Summer Movie Guide: Virtually all the movies coming to theaters and streaming from May to Labor Day
Are you ready for some movies this summer? There's action-adventure, romance, horror, franchises and anniversary re-releases of some of your favorites populating theaters and streaming services from May through Labor Day. You just have to know where to look.
The Big Gigs: 10 best concerts to see in the Twin Cities this week
Highlights for April 25-May 1 include Nicki Minaj, Sierra Ferrell, Fred Armisen, Cornbread Harris, Alejandro Escovedo and David Foster with Katharine McPhee.
Photographer alleges he was forced to watch Megan Thee Stallion have sex and was unfairly fired
A photographer who worked for Megan Thee Stallion said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was abused as her employee.
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Review: Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' needed an editor
Despite high points, the 31-song double album is verbose, suffering from sonic sameness.
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John Lithgow takes on the role of the new kid in school for a PBS special celebrating arts education
At 78, John Lithgow's acting career is not slowing down. He appeared in the best picture nominee ''Killers of the Flower Moon'' and starred with Jeff Bridges in the FX series ''The Old Man." Recently, the two-time Academy Award nominee and multiple Emmy, Tony and Golden Globes-winning actor played the new kid in school. He learned dance, ceramics, silk-screen printing and vocal jazz ensemble with Los Angeles-area high school students. It was filmed for ''Art Happens Here with John Lithgow,'' airing Friday on PBS with the goal of promoting arts education.
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Music Review: Pet Shop Boys have done it yet again with catchy and bittersweet 'Nonetheless'
Once upon a time, on Pet Shop Boys ' first single, ''West End Girls,'' vocalist Neil Tennant sang the lines, ''We've got no future / We've got no past / Here today, built to last."
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Rom-com author Emily Henry knows the secret to having a healthy relationship with love
''Nothing forces you to face your demons like falling in love.''
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Ashley Judd and Aloe Blacc help the White House unveil its national suicide prevention strategy
Actor Ashley Judd and singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc, who both lost loved ones to suicide, on Tuesday helped the Biden administration promote its new national strategy to prevent suicide.
Celebrities
Video shows Alec Baldwin smacking phone away from woman demanding he say 'Free Palestine'
A protester confronted the actor at a New York City coffee shop.
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Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian makes belated Metropolitan Opera debut as Madame Butterfly
Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the ''best young female singer'' of 2016.
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Writer Leonardo Padura chronicles life in Cuba as his detective 'alter ego' solves gripping crimes
His novels recount gruesome murders, thefts, scams, bribes and humiliating secrets. But those are not even the most important themes in the stories told by award-winning Cuban writer Leonardo Padura.
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Today in History: April 23, first YouTube clip is uploaded
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Business
Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson pledged $10M for Maui wildfire survivors. They gave much more.
Lana Vierra misses the swing set at her Lahaina home, which was reduced to ashes in the wildfires that swept through her community last summer.
Business
What to stream this week: A Bon Jovi documentary, Idris Elba in 'Knuckles' and 'Anyone But You'
The Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell romantic comedy ''Anyone But You'' hitting Netflix and an album by Brazil superstar Anitta are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds talks new album 'Loom' — 'Heavy concepts but playful at the same time'
The ambiguity of Imagine Dragons' next album starts from the cover.
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 28-May 4
Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 28-May 4:
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Yoko Ono to receive Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement
One of the country's leading artist residency programs, MacDowell, has awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Yoko Ono. The groundbreaking artist, filmmaker and musician is this year's recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal, an honor previously given to Stephen Sondheim and Toni Morrison among others.
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Mary J. Blige, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, A Tribe Called Quest and Foreigner get into Rock Hall
Mary J. Blige,Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang and Ozzy Osbourne have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes folk-rockers Dave Matthews Band and singer-guitarist Peter Frampton.
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Kevin Bacon dances back to 'Footloose' high school
Actor Kevin Bacon on Saturday returned to the Utah high school where the cult classic movie ''Footloose'' was filmed more than 40 years.
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Conductor Andrew Davis, who headed Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on 3 continents, dies
Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on three continents, has died. He was 80.
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Recently arrested Morgan Wallen says he's 'not proud' of behavior
Country music star Morgan Wallen, who faces charges stemming in part from accusations that he threw a chair off the rooftop of a six-story bar, says he's ''not proud'' of his behavior and accepts responsibility.
Cannabis
A 4/20 chat with ex-Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura on his new cannabis brand (and Led Zeppelin)
Jesse Ventura Farms will officially launch Saturday with an event at Hook & Ladder Theater in Minneapolis.
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