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San Antonio Mayor Backs Canceling Kanye July 4 Concert
San Antonio’s mayor is calling for the cancellation of Kanye West’s July 4 concert at the city-owned Alamodome, citing his history of hate speech and antisemitic comments, especially on a symbolic nat
Bob Dylan Opens 'Long Hot Summer '26' Tour in Palm
At 85, Bob Dylan launched his 'Long Hot Summer '26' tour at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert with a deep-cuts-heavy, hooded, vocally fluid set that doubles as a quiet rebuttal to a recent public critique
Annecy Opens With 'Minions & Monsters' World Premiere
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival opened Sunday with the world premiere of Illumination's 'Minions & Monsters,' a 1920s Hollywood-set spin-off that drew a surprise appearance by Guiller
Lewis Capaldi Closes TRNSMT 'Firing on All Cylinders'
Lewis Capaldi headlined TRNSMT's closing night at Glasgow Green, telling fans he's 'firing on cylinders now' after his well-publicised mental health breakdown since his 2022 TRNSMT appearance.
Olivia Rodrigo Earns Third Consecutive No. 1 on Albums Chart With ‘You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love’
Olivia Rodrigo's third album 'You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love' debuts atop the Billboard 200 with 485,000 equivalent album units — her career-best week and the largest solo debut of the year
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane
Claude Guillemot, who co-founded Ubisoft in 1986 alongside his four brothers, has died at age 69 in a plane crash in the French coastal town of La Baule.
Peter Asher 'Everywhere Man' Doc: Pop Star to Producer
Variety's review of "Peter Asher: Everywhere Man" praises the documentary as "well worth seeing" while flagging its boomer-nostalgia infatuation, tracing Asher's arc from half of 1960s duo Peter and G
SZA, Kenneth Blume Decry Use of Their Songs in AI Training Data Sets
The Atlantic launched an AI detection tool last week that lets artists search whether their music was scraped for AI training, triggering public fury from musicians including SZA, who found 238 of her
Box Office: ‘Toy Story 5’ Ignites to Series-Best $312 Million Globally, ‘Obsession’ and ‘Backrooms’ Surpass $300 Million Milestone
Toy Story 5 posted a franchise-record $312 million global opening weekend, leading a global box office that also saw YouTuber-made horror films Obsession and Backrooms each clear $300 million worldwid
SZA Slams AI Music, Alleges Diplo Backs Suno Training
SZA condemned musicians who use AI music generators on Instagram, singling out Diplo for allegedly holding equity in Suno and training it on Black writers and producers, as the industry remains split
KVIFF at 60: Karel Och on Legacy, Global Lineup, U.S.
Karlovy Vary Film Festival artistic director Karel Och previews the 60th edition's lineup, blending retrospective honors, expanded global representation, and pointed criticism of U.S. distribution hol
Aardman Unveils Pokémon Series, 'Timmy' & More at
Aardman celebrated 50+ years of clay animation at the Annecy Animation Film Festival with first-look reveals of a stop-motion Pokémon series, two new original shows, a new MFA program at the Royal Col
Kirk Hammett Falls Off Stage Days After Anti-Swift
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett slipped off-stage during a Dublin concert, plunging guitar-first into the crowd, just days after Swifties erupted over his anti-Taylor Swift T-shirt worn at a Budapest
Shooter Jennings Announces 'Diamonds' LP With Glen
Shooter Jennings announced a new posthumous Waylon Jennings album called 'Diamonds,' dropping Nov. 13, anchored by a title track featuring a late-1978 Glen Campbell guitar cameo that Jennings discover
She saved $24,000 to launch a craft festival in an old Joann store: 'This is my dream come true'
Events producer Lauren Tetef is launching a weekend craft festival inside a shuttered Joann store in Torrance, California, after saving $24,000 from earnings following an August layoff she blames on T
Bentonville Film Festival Names Top Winners
Walter Thompson-Hernández's 'If I Go Will They Miss Me' and Judd Ehrlich's 'Jane Elliott Against the World' were named best narrative and best documentary, respectively, at the 12th Bentonville Film F
Fan Dies in Fall at Goose's MSG Show; Concert Continued
A 51-year-old man fell to his death from an elevated position inside Madison Square Garden during jam band Goose's sold-out Saturday night concert, and the show continued uninterrupted with seven rows
Mullings's 'A to B': Two Voices Map a Blind Date
Tia-Renee Mullings's coming-of-age play "A to B" uses two overlapping monologues to follow a man and a woman preparing for the same blind date, but a reviewer finds the 80-minute string of preparation
Fox Acquires Roku for $22B as Right-Wing Media Consolidates
Fox Corporation's $22 billion acquisition of Roku, paired with the Justice Department's approval of David Ellison's $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, gives conservative billionaire
Toy Story 5 Opens to $129M Global, Set to Top $275M
Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 5 has grossed $129.3M globally in its opening weekend, on pace to beat its $275M worldwide forecast, fueled by a $71M domestic debut and strong launches across 48 territories
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