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Oasis adds 3 shows to its 2025 tour as fans clamor for tickets to Gallagher brothers’ reunion
By The Associated Press on August 29th, 2024
LONDON (AP) – Oasis has added three more dates to its reunion tour of Britain and Ireland, citing “unprecedented demand” for tickets. The new shows announced Thursday are at Heaton Park in the band’s home city of Manchester, England on July 16, 2025, at London’s Wembley Stadium on July 30 and at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Award-winning memoirist Jenny Heijun Wills on maintaining privacy while life writing
By Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press on August 29th, 2024
TORONTO – For Jenny Heijun Wills, privacy is protection. The writer strikes a delicate balance in her two books – the most recent the essay collection “Everything and Nothing At All” – sharing deeply personal facets of her life while keeping parts of herself safe, just for her. “Despite the fact that I continue to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony adds Metric and Sam Roberts as performers
By David Friend, The Canadian Press on August 29th, 2024
TORONTO – Canadian rock band Metric and singer-songwriter Sam Roberts are adding fuel to this year’s Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Organizers tell The Canadian Press the musicians are among a new wave of performers set to play the celebration at Toronto’s Massey Hall on Sept. 28. And three of the inductees – ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Thai court sentences a YouTube chef, who is the son of Spanish actors, to life in prison for murder
By Sahatthaya Kraikhunthot And Grant Peck, The Associated Press on August 28th, 2024
BANGKOK (AP) – A court in Thailand on Thursday found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family, guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison, in a lurid case that involved the victim being dismembered. The Koh Samui Provincial Court issued an initial sentence of death for Sancho ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Venice Film Festival prepares to greet Angelina Jolie and ‘Maria,’ her film about famed opera singer
By Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press on August 28th, 2024
VENICE, Italy (AP) – Angelina Jolie has played an evil queen, a war correspondent, a hacker, an international spy and a sociopath and is now adding opera singer to her resume. It’s not just any opera singer either: Jolie stars as the legendary soprano Maria Callas in a new film from Chilean filmmaker Pablo LarraÃn. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Newborn rattlesnakes at a Colorado ‘mega den’ are making their live debut
By Mead Gruver, The Associated Press on August 28th, 2024
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – A “mega den” of hundreds of rattlesnakes in Colorado is getting even bigger now that late summer is here and babies are being born. Thanks to livestream video, scientists studying the den on a craggy hillside in Colorado are learning more about these enigmatic – and often misunderstood – reptiles. They’re ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rio de Janeiro police seize on a new target: Hard-to-grasp stuffed animals
By David Biller, The Associated Press on August 28th, 2024
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Rio de Janeiro – already notorious for street muggings, corrupt politicians, ruthless militias and Kalashnikov-toting drug traffickers – has a new public enemy: plushies. Or, more specifically, the joystick-controlled claw machines that dispense them. On Wednesday, Rio police carried out 16 search warrants targeting the machines that elicit exhilaration among ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian country duo The Reklaws fail to advance on ‘America’s Got Talent’
By The Canadian Press on August 28th, 2024
The Reklaws’ journey on “America’s Got Talent” has come to an end. Canadian country duo Stuart and Jenna Walker were eliminated from the competition show Wednesday night after their quarterfinals performance failed to secure enough fan votes. Although the siblings’ rendition of their song “Long Live the Night” got a big audience applause on Tuesday’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ludacris’ gulp of untreated Alaska glacier melt was totally fine, scientist says
By Mark Thiessen, The Associated Press on August 28th, 2024
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Rapper-turned-actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges sparked concern from some social media followers when he knelt on an Alaska glacier, dipped an empty water bottle into a blue, pristine pool of water and drank it. Video of Ludacris tasting the glacial water and proclaiming, “Oh my God!” got millions of views on TikTok ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal’s Concordia University reports big drop in enrolment following tuition hike
By Maura Forrest, The Canadian Press on August 28th, 2024
MONTREAL – One of Quebec’s three English-language universities is reporting a nearly 30 per cent drop in enrolment of out-of-province students following a controversial tuition hike announced last year by the provincial government. The president of Concordia University said Wednesday that the decline in new registrations will have a major impact on the institution, and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Study finds no evidence Tories were behind bot campaign that posted about Poilievre
By Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press on August 28th, 2024
OTTAWA – There is no evidence that indicates the federal Conservatives were behind a bot network on social media that praised a Pierre Poilievre rally, a new study has found. The Canadian Digital Media Research Network launched an investigation after hundreds of X accounts posted about the Conservative leader’s July rally in Kirkland Lake, Ont., ... Read More »
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