Skip to content
Join our Newsletter

Entertainment News

Idris Elba helps uncover the WWII soldiers of color who never got their due

Idris Elba helps uncover the WWII soldiers of color who never got their due

NEW YORK (AP) — One of Idris Elba’s grandfathers fought in World War II, but he doesn't know what he endured. No pictures or stories survive. “That part of my family’s history has been erased somewhat,” says Elba.
Canadian Music Week sells to former record exec and Bell Media head Randy Lennox

Canadian Music Week sells to former record exec and Bell Media head Randy Lennox

TORONTO — Canadian Music Week is getting new owners led by former Bell Media head and record label executive Randy Lennox.
Book Review: Indigenous author explores charged issue of blood lines in his debut novel `Fire Exit’

Book Review: Indigenous author explores charged issue of blood lines in his debut novel `Fire Exit’

Morgan Talty has followed up on the success of his prize-winning story collection “Night of the Living Rez” with a poignant first novel that explores the charged question of what constitutes identity — family or tribe? “Fire Exit” is narrated by a wh
Rapper Sean Kingston booked into Florida jail, where he and mother are charged with $1M in fraud

Rapper Sean Kingston booked into Florida jail, where he and mother are charged with $1M in fraud

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Rapper and singer Sean Kingston is back in South Florida, where he and his mother are charged with committing more than a million dollars' worth of fraud.
Trial in the fatal daytime ambush of rapper Young Dolph reset to September

Trial in the fatal daytime ambush of rapper Young Dolph reset to September

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge on Monday reset the trial date for a man charged with killing rapper Young Dolph in a daytime shooting ambush at a cookie shop in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. Shelby County Judge Jennifer J. Mitchell set a Sept.
Music Review: Bon Jovi takes a victory lap, assessing a 40-year career on new album 'Forever'

Music Review: Bon Jovi takes a victory lap, assessing a 40-year career on new album 'Forever'

Forty years after they ran away with our hearts and into rock history, Bon Jovi is back with a reflective new album taking stock of all the boys from New Jersey have accomplished. Perhaps the biggest news is that there's a new Bon Jovi album at all.
Book Review: From Crichton and Patterson, ‘Eruption’ is poised to be seismic publishing event

Book Review: From Crichton and Patterson, ‘Eruption’ is poised to be seismic publishing event

You know you’ve got some juice in the publishing world when you get top billing on a book nearly 16 years after your death.
Book Review: In 'Farewell Amethystine,' a private eye hunts for a beautiful woman’s ex-husband

Book Review: In 'Farewell Amethystine,' a private eye hunts for a beautiful woman’s ex-husband

It’s 1970 in Los Angeles, and Easy Rawlins has come a long way since Walter Mosley launched his series about this Black private detective with “Devil in a Blue Dress.” In that first novel, published in 1990, we met Easy as a young World War II vet.
Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 9-15

Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 9-15

Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 9-15: June 9: Sports commentator Dick Vitale is 85. Guitarist Mick Box of Uriah Heep is 77. Film composer James Newton Howard is 73. Actor Michael J. Fox is 63. Actor Johnny Depp is 61.
Michael Douglas pays solidarity visit to southern Israel

Michael Douglas pays solidarity visit to southern Israel

JERUSALEM (AP) — Actor Michael Douglas on Sunday paid a solidarity visit to an Israeli kibbutz that was hit hard in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that sparked Israel’s war against the Islamic militant group.