Children’s author Robert Munsch donates letters, story drafts to Guelph Public Library
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
Children’s author Robert Munsch is donating his stash of story drafts, publisher notes and fan letters to the Guelph Public Library. The southwestern Ontario library says the collection will offer a rare glimpse into Munsch’s decades-long career, during which he penned bedtime classics including “The Paperbag Princess,” “Love You Forever” and “Mortimer.” The Munsch family ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conservative activist Laura Loomer, a Trump ally, says she has a new Pentagon press pass
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — With the Pentagon’s press room largely cleared of mainstream reporters, conservative activist and presidential ally Laura Loomer says she has been granted a credential to work there. Loomer has an influential social media presence and the ear of President Donald Trump, frequently campaigning for the firings of government officials she deems ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US-Apple-Books-Top-10
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. The Black Wolf by Louise Penny (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 2. The Widow by John Grisham (JG Publishing) 3. The Tin Men by Alex Demille & Nelson DeMille (Simon & Schuster) 4. The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company) 5. Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Apple TV app – Top Movies
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US) 1. The Conjuring: Last Rites 2. Nobody 2 3. The Long Walk 4. F1: The Movie 5. Jurassic World Rebirth 6. Weapons 7. Halloween 8. The Last Republican 9. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning 10. The Bad Guys 2 The Associated Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Apple Podcasts – Top New Shows
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
Top New Shows (US) 1. The Preventionist, Serial 2. The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall, CBC True Crime 3. unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Audacy 4. Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder, NBC News 5. Murdaugh: Death in the Family Official Podcast, Luna Shark & USG Audio 6. HARD LAUNCH with Dan and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Music Review: Mavis Staples emerges with peaceful, even-keeled album, ‘Sad and Beautiful World’
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
Mavis Staples ‘ latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy contralto. “Sad and Beautiful World” sees the gospel and R&B icon, who briefly considered retirement in 2023, deliver a peaceful, even-keeled sound that is neither thunderous nor sleepy. Instead, Staples invites world-weary listeners to join her ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Elle Fanning’s disjointed android steals the show in ‘Predator: Badlands’
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
Elle Fanning delivers one of the most disjointed performances of the year in “Predator: Badlands.” It’s not her fault — she’s a great actor. It’s just that she spends the majority of the movie in two pieces. Fanning plays an android whose torso and legs have different trajectories in this ninth installment of the “Predator” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bruce Springsteen performs at New York Public Library gala
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — They threw a party at the New York Public Library and a concert broke out. Bruce Springsteen was among six honorees Monday night at the library’s annual “Library Lions” gala, which pays tribute to “outstanding achievements” in arts, culture, letters and scholarship. Others receiving medals were producer-writer Shonda Rhimes and authors ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US-Audiobooks-Top-10
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
Nonfiction 1. Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, narrated by Thérèse Plummer and Gabra Zackman (Random House Audio) 2. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 3. Read Your Mind by Oz Pearlman, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 4. 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin, narrated by the author ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Salman Rushdie’s new book is his first fiction since a brutal attack. He tells us why
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie’s new book, his 23rd, is also a resetting of his career. “The Eleventh Hour,” which includes two short stories and three novellas, is his first work of fiction since he was brutally stabbed on a New York lecture stage in 2022. His recovery has been physical, psychological — and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Adam Sandler will receive AARP’s Movies for Grownups career achievement award, his second AARP prize
By Canadian Press on November 4th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adam Sandler will be the next recipient of AARP’s Movies for Grownups career achievement award, the group said Tuesday. And maybe this time, the actor will wait for his signal. When Sandler won the group’s best actor prize in 2020 for“Uncut Gems,” he rushed to the stage too fast — before ... Read More »
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