Category Archives: Entertainment
Michelle Good says residential school remains cast shadow over GGBooks fiction win
OTTAWA — Michelle Good should be celebrating the back-to-back awards for her debut novel about residential school survivors, but instead, she's mourning the children whose deaths in the system are only now being accounted for. Good, a member of Red Phe...
La Scala announces 2021-21 season, with hope of fewer limits
MILAN (AP) — Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala on Monday announced a 2021-22 season of 13 operas, seven ballets and numerous concerts as Italy’s most important theater looks toward a gradual removal of pandemic restrictions.
Pakistani TV bans host of talk show after he criticized army
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani television station Monday took a prominent journalist off air, removing him as host of a popular talk show after he criticized the country’s powerful military, the journalist and rights groups said.
Politics still pack a punch(line) for Iranian-American comic
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For Iranian-American Maz Jobrani, a stand-up show in Dubai marked the first time he's been in front of a major live audience overseas since the start of the coronavirus pandemic — and he feels
Religious leaders, artists honor George Floyd in concert
HOUSTON (AP) — Religious leaders, musical guests, spoken word artists and politicians gathered for a concert in Houston, the home town of George Floyd, to commemorate the anniversary of his death.
Ex-‘Tarzan’ actor among 7 plane crash victims in Tennessee
SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) — Investigators on Sunday continued searching for the bodies of seven people believed killed in the crash a day earlier of a small jet into a Tennessee lake, including an actor who portrayed Tarzan in a 1990s
Tulsa Race Massacre centennial events proceed amid hiccups
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Joi McCondichie is a native of this city, but her life and career in public education kept her away from home for decades. When she returned to Tulsa from Los Angeles with her then-teenage son, she
Dancing like there’s no COVID-19: Paris hosts test concert
PARIS (AP) — Thousands of people, masked and tested for the coronavirus, packed inside a Paris arena for a concert Saturday as part of a public health experiment to prepare France to host big events again.
In time for summer, Europe sees dramatic fall in virus cases
ROME (AP) — When Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest with an over-the-top glam-rock performance, the victory signaled more than just a psychological boost for one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19: Held before a live, indoor audience of
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows: ABC’s “This Week” — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg; Thomas P. Bossert,