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Summer Movie Guide 2025: Here’s what’s coming to theaters and streaming from May to August
By Canadian Press on May 29th, 2025
Ethan Hunt’s last mission? A new Superman? Happy Gilmore as a dad? Three genre-spanning Pedro Pascal movies, including a romance, a superhero movie and an A24 Ari Aster thriller? Hollywood is pulling out the stops this summer movie season, which kicks off with the release Marvel’s “Thunderbolts(asterisk)” on May 2. May also brings big studio ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Matthew Goode is both good and bad cop in Netflix’s ‘Dept. Q’
By Canadian Press on May 29th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Being a leading man? Matthew Goode quite likes it. He’s the star of “Dept. Q,” based on the books by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen and set in the cold case division of an Edinburgh police station. From “The Queen’s Gambit” showrunner Scott Frank, the nine-part miniseries launches Thursday and sees Goode playing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Who are the Sacred Harp singers using a more than 180-year-old hymnal today
By Canadian Press on May 29th, 2025
BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook’s more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old — and all ages in between. Some have been singing from the hymnal all their lives, just as their parents and grandparents had done before ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Takeaways from AP’s report on why pre-Civil War hymnal ‘The Sacred Harp’ is getting an update
By Canadian Press on May 29th, 2025
BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds, and it is getting an update. Sung in four-part harmony, “The Sacred Harp” is central to its more than 180-year-old American folk a cappella singing tradition that is as ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!It’s not a reprint. Why Sacred Harp singers are revamping an iconic pre-Civil War hymnal
By Canadian Press on May 29th, 2025
BREMAN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. In four-part harmony, they sing together for hours, carrying on a more ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Maria Grazia Chiuri exits Dior, capping transformative era for the Paris fashion behemoth
By Canadian Press on May 29th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first woman ever to lead Dior’s women’s collections, announced Thursday she is stepping down as creative director after nine years at the storied French fashion house. The Italian designer confirmed her departure in an Instagram post, capping a transformative era defined by bold feminist messaging, record sales and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kenyans mourn African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
By Canadian Press on May 29th, 2025
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Nuria Bookstore owner Bennet Mbata, who has sold African literature for more than 30 years in the capital, Nairobi, said he enjoyed reading Ngũgĩ’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cosmetics company E.l.f acquires Hailey Bieber’s Rhode beauty brand for $1 billion
By Canadian Press on May 29th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — E.l.f. Beauty has acquired Hailey Bieber’s Rhode skincare brand in a $1 billion deal, the companies said. Bieber’s Rhode had $212 million in net sales in the 12 months that ended March 31. The company’s products are only available online, but by the end of this year it plans to begin ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!e.l.f. cosmetics acquires Hailey Bieber’s rhode beauty brand for $1 billion
By Canadian Press on May 29th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — e.l.f. Beauty has acquired Hailey Bieber’s rhode skincare brand in a $1 billion deal, the companies said. Bieber’s rhode had $212 million in net sales in the 12 months that ended March 31. The company’s products are only available online, but by the end of this year it plans to begin ... Read More »
1 responseAustralian comic actor Magda Szubanski, star of ‘Babe’ and ‘Kath and Kim,’ reveals cancer diagnosis
By Canadian Press on May 29th, 2025
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian comedian and actor Magda Szubanski, best known for roles in the television sitcom “Kath and Kim” and the movie “Babe,” announced on Thursday she had been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer. The 64-year-old Melbourne resident posted on social media that she had started treatment for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!With ‘Karate Kid: Legends,’ Ben Wang is the 1st Asian American new ‘Kid’ on the block
By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025
It didn’t occur to Ben Wang right away that in taking on “ Karate Kid: Legends,” he’d be the franchise’s first Asian American “Kid.” And that gives him a lot of optimism. “At first I didn’t even think about that,” Wang told The Associated Press. “That feels like a very cool and actually privileged position ... Read More »
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