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Complete list of winners from the 2024 CMT Music Awards
By Maria Sherman, The Associated Press on April 7th, 2024
Complete list of winners from the 2024 CMT Music Awards: Video of the year: Jelly Roll, “Need A Favor” Female video of the year: Lainey Wilson, “Watermelon Moonshine” Male video of the year: Jelly Roll, “Need A Favor” Group/duo video of the year: Dan + Shay, “Save Me the Trouble” Collaborative video of the year: ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Godzilla x Kong’ maintains box-office dominion in second weekend
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on April 7th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” easily swatted away a pair of challengers to hold on to the top spot at the box office for the second week in a row, according to studio estimates Sunday. After its above-expectations $80 million launch last weekend, the MonsterVerse mashup brought in $31.7 million ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CMT Awards return Sunday night with host Kelsea Ballerini and a tribute to the late Toby Keith
By Maria Sherman, The Associated Press on April 7th, 2024
The CMT Music Awards, celebrating the best in country music videos, are set to return on Sunday night live from Austin, Texas. Hosted by Kelsea Ballerini, the fan-voted show begins at 8 p.m. Eastern and will be broadcast from the Moody Center on CBS and Paramount+. This year, the awards are expected to feature a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Looking to pick up carpentry skills? In Newfoundland, you can learn to build a boat
By Sarah Smellie, The Canadian Press on April 7th, 2024
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – There are many reasons a dozen people gathered two evenings a week this year in St. John’s to build a traditional Newfoundland boat, bending and clamping long planks of wood and handling high-strength industrial glue. Some, like John Handrigan of Placentia Junction, N.L., were drawn in by the history and felt ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Happy ABBA-versary! Fans mark 50 years since ‘Waterloo’ took the world by storm
By The Associated Press on April 6th, 2024
LONDON (AP) – It’s 50 years since ABBA won a major battle with “Waterloo.” A half-century ago on Saturday, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song, which opens: “My my, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way.” The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Ready to come home’: Regina’s Globe Theatre to reopen in fall after major renovation
By Jeremy Simes, The Canadian Press on April 6th, 2024
REGINA – Canada’s only permanent theatre-in-the-round was hollowed out like a pumpkin nearly four years ago. Work crews removed thousands of kilograms of concrete. They added reinforcements and new features. More than $40 million later, the Globe Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan’s largest professional theatre company, is almost ready to reopen. “It’s been a labour of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lawsuit naming Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs as co-defendant alleges his son sexually assaulted woman on yacht
By Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press on April 5th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A lawsuit that names Sean “Diddy” Combs as a co-defendant alleges that his son Christian “King” Combs sexually assaulted a woman working on a yacht chartered by his father. The suit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court says that Sean Combs created the circumstances that led to the assault, and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Actor in spinoff of popular TV western ‘Yellowstone’ is found dead, authorities say
By Heather Hollingsworth, The Associated Press on April 5th, 2024
MISSION, Kan. (AP) – An actor who appeared in a spinoff of the popular television western “Yellowstone” was found dead after he went missing amid a domestic violence investigation in Kansas, authorities said Friday. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that deputies found the body of 27-year-old Cole Brings Plenty in a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher say they filed for divorce
By The Associated Press on April 5th, 2024
Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher say they filed for divorce last year after more than 20 years together. The English “Borat” star and the Australian “Wedding Crashers” actor who married in 2010 announced their split Friday in joint Instagram posts that showed them together in tennis outfits. “After a long tennis match lasting over ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!What to stream this week: Sheila E. plays salsa, Andrew Scott gets evil and Colin Farrell detects
By The Associated Press on April 5th, 2024
Colin Farrell playing a private investigator in the new series “Sugar” for Apple TV+ and Andrew Scott stepping into the role of fraudster-turned-killer Tom Ripley for Netflix are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sean Paul helped bring dancehall to the masses. With a new tour, he’s ready to do it all over again
By Maria Sherman, The Associated Press on April 5th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – It has been 21 years since Sean Paul’s dancehall anthem “Get Busy” topped the Billboard Hot 100 – which means “Get Busy” is finally old enough to hear “Get Busy” at the club. “It’s changed for me now,” Sean Paul told The Associated Press over Zoom from his studio in Jamaica, ... Read More »
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