LONDON (AP) — British rapper Dizzee Rascal was sentenced Friday to a curfew and a restraining order for assaulting his former fiancée. A judge at Croydon Magistrates’ Court in south London told the musician he must observe a 24-week curfew and wear an electronic tag.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Dancing With the Stars” will waltz away from its longtime ABC home and over to streaming service Disney+, the network’s corporate sibling. The competition series, which debuted on the broadcast network in 2005, will be on Disney+ starting this fall in the U.S.
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES • Astonishingly, “Drive My Car” was not Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s only film last year.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s casino earnings have surpassed where they were before the coronavirus pandemic broke out, but most of the improvement is due to the two newest casinos.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The group Red Hot Chili Peppers has been added to the lineup of the 2022 New Orleans Jazz Fest, organizers announced Friday. The rock band’s appearance is set for Sunday, May 1, and will be its first at the event since 2016.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The motion picture academy on Friday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars or any other academy event for 10 years following his slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards. The move comes after a meeting of the academy’s Board of Governors to discuss a response to Smith’s actions.
An idea known as agenda setting theory put forth about a century by Walter Lippman posits that controlling what people think about is one way to control what people think. Learning about that theory decades ago led me to conduct a decidedly unscientific survey to test the truth of that theory.
State law: no one can legally claim to be a banjo player without knowing the first few notes of “Dueling Banjos,” the famous composition from the 1973 movie Deliverance involving a country banjo player and a city guitarist. What begins as a musical challenge of one-upmanship eventually evolves into a beautiful musical collaboration.
Carol Ann Lukehart Browne, 65, passed away on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 after a long and arduous battle with kidney failure surrounded by her loving family. Carol, born to Charles O.
DEAR ABBY: My husband passed away four months ago, after battling cancer for years. He declined in a month, and we chose hospice at home. (I did not find them particularly caring or helpful.) This was even more depressing because it happened during COVID.