BALTIMORE — After weeks of dining, dancing and dating her way through 24 potential life partners on ABC’s “The Golden Bachelorette,” Maryland grandmother Joan Vassos has found her Prince Charming.

The first season of the first spinoff of “The Bachelorette” featuring a single woman of a certain age came to an end Wednesday night in ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — There’s a star-studded lineup ahead for the 2025 Festival La Onda, which is set to return to downtown Napa on May 31 and June 1.

Marco Antonio Solis, Banda MS, Pepe Aguilar, Carin León and Grupo Firme are the headliners for the second annual two-day Latin music celebration, which will be presented at Napa Valley Expo by ...Read more

From the late '60s until 1998, when the Good Friday Agreement wound down hostilities between the Catholic nationalist Irish Republican Army and the U.K.-supported loyalist protestant militias, Northern Ireland was afflicted with the conflict known as the Troubles. One could read and watch a lifetime of reporting on this subject and still not ...Read more

Denzel Washington says he had a same-sex kiss in Ridley Scott’s hotly anticipated “Gladiator” sequel, but it won’t see the light of day.

The two-time Oscar winner, 69, recently told LGBTQ+ outlet Gayety about the kiss, which didn’t make the final cut in “Gladiator II,” which opens next week.

“I actually kissed a man in the film...Read more

Everyone’s entitled to their opinions unless of course they’re dumb ones. Speaking of which, I never understood the dismissiveness when it came to Jesse Eisenberg.

The actor he grew into, with his Oscar-nominated turn in “The Social Network,” has so little regard for artifice that it’s an affront to many viewers’ needs in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Staten Island baker is feeling the heat after allegedly refusing an order for Whoopi Goldberg due to her political views.

Jill Holtermann, the owner of New York state’s oldest bakery in Great Kills, identified herself as the unnamed person who Goldberg called out Wednesday during her live birthday celebration on “The View.”...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sydney Sweeney, since her breakout role in HBO's "Euphoria," has worked to prove she has much more to offer than just her looks.

The "White Lotus" actor in recent years has diversified her portfolio to showcase her acting chops and flexed her muscles as a producer with films "Immaculate" and "Anyone but You." Despite her efforts...Read more

NEW YORK — ABC morning show “The View” wants President-elect Donald Trump to visit the program — despite its hosts having been very critical of him and vice versa.

Bookers plan to “beg” the 78-year-old politician to return to the “Hot Topics” table, a show insider told The Daily Beast.

The thinking behind inviting Trump on the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Linkin Park is expanding its comeback tour, taking their From Zero road show across the globe.

The Agoura Hills rap-rock group, which relaunched in September with singer Emily Armstrong replacing late frontman Chester Bennington, will roll their tour into 2025, announcing stadium and arena stops across North America, Asia, ...Read more

Eva Longoria was desperate to get out of the U.S. and she did — having “escaped” her “dystopian” homeland even before President-elect Donald Trump was reelected last week.

The “Desperate Housewives” alum, 49, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August and campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential ...Read more

NEW YORK — It was probably inevitable that Patrick Radden Keefe's gripping 2019 bestseller "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" would be adapted by Hollywood.

Part thriller, part true crime investigation, the nonfiction book uses one of the most heinous unsolved crimes of the Troubles — the 1972 disappearance...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: Will there be a 10th Jesse Stone TV movie? I heard a rumor that one was coming in 2024.

A: Fans have long wanted another Stone movie starring Tom Selleck of “Blue Bloods,” and inspired by the novels by Robert B. Parker. Nine movies aired between 2005 and 2015, the first eight premiering on CBS...Read more

NEW YORK — NBC's "Today" is keeping the selection of its next co-host in the family.

The network announced Thursday that veteran anchor Craig Melvin, part of the network's morning franchise since 2016, is taking over for the departing Hoda Kotb. Starting Jan. 14, Melvin will take Kotb's chair alongside Savannah Guthrie during the program's ...Read more

The first novel in James Patterson’s Alex Cross series came out in 1993, followed by 34 more books in the years since, about a Washington, D.C., police detective with a Ph.D. in forensic psychology. In the movies, he’s been played by Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry, and both performances leaned into the character’s intellectual side. Amazon...Read more

David and Benji Kaplan, the 40-ish cousins who make up the central duo of “A Real Pain,” are the sort of odd-couple opposites in which movies specialize. David (Jesse Eisenberg), tense and fast-talking, is the settled one; he has a wife, a toddler, a nice Brooklyn apartment and a steady tech job, yet he struggles with anxiety. Benji (a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — About two-and-a-half years ago in Costa Rica, YouTube star-turned-professional boxer Jake Paul had a vision.

Paul says that during an ayahuasca ceremony, he saw himself fighting former boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, with millions of kids watching the match on their TVs and devices.

On Friday, that dream will become a ...Read more

Two thrillers with literary antecedents — "Cross" on Prime Video and "The Day of the Jackal" on Peacock — premiered Thursday. Each series is a cat-and-mouse story, with the hero and the villain identified from the beginning, though exactly who is the cat and who the mouse is an evolving, revolving situation.

Based on a character created by ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — I recently mentioned some film legends to my mass media class at the University of St. Thomas. Just a handful of the 16 students were familiar with Katharine Hepburn, but none could name any of her pictures. Only one of them had even heard of Marlon Brando or Humphrey Bogart.

That was a shame — but not shocking. Generation Z ...Read more

CHICAGO — Every year since before Tiny Tim was born, I’ve compiled this guide to Chicago’s seasonal attractions, loosely confining myself to 10 shows with a holiday theme. But if we are including a “Die Hard” parody this year, and we are, mostly on the dubious grounds of one song, that’s a pretty squishy rule and I reserve the right ...Read more

If you think Mariah Carey is all in on Christmas, Christian singer Michael W. Smith has Carey beat in terms of pure output.

The veteran performer has released five Christmas albums since 1989, including “Every Christmas” in 2023. He has regularly toured at this time of year for decades, usually with his longtime friend Amy Grant.

This year...Read more