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Chance the Rapper to bring free concert, festival to Ghana
By Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press on December 21st, 2022
LOS ANGELES (AP) – When Chance the Rapper visited West Africa earlier this year, he initially thought his trip with fellow Chicago hip-hop artist Vic Mensa would be just another vacation getaway. Instead, the Grammy winner connected with Mensa’s father’s family in Ghana and other natives from the Motherland on a deeper level. He saw ... Read More »
1 response‘Get Carter,’ ‘Flash Gordon’ director Mike Hodges dies at 90
By Jill Lawless, The Associated Press on December 21st, 2022
LONDON (AP) – British filmmaker Mike Hodges, who directed gangland thriller “Get Carter” and sci-fi cult classic “Flash Gordon,” has died. He was 90. Hodges died at his home in the county of Dorset in southwest England on Saturday, his friend and former producer Mike Kaplan told British media on Wednesday. No cause of death ... Read More »
1 responseOutraged Acadian group urges leadership review of New Brunswick premier
By The Canadian Press on December 21st, 2022
FREDERICTON – The Acadian Society of New Brunswick released today a scathing open letter to Premier Blaine Higgs, accusing him of abdicating his responsibilities toward official bilingualism. The letter, addressed to the Conservative Party of New Brunswick, calls on the party to conduct a review of Higgs’s leadership, suggesting the premier has become wildly unpopular ... Read More »
1 responseVoilà ! ‘Emily In Paris’ returns, with surprises in store
By Hilary Fox, The Associated Press on December 21st, 2022
PARIS (AP) – “Emily in Paris” fans will get a few surprises in their Christmas stockings, when the third season of the hit show arrives on Netflix this Wednesday. Even the cast were shocked by the number of cliffhangers in the new series when they first read the scripts. “I’m like, how are we going ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Norway’s aging king discharged from the hospital
By The Associated Press on December 21st, 2022
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Norway’s King Harald V was discharged Wednesday from an Oslo hospital where he had received treatment with intravenous antibiotics for an infection. “The king is on the road to recovery, but will take it easy for a few days,” the Norwegian palace said in a brief statement. The 85-year-old monarch was ... Read More »
1 response1 woman’s story of rape convinced all Weinstein trial jurors
By Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press on December 21st, 2022
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Most of the jurors at Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial were ready to convict him of crimes related to three of the four women he was charged with raping or sexually assaulting. Yet after weeks of deliberation the eight men and four women voted unanimously to convict him of crimes against ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Weinstein dodges sentencing enhancement, faces 18 years
By Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press on December 20th, 2022
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Harvey Weinstein faces a shorter prison sentence in California after a Los Angeles jury failed to reach a verdict on whether the disgraced mogul planned his attack on a woman he was convicted of raping. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench declared a mistrial on the issue Tuesday after the ... Read More »
1 responseRapper-actor Common revels in his Broadway stage debut
By John Carucci, The Associated Press on December 20th, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) – Rapper and actor Common has made his Broadway debut in the play “Between Riverside and Crazy” and what he sees from the stage is something he never imagined: a multi-cultural audience hanging on to every word. “It really expresses New York. It captures New York life, human beings. No one is ... Read More »
1 responseCuban artists blocked from once-promising NFT trading sites
By Megan Janetsky, The Associated Press on December 20th, 2022
HAVANA (AP) – When everything seemed to be going wrong, Cuban multimedia artist Alejandro Pablo GarcÃa Alarcón found a solution in what some might consider an unusual place: NFTs. Artists like him have been dealt multiple blows in recent years: The pandemic wreaked havoc on Cuba’s tourism sector, sending art sales plummeting. American sanctions, while ... Read More »
1 responseA correction to a story about the Miss Chinese Vancouver pageant
By The Canadian Press on December 20th, 2022
In a story that moved on Saturday, Dec. 17, The Canadian Press incorrectly described Miss Chinese Vancouver contestant Renee Jan as a medical science graduate. In fact, she is a science graduate, specializing in life sciences... Read More »
1 responseKrasinski’s ‘Jack Ryan’ returns to TV after 3-year wait
By Alicia Rancilio, The Associated Press on December 20th, 2022
Season three of ” Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” starring John Krasinski, returns to Amazon Prime Video with a storyline that may feel familiar. We meet Ryan, now stationed in Rome, as he discovers an underground plot by Russia to invade surrounding countries and recreate the Soviet empire. The episodes were written three years ago, and ... Read More »
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