July 31st, 2025

Entertainment News

10 songs to memorialize Ozzy Osbourne, the great Black Sabbath frontman

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — 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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FKA Twigs agrees to settle lawsuit alleging abuse from Shia LaBeouf

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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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Book Review: ‘The Sleep Room’ is the harrowing story of psychiatric care in the 1960s

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

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 “sleep room” 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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Elton John, Questlove, Rod Stewart mourn death of Ozzy Osbourne

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

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 “a dear friend and a huge trailblazer” and “one of the funniest people I’ve ever met.” Nirvana said Black Sabbath was “the template for heavy ... Read More »

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Ozzy Osbourne, godfather of heavy metal who led Black Sabbath, dies at 76

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 — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — 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 parents’ groups for ... Read More »

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Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76

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 — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that ... Read More »

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‘Building the Band’ has Liam Payne’s last major appearance before his death

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix’s new reality show, “Building the Band,” unexpectedly became Liam Payne’s last major appearance — moments the show’s 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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Colbert jokes about ‘cancel culture’ and has a very pointed message for Trump

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

Stephen Colbert returned for his first full program after last week’s announcement that CBS was canceling his “Late Show” with some supportive late-night guests, a joke about cancel culture and an extremely pointed remark directed at President Donald Trump. “I’m going to go ahead and say it: Cancel culture’s gone way too far,” Colbert said ... Read More »

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Trump administration withdraws from UNESCO again, only 2 years after US rejoined

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

United Nations (AP) — 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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RenĂ©e Fleming makes directing debut with wrestling-themed ‘CosĂŹ fan tutte’ at Aspen Music Festival

By Canadian Press on July 22nd, 2025

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — RenĂ©e Fleming’s “CosĂŹ fan tutte” 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 »

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Movie Review: The villains steal the show in ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’

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 ’60s-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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