By Marianne Garvey U2 announced during a Super Bowl commercial on Sunday that they will soon play a residency in Las Vegas. This fall the band will help launch the MSG Sphere at The Venetian with a show called “U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere.” The globe-shaped performance center holds 17,500 people and
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace, David Williams and Gabe Cohen, CNN A United Airlines 777 leaving Hawaii in December plunged toward the Pacific Ocean for 21 seconds shortly after takeoff and came within about 800 feet of sea level, flight tracking data show. Neither United nor the Federal Aviation Administration indicated anyone was injured on Flight 1722
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Leave it to Blake Lively to give us a baby unannouncement. While the world has been chatting about Rihanna’s pregnancy reveal during her Super Bowl halftime performance, Lively just very casually posted a photo of her post-baby body. “Puppy Bowl Sunday 2023,” she wrote in the caption on a series
Continue Reading By Kelly McCleary, CNN Rihanna didn’t introduce a new song during her Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show performance Sunday night but she did introduce a new pregnancy. The entertainer sang a medley of her biggest hits while visibly pregnant with her second child, her representative has confirmed to CNN. Online speculation about the
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Alex Rees, CNN Fashion Week landed in New York City once again with six days of Fall-Winter 2023 shows from brands including Rodarte, Thom Browne, Coach, Prabal Gurung and Eckhaus Latta. Last season marked the return of nearly all in-person shows, and A-List celebrities descended on the city for a packed schedule
Continue Reading Oscar Holland, CNN Anyone expecting the multiple costume changes of Super Bowls past might have been disappointed. But Rihanna nonetheless wowed at her halftime show in an all-red ensemble custom-made for her by luxury labels Loewe and Alaïa. News that the star is expecting her second child may explain why she kept things simple —
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN It’s time to face the music — Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise is coming to an end. A new trailer for the third and final film in the series debuted during the Super Bowl on Sunday, and dropped some clues as to how Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill/Star-Lord is dealing with
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The newest trailer for the highly anticipated DC superhero film “The Flash” is finally here. The trailer made its grand debut during the 2023 Super Bowl featuring some major characters — and one big character reveal. (CNN and DC are both part of the same parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.) Titular
Continue Reading Reuters Archaeologists have revealed a group of structures discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, believed to have been part of a housing complex inhabited by the elite of the sacred city founded in the 5th Century AD. Archaeologist Francisco Perez Ruiz said there were no known residential groups
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN How about that Rihanna concert sandwiched by a football game? At least that’s what the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show felt like with her as the featured performer. Dressed all in red, including red lipstick, she kicked off the performance flying high over the field on a floating
Continue Reading Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN From returning to the sky in new livery to fly for another airline, to being recycled for parts or moving an aircraft boneyard, the possibilities for retired aircraft are seemingly endless. Some have been converted into restaurants, museums, cafes and even party venues. But this private jet turned luxury villa, located on
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN David Jude Jolicoeur, better known under stage name Trugoy the Dove as one third of iconic rap trio De La Soul, has died. The news was confirmed to CNN via Tony Ferguson, the music group’s publicist. Jolicoeur was 54 years old. Ferguson said Jolicoeur’s passing was “a huge loss” in a
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN It’s the purrfect way to get back at your crappy ex. This Valentine’s Day, an Ohio animal shelter is offering to write your ex’s name in a litterbox — and let its adoptable cats go to town. The Animal Friends Humane Society in Hamilton, Ohio, is offering the unique tribute for
Continue Reading Leah Asmelash, CNN By any standard, Shirley Hailstock is a romance-writing star. Not only has she penned more than three dozen novels and novellas, she’s won dozens of awards, written best sellers, and previously presided over the romance industry’s leading professional organization, the Romance Writers of America. So, naturally, she gets fan mail. And there’s
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A statue of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman will now permanently stand outside the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. The life-size bronze statue was crafted by David A. Annand and commissioned by philanthropist and film producer James Declan Tobin, according to a news release from the museum, which
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN In our latest weekly roundup, CNN Travel celebrates love stories: The gal pals who bonded over marriage misgivings, the 22-year-olds who found their life partner by buying cheapskate standby tickets and the gibbon who mystified zookeepers by having a baby when she lived alone in her cage. Love, sweet love Life’s
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN Cody Longo, an actor famous for his roles in “Hollywood Heights” and “Days of Our Lives,” was found dead Wednesday at his home in Austin, Texas, his representative Alex Gittelson told CNN. He was 34. “Cody was our whole world,” his wife, Stephanie Longo, said in a statement provided by Gittelson.
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Yep, they went there. Apocalyptic drama inevitably means that a lot of people die, good as well as bad. Yet as is so often true when watching the news, a small-scale tragedy can hit harder than a mass-casualty event, especially when it involves an innocent. After the justifiable hoopla caused
Continue Reading Kristie Lu Stout and Jadyn Sham, CNN At a government auction in Hong Kong, “EL0NMUSK” sold for the equivalent of $1,405. The namesake of the headline-grabbing tech titan is one of a number of selected vehicle license plates — including “BAD G1RL,” “LATTE” and “SHADYB1Z” — that went under the hammer at the end of
Continue Reading Kristie Lu Stout and Jadyn Sham, CNN At a government auction in Hong Kong, “EL0NMUSK” sold for the equivalent of $1,405. The namesake of the headline-grabbing tech titan is one of a number of selected vehicle license plates — including “BAD G1RL,” “LATTE” and “SHADYB1Z” — that went under the hammer at the end of
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