July 6th, 2025

Entertainment News

Bezos arrives in Venice as protesters say his star-studded wedding highlights growing inequality

By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Multi-billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez arrived in Venice on Wednesday ahead of their star-studded weekend wedding, an event that has galvanized a wide assortment of activist groups protesting it. Bezos waved from a water taxi as he and Sanchez arrived at the dock of the Aman Hotel, a ... Read More »

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Amid the pressures of fame, Aysanabee is finding his voice and purpose

By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025

TORONTO — A couple of years ago, Aysanabee didn’t see himself as an alternative music artist, but lately, he doesn’t mind the label. It was thrust upon him at the 2024 Juno Awards in Halifax, where the Oji-Cree musician was nominated in three categories: contemporary Indigenous artist of the year, songwriter of the year and ... Read More »

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Country singer Parker McCollum’s dreams all came true. A new self-titled album brought new ones

By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Imagine you come from a small town in Texas and you have big dreams of being a country music star. Imagine those aspirations come true, tenfold: You win a couple Academy of Country Music Awards, a CMT Music Award and you have a couple platinum singles to your name. What’s next? ... Read More »

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Stephen Sondheim’s papers go to Library of Congress, offering a look into a Broadway genius

By Canadian Press on June 25th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks from Stephen Sondheim have been donated to the Library of Congress, offering the public a chance to see firsthand the creativity of one of musical theater’s giants. The collection includes about 5,000 items, ranging from drafts of songs that were cut from ... Read More »

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Protesters say Bezos’ star-studded Venice wedding highlights growing inequality

By Canadian Press on June 24th, 2025

VENICE, Italy (AP) — This weekend’s star-studded Venice wedding of multi-billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez has galvanized activist groups that are protesting it as a sign of the growing disparity between the haves and have-nots as well as disregard of the city’s residents. About a dozen Venetian organizations — including housing advocates, ... Read More »

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Pharrell Williams brings India and BeyoncĂ© to Louis Vuitton’s Pompidou runway

By Canadian Press on June 24th, 2025

PARIS (AP) — The birds scattered in every direction as the first drumbeat thundered across the plaza outside Paris’ Pompidou Center Tuesday, clearing the way for a different kind of flight: BeyoncĂ© and Jay-Z swept into the front row. The star couple anchored a guest list at Pharrell Williams’ latest Louis Vuitton spectacle that doubled ... Read More »

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Quebec singer, songwriter Serge Fiori, founder of rock group Harmonium, dead at 73

By Canadian Press on June 24th, 2025

MONTREAL — Quebec singer-songwriter Serge Fiori, founder of French-Canadian rock band Harmonium, died Tuesday at the age of 73. Serge Grimaux, Fiori’s manager at GSI Musique, confirmed the death in the early morning hours of Quebec’s St-Jean-Baptiste holiday, which he attributed to the consequences of a long illness. Fiori was the lead vocalist and guitarist ... Read More »

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs confirms he won’t testify and praises the trial judge for an ‘excellent job’

By Canadian Press on June 24th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs told the judge at his sex trafficking trial that he’s doing an “excellent job” as he confirmed Tuesday that he won’t testify. Combs made the comment to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian after being asked about testifying. The question was posed by the Manhattan jurist after the prosecution ... Read More »

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs confirms he won’t testify and compliments the trial judge for an ‘excellent job’

By Canadian Press on June 24th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs told the judge at his sex trafficking trial that he’s doing an “excellent job” as he confirmed Tuesday that he won’t be testifying. Combs made the comment to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian after being asked if he planned to testify. The question was posed after the prosecution ... Read More »

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Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books

By Canadian Press on June 24th, 2025

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and must now go to trial over how it acquired those books by downloading them ... Read More »

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Bobby Sherman, teen idol in the 1960s and ’70s, and later a CPR teacher, dies at 81

By Canadian Press on June 24th, 2025

Bobby Sherman, whose winsome smile and fashionable shaggy mop top helped make him into a teen idol in the 1960s and ’70s with bubblegum pop hits like “Little Woman” and “Julie, Do Ya Love Me,” has died. He was 81. His wife, Brigitte Poublon, announced the death Tuesday and family friend John Stamos posted her ... Read More »

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