By Canadian Press on October 31st, 2025
Billie Eilish wants billionaires to donate more. As the Grammy and Oscar winner accepted the music award at this year’s WSJ. Magazine Innovator Awards on Wednesday night, she urged the ultra-wealthy to address more of the world’s issues. “We’re in a time right now where the world is really, really bad and really dark and ... Read More »
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PARIS (AP) — The Louvre will install streetside anti-ramming and anti-intrusion devices in the next two months, France’s culture minister said Friday, after facing pressure following the Oct. 19 heist of crown jewels at the museum. The announcement follows a provisional investigation that found a “chronic, structural underestimation” of the risk of theft at the ... Read More »
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TORONTO — Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair documentary is getting a second wind on the big screen. Film distributor Elevation Pictures says it plans to show “Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery” at eight independent movie theatres across the country in November. It’s an unusual twist in the traditional distribution model. The documentary has already been available ... Read More »
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LONDON (AP) — British politicians, the public and the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre praised King Charles III’s decision to strip his brother Andrew of his princely title and spacious home, a banishment that has left the disgraced royal increasingly exposed to political and legal scrutiny over his finances and his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. ... Read More »
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LONDON (AP) — For sale: The world’s most valuable toilet, a lavatory literally worth its weight in gold. Sotheby’s announced Friday that it will auction off the solid gold cistern, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan entitled “America.” The auction house calls it an “incisive commentary on the collision of artistic production and commodity ... Read More »
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The day after the jewelry heist at the Louvre in Paris, officials from across Washington’s world-famous museums were already talking, assessing and planning how to bolster their own security. “We went over a review of the incident,” said Doug Beaver, security specialist at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, who said he participated ... Read More »
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LONDON (AP) — The family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre praised King Charles III’s decision to strip his brother Andrew of his princely title and spacious home, as pressure mounted Friday on the disgraced royal to answer questions from politicians and the police about his finances and his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. The king acted to ... Read More »
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No one is bigger than the monarchy. Not even the king’s brother. In the end, that reality spelled the end of Prince Andrew’s life as a prince of the realm. As details of Andrew’s links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued to dribble out and Parliament raised questions about his rent-free residence at a ... Read More »
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EAST CORINTH, Vt. (AP) — For nearly 40 years, a tiny town in Vermont has attracted hoards of “Beetlejuice” fans eager to visit where the whimsical horror movie’s most famous scenes were filmed. With a population hovering just around 1,500, “Beetlejuice” mania has helped put East Corinth on the map not only for fans of ... Read More »
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NEW YORK (AP) — For the recently converted Waxahatchee fan, Alabama-raised singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield does not drum up the image of distorted riffs, scrappy lo-fi recordings and indie rock sensibilities. For many years, though, that was her reality. (Incisive, lyrical self-reflexivity and emotional acuity have always been present in her work, now delivered in a ... Read More »
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During his acceptance speech for best actor at this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Timothée Chalamet made known his desire to be remembered as “one of the greats.” A few years earlier, Chalamet starred in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women,” in which his character demonstratively asks his future wife, “What women are allowed into ... Read More »
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