NEW YORK – On a waterfront promenade lined with pink flowers and facing Manhattan’s majestic skyline, designer Michael Kors paid tribute to his late mother with a show honoring the travels the two enjoyed together. As always, Kors was joined by a slew of celebrities at the picturesque venue along the East River in Brooklyn’s … Read more
The park has 51 attractions across 70 acres, and remains not only a fan favorite but also a one-of-a-kind family waterpark and resort experience. NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — Not only is it the “hottest, coolest time in Texas”, it’s also the best in the world. That’s right, for the 25th consecutive year, Schlitterbahn has been … Read more
Like many horrors before it, bad reviews didn’t scare off moviegoers from buying tickets for “ The Nun II.” The sequel to the 2018 hit, released in 3,728 theaters by Warner Bros., topped the box office in its first weekend in North American theaters earning an estimated $32.6 million, the studio said Sunday. AP’s Mark … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – Charlie Robison, the Texas singer-songwriter whose rootsy anthems made the country charts until he was forced to retire after complications from a medical procedure left him unable to sing, died Sunday. He was 59. Robison died at a hospital in San Antonio after suffering cardiac arrest and other complications, according to a … Read more
TORONTO, ONT – After a three-and-a-half-hour documentary on his life, Paul Simon had only sympathy for the audience. “You’re probably exhausted,” Simon told the crowd after the premiere of Alex Gibney’s “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon” on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. The 81-year-old Simon, himself, hadn’t watched the film … Read more
TORONTO, ONT – Fifty pages into Percival Everett’s “Erasure” Cord Jefferson knew he wanted to adapt it into a movie script. Halfway through, he began to see Jeffrey Wright playing the book’s academic protagonist, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison. By the time he was finished, he knew he wanted to direct it, too. As quick as that, … Read more
LOS ANGELES – Music fans, it is time to bid adieu to the sunny, slow summer months, and welcome fall — historically, one of the busiest times in the calendar year for new albums, EPs, and mixtapes. Trends have already begun to reveal themselves: Some of the biggest names in pop (and in pop’s future) … Read more