Entertainment

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amber Heard says she has become a mom and did it “on my own terms,” as a single parent.In an Instagram post, the actor said she welcomed daughter Oonagh Paige Heard on April 8. A photo of Heard with the baby nestled against her accompanied Thursday’s...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a 1970 Beetle Bailey comic strip, the character known as Sarge berates his uniform-wearing dog, Otto, for a paperwork mistake.“Think, Otto, think!!” Sarge says.“We can’t all be Snoopy,” a dejected Otto replies.This confluence of two iconic comic strip dogs is on exhibit along with dozens...

NEW YORK (AP) — While some professional journalists faced hostility and attack while covering the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the grand irony is that so many people involved in the insurrection were doing their jobs for them.That’s evident with The New York Times’ release of “Day of...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the demolition of the country’s National Theatre building a mistake and ordered construction work on a new theater to be suspended.Albanian President Ilir Meta had asked the court to rule on whether the decision to demolish the theater was...

NEW YORK (AP) — It started last fall in a series of vacant storefronts along an iconic Miami Beach thoroughfare as a safe way to offer theater during the coronavirus pandemic. Now Moisés Kaufman has brought “Seven Deadly Sins” to New York City, with seven new short plays about pride,...

Toronto International Film Festival co-head Cameron Bailey is among the Canadians recruited to the organization behind the Oscars.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says it invited the TIFF artistic director to be a member-at-large. Bailey tweeted he’s “thrilled and honoured to be a part of the Class of ’21.”Quebec...

TORONTO — Daniel Lanois hopes “Torn Again,” his new song with the late Leonard Cohen, marks the first of several posthumous collaborations that see the light of day.The Juno-winning Canadian producer says he’s received the blessing of Adam Cohen, the singer-songwriter’s son, “to use a few other poems” his father...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are arguing a court decision that freed Bill Cosby from prison backs up tossing out her sex trafficking case.In court papers filed on Friday, the lawyers said the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein is in a “similar situation” as Cosby...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — MEXICO CITY — In “The Forever Purge,” the bloodbath lasts more than 12 hours and takes place on the border between Mexico and the United States. Mexican director Everardo Gout uses the strengths of fellow countrymen actors Ana de la Reguera and Tenoch Huerta in the...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The former host of the “To Catch a Predator” TV series turned himself in Friday after a Michigan judge issued a warrant for his arrest for no-showing at a court hearing to explain why he had not given a defense lawyer more footage of a police...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fifteen months after the pandemic transformed Las Vegas from flamboyant spectacle to ghost town, Sin City is back. Tourists are streaming in again, gambling revenue has hit an all-time high, the Las Vegas Strip has its first new casino in a decade, and big concerts are...

NEW YORK (AP) — In addition to making great music, H.E.R. wants to be an active citizen who empowers young people with information. The Grammy- and Oscar-winning recording artist gets to do both in the new animated Netflix series, “We the People.”Created by Chris Nee and produced by Barack and...

Paris on Saturday was the only place to be for die-hard Jim Morrison fans.Fifty years after his death at age 27, rock music lovers from France and across the world came to the Pere-Lachaise cemetery in eastern Paris where The Doors’ frontman is buried. Many brought candles and pictures, and...

WASHINGTON — America’s top infectious disease expert says about 99.2% of recent COVID-19 deaths in the United States involved unvaccinated people. And Dr. Anthony Fauci says “it’s really sad and tragic that most all of these are avoidable and preventable.”He tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” it’s frustrating “where you have...

The Palais des Festivals, the central hub of the Cannes Film Festival, a massive bulwark of filmmaker-named halls and pristine movie screens, is about as close as you can get to a cinema temple. To enter, you must ascend red-carpeted steps. But in the past 16 months, Cannes’ Palais hasn’t...

Although the box office has yet to fully recover from the pandemic, at least one studio has good reason to celebrate this Fourth of July weekend. Universal Pictures currently has the top three films at the domestic box office with “F9,” “The Boss Baby: Family Business” and “The Forever Purge,”...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera reached an agreement on a labor contract with its locked out stagehands, the second of three major deals needed to resume performances in September following the pandemic.The agreement was reached early Saturday, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fireworks are returning to New Orleans on Independence Day thanks to actor Will Smith.Smith is picking up the roughly $100,000 tab for the pyrotechnics over the Mississippi River after learning New Orleans didn’t plan a 2021 show, city officials told news outlets.New Orleans canceled last year’s...

The first entry of a scary trilogy based on a very spooky book series and a documentary about a highly underrated music festival enter the MUST-WATCH Top 10 this week! Could the latest film from Chris Pratt take that top spot though? You’ll have to keep reading to find out!The...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — “What happened to Kings of Convenience” was, until recently, a prominent search result that would appear when looking up info on the Norwegian indie-pop folk duo.Largely quiet since the release of their last album, the band recently broke their silence with “Peace Or Love,” Erlend...