By Lisa Respers France, CNN Shania Twain is standing up for others in country music. The legendary star in the genre used her acceptance speech for the Equal Play Award at Sunday’s CMT Awards to call for more equity and diversity in the country music industry. “When I wrote the phrase ‘Man I feel like
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By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, has celebrated their elder daughter’s birthday with a trip down memory lane. Mabel Willis turned 11 on Sunday, and her proud mom marked the occasion by sharing a montage of family photos and videos taken over the years, set to the song “Pictures Of You”
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By Janelle Davis, CNN You’ll no doubt be hungry after watching “Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico.” Every episode is full of mouthwatering regional specialties prepared by chefs all over the country. For those wanting to follow in Eva Longoria’s footsteps, below is a guide to the restaurants and locations she visited. Oaxaca: A gastronomic capital
Continue Reading By Janelle Davis, CNN You’ll no doubt be hungry after watching “Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico.” Every episode is full of mouthwatering regional specialties prepared by chefs all over the country. For those wanting to follow in Eva Longoria’s footsteps, below is a guide to the restaurants she visited. Yucatán: Defined by the Maya Mayan
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Kelsea Ballerini opened the CMT (Country Music Television) Music Awards ceremony on Sunday with a moving tribute to the victims of last week’s shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School in Tennessee. “On March 27, 2023, three nine-year-olds — Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, along with Katherine Koonce, Cynthia Peak and
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The CMT (Country Music Television) Music Awards took place on Sunday at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. The celebratory event, voted on by the fans, was hosted by Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown, who were both nominees this year and performed during the broadcast. Kane, along with his spouse Katelyn
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN “Women Talking” filmmaker Sarah Polley was pranked by her child on April Fools’ Day and the stunt is as good as Oscar gold. Polley won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for her film “Women Talking” last month, and posted a photo on Saturday of a hilarious letter she received notifying
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Radina Gigova, CNN and Amarachi Orie, CNN | Oscar Holland, CNN The Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto — who wrote the haunting score to “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” and won an Oscar for 1987’s “The Last Emperor” — has died aged 71. His management team announced that he died on March 28. He had been treated
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The cold open of “Saturday Night Live” featured comedian James Austin Johnson considering possible jail time as an indicted former President Donald Trump. “Well folks it happened. I got indicted,” Johnson said, later poking at rhetoric from the former president, saying, “What the radical left Democrats are doing to me is
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By Dan Heching, CNN No one is ever safe on April Fools’ Day, and this year that included hapless Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost. The “Saturday Night Live” castmember was doing his usual Weekend Update segment with co-anchor Michael Che this weekend, on the episode hosted by Quinta Brunson, and from the top of the
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By Faith Karimi, CNN Loni James boarded a flight from Washington state to London last year with a duffel bag, a day pack and an unconventional itinerary. It was late March, and her plan was simple: To travel the world and go on a date with a local in every country she visited. Days after
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By Carole Rosenblat, CNN The Covid pandemic caused the Hotel Leopolis in Lviv, Ukraine, to close for two months in 2020. Yet, since then, and a little more than a year after Russia invaded, the Leopolis has continued to be open for business without a pause. The hotel’s management even decided to continue a renovation
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The cold open of “Saturday Night Live” featured comedian James Austin Johnson considering possible jail time as an indicted former President Donald Trump. “Well folks it happened. I got indicted,” Johnson said, later poking at rhetoric from the former president, saying, “What the radical left Democrats are doing to me is
Continue Reading By Janelle Davis, CNN. Recipe from Regina Escalante, Merci Eva Longoria can’t get enough of this salty dish. While visiting the sun-soaked city of Mérida on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, she met Regina Escalante, who runs the wildly popular restaurant Merci, and sampled the chef’s grilled fish with sour orange, prepared beachside for flavorful tacos. In
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Melissa Gilbert’s message for women over 50 is you’re just getting started. The actress turned entrepreneur was inspired during the Covid-19 pandemic to create a community to connect and empower women. Gilbert wanted to change the narrative around aging, so she launched Modern Prairie, an online platform with virtual crafting classes,
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By Taylor Romine, CNN A juror who served on the civil trial relating to a 2016 ski collision involving Gwyneth Paltrow said “it took us less than 20 minutes to say Gwyneth was not at fault.” Terry Sanderson, a retired optometrist, had sued Paltrow, an Oscar-winning actor and entrepreneur, over injuries he said he sustained
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN A juror who served on the civil trial relating to a 2016 ski collision involving Gwyneth Paltrow said “it took us less than 20 minutes to say Gwyneth was not at fault.” Terry Sanderson, a retired optometrist, had sued Paltrow, an Oscar-winning actor and entrepreneur, over injuries he said he sustained
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Barbie Nadeau, CNN You can criticize their fashion, make fun of their politics, and even complain about the garbage, but questioning Italian cuisine is strictly off the table. That’s why a recent interview with controversial food history professor Alberto Grandi has caused such a stir. Grandi, who has been questioning the authenticity of Made in
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN In travel news this week: epic continental trips by bike and bus, new airline routes making transatlantic trips easier and the world’s top restaurants, from Asia to the United States to the Middle East. Award-winning restaurants Humble pie was not on the menu as the winners of Asia’s 50 best restaurants
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By Dan Heching, CNN If anyone was still wondering where things were headed on Showtime’s creepy, ambient survival drama “Yellowjackets,” they might not be watching closely enough. Much of the show’s mystery in the first season hinged on what lengths the titular high school soccer team went to in order to survive a year and
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