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One way to get real-life legal experience? A free trip to the Paris Olympics
By Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Once a year, law professor Moraima “Mo” Ivory usually brings celebrities like Steve Harvey, Ludacris and Rick Ross into her Georgia State University classroom for some entertainment legal talk. But this time, she’s taking her next lesson across the Atlantic Ocean, from Atlanta to the Paris Olympics. Ivory and her law ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The best concerts of 2024 so far: AP’s picks include Olivia Rodrigo, Bad Bunny, George Strait, SZA
By Maria Sherman, The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
As The Associated Press’ music writer, Maria Sherman has seen more than 40 concerts during the first half of 2024. Here are some picks for the best shows … so far, excluding any one-off performances that cannot be repeated, and where you too can catch these artists. Bad Bunny, “The Most Wanted Tour” March 14, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Thousands pay their respects to renowned Albanian writer Ismail Kadare at his state funeral
By The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Thousands of people paid their last respects to Ismail Kadare in a state funeral held in Tirana Wednesday, with a minute’s silence held nationwide in memory of the renowned Albanian novelist and poet who died earlier this week. Kadare’s coffin, surrounded by National Guard officers, lay in state in the entrance ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New Mexico denies film incentive application on ‘Rust’ movie after fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin
By Morgan Lee, The Associated Press on July 2nd, 2024
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Producers of the western movie “Rust” may have to forgo a robust economic incentive as they try to sell the film to distributors and fulfill financial obligations to the immediate family of a cinematographer who was fatally shot by Alec Baldwin during rehearsal in 2021. New Mexico tax authorities denied ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!What was the ‘first American novel’? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on July 2nd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected the country’s first president, a Boston-based printer quietly launched another American institution. William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy,” published anonymously by Isaiah Thomas & Company, is widely cited as something momentous: the first American novel. Around 100 pages ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Usher and Janet Jackson headline 30th Essence Festival of Culture
By Chevel Johnson Rodrigue, The Associated Press on July 2nd, 2024
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The best of Black culture’s policymakers, thought leaders, creatives, spiritual gurus, business movers and shakers, health experts and, of course, musical talent are poised to converge in New Orleans over the Fourth of July weekend as part of the Essence Festival of Culture. The festival kicks off Thursday and runs through ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!BTS member Jin expected to take part in Paris Olympics as a torchbearer from South Korea
By Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press on July 2nd, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, will be an Olympic torchbearer at the Paris games after recently completing his mandatory military service. The 31-year-old singer is expected to represent South Korea in the torch relay in hopes of spreading the message of “harmony” and “peace,” according to a statement. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Appeals court rejects Broadway producer’s antitrust claim against actors’ and stage managers’ union
By Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press on July 2nd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – An appeals court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a Tony Award-winning producer who claims that a union for actors and stage managers organized an illegal boycott that prevented him from producing live Broadway shows. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled that the producer, Garth Drabinsky, could ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Robert Towne, Oscar-winning writer of ‘Chinatown,’ dies at 89
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on July 2nd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of “Shampoo,” “The Last Detail” and other acclaimed films whose work on “Chinatown” became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, Towne died Monday surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles, said publicist ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CBC broadcaster Rick Cluff, ex-host of Vancouver’s The Early Edition, dead at 74
By The Canadian Press on July 2nd, 2024
VANCOUVER – Former CBC radio journalist and personality Rick Cluff, who was the longtime host of The Early Edition morning show in Vancouver, has died at the age of 74. The public broadcaster says Cluff died shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. Cluff was host of CBC’s Radio One’s top-rated morning show from 1997 until ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Q&A: Emma Roberts talks ‘Space Cadet,’ her love of books, ‘Tell Me Lies’ and Kim Kardashian
By Alicia Rancilio, The Associated Press on July 2nd, 2024
As one of Ryan Murphy’s go-to actors for his “American Horror Story” franchise, Emma Roberts has been sawed in half, played a ruthless witch and a final girl facing off against a serial killer. Most recently she was a pregnant actor targeted by a cult. When the opportunity to play a college dropout-turned-NASA trainee in ... Read More »
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