May 24th, 2025

Entertainment News

Met Gala kicks off with Teyana Taylor, Emma Chamberlain and Lewis Hamilton. Here’s how to watch

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Let the year’s biggest fashion party begin! A rainy Met Gala got underway Monday with a tuxedoed choir and a trend true to the menswear theme: Emma Chamberlain and other women in pinstripe gowns. Chamberlain and Zuri Hall were among those who wore sleek, sexy gowns that play on men’s suiting ... Read More »

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Met Gala kicks off with Teyana Taylor, Emma Chamberlain among early arrivals. Here’s how to watch

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Let the year’s biggest fashion party begin! A rainy Met Gala got underway Monday and a trend true to the menswear theme has already emerged: Emma Chamberlain and other women in pinstripe gowns. Chamberlain and Zuri Hall wore sleek, sexy gowns that play on men’s suiting in pinstripes. “I expect this ... Read More »

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Toronto Music Experience aims to celebrate local music history, open a museum

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

TORONTO — Toronto’s storied music history may finally have a museum of its own as part of a five-year plan guided by a team of local entertainment leaders. Organizers at the Toronto Music Experience say they’ve recently been granted charitable status, which allows them to move forward with plans to fundraise, secure sponsorships and ultimately ... Read More »

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A Trump film tariff would send Canadian screen industry into ‘chaos,’ say local producers

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

President Donald Trump’s proposed tariff on foreign-made films would send Canada’s screen industry into “chaos,” local producers say — though several believe the plan is unlikely to ever be implemented. In a social media post Sunday, Trump said he’s authorized trade officials to impose a “100 per cent tariff” on all films produced outside of ... Read More »

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Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. It also earned six Tony Award ... Read More »

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Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. It also earned six Tony Award ... Read More »

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New York Times wins 4 Pulitzers, New Yorker 3; Washington Post wins for coverage of Trump shooting

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and the New Yorker three on Monday for journalism in 2024 that touched on topics like the fentanyl crisis, the U.S. military and last summer’s assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. The Pulitzers’ prestigious public service medal went to ProPublica for the second ... Read More »

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The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards are coming up. Here’s who’s nominated and how to watch

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Excuse me, you look like you might want to see the next generation of country music acts clean up at the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards. Fans of the genre have long committed Ella Langley and Riley Green’s throwback duet, “You Look Like You Love Me” to memory, and soon, ... Read More »

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Book Review: Restaurateur Keith McNally opens up in candid memoir ‘I Regret Almost Everything’

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

Keith McNally has been charming New York City diners since he opened his first restaurant, The Odeon, in 1980, helping transform a then-derelict TriBeCa into a hotspot for the “glitterati.” The Odeon’s glowing neon sign was featured on the cover of Jay McInerney’s 1984 novel “Bright Lights, Big City,” and the restaurant was a regular ... Read More »

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The stories behind all of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ name changes as the hip-hop mogul heads to trial

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

In the criminal indictment for this week’s sex trafficking trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the document lists many of the hip-hop mogul’s aliases. Most people, especially music fans, probably already know them. From “Puff Daddy” to “P. Diddy” and even the obscure “Brother Love,” here’s a look back at Combs’ self-appointed names and what was ... Read More »

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New Met Gala exhibit ‘Superfine’ gives voice to emerging Black designers

By Canadian Press on May 5th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — When the email came from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques Agbobly at first didn’t quite believe it. The Brooklyn-based fashion designer had only been in the business for five years. Now, one of the world’s top museums was asking for two of his designs to be shown in “Superfine: Tailoring ... Read More »

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