Entertainment News
Met Opera to double cast Verdi and Puccini, as well as shift contemporary works from Saturdays
By Canadian Press on February 19th, 2025
The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away from Saturdays at the recommendation of a consultant trying to boost the company’s finances. The 2025-26 season announced Wednesday will be the third straight with 18 productions, down from 28 in 2007-08. There will be six ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The Killers, Olivia Rodrigo among headliners for Montreal’s Osheaga music festival
By Canadian Press on February 19th, 2025
TORONTO — Montreal’s Osheaga has lined up rockers the Killers, hip-hop star Tyler, the Creator, and pop singer Olivia Rodrigo as headliners for this year’s summer music festival. Organizers unleashed the full slate of more than 85 performers for the genre-spanning festival, which runs from Aug. 1 to 3 at Parc Jean-Drapeau. They include the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A$AP Rocky returns to a life of music, fashion, film and Rihanna with his acquittal
By Canadian Press on February 19th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Thank y’all for saving my life,” A$AP Rocky shouted to jurors as they left his trial. It’s no ordinary life they sent him on to when they quickly returned not guilty verdicts Tuesday on two counts of felony assault with a semiautomatic handgun. The rapper could’ve left the Los Angeles courtroom ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Renée Fleming to make directing debut at Aspen Festival this July in Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan tutte’
By Canadian Press on February 19th, 2025
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Soprano Renée Fleming will make her directing debut in Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” at the Aspen Festival with three performances from July 21-26. While Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte set their opera about fiancee-swapping in 18th century Naples, Italy, Fleming is shifting the work to a contemporary setting, the company ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!True crime cruise will star John Walsh and hosts of ‘RedHanded,’ ‘Scamfluencers’ and ‘Kill List’
By Canadian Press on February 19th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Hosts of many popular true crime podcasts will headline a murder-themed cruise next year that’s being billed as a first-of-its kind immersive mystery experience at sea. The cruise will feature “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh, Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala from “RedHanded,” Scaachi Koul and Sarah Hagi from “Scamfluencers,” Aaron ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!TV procedurals up their game, with doctors on cruises and quirky single moms solving crimes
By Canadian Press on February 19th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — The idea for a new TV show came to Craig Sweeny as he was driving. The producer and screenwriter, thinking about how to put his own stamp on a medical series, had to pull over when a familiar figure popped into his mind: Sherlock Holmes. Why not combine a hospital procedural ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oscar presenters will include Selena Gomez and Oprah Winfrey. Here’s what to know about the show
By Canadian Press on February 19th, 2025
After devastating wildfires tore through Los Angeles, the 97th Academy Awards are going forward. Like the Grammys and other awards shows this year, the ceremony will be transformed by the fires and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pledged to help its members and the broader film community recover. Here’s everything you ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Really, who were those masked men? New series of books probes backstories of Marvel superheroes
By Canadian Press on February 19th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — If you love movies or comics, you’ve likely followed the adventures of Spider-Man,Iron Man and other superheroes. A new line of books will let you explore the back stories of their creation. On Wednesday, Bloomsbury and Marvel announced a multi-year, multi-volume licensing agreement for “Marvel Age of Comics.” The books will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Finalists announced for Lukas book prizes, which champion ‘serious research and social concern.’
By Canadian Press on February 19th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Books on slavery, the justice system, poverty and gender identity are among this year’s finalists for J. Anthony Lukas prizes, named for the late investigative journalist. Presented by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, the prizes honor “excellence in nonfiction that exemplifies the literary ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial
By Canadian Press on February 18th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A$AP Rocky dove from the defense table into the arms of Rihanna Tuesday as a clerk read the not guilty verdict at his trial on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. The Los Angeles courtroom, full of fans of the hip-hop performer and his singing superstar partner, exploded ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hip-hop star A$AP Rocky is found not guilty of firing a handgun and avoids decades in prison
By Canadian Press on February 18th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper A$AP Rocky was found not guilty Tuesday of firing a handgun at a former friend on a Hollywood street in 2021. “Thank y’all for saving my life,” he told jurors as they left the Los Angeles courtroom. They cleared him of two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!
