August 5th, 2025

Entertainment News

An Australian artist is creating a massive mural in the middle of a small North Dakota town

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — High atop a massive grain elevator in the middle of Minot, North Dakota, artist Guido van Helten swipes a concrete wall with a brush that looks more appropriate for painting a fence than creating a monumental mural. Back and forth van Helten brushes, focused on his work and not bothered by ... Read More »

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Judge says Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs must stay in jail until he is sentenced

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs can’t go home from jail to await sentencing on his prostitution-related conviction, a judge said Monday, denying the rap and style mogul’s latest bid for bail. Combs has been behind bars since his September arrest. He faced federal charges of coercing girlfriends into having drug-fueled sex marathons with ... Read More »

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is denied release on bond to await sentencing

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs can’t go home from jail to await sentencing on his prostitution-related conviction, a judge said Monday, denying the rap and style mogul’s latest bid for bail. Combs has been behind bars since his September arrest. He faced federal charges of coercing girlfriends into having drug-fueled sex marathons with ... Read More »

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Post to Coast: New York Post plans a California newspaper

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Post is launching a California tabloid newspaper and news site next year, the company announced Monday, bringing an assertive, irreverent and conservative-friendly fixture of the Big Apple media landscape to the Golden State. In the process, it is creating a 21st-century rarity: a new American newspaper with a ... Read More »

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Music Review: The Black Keys’ ‘No Rain, No Flowers’ puts a feel-good spin on a turbulent year

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — The Ohio alt-rock band the Black Keys are finding their way home on their 13th full-length LP, “No Rain, No Flowers.” The journey hasn’t been easy. Last year, the Grammy-winning duo underwent a fiery, public split with their management after their arena tour was unceremoniously canceled. But on “No Rain, No ... Read More »

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From a job at a meat processing plant to country music stardom, Bailey Zimmerman is figuring it out

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — His is a Cinderella story. Before the big tours and country music award nominations, Bailey Zimmerman was growing up in the small town of Louisville, Illinois, working at the local meat processing plant and laying gas pipeline. Then, in 2020, he decided to upload videos of himself singing to social media ... Read More »

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Book Review: ‘The Devil Reached Toward the Sky’ weaves thorough account of Atomic Age’s start

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

The story of the Atomic Age’s start is a fascinating one about the power of invention and a chilling one about its consequences. In “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb,” Garrett M. Graff skillfully tells both. The power of Graff’s oral history is ... Read More »

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Tenor Piotr Beczała sings different productions of Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ 41 hours apart

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Less than 41 hours after his final bows for singing the title role of “Lohengrin” at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Piotr Beczała was 150 miles (241 kilometers) away at the Bayreuth Festpielhaus for a different production of the same Wagner opera. Wagner’s roles are among the most punishing in classical music, ... Read More »

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Book Review: Jason Mott’s ‘People Like Us’ explores the struggles of semi-fame and American identity

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

How does one follow up writing “A Hell of a Book” that wins the National Book Award? If you’re Jason Mott, you write a sort-of, not-really, by all legal terms fictionalized — according to the forward — autobiographical story about what life is like as a semi-famous writer. Or actually you write two viewpoints: one ... Read More »

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Book Review: Louis Sachar’s debut adult novel is a zany adventure of science and magic

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

Anatole isn’t just any magician. He’s the magician of Tiger Castle, whom the king of Esquaveta once declared to be the greatest magician in all the land. “The Magician of Tiger Castle” is Anatole’s chance to set the record straight. Not about his greatness — he fully accepts the title the king bestowed on him ... Read More »

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2 killed, 6 wounded in shooting at music festival after-party in downtown Los Angeles

By Canadian Press on August 4th, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A shooting erupted during a music festival after-party in downtown Los Angeles, killing two people and wounding six others early Monday, authorities said. Authorities first responded around 11 p.m. Sunday to shut down a “big party” after officers saw a person possibly armed with a gun go inside a building in ... Read More »

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