] Read More »

NEW YORK – Charlize Theron says she’s making choices as a producer and actor to ensure her “two small, beautiful African American daughters” will feel represented on-screen. The Oscar winner said it can be hard for Black children to “kind of imagine the possibilities” when so few films and television series are centred on characters [...] Read More »

Inter-tainers Rhett and Link only thinking of Canadian viewers Stan Ashbee Alberta Newspaper Group Rhett and Link are the unsung heroes of Inter-tainment, that’s the Internet and entertainment, for the uninitiated. In a time when laughter is indeed the best medicine, “Good Mythical Morning” is both an anecdote and an unofficial antidote to society’s most [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBERAl BeeberLethbridge Heraldabeeber@lethbridgeherald.comI’m doing everything I can to stay safe, keeping my distance from people as much as is humanly possible.We live in a scary world right now and we owe it to each other to exercise as much due diligence as we can until the COVID-19 crisis fades away into history [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com City auto dealers are feeling the effects of the COVID-19 crisis like everyone else in our community, our province and our country. They’ve been forced to lay off staff and take extraordinary precautions to protect staff and customers from the evil that is the coronavirus. They’re [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Not all heroes wear capes, as the worn-out cliche goes. Just look around and you will clearly see our heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those heroes are our front-line health-care workers — the doctors, nurses and nursing home aides who risk their lives every day to [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Enough of the hoarding already! Now that Costco has limited toilet paper sale to customers, maybe people will start getting the hint that stocking up on certain things isnt necessary. And I hope other stores follow suit. Given the stories that have emerged of people trying [...] Read More »