By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Billy Joel has delighted his fans with news that he is about to release his first new single in 17 years. The 74-year-old teased the announcement on social media with a short video clip. “It’s TIME TO TURN THE LIGHTS BACK ON,” he wrote on X, referencing the name
Continue Reading By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — It’s the city that’s the main character in all your favorite TV shows and movies, the inspiration behind countless songs and art – and one of the famous destinations in the world. Perhaps it’s no wonder, then, that media company Time Out has named New York City as its
Continue Reading By Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — While visiting London to see the work of her grandfather, the late Ghanaian photographer J.K. Bruce-Vanderpuije, at the 2023 contemporary African art fair “1-54,” Kate Tamakloe was surprised to discover another of his images, uncredited, in the collection at the British capital’s Victoria and Albert Museum. “I asked how
Continue Reading By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — If you order a box of frozen Kobe beef croquettes from Asahiya, a family-run butcher shop in Takasago City in western Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture, it’ll take another 43 years before you receive your order. That isn’t a typo. Forty. Three. Years. Founded in 1926, Asahiya sold meat products
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Norman Jewison, an Oscar-nominated Canadian director whose decades of work yielded a diverse resume that included Sidney Poitier-led drama “In the Heat of the Night” and 1971’s “Fiddler on the Roof,” has died, according to his publicist. He was 97. Jewison died “peacefully” on Saturday, his publicist Jeff Sanderson
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Jennifer Hudson and Common may have just confirmed they have a lot more in, yes, common, than just being two Chicago-raised, highly celebrated musicians. In fact, the pair hinted that they’re dating each other during Monday’s episode of Hudson’s talk show “The Jennifer Hudson Show,” where Common appeared –
Continue Reading By Sarah Kent (CNN) — After close to two years of conflict, the global diamond market is set to feel the full consequences of the war in Ukraine. The European Union earlier this month added the world’s biggest diamond producer, Russia’s Alrosa, to its sanctions list alongside its CEO, Pavel Alekseevich Marinychev. The new year
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Mercenaries, a giant shark and a very scary version of Winnie the Pooh are among the central characters in the best of the worst in cinema as the nominees for the 2024 Razzies were revealed on Monday. Sylvester Stallone’s “Expend4bles” led with seven nominations, including worst picture, followed
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Nicole Kidman is revealing a bit more about a possible third season of “Big Little Lies.” “We are always cooking things up,” the Kidman told Entertainment Tonight on Sunday, adding, “We’ve got a timeline for it now.” She continued: “We are obviously all devastated at the loss of Jean-Marc
Continue Reading By Amy Woodyatt, CNN London (CNN) — Textile designers and tartan experts have banded together to recreate the oldest piece of Scottish tartan for modern production, allowing fans of the famed plaid to wear a piece of history. Using carbon dating, scientists discovered that the “Glen Affric” fabric, uncovered in a peat bog in the
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — The Grand Ole Opry is responding after singer Elle King cursed during a Dolly Parton birthday tribute at the venue. King was among several artists who took the stage in Nashville on Friday to perform some of Parton’s hits. The singer, behind such hits as “Ex’s & Oh’s,” struggled
Continue Reading By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After living in Manhattan for more than two decades and New Jersey for five years, Charles “Chuck” H. Stevens and Berardino “Ben” Di Rienzo were ready for something new. The US couple, who’ve been together for around 37 years and married for 12, say they felt as though they
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Travis Kelce clearly has a lot of love for Taylor Swift. Some Buffalo Bills fans? Not so much. Swift was in Buffalo, New York on Sunday to watch Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Bills. Video of her arrival at the game has been making
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Reese Witherspoon making a drink with snow left some people cold. “The Morning Show” star recently posted a TikTok video in which she had some fun with some new fallen snow. In the video, two mugs were used to scoop snow off a car. Witherspoon then describes mixing
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Mist rising from the Tuscan hills, a tiny fish staring at the ocean from inside the neck of a glass bottle, and a pangolin tucked contentedly under the chin of her carer are among the winning entries from the 2023 Travel Photographer of the Year competition. Shot all around
Continue Reading By Nell Card, CNN (CNN) — The human predilection for living alongside patterns can be traced back to our ancestors who marked the walls of their caves with dots, lines, zigzags and cross-hatching. Tens of thousands of years on, it is arguably wallpaper — that most ephemeral of design items — that provides one of
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “How I Met Your Mother” actor Josh Radnor has met his match. Radnor married clinical psychologist Jordana Jacobs earlier this month in an outdoor wedding ceremony, much to the chagrin of their chilly guests. “I got married! Two weeks ago. In a *light* blizzard. It was an incredible overwhelming
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Kate McKinnon almost wasn’t the only Weird Barbie on the block. Actress Saoirse Ronan said in a new interview that she almost made a cameo in last year’s “Barbie” movie and that she would have, like McKinnon, played a doll who’d survived a bout of overly rambunctious play. “I
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Regina George, meet… Regina George. Rachel McAdams, who played the iconic character in 2004’s “Mean Girls,” appeared on the new episode of “Saturday Night Live” to introduce musical guest Reneé Rapp. Rapp plays Regina George – the leader of cool-girl friend group “the plastics” – in the musical reboot
Continue Reading CNN By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — When a Japan Airlines airplane collided with a coast guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport earlier this month, the JAL A350 aircraft was swiftly engulfed in flames and terrifying images of the runway fire spread across social media. Former Japan Airlines flight attendant and cabin safety officer Mizuki
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