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Descrease article font size Increase article font size A large Canadian comedy festival has announced it is coming to Halifax this summer with comedy star Jerry Seinfeld at the forefront. The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival — usually held in Edmonton and Calgary — will be expanding into Halifax. It will be hosted at the Garrison

As some in the GOP establishment sour on Trump, this week’s conference will indicate whether the party’s youngest generation will jump ship for a fresher face. “I like DeSantis and I get why so many conservatives want him to run,” says one conservative youth leader. “But he isn’t Trump.” By Caleb Ecarma February 28, 2023

Whether you loved Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania or hated it, you can’t deny that those post-credit scenes set up some very big things to come in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, Quantumania director Peyton Reed has confirmed that the second post-credit scene doesn’t just hint at future developments. It’s taken directly from a scene

The cartoon empire built by Dilbert creator Scott Adams is quickly crumbling. The latest fallout came Monday, when Adams’ distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, announced it would cut ties with the cartoonist following his racist tirade about Black Americans. In a joint statement, Andrews McMeel chairman Hugh Andrews and CEO and president Andy Sareyan said the

No matter if she’s strutting down a runway or posing on the red carpet, if Kaia Gerber is in attendance, then you can bet that she’s going to be serving a major look that everyone will be eager to recreate. Most recently, the supermodel attended W Magazine‘s Best Performances Party with her boyfriend, Austin Butler,

Prince Harry is sitting down for another chat about his bestselling and controversial memoir, Spare, and this time he’ll be speaking with a Hungarian-Canadian doctor. Harry will join Canadian physician, author and trauma expert Gabor Maté for an “intimate conversation,” and the public can purchase tickets for the virtual event and submit questions for the

Everything Everywhere All at Once cleaned up at last night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning the most SAG Awards of all time. The film took home four awards: cast in a motion picture, female actor in a leading role (Michelle Yeoh), male actor in a supporting role (Ke Huy Quan), and female actor in a

The city may be poised to follow in the footsteps of New York, with conservative Democrat Paul Vallas pulling ahead in a race that’s become defined by concerns over crime. “He’s had probably the best and clearest message,” one Chicago-based strategist tells Vanity Fair. “And the mayor has struggled.” By Eric Lutz February 27, 2023

Zendaya attends the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on February 26, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Courtesy of Frazer Harrison via Getty Images The type of salary two Emmy wins and two blockbuster franchises commands. By Grant Rindner February 27, 2023 Euphoria features a talented cast of young rising stars, but the

When Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson told a joke about an anti-vaccine conspiracy theory on Saturday Night Live this week, the audience was unsure how to react. The joke, which has since created controversy online, was part of Harrelson’s SNL opening monologue. Harrelson, 61, told the audience he’d been sent a movie script with a clear,

Prince Harry will once again discuss the contents of his memoir Spare, this time with a special guest. The Duke of Sussex’s publisher Penguin Random House announced exclusively to People that the royal will be sitting down on Saturday with Dr. Gabor Maté for an international livestream event on Vimeo. Maté is a world-renowned speaker

Tom Holland and Zendaya did not make their couple red carpet award show debut this weekend, despite Zendaya attending and being a fashion scene stealer at both the NAACP Image Awards and SAG Awards this Saturday and Sunday respectively. But Holland still supported her from afar, making his adoration of his girlfriend very clear on

The unlikely awards season juggernaut Everything Everywhere All at Once marched on at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, and even gathered steam with wins not just for best ensemble, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan but also for Jamie Lee Curtis. The SAG Awards, often an Oscar preview, threw some curve balls into the

This post contains major spoilers for The Last of Us episode 7. Episode 6 of The Last of Us ends on the biggest cliffhanger of the season, with Joel seemingly succumbing to a stab wound. Episode 7 picks up with Ellie dragging him to shelter and trying to keep him alive. Joel tells her to

Canadian music legend Neil Young made a surprise appearance Saturday at an old-growth logging protest rally at the British Columbia legislature. Young played acoustic guitar and harmonica, and sang two songs: “Comes A Time,” which has a chorus about tall trees, and his hit “Heart of Gold.” Read more: B.C. introducing measures for old growth,

Ken Marino and Adam Scott in Party Down.Courtesy of Ron Batzdorff for Starz via Everett Collection. From Party Down and Veronica Mars to The Other Two, playing a hilariously pathetic jerk is Marino’s sweet spot. By Esther Zuckerman February 24, 2023 According to Ken Marino, there are a lot of different ways to play an

By Staff The Associated Press Posted February 26, 2023 5:25 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Madonna‘s eldest sibling, Anthony Ciccone, has died, a family member said Saturday. He was 66. The announcement was made on Instagram by musician Joe Henry, who is married to Madonna’s sister Melanie Ciccone. “My brother-in-law, Anthony

A pleasant surprise on this year’s Best Picture nominees list, director Sarah Polley’s Women Talking might not have stirred the same buzz as its fellow competitors, but it’d be a painful shame to overlook the project based on hype alone. Crafted with a tender but unflinching touch by Polley—also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay—the film

Gordon Pinsent, the adored Canadian actor whose career hit its peak well into his 70s with an award-winning performance as the heartbroken husband in “Away From Her,” has died. Pinset died on Saturday evening at age 92, his friend actor Mark Critch confirmed. The Newfoundland native, a household name in Canada for decades after his

There has been much chaos since the Warner Bros. and Discovery merger in 2022. The genre hardest-hit by the merger has, without a doubt, been animation. Shortly after the merger, HBO Max pulled massive amounts of content from its platform—most of which were animated shows. Any active shows pulled from streaming were also cancelled—many with

Actor Alec Baldwin pleaded not guilty to felony charges of involuntary manslaughter relating to the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the western movie Rust.  According to court documents released Thursday, Baldwin, 64, waived his first court appearance, which was intended to inform the 30 Rock actor of his rights going

Big Pooh and Phonte of Little Brother.Courtesy of Antoine Lyers. Big Pooh and Phonte reflect on their debut album, which arrived at a crucial point in the eternal debate between “Conscious Rap” and the mainstream. By Abe Beame February 25, 2023 Little Brother’s debut album The Listening, is, like many other seminal albums this year, turning

Country singer Brad Paisley and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are the duo that no one expected — but together they’ve created a heartwarming global ballad. On Friday, Paisley released a new song entitled Same Here to mark the sombre one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The track features words spoken by President Zelenskyy, who

The “Bennifer” reunion was the big headline of 2021, but now in early 2023, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are a settled married couple. It only took them 20 years and two engagements to get there. Their first round began in 2002, after they starred in that year’s romcom, Gigli. Affleck eventually proposed to J.Lo,

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is suing Paramount Global, saying its competitor aired new episodes of the popular animated comedy series “South Park” after Warner paid for exclusive rights. Warner says it signed a contract in 2019 paying more than $500 million for the rights to existing and new episodes of the irreverent show, according to

Updated February 24th, 2023. While we were all sad to learn that Ali Wong and Steven Yeun wouldn’t be reprising their roles as Bertie and Speckle in Tuca and Bertie, we’re thrilled to see that they’re clearly not done collaborating. In fact, they have a new project in the midst: Beef, coming to Netflix this

By now, it’s likely you’ve heard of the movie Cocaine Bear, whose recent promotion seems to be more rampant than cocaine in the 1980s. And the movie’s title is pretty succinct to what it offers – there is a bear and she does a whole lot of cocaine. What you may not know, however, is

Harvey Weinstein will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars, a fact cemented by powerful testimony from Evgeniya Chernyshova—a 43-year-old former model and actress who had, until now, been known publicly as Jane Doe 1. “I’m tired of hiding,” Chernyshova told The Hollywood Reporter. “I want my life back. I’m Evgeniya, I’ve been raped. This is my story.” Now

Corey Stoll as M.O.D.O.K. in  Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.Courtesy of Marvel Studios The actor discusses his scene-stealing surprise return to the Ant-Man trilogy, working with Jonathan Majors and more. By William Goodman February 24, 2023 Corey Stoll is incapable of phoning in a performance. Despite ostensibly being killed off in the initial Ant-Man, as

Publisher Penguin Random House announced Friday it will publish “classic” unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels after it received criticism for cuts and rewrites that were intended to make the books suitable for modern readers. Along with the new editions, the company said 17 of Dahl’s books would be published in their original form