By Rochelle Beighton, CNN (CNN) — You know how it goes – you borrow a book from the library, get through the first three chapters, but then life intervenes, forcing you to return it unfinished. That’s exactly what happened to Hoa Xuande when he borrowed the 2016 Pulitzer-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Sympathizer.”
Continue Reading By Christopher Lamb, CNN Venice (CNN) — Pope Francis has become the first pontiff to visit Venice’s contemporary art festival during a trip which saw him visit a female prison and rehabilitate the reputation of a pioneering American nun artist. The 87-year-old Pope traveled to the northeastern Italian city by helicopter on April 28, touching
Continue Reading By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — A house purchase is often one of the trickiest life experiences to negotiate, requiring huge deliberations on location before spending weeks searching for the right property. Finding somewhere in another country is even more fraught with difficult decisions. Unless, of course, you’re Paul Millet. In which case, you land
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wagmeister and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for embattled musician and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs are asking a New York court to throw out portions of a civil suit accusing the rapper and mogul of sexual assault and revenge porn. In a motion filed Friday in the State of New York courts, Combs’ attorneys raised
Continue Reading By Melissa Magsaysay, CNN (CNN) — ”This is nerve-wracking,” James Canody exclaimed — through an exhale — of his new job as an apprentice at the Denver-based business R&R Head Labs. When speaking with CNN, Canody had been working as an apprentice at the barbershop for 13 days. Fourteen days ago he had been released
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Britney Spears has reached a settlement with her estranged father more than two years after the court-ordered termination of a conservatorship that had given him control of her life, their attorneys said. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed by the attorneys for the pop star and her
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: a gelato ban in Italy, runaway horses in central London, the orange fog that hit Athens and – if you’re still feeling brave enough – the best dates and times to book summer flights. When to book summer travel Mid-to-late August is the best
Continue Reading CNN By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: a gelato ban in Italy, runaway horses in central London, the orange fog that hit Athens and – if you’re still feeling brave enough – the best dates and times to book summer flights. When to book summer travel Mid-to-late August is the
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wagmeister and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — The star witness in Harvey Weinstein’s historic rape trial says she would consider testifying in a new trial, after the former Hollywood producer’s New York conviction was overturned by the New York Court of Appeals this week. Mimi Haley, a former production assistant on The Weinstein
Continue Reading By Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — At the premiere of his new film “Poolman” in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, Chris Pine stepped onto the red carpet in an artfully-disheveled ensemble. (Or perhaps just disheveled, for less charitable fashion critic.) Over a light beige slogan tee, Pine wore a “Miami Vice”-worthy blazer accessorized with a
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Mary J. Blige just might be the most famous native of Yonkers, New York, and yet she’s not forgotten her roots there. The newly announced Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is giving back to the community that helped launch her start. Blige’s “Strength of a Woman
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Ellen DeGeneres is reflecting on how her talk show came to an end. The comedian began performing potential preview material from her “Ellen’s Last Stand…Up Tour” this week. The tour will be her first major project since “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” finished its run in 2022. “Oh yeah, I got kicked out of
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Actress Sophia Bush has come out as queer, a year after announcing that her short-lived marriage had ended. The 41-year-old star of “One Tree Hill” has opened up about her love life in an intimate feature-length magazine article. Writing in Glamour, she described the cold feet she experienced before tying
Continue Reading By Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — Some people travel to relax. Others travel to see new places and explore the world. It turns out a growing number of travelers also are hitting the road to get more comfortable with their existence as sexual beings. Put differently, more and more people are traveling to get better
Continue Reading By Emily Blumenthal and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the wealthy Astor family and the richest man aboard the Titanic, sold for a record-breaking £1.175 million ($1.485 million) at auction on Saturday. The timepiece sold for ten times its expected auction price of
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — An idyllic 453-acre private island is up for sale off the west coast of Scotland and it comes with sandy beaches, puffins galore, seven houses, a pub, a helipad and a flock of black-faced sheep. Sanda Island lies between Scotland and Northern Ireland, off the southern tip of the
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Before there was conversation over whether Beyoncé is country enough for country music, there was the Black Opry, holding space for music lovers and artists of color in the genre. The organization billed as the “home for Black artists, fans and industry professionals working in country, Americana, blues,
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies weren’t particularly good, but they had Jim Carrey and made a lot of money, so inevitably, there’s more. Lacking Carrey to help carry the load, “Knuckles,” spun out of that game-to-screen universe, isn’t just bad, but a next-level degree of bad, starting with
Continue Reading By Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “In space, no one can hear you scream.” “Alien” premiered with that memorable advertising line in June 1979. Nonetheless, science fiction fans being what they are (see “Star Wars” and “May the Fourth”), the film’s de facto anniversary comes this weekend, in the form of an April 26 re-release
Continue Reading By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Turnips, radishes, potatoes… This is not the beginning of Emily Blunt’s shopping list, but rather the items that appeared all over her latest red carpet outfit. Attending the Paris movie premiere of “The Fall Guy,” in which she stars, Blunt looked the picture of health — literally — in
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