By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) â There are pioneering music figures, and then there is Ozzy Osbourne, the larger-than-life frontman of Black Sabbath, whose personal mythology is eclipsed only by the strength and immortality of his songs. A godfather and force of heavy metal, Osbourne died Tuesday at 76, just months after his last performance. The English ... Read More »
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LOS ANGELES (AP) â FKA Twigs and Shia LaBeouf have agreed to settle her lawsuit alleging LaBeouf was physically and emotionally abusive to her during their relationship. An attorney for the 37-year-old English singer and actor FKA Twigs, whose legal name is Tahliah Barnett, filed a request in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday to ... Read More »
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In the 1960s, a hospital in London held a ward full of women who suffered from a range of mental disorders. The women in this âsleep roomâ were subjected to various medical procedures, including electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, and, at times, a lobotomy, without their consent. In “The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the ... Read More »
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Luminaries of the music world mourned the death of Ozzy Osbourne at age 76, expressing affection and admiration for the heavy metal icon. Elton John called the Black Sabbath frontman âa dear friend and a huge trailblazerâ and âone of the funniest people I’ve ever met.â Nirvana said Black Sabbath was âthe template for heavy ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025
Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice â and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id â of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76. Either clad in black or bare-chested, the singer was often the target of parentsâ groups for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025
Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice â and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id â of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76. âIt is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) â Netflixâs new reality show, âBuilding the Band,â unexpectedly became Liam Payneâs last major appearance â moments the showâs hosts say they, along with contestants and viewers, are lucky to have. The show features Payne as a guest judge, offering pointed but witty advice to young bands chasing success not unlike what ... Read More »
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Stephen Colbert returned for his first full program after last week’s announcement that CBS was canceling his âLate Showâ with some supportive late-night guests, a joke about cancel culture and an extremely pointed remark directed at President Donald Trump. âI’m going to go ahead and say it: Cancel culture’s gone way too far,â Colbert said ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025
United Nations (AP) â The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the U.S. further retreating from international organizations. The decision to pull U.S. funding and participation from UNESCO comes two years after the Biden administration rejoined following a controversial, five-year ... Read More »
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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) â RenĂ©e Flemingâs âCosĂŹ fan tutteâ was ready to rumble. Long a star soprano, Fleming made her directing debut Monday night at the Aspen Music Festival and School by transporting Mozart’s masterpiece from 18th century Naples, Italy, to a gym in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, amid professional wrestling’s rise in 1980. Posters on stage ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025
More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally get a worthy big-screen adaption in a spiffy â60s-era romp, bathed in retrofuturism and bygone American optimism. Though the Fantastic Four go to the very origins of Marvel Comics, their movie forays ... Read More »
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