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Kendrick Lamar and SZA announce 2025 North American stadium tour
NEW YORK (AP) — “Not Like Us,” it’s like them — Kendrick Lamar and SZA…
‘Childless Cat Lady’ Taylor Swift tops Yale list of 2024’s most notable quotations
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — From “Childless Cat Lady” to “They’re eating the cats,” Yale University’s…
Joly touts ‘private’ diplomacy as Mexico criticizes Canada’s culture, trade
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is not escalating a war of words with…
Jay-Z’s ‘The Book of Hov’ immersive New York exhibit lives up to its name and becomes a book
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay-Z ’s popular exhibit “The Book of Hov” in New York…
Sean Penn accuses Academy Awards of cowardice at Marrakech Film Festival
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Sean Penn on Tuesday blasted the organizers of the Oscars for…
Sean Penn accuses Academy Awards of cowardice at Marrakech Film Festival
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Sean Penn on Tuesday blasted the organizers of the Oscars for…
No pressure: Singer Lucinda Williams records album of Beatles songs at famed Abbey Road
Lucinda Williams isn’t easily intimidated, but it would be hard for any musician not to…
Defence argues evidence too thin in Ottawa neo-Nazi terrorism trial
OTTAWA — Defence lawyers for an Ottawa graphic designer facing terror charges over his alleged…
Philadelphia ready to go the distance with RockyFest week dedicated to ‘Rocky’ movies
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rocky Balboa fans are ready to go the distance — by bus,…
‘The Brutalist’ tops New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Carol Kane, Adrien Brody win acting prizes
NEW YORK (AP) — Brady Corbet’s 3 1/2-hour postwar epic “The Brutalist” won best film…
Last 2 defendants in Atlanta’s Young Thug trial are acquitted of murder and gang charges
ATLANTA (AP) — The long-running gang and racketeering trial that led Atlanta rapper Young Thug…
Artist Jasleen Kaur wins Turner Prize for work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity
LONDON (AP) — An artist whose work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity includes a vintage…
Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult lead thriller about the real FBI manhunt for a white supremacist leader
Forty years ago, on Dec. 8, 1984, one of the largest manhunts in FBI history…
Taylor Swift fans flock to BC Place, days before Eras Tour lands in Vancouver
VANCOUVER — Security fencing is going up around BC Place stadium in preparation for the…
Is Enron back? If it’s a joke, some former employees aren’t laughing
HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron,…
Is Enron back? If it’s a joke, some former employees aren’t laughing
HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron,…
Artist Jasleen Kaur wins Turner Prize for work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity
LONDON (AP) — An artist whose work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity includes a vintage…
Eminem’s mother Debbie Nelson, whose rocky relationship fueled the rapper’s lyrics, dies at age 69
Debbie Nelson, the mother of rapper Eminem whose rocky relationship with her son was known…
Eminem’s mother Debbie Nelson, whose rocky relationship fueled the rapper’s lyrics, dies at age 69
Debbie Nelson, the single mother of rapper Eminem whose rocky relationship with her son was…
Australia is banning social media for people under 16. Could this work elsewhere – or even there?
It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts…
Senegalese artisans in the spotlight as they exhibit for the first time at a prestigious art event
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For the artistic and cultural elites of Senegal, the monthlong Dakar…
A list of mispronounced words provides a retrospective of 2024, from Kamala to Chappell
DALLAS (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and breakout pop star Chappell Roan were among…
Swift superfans descend on Vancouver for end of Eras Tour. What drives the devotion?
VANCOUVER — Heather Roy says that when she and her 12-year-old daughter Harper attend Taylor…
Vancouver is abuzz with Taylor Swift-related events for the upcoming Eras Tour
VANCOUVER — No tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Vancouver? Sad about the absence…