Canada’s all-Black awards show The Legacy Awards ends, shifts to interview series
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
The Legacy Awards, a ceremony devoted to celebrating Black talent in Canada, is ending three years after it launched. Organizers The Black Academy and broadcaster CBC say they are instead collaborating on a new interview series, which they called an “evolution” of the awards show. The event, last held in the fall of 2024, featured ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Diana Ross will headline ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ lineup
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Diana Ross has been named the headliner on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” The pop icon will perform a medley of hits on New Year’s Eve in New York City including “I’m Coming Out” and “Upside Down,” anchoring a telecast with 39 artists appearing across New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sophie Kinsella, author of the millions-selling ‘Shopaholic’ novels, dies at 55
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Sophie Kinsella, the author behind the popular “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” the million-selling novel about a financial journalist who writes about money matters but fails miserably at managing her own, has died Monday from complications of brain cancer. Her family confirmed the news. Kinsella, who also published books under her real name ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US playwright Jeremy O. Harris released 3 weeks after arrest in Japan for alleged drug smuggling
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
TOKYO (AP) — The American playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris has been released from detention in Japan three weeks after he was taken into custody on suspicion of smuggling the psychedelic drug ecstasy. The 36-year-old Harris, known for his Tony-nominated “ Slave Play,” was freed from police custody Monday, the Tomishiro police department told ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nnena Kalu is first artist with a learning disability to win the prestigious Turner Prize
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has been awarded the Turner Prize for work that includes vivid abstract drawings and hanging sculptures, the first artist with a learning disability to win Britain’s most famous visual art award. Kalu, 59, who has autism, received the 25,000-pound ($33,000) prize on Tuesday evening at a ceremony in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Paramount says China’s Tencent withdrew from its Warner Bros bid to avert national security issues
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
BANGKOK (AP) — Paramount Skydance says the Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings withdrew from its bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery to avert a possible national security review. Paramount’s revised filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of its takeover bid said the Chinese company had dropped its $1 billion financing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!China’s Tencent quits Paramount’s bid for Warner Bros to avert national security questions
By Canadian Press on December 10th, 2025
BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings has withdrawn from Paramount Skydance Corp.‘s bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery, according to a revised filing of its takeover bid by Paramount with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing seen Wednesday shows the Chinese company dropped its $1 billion financing commitment ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sarkozy describes his prison stay and advises on appealing to the far right in his new book
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy described the prison where he spent 20 days as a noisy, harsh “all-grey” world of “inhuman violence” in a book released Wednesday that also offered political advice about how his conservative party should appeal to far-right voters. In “Diary of a Prisoner,” the 70-year-old says his own ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Son arrested after Grammy-nominated singer Jubilant Sykes is stabbed to death at California home
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Grammy-nominated singer Jubilant Sykes was stabbed to death at his home in Santa Monica, California, and his son was arrested on suspicion of murder, authorities said Tuesday. Officers responded to a 911 call Monday night reporting an assault in progress at the residence in the coastal city west of Los ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!FBI adds true crime TV producer to Most Wanted list for loan fraud tied to phony heiress story
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former head of a California company that produced true crime TV shows has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted list, years after being charged with portraying herself as an heiress to get millions of dollars from lenders. Mary Carole McDonnell, 73, is believed to be in Dubai, United ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In ‘The Chronology of Water,’ Imogen Poots found a great role, and a best friend in Kristen Stewart
By Canadian Press on December 9th, 2025
Imogen Poots has been thinking about a Sam Shepard quote: “People here have become the people they’re pretending to be.” Those 10 words, from a poem in his “Motel Chronicles” collection, are kind of about her character in “Hedda,” the quietly courageous Thea. But they’re also kind of about everything. After 20 years of acting ... Read More »
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