NEW YORK – Super Bowl ads are more than just breaks between gameplay during the biggest sporting event of the year: they offer a glimpse of the country’s zeitgeist, along with how major industries are faring. This year, crypto ads and automakers are advertising less since those industries are facing problems. Major food brands like … Read more
NEW YORK – Christian Siriano lined his New York Fashion Week runway Thursday with thousands of multicolored flowers and put wide-brimmed hats worthy of muse Audrey Hepburn on some of his models to top off a big week. First, there was the custom burgundy power suit he made Vice President Kamala Harris for Tuesday’s State … Read more
SANTA FE, N.M. – Ukrainian relatives of a slain cinematographer are seeking damages in her death from actor Alec Baldwin in connection with a fatal shooting on the set of a Western movie, under a civil lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles. The new lawsuit against Baldwin was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court … Read more
In a poll, fans were asked to vote among the likes of Eminem, Drake, Jay-Z, and Coldplay, but Shakira was in the lead by far. PHOENIX — Popular Colombian singer Shakira has been voted the favorite of many to accompany Rihanna in the Super Bowl LVII halftime show. According to a Billboard poll, fans were … Read more
PHOENIX – Rihanna is putting in the work ahead of her Super Bowl halftime show, focusing so hard on what she promises will be “a jam-packed show” that her upcoming birthday and Valentine’s Day almost slipped her mind. “The setlist was the biggest challenge. That was the hardest, hardest part. Deciding how to maximize 13 … Read more
NEW YORK – Eugene Lee, the six-time Emmy Award-winning production designer for “Saturday Night Live” who won three Tony Awards for his Broadway sets, including the complicated, greenified Emerald City of “Wicked,” has died. He was 83. Lee died Tuesday in Providence, Rhode Island, said Trinity Repertory Company, where he had been a resident artist … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO – A co-host of “Ear Hustle,” the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast produced behind bars, was released from San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday, a year after California Gov. Gavin Newsom commuted his sentence. Rahsaan “New York” Thomas, 52, left the lockup near San Francisco and was greeted by his fellow podcast co-hosts Walter “Earlonne” … Read more