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The Weeknd’s concert scheduled to be held in Toronto on Friday has been postponed, Rogers Centre says. In an email to Global News, Rogers Centre announced that the Weeknd tour stop has been postponed “to a later date due to service outages impacting venue operations.” The Blinding Lights singer was scheduled to stop in Toronto

“Resources, capital, distribution, supply chain, labor…” It’s a sunny evening at Oko Farms in Brooklyn, and Omar Tate is listing the many challenges faced by Black farmers. Guests have gathered here tonight for the launch of the Cultivating Community dinner series—a collaboration between Tate and Bombay Bramble gin to spotlight Black farmers and benefit the

“As a product of the New World, violence lives in my DNA. I carry an ancient pain that I struggle to understand,” director Rebeca Huntt utters at the start of Beba, her lyrical and gritty debut film. In her autobiographical documentary, a visceral 80-minute gem, the born and bred New Yorker is searching to emotionally

Kenneth Petty, the husband of rap superstar Nicki Minaj, was sentenced on Wednesday to a year of home confinement and three years’ probation for failing to register as a sex offender in California. A representative of the federal prosecutor’s office told NBC that Petty, 44, was also ordered to pay a US$55,000 fine. Petty was

Thor: Love and Thunder is the second team-up between star Chris Hemsworth and director Taika Waititi, and it’s frankly better than the last (and Ragnarok was a hard film to follow and one-up). The movie is heartwarming, hilarious, tear-inducing, and more, and still, there are twists and turns that will shock you and make you

Actor Brad Pitt says he thinks he has a condition that causes face blindness, and he’s looking for someone who can relate. Although the 58-year-old has never been formally diagnosed with the condition – called prosopagnosia – he told GQ magazine that he struggles to recognize and remember faces and it’s gotten him into some

The Netflix cheerleading docuseries star was found guilty of sexual assault and coercion. By Grant Rindner July 7, 2022 Jerry Harris attends the Build Series to discuss Cheer at Build Studio on January 29, 2020 in New York City.Courtesy of Jim Spellman via Getty Images Jerry Harris, the 22-year-old breakout star of the first season

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday presented the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles, the late John McCain, the Arizona Republican whom Biden served with in the Senate, and gun-control advocate Gabby Giffords. “Today, she adds to her medal count,” Biden said as he introduced Biles, a

A Russian diplomat warned the Biden administration to not build “hype” around the WNBA star, who is facing up to a decade in a Russian penal colony. Both Biden and Harris spoke with Griner’s wife, as she and her family go public with their calls on the Biden administration to secure the basketball player’s release.

Legendary actor James Caan, who starred in the Godfather trilogy and other renowned movies like Misery and The Gambler, died on July 6, according to a tweet posted to his official account. It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Jimmy on the evening of July 6. The family appreciates

FKA twigs, if not exactly clairvoyant, has a crystal-clear lens on the present. “I have fallen back in love with music, danger, trying new things, sex, love, raves,” she wrote in a recent Instagram post. No more careful cocooning. It’s time to live—holy rites by earthly means.   “I’m definitely a very spiritual person,” the

Spoilers below for season 3 of Sex Education. Netflix’s beloved raunchy teen drama, Sex Education, has finally returned for an expectedly colorful season 3, which picks up right where the second installment left off. Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and Adam (Connor Swindells) are navigating the terms of their new romance. Maeve (Emma Mackey) and Otis (Asa

Since December 31, 2021, HarperCollins Publishers employees, part of the United Auto Workers Local 2110 (UAW) union, have been working without a contract as negotiations continue. These union members come from across HarperCollins (owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp), from marketing to editorial. Initially, the contract was set to expire a year earlier but was extended

TORONTO — Clement Virgo’s adaptation of a coming-of-age novel set in Toronto’s hip hop scene is bound for the Toronto International Film Festival. “Brother,” based on the 1990s-set book of the same name by David Chariandy, will make its world premiere at TIFF in September. Chariandy’s novel won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was a treatise on marriages—ones that fail, reduce, deplete, or transform. Twenty-three years after it was published, transformation remains a recurring motif in Lahiri’s work.  Language, one such source of transformation, is rarely a choice and rather a default, something we seldom deliberate. When

Credit Tiktok for inspiring young men everywhere to go semi-formal at movie theaters last weekend. By Grant Rindner July 5, 2022 Pierre Coffin and Steve Carell (voice) in Minions: The Rise of Gru.Courtesy of Universal Pictures via Everett Collection Last weekend, group chats of aspiring young male fashionistas all across America buzzed with activity, as

Theatre owners are crying “Despicable!” at the hordes of well-dressed, banana-toting teenagers showing up at theatres to watch the latest Minions movie. People’s TikTok feeds have been taken over by videos of young men dressed in suits and carrying the yellow fruit, filing into theatres to watch Minions: The Rise of Gru. Read more: $350K

For Richard Christiansen, whose Flamingo Estate produces candles, wine, and other sensuous bounty, Mother Nature is the ultimate muse. Style File TO SLEEP: Entireworld underpants and my Whoop.DAILY UNIFORM: I wear the same thing every day. My entire wardrobe can fit in one suitcase: Patagonia T-shirt, cargo pants, and work boots. Elder Statesman sweater if

Although the end of Stranger Things as we know it is rapidly approaching, Stranger Things the franchise is only just heating up. Like Game of Thrones and countless mega-IP institutions before it, the scifi/horror series is capitalizing on a hungry audience and a streamer eager to boost its numbers. Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, whose

Bette Midler found herself at the center of some Twitter controversy on Monday after expressing her opinion that trans-inclusive language is somehow depriving cis women of their identity. The actor tweeted, “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call

It’s been 13 years since audiences saw James Cameron’s epic adventure Avatar in theaters, which rose through the ranks to become the highest grossing film of all time. And after promising multiple sequels to the film, Avatar: The Way of Water is finally coming to theaters this December. And buckle up, because the sequel is

Sir David Attenborough is going green. Very green. The legendary English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author, at age 96, is travelling the globe in the latest BBC Earth landmark series, The Green Planet, to explore Earth’s biodiversity and the secret life of plants. Filmed in 27 countries over four years, the five-part documentary marks

FX’s new series about a chef who returns home to save his brother’s greasy spoon is one of the few to ever get the city right.  By Jason Diamond June 30, 2022 Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto in The Bear, 2022.Courtesy of Frank Ockenfels for FX Networks When I was 19, I got a

Travis Barker says he was admitted to hospital in Los Angeles last week for a diagnosis of “life-threatening pancreatitis.” In a series of tweets Saturday, the Blink-182 drummer shared that he went in for an endoscopy last Monday “feeling great” but that after dinner that night he “developed excruciating pain” and has been hospitalized ever

As fleece-clad billionaires—and newcomers like Bari Weiss—flock to Idaho this week, Sun Valley fixtures are buzzing about Netflix’s future, an Elon-led Twitter, and Disney’s power structure. But will plunging stocks and a cooling M&A market drive down the dealmaking? “There’s a cloud hanging over,” says Ken Auletta. By Joe Pompeo July 4, 2022

On Friday, the hotly anticipated Stranger Things finale episodes were released on Netflix and it definitely caused a storm on the internet. At a certain point, the Daily Mail reports that the entire site was returning an error message to users trying to watch the feature length ending to season 4. For a long time,

Amber Heard’s lawyers have asked a judge to throw out the $10.35 million verdict against her in the defamation case filed by ex-husband Johnny Depp, arguing that the verdict was not supported by the evidence and that one of the jurors may not have been properly vetted by the court. In post-trial motions filed Friday,