Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles-based rapper The Game is the latest celebrity to become a player in the marijuana industry. Rapper The Game reacts during a preseason NFL football game, between the Los Angeles Rams and the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) The Orange […]

As excitement continues to build around the highlyanticipated Sept. 6 release of Margot Lee Shetterly’s book, “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race,” no one is more excited than the author. After all, the major motion picture, bearing the book’s name, will […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Actor and comedian Kevin Hart says he’s up for a sequel after running in an Oregon relay. Comedian and actor Kevin Hart, right, pours bottled water over the head of an unidentified man after a 5K run in Portland, Ore. Hart says he’s up for a sequel after running in an […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Scandal” creator Shonda Rhimes didn’t know that star Kerry Washington had another baby on the way when a less-is-more plan was put in place for season six of the political thriller. In this Aug. 24, 2016 photo, actress Kerry Washington poses for a portrait at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce proved once again she is the contemporary rock star, and she used the MTV Video Music Awards stage to showcase her skills and outshine her peers, from Rihanna to Britney Spears. Beyonce accepts the award for Video of the Year for “Lemonade” at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden […]

While many gave a mental high-five when NBC weatherman Al Roker went in on American swimmer Ryan Lochte for his sketchy tale about being robbed during the Rio Olympic Games, reportedly, network bigwigs and talent were not similarly pleased. NBC weatherman Al Roker. (AP Photo/Victoria Will) Lochte and his teammates reported they had been robbed […]

Joyce Carol Thomas, a staple in the world of children’s literature, died Aug. 13 in Stanford, Calif., at the age of 79. She reportedly died from hepatitis C, which she contracted during a blood transfusion. Author Joyce Carol Thomas Born to a family of nine children, Joyce was born in Ponca City, Okla. Her family […]

“Here Comes the Sun” is a gloomy unrelenting portrayal about a paradise that is anything but that,  to the inhabitants that occupy the island of Jamaica. Dennis Benn goes beyond the superficial by revealing a Jamaica that is so much more than the white sand beaches, titillating reggae beats and the legacy Bob Marley left […]

Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez) is considered by most fight experts to be, pound-for-pound, one of the greatest boxers of all time. The intimidating icon earned his nickname “Hands of Stone” by virtue of his prodigious displays of punching power. Edgar Ramírez and Usher Raymond star in HANDS OF STONE Photo: Rico Torres © 2015 The […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The American Film Institute has canceled plans to screen writer-director Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” for students this week amid controversies surrounding a 17-year-old rape accusation against Parker and his co-writer. In this Aug. 11, 2016 file photo, Nate Parker arrives at the Sundance “Night Before Next” benefit in […]