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Music Review: On Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ love and reputation are on the line
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
Who is Taylor Swift’s heir apparent? Her 12th album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” offers an answer. It’s Taylor Swift. Her last album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” ended with the cautionary “Clara Bow,” an allegory that seemed to suggest her tenure atop the cultural mainstream was inherited from stars of the past, like the namechecked ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ is out now. Here’s what to know
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Lights, camera, action. Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” has arrived. Are you ready for it? Swift announced her latest era back in August, when she began teasing the release. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of its drop date: how to stream, which variants exist, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!On eve of sentencing, Combs tells judge he has been ‘reborn,’ asks for mercy
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — On the eve of his sentencing, Sean “Diddy” Combs wrote a federal judge Thursday proclaiming himself to be a new man after realizing that he was “broken to my core.” Combs, 55, told Judge Arun Subramanian that with his mind clear of drugs and alcohol after a year in jail, he ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!On eve of sentencing, Combs tells judge he was ‘broken to my core’ and felt he’d be better off dead
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — On the eve of his sentencing, Sean “Diddy” Combs told a federal judge Thursday that he is a new man after realizing that he was “broken to my core” and wondering at times if he was better off dead. Combs, 55, wrote in a letter to Judge Arun Subramanian that with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will be sentenced under the Mann Act, a prostitution law from 1910
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to be sentenced Friday for violating the federal Mann Act, an anti-prostitution law with a century-old history. Although he was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges, Combs was convicted in July of flying people around the country, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, to engage in paid sexual ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner sue Ray J for defamation over racketeering claims
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Kardashian and her mother, Kris Jenner, are suing her ex-boyfriend Ray J for saying they are under federal investigation and on the verge of being indicted. The defamation lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday by the reality TV stars and businesspeople is a fast and aggressive pushback ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Photographer Gordon Parks’ religious images displayed in DC exhibition
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A new exhibition of the work of Gordon Parks, a photographer renowned for documenting African American life, turns its focus on Parks’ exploration of Black religion and spirituality. “Although Gordon Parks’s personal religious beliefs vacillated across his lifetime, he applied a working knowledge of Black religious culture with a commitment to humanism ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Dwayne Johnson has never been better in ‘The Smashing Machine,’ but the movie dodges
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t what you think it is, especially if you think it’s a movie about a British guy who thinks his typewriter is the tops. “The Smashing Machine” would seem to bear all the hallmarks of something grittier, darker and more disturbing than it is. It’s the solo directorial debut of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sam Smith set to honour Beverly Glenn-Copeland at LGBTQ celebration PTP Pink Awards
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
TORONTO — Global pop star Sam Smith will honour legendary singer and composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland at the second edition of the PTP Pink Awards. Organizers say Glenn-Copeland is this year’s legacy award recipient and one of six prominent LGBTQ+ figures being celebrated at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Nov. 6. “Sort Of” creator Bilal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Enfants Riches Déprimés marries military edge and bohemian ease in Paris
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Military regalia met bohemian ease at Enfants Riches Déprimés on Thursday, where designer Henri Alexander Levy once again proved his penchant for contradictions. A military-looking, shiny-buttoned denim coat, cut with the sharpness of uniform, was paired with ’70s heeled boots and a model’s shaggy, Woodstock hair. It was counterculture refracted through bourgeois ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mugler reopens playbook with underground debut show in Paris
By Canadian Press on October 2nd, 2025
PARIS (AP) — The fashion industry is deep in musical chairs this Paris season, and Thursday’s spotlight swung to a Mugler debut. Miguel Castro Freitas — Portuguese, Dior-honed, and a little-known name with a precise hand — took over a house built on shock and silhouette, and chose not to whisper. He hit the volume. ... Read More »
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