Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

NEW YORK (AP) — Another milestone has fallen thanks to the Broadway musical “Hamilton” — this time on Twitter. This image released by The Public Theater shows Lin-Manuel Miranda, foreground, with the cast during a performance of “Hamilton,” in New York. Another milestone has fallen thanks to the Broadway musical “Hamilton” – this time on […]

Actress Noma Dumezweni LONDON (AP) — A Black actress playing Hermione Granger? J.K. Rowling has no problem with that. The best-selling author of the “Harry Potter” books has responded to mixed reactions after the cast for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” — a new London play featuring Harry as an adult — was announced […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Miss Universe pageant and host Steve Harvey doubled down on the apologies Monday after an excruciating live television moment — announcing incorrectly that Miss Colombia had won and then taking the crown from her head to give to a rival from the Philippines. Steve Harvey holds up the card showing […]

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombians celebrated for a little more than two minutes what appeared to be an unprecedented feat for this beauty pageant-obsessed South American nation: back-to-back Miss Universe titles. Other contestants comfort Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez, top right, after she was incorrectly crowned Miss Universe at the Miss Universe pageant Sunday, Dec. 20, […]

This Nov. 29, 2013 file photo shows, Jayceon Terrell Taylor aka The Game, at his Private Black Friday Birthday Dinner at Philippe in Beverly Hills, Calif. Taylor, pleaded not guilty on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, to charges that he punched and threatened an off-duty Los Angeles police officer during a pickup basketball game in March. […]

Comedian Bill Cosby (left) and model Beverly Johnson (right) . In a defamation lawsuit filed Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, in Los Angeles, Bill Cosby sued Johnson over her allegations that he drugged and attempted to sexually assault her in the 1980s. (Photos by Victoria Will/Invision and Jordan Strauss/Invision via AP) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill […]

Former Miss Universe Paulina Vega, center, reacts before taking away the flowers, crown and sash from Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez, left, before giving it to Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach at the Miss Universe pageant Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, in Las Vegas. Gutierrez was incorrectly named Miss Universe. (AP Photo/John Locher) LAS VEGAS (AP) — […]

This Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 photo provided by Jazz at Lincoln Center shows, JALC Managing and Artistic Director, Wynton Marsalis, at “Big Band Holidays” concert at the Rose Theater in New York. (Frank Stewart/Jazz at Lincoln Center via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — The Queen of Soul made a surprise appearance at the House of […]

The mansion of rapper 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, is pictured in Farmington, Conn. in this March 10, 2005 file photo. The rapper is selling the 52-room mansion, an estate once owned by boxer Mike Tyson, for $18.5 million, and he’s showing off the property on a special edition of MTV’s “Cribs” […]

Rapper Meek Mill PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge appears likely to send rapper Meek Mill back behind bars early next year for a steady stream of probation violations, most involving his failure to keep the court aware of his erratic travels. Mill offered emotional testimony Thursday about his rudderless childhood in gritty North Philadelphia, while […]

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Actor Samuel L. Jackson is starring in a crowdfunding campaign video for the Pennsylvania company that makes the Kangol hats he’s known for wearing. In the video, the famously foul-mouthed actor wears a T-shirt that says, “Motherfunder.” LNP reports (http://bit.ly/1TPKXTy) Lancaster County-based Bollman Hat Co. wants to raise $100,000 to go […]

In this Monday, Dec. 14, 2015 file photo, Chadwick Boseman arrives at the world premiere of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Having already played Jackie Robinson and James Brown, Boseman will tackle another icon in a courtroom thriller about Thurgood Marshall. Producers announced Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015, […]