By Nick Thompson and Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — First things first. Despite some truly terrifying tales of survival, you are incredibly unlikely to be duking it out with a shark any time soon. But sharks do occasionally attack humans – and they certainly make news when they do: • A man was recovering in
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — At the South by Southwest festival earlier this year, dozens of indie artists and speakers cancelled appearances in protest of the event’s sponsorship from US military and defense contractors amid the war between Israel and Hamas. SXSW organizers in March expressed support for the right of artists to express “free speech,”
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — As well as being loved for his music, Elton John is known around the world for his unique sense of style. Now, the rock star is giving his fans the chance to own some of his eye-catching outfits. The 77-year-old musician is selling off hundreds of items from his
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Pearl Jam has canceled its scheduled concert at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on Saturday because of “illness in the band,” it announced on Friday. Due to existing schedule commitments, the American rock band added that it would not be able to reschedule the concert and would refund
Continue Reading By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — John Nears looked forward to the trip to South America for years. The vacation was planned by John’s wife Pam, in anticipation of John’s upcoming retirement. Pam mapped out the route, researched the trains and almost – but not quite – booked the flights. Then everything got derailed. Pam
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — One of the largest ever collections of Princess Diana’s possessions to hit the market smashed estimates and sold for a total of $5.5 million, alongside other royal memorabilia, Los Angeles auction house Julien’s Auctions announced. Composed of more than 50 items, the collection featured several of Diana’s evening gowns,
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Michael Ceely once spent a four-hour flight just zoning out – no magazines, no movies, no podcasts, just looking out the window and watching the flight map. Ceely, a therapist in California who specializes in working with men, believed it was a form of digital detox and meditation. But
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell, Nouran Salahieh and Jack Hannah, CNN (CNN) — A judge in New Mexico on Friday denied the latest motion from Alec Baldwin seeking to dismiss his indictment ahead of the scheduled start of his criminal trial next month. Baldwin’s team had asked the court to dismiss the case, claiming because the gun
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The “Older woman dates younger star” concept is getting a workout lately, with “The Idea of You” now followed by “A Family Affair,” which could easily be called “The Idea of My Movie-Star Boss Sleeping With My Mom.” While the Nicole Kidman-Zac Efron pairing should provoke curiosity, the
Continue Reading By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Originally an outlier amid a glut of ’90s teen romcoms, one indie film with a femme lesbian lead, set in a hyper-artificial gay-conversion camp, has since become one of the era’s most beloved titles. “But I’m a Cheerleader,” starring Natasha Lyonne as an all-American church girl with latent sapphic
Continue Reading By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — You’ve heard of houses on sale in southern Europe for the price of a cup of coffee. Now one country in northern Europe is running a similar scheme: selling plots for just a few cents. Götene, 200 miles southwest of Stockholm, is selling 29 plots of land with prices
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus and Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — South Korea’s highest mountain is facing environmental damage from an unexpected source – instant noodles. The National Park Office of Mount Halla has started a campaign to encourage hikers not to dump ramyun broth on the mountain or in its streams in order to preserve a
Continue Reading By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — It’s become a popular beverage trend on social media platforms like TikTok in recent months – how to customize your Starbucks order so it tastes like a Vietnamese iced coffee. And increasingly, some posters are including tips on how to request a specialized version of this sweet caffeinated
Continue Reading CNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Nobody has done more to keep the western flame kindling on the big screen than Kevin Costner, but the audacity of his latest rodeo – a planned 12-hour story for theatrical release, spread over four parts – feels like overreach, if not outright folly. “Horizon: An American
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Apparently, Dolly Parton is too big of a star to know who Ryan Reynolds is. We kid, we kid. But, so does Parton. The country music legend appeared in a video, posted to YouTube on Thursday, where she playfully trolled Reynolds to help promote “Welcome to Wrexham,” the docuseries
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Thrash metal trio Voice of Baceprot have come a long way since their teen years attending an Islamic school in Indonesia, where they first discovered System of a Down on a teacher’s computer and fell in love with heavy metal music. Earlier this week the band touched down in
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Like “The Walking Dead,” “A Quiet Place” pries opens the door to a world with a host of possibilities, some of them – including the premise of a new prequel subtitled “Day One” – already touched upon in the two previous movies. Set in New York, the latest
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — As we hurtle headlong into summer, we’re dully aware six months’ worth of new content has already hit our streaming platforms and our feeds this year – and in some rare cases, even gotten us out of the house and into a movie theater. While consensus seems to be
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Ever wonder what it’s like to go to a party hosted by Beatles legend Paul McCartney? Well, late night host Jimmy Kimmel scored an invite and has the intel. The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host and his wife Molly McNearney – who is also the executive producer and co-head writer
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Tom Hanks and Robin Wright turn back time in their upcoming movie, “Here.” The project marks their first time together onscreen since “Forrest Gump” in 1994, both films directed by Robert Zemeckis. “Here” tells the story of “multiple families and a special place they inhabit,” based on the graphic
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