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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex-aide says she was ‘brainwashed’ when she sent loving texts years after rape
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — A former personal assistant to Sean “Diddy” Combs who says he raped her testified Monday that she continued sending him loving text messages for years after her job ended in 2017 because she was “brainwashed.” The woman, testifying for a third day under the pseudonym “Mia” at the music mogul’s federal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How Christopher Gattelli crafted Broadway’s ‘Death Becomes Her’ and made it a Tonys powerhouse
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — When he was first asked to helm the Broadway hit musical “Death Becomes Her,” director and choreographer Christopher Gattelli loved it, but refused to work on the big, splashy opening number. It was just too delicious. “When they sent it to me, I was cooking and I burnt dinner because my ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Try’ and ‘Try’ again: Blue Rodeo marks 40th anniversary with 27-date Canadian tour
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
TORONTO — Blue Rodeo is making the most of its 40th anniversary with a coast-to-coast Canadian tour. The legendary Toronto alt-country act has announced a 27-date run that kicks off this fall and continues into early next year. The tour begins with two nights in Calgary on Oct. 1 and 2, before winding through the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: ‘Beach House Rules’ is delicious high end Southern chick lit
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
Charlotte Sitterly and her 14-year-old daughter, Iris, are suddenly shut out of their comfortable life in an upscale coastal community in North Carolina. They’ve lost access to their money, car and even home after husband and father Bill was arrested on suspicion of financial fraud. With no where else to go, they wind up at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: ‘Charlottesville’ a dramatic account of deadly 2017 rally and history behind it
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
Decades before the violent Unite the Right rally in 2017 in Charlottesville that drew white nationalists protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, the city was targeted by a white supremacist who hoped to ignite a race war. To understand the 2017 Unite the Right rally, Deborah Baker writes in “Charlottesville: An American ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: In the ‘The Listeners,’ Maggie Stiefvater approaches WWII with a distinct voice
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
Maggie Stiefvater has brought her magical prose with her to her first adult novel. “The Listeners” takes place at a luxury hotel in West Virginia as World War II begins. In need of a place to store their foreign nationals — i.e. Axis diplomats and their families — the U.S. government takes over the Avallon ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Old Dominion’s new album, ‘Barbara,’ won’t lean on band’s record-breaking laurels
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — When Old Dominion’s eighth group of the year victory broke the tie for consecutive wins at the Academy of Country Music Awards last month, it changed the record books — but not their perspective. “They’re certainly wonderful honors that we get, but that’s not in any way how we really measure ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israeli soldiers bar media from visiting West Bank villages on tour organized by Oscar winners
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers on Monday barred journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on a planned tour organized by the directors of the Oscar-winning movie “No Other Land.” The directors of the film, which focuses on Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territory, said they had invited the journalists on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: Desi Arnaz biography highlights triumphs of Lucy’s favorite foil
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
Once a second banana, always a second banana when in the shadow of a brighter star. For musician and actor Desi Arnaz, that shadow belonged to Lucille Ball, his wife and co-star on the ground-breaking 1950s sitcom “I Love Lucy.” Etched in television history are the images of Lucy falling on her rear while stomping ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: A diary sends a woman on a quest to solve the cold case of 6 missing Black girls
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
At age 13, Sydney Singleton discovered an old photograph tucked away in a drawer in her paternal grandmother’s guest room. It was a portrait of a Black girl just entering her teen years — a girl who looked a lot like Sydney. Next morning, Sydney asked her grandmother about it. The woman, her voice “firm ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 8-14
By Canadian Press on June 2nd, 2025
Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 8-14: June 8: Singer Nancy Sinatra is 85. Singer Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) is 83. Singer Boz Scaggs is 81. Actor Kathy Baker (“Picket Fences”) is 75. Actor Sonia Braga is 75. Singer Bonnie Tyler is 74. Actor Griffin Dunne is 70. “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams is ... Read More »
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