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BuzzFeed to close news division, cut 15% of all staff
By The Associated Press on April 20th, 2023
Pulitzer prize winning digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division as it cuts about 15% of its entire staff. In a memo sent to staff, co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said that cuts would also occur across its business, content, tech and administrative teams, according to multiple media reports. BuzzFeed is also ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Todd Haimes, who led a theater company to Broadway, dies
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press on April 20th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Todd Haimes, who led the Roundabout Theatre Company from an off-off-Broadway company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy into a major theatrical force with works on five stages – including three Broadway theaters – and dozens of Tony Awards, has died. He was 66. Haimes, the artistic director and CEO of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Why is Karl Lagerfeld, the Met Gala theme, controversial?
By Leanne Italie, The Associated Press on April 20th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Karl Lagerfeld, the subject of this year’s Met Gala, transformed Chanel from frumpy to modern. He revolutionized the merger of hip-hop culture and high fashion. He dressed and befriended celebrities and transformed once-staid runway shows into masterful, theatrical displays. He was also a self-proclaimed “big mouth,” publicly sounding off with fatphobia. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Texan princess evicted from Rome villa, Caravaggio stays
By Nicole Winfield And Francesco Stati, The Associated Press on April 20th, 2023
ROME (AP) – A Texas-born princess piled her four yapping bichon frise dogs into a taxi Thursday after being evicted, following a bitter inheritance dispute, from a historic villa in Rome that contains the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio. Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi, nee Rita Carpenter, abandoned the Casino dell’Aurora off the swank ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!AP image of Mariupol hospital attack wins World Press Photo
By Mike Corder, The Associated Press on April 20th, 2023
AMSTERDAM (AP) – Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka won the World Press Photo of the year on Thursday for his harrowing image of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman through the shattered grounds of a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, in the chaotic aftermath of a Russian attack. The Ukrainian photographer’s March ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!K-pop star Moon Bin found dead at home
By The Associated Press on April 20th, 2023
Seoul, South Korea (AP) – Moon Bin, a singer from South Korean boyband Astro, was found dead at his home in Seoul, his management agency said Thursday. The 25-year-old was reportedly found by his manager who went to the singer’s home Wednesday evening because he wasn’t responding to contacts. Police are investigating his death but ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie theaters and streamers may end up friends, after all
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on April 19th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – After Ben Affleck and Matt Damon test screened their Nike drama “Air,” the film executives at Amazon Studios threw them a curveball. “They said, “˜What do you guys think about a theatrical release?'” Damon says. “It wasn’t what we expected when we first made the deal.” “Air,” about Nike’s pursuit of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Last minute brinkmanship and overseas assist end Fox case
By David Bauder, The Associated Press on April 19th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Before pulling back from the brink of a trial, Fox News and Dominion Voting systems faced a stern deadline – not from an impatient judge or jury, but from a man on a Danube River cruise with his wife half a world away. A mediator hired late Sunday pushed the two ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Florida expands ‘Don’t Say Gay’; House OKs anti-LGBTQ bills
By Anthony Izaguirre And Brendan Farrington, The Associated Press on April 19th, 2023
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis added more wins to his agenda targeting the LGBTQ+ community as a state board approved an expansion of what critics call the “Don’t Say Gay” law Wednesday, and the House passed bills on gender-transition treatments, bathroom use and keeping children out of drag shows. The Board ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Florida expands ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ OKs 3 more anti-LGBTQ bills
By Anthony Izaguirre And Brendan Farrington, The Associated Press on April 19th, 2023
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis added more wins to his agenda targeting the LGBTQ+ community as a state board approved an expansion of what critics call the “Don’t Say Gay” law Wednesday, and the House passed bills on gender-transition treatments, bathroom use and keeping children out of drag shows. The Board ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Reckless’: Alberta judge fines B.C. man $6,000 for catching trout in national park
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press on April 19th, 2023
CALGARY – An Alberta judge fined a B.C. man $6,000 Wednesday for illegally catching eight cutthroat trout in Banff National Park as part of a YouTube survival challenge nearly four years ago. Outdoor survivalists Greg Ovens of Canal Flats, B.C., and Zachary Fowler, an American citizen, filmed part of the “30 Day Survival Challenge in ... Read More »
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