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MTV Movie & TV Awards ditches live event due to strike
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press on May 6th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – The first big live awards show to air during the current screenwriters’ strike has retreated to a pre-taped event as the MTV Movie & TV Awards tries to chart a celebratory course through a turbulent Hollywood. The Sunday show already had lost its host, Drew Barrymore, who dropped out in solidarity ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘We had to be here’: Fans gather at hometown concert celebrating Gordon Lightfoot
By David Friend, The Canadian Press on May 6th, 2023
ORILLIA, ONT. – A generation of old friends, longtime couples and families raised on Gordon Lightfoot gathered Saturday night in the singer-songwriter’s Orillia, Ont., hometown to mark the passing of the Canadian musician. By sheer coincidence – or as some suggested, a case of mournful serendipity – a concert planned months ago as a tribute ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MTV Movie & TV Awards ditches live event due due to strike
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press on May 6th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – The first big live awards show to air during the current screenwriters’ strike has retreated to a pre-taped event as the MTV Movie & TV Awards tries to chart a celebratory course through a turbulent Hollywood. The Sunday show already had lost its host, Drew Barrymore, who dropped out in solidarity ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Feeling is believing: Inside the abbey for king’s coronation
By Danica Kirka, The Associated Press on May 6th, 2023
LONDON (AP) – Being there is better. I didn’t see much of the coronation of King Charles III and neither did many of the 2,300 or so other guests inside Westminster Abbey. We were too far away, or were seated behind the choir, or had our view blocked by a guardsman in a plumed helmet. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97
By Tammy Webber, The Associated Press on May 6th, 2023
CHICAGO (AP) – Newton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday. He was 97. Minow, who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, died Saturday at home, surrounded by loved ones, said his daughter, Nell Minow. “He wanted ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Prince Harry an odd man out at father’s coronation spectacle
By Brian Melley, The Associated Press on May 6th, 2023
LONDON (AP) – In the fairy-tale ending to the ancient pageantry in which King Charles Ill was crowned monarch, he stepped into a gilded horse-drawn carriage with his queen and rode off to his palace. Following closely behind was Prince William, his eldest son and heir, along with his family, including 9-year-old Prince George who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Chris Strachwitz, founded Arhoolie label, dies age 91
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on May 6th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Chris Strachwitz, a producer, musicologist and one-man preservation society whose Arhoolie Records released thousands of songs by regional performers and comprised an extraordinary American archive that became known and loved worldwide, has died. He was 91. Strachwitz, recipient in 2016 of a Grammy Trustee Award, passed away Friday from complications with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!King Charles III crowned with regal pomp, cheers and shrugs
By Danica Kirka And Jill Lawless, The Associated Press on May 6th, 2023
LONDON (AP) – King Charles III was crowned Saturday at Westminster Abbey, in a ceremony steeped in ancient ritual and brimming with bling at a time when the monarchy is striving to remain relevant in a fractured modern Britain. At a coronation with displays of royal power straight out of the Middle Ages, Charles was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oprah tells class of 2023 to follow ‘still, small voice’
By Travis Loller, The Associated Press on May 6th, 2023
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Oprah Winfrey delighted graduates at her alma mater Tennessee State University on Saturday, telling the story of how she fell one credit short of graduating as she launched the media career that would make her a household name. Giving the commencement address at the historically Black university, Winfrey recalled that she ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Taylor Swift returns to Nashville, reveals ‘Speak Now’ date
By Kristin M. Hall, The Associated Press on May 6th, 2023
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Taylor Swift is playing catch-up with her fans this year in a massive and impressive stadium show that embraces her artistic reinventions. Nearly two months into the 52-show Eras Tour, Swift returned Friday to the origins of her musical career in Nashville, Tennessee, a city she outgrew as a country starlet ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jazz Fest’s Saturday opening delayed by weather
By The Associated Press on May 6th, 2023
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A line of strong thunderstorms, with wind gusts of up to 60 mph (about 97 kph), prompted organizers of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to delay Saturday’s opening at the Fair Grounds by at least two hours. In an announcement on Twitter, the festival told festgoers to “stay tuned” ... Read More »
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