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Canadian music artists Justin Bieber and The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) aren’t very happy with the Grammys right now. The 2021 Grammy nominations were announced Tuesday, and fan-favourite Bieber was nominated four times for best pop vocal album, best pop solo performance, best pop duo/group performance and best country duo/group performance. Bieber, 26, disagreed

The penultimate episode of The Crown season 4 is one of the season’s most dramatic, detailing an accident that took place during a royal skiing trip in 1988. Major Hugh Lindsay, a former equerry to the queen and friend of Prince Charles and Prince Andrew, was killed in an avalanche on a slope in the

With all eyes trained on Georgia, where the fate of the U.S. Senate—and, by extension, Joe Biden’s presidency—will be decided on January 5, organizers on the ground are taking nothing for granted. Georgia Democrats will reportedly go door-to-door to speak to voters in person, a reversal after the Democratic Party halted in-person canvassing earlier this

Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group says it has completed the sale of the company to a group of its creditors led by Catalyst Capital Group. The company announced the closing of the transaction with its secured lenders and its emergence from court protection from creditors Tuesday. Cirque was forced to cancel its shows earlier this

Each day is one day closer to the release of Wonder Woman 1984. While I cannot wait to finally see the next installment for my favorite girl, I’m also invested in her stunning new Golden Eagle armor, and we finally got a closer look! New official still from Wonder Woman 1984. #WW84 pic.twitter.com/l5oFa2Qnga — DC Universe

Early in Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat, as he unleashed a social media deluge of “stolen election” lies and conspiracy theories, Facebook reportedly enacted a series of algorithmic adjustments to combat the spread of misinformation specific to the 2020 race. While its not unheard of for the losing side to cry foul play, the

The first batch of nominees for the 2021 Grammy Awards were revealed during a livestream held Tuesday by the Recording Academy’s interim president and CEO Harvey Mason Jr. Mason Jr. kicked off the hourlong event announcing the nominees for non-classical best engineered album and non-classical producer of the year, which include Jack Antonoff, Dan Auerbach,

You know “Roses (Imanbek Remix).” Even in pandemic times, it’s omnipresent. The song, by SAINt JHN, is a smash, the kind that only comes once in a lifetime for some artists: peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100; almost 194 million views on YouTube; three million TikToks using it as a background track;

NOTE: This article contains ‘Dancing With the Stars’ finale spoilers. Please read at your own discretion. A Canadian has won the coveted Dancing With the Stars Mirrorball trophy. Kaitlyn Bristowe and partner Artem Chigvintsev hit the reality show’s dance floor for the last time in the season finale on Monday night, and ended up taking

Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago has been a tradition of Donald Trump’s presidency. During his first three years in office, Trump spent the long weekend in Palm Beach playing golf, relaxing, and mingling with club guests. In 2018, Trump even brought in a singer to perform “Music of the Night” from Phantom of the Opera. But in

By Staff The Associated Press Posted November 23, 2020 10:40 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ “Jeopardy!” record-holder Ken Jennings will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Alex Trebek when the show resumes production next Monday. Producers announced Monday that Jennings, who

Tim GrahamGetty Images One of the major milestones in any royal relationship is the couple’s first official tour. For Prince Charles and Princess Diana, that opportunity arrived in March of 1983, when they embarked on a six-week exploration of Australia and New Zealand. As depicted in The Crown season 4 episode 6, “Terra Nullius,” the

Breaking: Public servant plans to do her job Emily Murphy has been in the news of late thanks to her refusal to release millions of dollars and government resources to Biden’s transition team, a decision that’s put national security at risk, in addition to public health, given the delay puts Biden at a disadvantage when

Making entertainment is not a perfect science. People make mistakes, and sometimes there is a random man in a pair of jeans and a watch in the background of a fight scene on The Mandalorian. In episode 4 “The Seige,” Din Djarin heads to a base that still has an Empire hold while on Nevarro.

Whatever is going on in your life right now, it is about to get a little bit better once you learn how one of Hollywood’s A-listers gears up to get down with his cuticles. The Daily Mail, sourcing a not-yet-online interview with Empire, has some exciting news. The hot new way to reduce stress, according

The thing I say about saxophonists—a lot of people play tenor saxophone, there’s only one John Coltrane. There are a lot of MCs, but immediately, Busta Rhymes—there’s a sound, there’s an attitude, there’s an agility that only you do. Was that always in the making? My voice was always what it was. My moms always

As Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election he lost to Joe Biden seem increasingly unlikely to succeed, the president and those in his orbit are apparently looking ahead—possibly to 2024. Trump, contemplating what his future will look like upon exiting the White House, reportedly sees running again as a way to preserve his hold

Prince Harry joined his brother Prince William in expressing his support for an investigation into the BBC and journalist Martin Bashir for the 1995 Panorama interview in which Princess Diana said “there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.” The line referenced Prince Charles’s affair with his longtime love

In a world where Scott Baio regularly appears on right-wing news programs defending Donald Trump, there’s no point in acting surprised when an ’80s teen heartthrob makes an appearance with MAGA provocateurs. This time it is Ricky Schroder, star of the Jon Voight boxing film The Champ, sitcom Silver Spoons and, later, Lonesome Dove, who

[embedded content] Last night on MSNBC, Brian Williams delivered an epic takedown of Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response. In the final segment of The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, the anchor responded to a clip from Fox & Friends, where Geraldo Rivera suggested that the coronavirus vaccine should be named after President Trump. This is absurd

Buying thoughtful, interesting, and useful tech gifts for men, women, and kids on your holiday shopping list to be pretty simple: acquire Sharper Image catalog, flip to a random page, done. It’s a lot more complicated now. For one, um, catalogs? But more importantly, pretty much everyone these days is into tech and regularly interacts

Twitter is getting ready to formally recognize Joe Biden as the 46th president on January 20, even as President Donald Trump marches on with his failing, conspiracy-laden crusade to overturn the election results and as many Republicans still refuse to acknowledge them. The social media giant is “actively preparing” to do its part in the

As the BBC inquiry into the 1995 Panoroma interview with Princess Diana continues to dominate British headlines, Prince Harry is getting “regular updates” on the story from Los Angeles, and believes that some recent tabloid reports are a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between him and Prince William. Following a recent tabloid claim that

If anyone knows how to look glam in an ugly holiday sweater, it’s models Josephine Skriver and Jasmine Tookes. They’ve recently teamed up with Tanqueray to share their styling secrets—plus their best holiday hosting tips for a small ugly sweater themed get-together—in a brand-new video. Tanqueray No. TEN tanqueray.com The best friends and co-creators of

A renowned Montreal cellist who nearly died of COVID-19 has joined a coalition of artists teaming up to battle the pandemic by using their art as a tool. Dennis Brott will provide the music for a series of videos in which professional dancers will perform while wearing masks. Brott recorded the soundtrack for the “Projet

November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance, coming at the close of Transgender Awareness Week. The day was founded in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith to memorialize the murder of Rita Hester in Massachusetts. It has evolved into a day meant to honor and remember those who have been killed as a result of anti-trans

Something you’re probably aware of by now, unless you live in a cave or exclusively get your news from @realDonaldTrump and his big boy sons, is that there’s a very contagious disease ravaging the globe that is not just killing more than a million people but jobs and businesses as well. Jobs, for the lazy

A little over three years ago, right before his first trip to South Africa for the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders exhibition, Michele Roberts, the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), gave her first and only book recommendation to Brown. “It was Mandela’s autobiography,” Roberts tells me with a laugh. “I said, ‘You