LONDON – Paul McCartney no longer gently weeps for his original bass guitar. A five-year search by the manufacturer of the instrument that was aided by a husband-and-wife team of journalists helped reunite The Beatles star with the distinctive violin-shaped 1961 electric Höfner that went missing a half century ago and is estimated to be … Read more
NEW YORK – After a winter barrage of award shows — the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Grammys — the grandaddy of them all, the Academy Awards, are around the corner. The 96th Oscars may be a coronation for “Oppenheimer,” which comes in with a leading 13 nominations, though other films, including “Barbie,” “Killers of … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – Sugar, we’re going down to the Tobin Center. The downtown San Antonio venue will host Emo Orchestra with Escape the Fate on May 9. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online, by phone at 210-223-8624 or in person at The Tobin Center Box Office, 100 Auditorium Circle. Tickets start … Read more
LONDON – Zendaya is on a fashion roll, in a cyborg “Dune: Part Two” kind of way. The co-star of the highly anticipated film sequel stunned Thursday at its world premiere when she hit the sand-strewn carpet in a silver robot suit straight from the archive of Mugler. It’s from the French fashion house’s fall/winter … Read more
The Oscar-nominated documentary short “The Last Repair Shop” is coming to broadcast television this weekend. The 40-minute film will air Saturday on ABC owned television stations and select affiliates, the studios announced Thursday. It’s also currently available to stream on Hulu and Disney+. From co-directors Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers, “The Last Repair Shop” is … Read more
NEW YORK – Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Zendaya will join Vogue’s Anna Wintour as co-chairs of this year’s Met Gala, the magazine and the Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed Thursday. And the dress code? “The Garden of Time,” whatever that means in the imaginations of the star-studded crowd that will ascend the … Read more
LOS ANGELES – Throughout her career, Jennifer Lopez has been hailed as an epochal, prolific and hard-working artist. One adjective not often associated with the pop icon-turned-actor and movie producer, however, is self-deprecating. But as she readies to drop her first studio album in a decade, Lopez is performing a kind of fictionalized mea culpa … Read more