Oscar Holland, CNN A group of 11 artists and activists has claimed the prestigious Turner Prize after transforming a gallery space into an Irish pub. Array Collective, which uses installations, performance art and protest to explore social issues, was announced this year’s winner at a ceremony in Coventry, UK, on Wednesday. Based in Northern Ireland’s
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A man has been arrested in the shooting death of Jacqueline Avant, philanthropist and wife of music icon Clarence Avant. “We’re very pleased to announce today that we have arrested a suspect in the homicide of one of our beloved Beverly Hills residents,” Beverly Hills Police Chief Mark Stainbrook announced in
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Julia Buckley and CNN Travel staff How to define a dumpling? In its most basic sense, it’s a pocket of dough filled with some form of savory or sweet stuffing. And the easy ideas are surely the best, because dumplings are a popular food across the globe: both simple and complex, local and global, adaptable
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Calling all filthy animals: Airbnb is renting out the “Home Alone” house this month for one hijinks-filled night. The very same Chicago-area home that saw a young Macaulay Culkin get the better of the buffoonish Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern will be available for one overnight stay on December 12. Oh,
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By Lucy Kafanov, Julia Jones, Alexandra Meeks and Fernando Alfonso, CNN In an interview with ABC that aired Thursday, Alec Baldwin shed light on what happened in the moments prior to the fatal shooting on the set of the film “Rust” that claimed the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The actor explained to ABC’s George
Continue Reading By Julia Jones, CNN Alec Baldwin told ABC News he never pulled the trigger of the gun that shot director of photography Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust.” “The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin said in an excerpt released Wednesday from the sit-down interview — his first since the October
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Slash says the recording of his latest album was “quite an adventure” and “a memorable experience.” “We went in and we did this album live,” he told CNN in a recent interview. “We did it in about five days. It was a lot of fun to make.” The not so
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By Stella Chan, CNN Jacqueline Avant, a philanthropist and the wife of music icon Clarence Avant and mother-in-law to Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos, was fatally shot in her home early Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for Netflix. Police suggested Avant may have been targeted. “I don’t think it’s a random attack, but I can’t speculate
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN In what may come as no surprise, two names dominated this year in music streaming: Bad Bunny and Olivia Rodrigo. For the second year in a row, Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny was the most streamed artist, according to Spotify’s 2021 Wrapped, the annual breakdown of Spotify’s streaming data.
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Calling all filthy animals: Airbnb is renting out the “Home Alone” house this month for one hijinks-filled night. The very same Chicago-area home that saw a young Macaulay Culkin get the better of the buffoonish Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern will be available for one overnight stay on December 12. Oh,
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Ben Affleck is feeling grateful for the second chances he’s received, both professionally and in his love life. Promoting his new movie “The Tender Bar,” the actor tells The Wall Street Journal that he’s really changed over the last five years. “Only within the last five years, I really felt increasingly
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By Chloe Melas, CNN And just like that, they’re back! Much of the cast from HBO’s hit show “Sex and the City” are about to return to the screen with a long-awaited reunion. HBO Max, which like CNN is part of WarnerMedia, released the first full trailer for the series “And Just Like That …”
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN Keith Urban is getting back on stage. The country star announced on Wednesday that he’s hitting the road with his “The Speed of Now World Tour” that will head all over the United States next year. Urban will play two dates in May at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las
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Nick Remsen, CNN When news of Virgil Abloh’s death broke on Sunday, many speculated that Louis Vuitton’s presentation of his Spring-Summer 2022 collection in Miami, Florida — scheduled to take place just days later — would be canceled. But the French luxury label, for which he helmed menswear, said it would go on as per
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN A petition asking reporters to stop interviewing Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith has garnered more than 2,500 signatures and counting. Appearing on the petition-hosting site Change.org, the appeal was started by user Dexter Morales on November 26, with the caption “Stop interviewing Will and Jada smith!” While Morales did
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By Marianne Garvey Britney Spears turns 40 on Dec. 2. The singer, who rose to massive popularity as a teen with her hit “…Baby One More Time,” posted to social media to remind fans that she still feels young. Spears modeled bikinis in the post and quoted the film “This is 40,” starring Leslie Mann,
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Billie Eilish has sat down with Vanity Fair on October 18 for five consecutive years. Based on the newly published interview, the Grammy-award winning singer sounds “Happier Than Ever.” That’s the title for her latest studio album, but also the state of her life as evidenced in the interview. “I’m
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Jack Guy, CNN A huge, 12-pointed star has been installed on top of one of the towers of Antoni GaudÃ’s famous Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona. The star, which measures 24.6 feet and weighs 5.5 tons, was maneuvered onto the Virgin Mary tower on Monday, according to a statement from the foundation that runs the
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By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN Just when we thought US travel rules were starting to stabilize, along comes Omicron. The dominoes fell quickly after South African health authorities informed the world of their discovery of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in late November. The Biden administration rolled out controversial travel bans on
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By Forrest Brown,CNN It’s almost an understatement to say that winter holiday traditions are a big deal in New York City. And after last year’s subdued events, they’re an even bigger deal now. Last week’s main attraction was the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. This week, another holiday light promises to shine brighter in 2021
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