By Marysabel Huston-Crespo, CNN For Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean, pursuing a solo career doesn’t mean he has to step away from the band with which he’s performed for almost 30 years. “Each thing goes hand in hand. If I have a successful album, it only reflects on my success with the group, where I started
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Beyoncé’s newest album, “Renaissance,” is a musical triumph that signals the next great phase of the superstar’s career — and she’s taking the Black queer icons who pioneered house music with her. Like the righteous rage of “Lemonade” and the celebration of identity in “Black is King,” Beyoncé’s latest effort centers
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN In travel news this week, Spain is offering free train journeys, Southwest Airlines is making its vouchers valid forever, and we take a look at the world’s greatest hiking trails and Iceland’s best bathing spots. Wild world As Shark Week comes to a close, we have some tips on avoiding an
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN Chris Rock is still not saying how he feels about getting slapped by Will Smith, but he is still making passing jokes about the incident. The comedian was on stage in Atlanta on Friday night as part of his “Chris Rock Ego Death World Tour,” hours after Smith posted a nearly
Continue Reading Wayne Chang, CNN In March, amid growing fears of a Russian attack on Ukraine’s cultural capital Lviv, staff at the city’s National Museum frantically packed up and hid thousands of its treasures. Now, more than 5,000 miles away, another globally acclaimed institution is also preparing for the threat of a possible invasion. Taiwan’s National Palace
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Are Bruce Wayne and Arthur Curry reuniting? At least the men who have portrayed them on the big screen have gotten back together, with Jason Momoa posting a picture of himself with Ben Affleck on his verified Instagram account. “REUNITED bruce and arthur. love u and miss u Ben WB
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN Chris Rock is still not saying how he feels about getting slapped by Will Smith, but he is still making passing jokes about the incident. The comedian was on stage in Atlanta on Friday night as part of his “Chris Rock Ego Death World Tour,” hours after Smith posted a nearly
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Whoopi Goldberg has apologized for her statements on “The View” about the conservative organization Turning Point USA. On Monday’s episode of “The View,” the recent Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Florida was discussed. Neo-Nazi demonstrators had showed up outside the conference and Goldberg had called the group “complicit.” In response,
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Will Smith is “deeply remorseful” about slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards in March. Smith posted a video to his verified Instagram account on Friday that began with the words on screen, “It’s been a minute.” “Over the last few months, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The burning desire for fame, and the way people seize upon “causes” often without doing their due diligence, give a meaty foundation to “Not Okay,” a dark comedy about a lie that brings unexpected benefits before, inevitably, spiraling out of control. Bearing parallels to “Dear Evan Hansen,” it’s a movie
Continue Reading By Will McGough, CNN Colorado’s iconic destinations have seemingly been around forever, and we know their names by heart: Vail, Aspen and Breckenridge, to name a few, along with Denver, a city that has exploded in the past decade. For something new, a traveler must go farther west in the state, where a budding yet
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The latest graphic novel from Brian K. Vaughan to make the leap to the screen, “Paper Girls” possesses a “Stranger Things”-wannabe vibe, blending coming-of-age elements, time travel, nostalgia and science fiction. The result makes for a semi-watchable Amazon series that feels a little too convoluted to satisfactorily deliver. Delivery, in
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Different sex, same city in “Uncoupled,” original “Sex and the City” producer Darren Star’s look at gay life and love in very upper-crust New York, where the most decadent porn is of the pricey Manhattan real-estate variety. Mostly, the Netflix comedy serves as a vehicle for Neil Patrick Harris as
Continue Reading Leah Dolan, CNN Since rising to fame in 2021 after a brief but indelible relationship with Kanye West, Julia Fox’s sartorial unpredictability has become an almost constant source of internet chatter. From DIY-ing a bandeau top and matching bottoms out of a single pair of jeans using just a pair of scissors, to her now
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Beyoncé says she will remove an ableist slur from her new album, “Renaissance,” after facing online backlash and criticism from disability campaigners. The 40-year-old singer received rave reviews when she debuted her dance-inspired seventh studio album on Friday, but she came under fire over the weekend when fans noticed the inclusion
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN You should know by now that a Beyoncé album release is a whole event. “Renaissance” is that, of course, and the Grammy winner’s eagerly awaited seventh album doesn’t disappoint, if social media is to be believed. The album officially dropped Friday morning. So much to digest, so much to dissect
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Melissa Barrera has appeared destined for stardom ever since “In the Heights,” and her dance card has certainly been full in the time since, including the latest “Scream” movie. But “Keep Breathing” showcases her in an extremely focused way, in a woman-against-the-wilderness limited series that sends its star up a
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Bernard Cribbins, a stage and screen actor who appeared on “Doctor Who” and narrated the British children’s series “The Wombles,” has died, his talent agency confirmed. He was 93. “Bernard’s contribution to British entertainment is without question,” his agency said in a statement to CNN. “He was unique, typifying the best
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Listen, we all have fantasies of living like the one percent. Envision a future in which you forget how to cut a cucumber and grocery store trips become foreign, you staff a full-time chef, you never have to do another load of laundry yourself and you have a driver. I can go
Continue Reading Leah Asmelash, CNN Joyce Carol Oates claims White male authors are in trouble. In a tweet published Sunday morning, the author of more than 50 books shared a New York Times op-ed criticizing the publishing industry as too sympathetic to the political left. Along with the link, Oates wrote: “A friend who is a literary
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