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Busta Rhymes and Ricky Martin will make history at 2025 MTV VMAs. Here’s who is taking the stage
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — This year’s MTV Video Music Awards is shaking things up, handing out two new awards to decorated artists in the rap and Latin music genres. Rapper Busta Rhymes will receive the first ever MTV VMA Rock the Bells Visionary Award and Ricky Martin will be honored with the inaugural Latin Icon ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Book Review: A gang of hatchet-wielding women try to take over the meth business in rural Texas
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
A poor country woman and her kids are being terrorized by Porky, a rampaging hog that keeps breaking out of a neighbor’s pen. For help, she turns to Hap Collins and Leonard Pine in Joel R. Lansdale’s 14th darkly comic novel about the duo, “The Hatchet Girls.” Hap and Leonard aren’t animal control experts. They, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Devo’s misunderstood art-rock legacy explored in new documentary
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — You know the band Devo, right? The guys with the funny red plastic hats and jumpsuits? The New Wave musicians behind the silly “Whip It” video? They had that odd, spiky ’80s vibe? Well, it turns out you may not know as much as you think. The new Netflix documentary “Devo” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cable’s MSNBC will change its name later this year as part of corporate divorce from NBC
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
Television’s MSNBC news network is changing its name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW for short, as part of its corporate divorce from NBC. The network, which appeals to liberal audiences with a stable of personalities including Rachel Maddow, Ari Melber and Nicole Wallace, has been building its own separate news division ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 24-30
By Canadian Press on August 18th, 2025
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 24-30: Aug. 24: Guitarist Mason Williams is 87. Singer Marshall Thompson of The Chi-Lites is 83. Actor Ann Archer is 78. Actor Joe Regalbuto (“Murphy Brown”) is 76. Actor Kevin Dunn (“Samantha Who?”) is 70. Actor Steve Guttenberg is 67. Actor Jared Harris (“The Crown,” ″Mad Men”) is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Weapons’ maintains top spot in second weekend, scaring off newcomer ‘Nobody 2’
By Canadian Press on August 17th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Weapons” scared its way to the top of the box office in its debut and managed to stay there during its second weekend, beating out “Freakier Friday” and newcomer “Nobody 2.” Zach Cregger’s horror film earned $25 million in 3,450 North American theaters, a 43% drop from its first weekend. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!From apps to matchmaking: the diverse ways some American Muslims navigate finding marriage partners
By Canadian Press on August 17th, 2025
Nura Maznavi got a kick out of learning that New York City Muslim mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdanimet his wife on Hinge. “It made me feel like less of a loser,” Maznavi said laughingly about meeting her own husband online more than 14 years ago, before apps like Hinge became a dating fixture for many people. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Terence Stamp, British actor who portrayed General Zod in early Superman films, dies at 87
By Canadian Press on August 17th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Terence Stamp, the British actor who often played the role of a complex villain, including that of General Zod in the early Superman films, has died. He was 87. His death on Sunday was disclosed in a death notice published online. The London-born Stamp started his film career with 1962’s seafaring “Billy ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!“Weapons” maintained top spot during second weekend, scaring off newcomer “Nobody 2”
By Canadian Press on August 17th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Weapons” scared its way to the top of the box office in its debut and managed to stay there during its second box office weekend, beating out “Freakier Friday” and newcomer “Nobody 2.” Zach Cregger’s horror earned $25 million in 3,450 North American theaters, a 43% drop from its first weekend. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!From apps to matchmaking: the diverse ways American Muslims navigate finding marriage partners
By Canadian Press on August 17th, 2025
Nura Maznavi got a kick out of learning that New York City Muslim mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdanimet his wife on Hinge. “It made me feel like less of a loser,” Maznavi said laughingly about meeting her own husband online more than 14 years ago, before apps like Hinge became a dating fixture for many people. ... Read More »
1 responseWith the Bayeux Tapestry that tells of their long rivalry, France and Britain are making nice
By Canadian Press on August 17th, 2025
BAYEUX, France (AP) — For centuries, the storytelling masterpiece has been a source of wonder and fascination. In vivid and gruesome detail, the 70-meter (230-foot) embroidered cloth recounts how a fierce duke from France conquered England in 1066, reshaping British and European history. The Bayeux Tapestry, with its scenes of sword-wielding knights in ferocious combat ... Read More »
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