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Channel 4 plans two Friday night music entertainment shows
Rizzle Kicks duo Harley Alexander, left, and Jordan Stephens will front Channel 4's new music show Smells Like Friday Night. Photograph: Annabel ...
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The Immigrant Cannes Review
Ryan Gosling reunites with his "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn in this bloodbath set in the Bangkok underworld, which premieres in the Cannes ...
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Cannes Rocked by Another High-Profile Jewelry Heist
The Cannes film festival has been hit by yet another suspected high-profile theft, after a diamond necklace worth $2.6 million (2 million euros) vanished from a star-studded party, according to luxury jeweler De ...
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RBS and Ulster Bank apps hit by technical glitch
RBS was today scrambling to fix another embarrassing IT glitch that left customers using its popular mobile app unable to access their accounts online.Two million customers at the taxpayer-backed bank, which includes NatWest, have the app on smartphones and tablet computers, and many took to Twitter to express frustration after they were unable to use it to check their money.It follows an IT ...
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BA plane in emergency landing drama
A British Airways plane had to return to Heathrow airport today with smoke billowing from the aircraft.After an emergency landing, the 75 passengers and crew were all safely evacuated from the Airbus A319 which had taken off from the west London airport for Oslo.With emergency services standing by, the passengers and crew used emergency chutes to leave the plane. There were no injuries.Both the ...
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Ex Saturday Night Live performer blasts Biebers entourage
Bill Hader has blasted Justin Bieber.The former 'Saturday Night Live' performer was unimpressed when the 'Baby' hitmaker hosted an episode of the comedy sketch show because he arrived on set with a huge entourage.Bill told Howard Stern on Sirius XM: "Justin Bieber showed up with like 20 guys. He had a guy holding a slice of pizza. A guy holding a Diet Coke. You're ...
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Report reveals UK had just six hours of gas in March
Fears over the UK's reliance on imported energy were fuelled today after a report claimed Britain was just six hours away from running out of stored gas in March.High demand during another freezing month combined with a pipeline fault to drive stores of gas "dangerously low", the Crown Estate said.But National Grid, which pipes gas around the UK, insisted the UK has ...
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Meath granny helps in getting men locked up during break-in
Three men have been arrested and charged after a quick-thinking grandmother locked up thieves as they tried to break into her property. The drama unfolded for 64-year-old Ann Curtis from Nobber in Co. Meath when she noticed a car acting suspiciously and drive into her back yard. She drove up to the yard in her own car and saw the three men loading up tools and wheels of a jeep into their car. ...
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SF lodges complaint against BBC over SFIRA label
Sinn Fin has lodged a formal complaint with the BBC after the party's Education Minister in Northern Ireland John O'Dowd was designated a spokesman for SF/IRA during an appearance on Question Time last night.The label was part of the floor plan which was pinned to a camera.Mr O'Dowd said for the BBC to adopt the SF/IRA tag 20 years into a peace process is beyond belief.He is ...
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Put a Spotlight on African Women’s Reproductive Rights
Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. "I started labour in the morning on a Friday …. The nurse kept checking and saying I would deliver safely. On Monday she said I was weak. "The doctor decided to operate on me. (During the) operation they found the baby was dead. The doctor said the baby had died due to the long labour. After that, I found ...
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Electronic dance concert Moonrise Festival canceled
A new electronic dance concert termed the Moonrise Festival which was expected to draw thousands to South Baltimore, has been canceled after organizers failed to obtain the necessary permits, city officials said Thursday, as reported by the Baltimore Sun. Planned for the weekend of June 8-9 in Port Covington, the festival had been promoted as a successor to the long-running Starscape Festival, ...
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Group to give ragtime concert in Thousand Oaks
Contributed photo The Sedalia Ragtime Orchestra will perform May 31 at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks. Members of the group include (top row from left) Irene Silbert, Faith Newell, Cary Ginell, Tiffany Gambardella and Mary Ann Marx and (second row from left) Ken Dickey, Laura Halladay, Ron Rothman, Sandy Harr, Debbie Banning, Ed Hirsch and Valerie Wong. The Sedalia ...
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Singer Lissie set for concert to raise money for Haiti orphanage
Elaine Constantine/Contributed photo File Photo: Ojai-based musician Lissie. Taking a break from her U.S. tour, Lissie — the stage name for Elisabeth Corrin Maurus — is swinging by her adopted hometown of Ojai to perform at the Libbey Bowl on Saturday for a concert benefiting Changing Tides Orphanage in ...
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Son Puts Love of Music into Benefit for Dads Heart Transplant
Randall Wayne Van Pernis sings and plays guitar at Acropoli Italian Bistro in Dundee on Wednesday afternoon. Van Pernis has organized a benefit concert this Sunday at the restaurant to benefit his father, Paul Van Pernis, who needs a heart ...
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Celebrity birthdays on May 24
Celebrity birthdays on May 24 Actor-comedian Tommy Chong is 75. Musician Bob Dylan is 72. Actor Gary Burghoff (“M-A-S-H”) is 70. Singer Patti LaBelle is 69. Actress Priscilla Presley is 68. Country singer-songwriter Mike Reid is 66. Actor Jim Broadbent is 64. Actor Alfred Molina is 60. Singer Rosanne Cash is 58. Actress Kristin Scott Thomas is 53. Actor John C. Reilly is 48. Actor ...
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Meet five additions to Las Vegas nightlife and entertainment
Las Vegas adds yet another club to its nightlife ranks this weekend with the grand opening of Light at Mandalay Bay. The highly anticipated collaboration between Cirque du Soleil and nightlife operators The Light Group is just the latest addition to a slate of new nightlife and entertainment options that have transformed the Strip in the past six months. Below, meet the Las Vegas nightlife ...
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Gaming industry research in spotlight at Las Vegas conference
Bo Bernhard The largest gaming conference on the planet is coming back to Las Vegas. It's the 15th International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking, and it's slated to start Monday at Caesars Palace. "This is the world's first and finest gambling studies conference," said conference host Bo Bernhard, who serves as UNLV's executive director of the ...
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Korn co-headlines at Rocklahoma where singer will feel at home
That's because he grew up in Bakersfield, Calif., where a lot of Okies and Arkies -- including some of Davis' forebears -- ended up when they left Arkansas and Oklahoma behind for a better life during the Great Depression. Along with them came their music, and that's how Bakersfield became the unofficial left-coast capital of country picking, where guys like Buck Owens ...
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Neon Desert Music Festival Omar Rodriguez Lopez brings his new band home
"I just wanted to do a good job. I wanted it to be the best show possible," the guitar virtuoso said, laughing as he recalled that performance with the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group. "To put that into context for you," he said, "I normally don't have those thoughts running in my head before we play." Rodriguez Lopez returned for Neon Desert 2012, playing ...
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Microsoft Introduces Xbox One an All-in-1 Home Entertainment System
According to a release, at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., the company showcased how Xbox One puts the user at the center of games, TV, movies, music, sports and Skype. "Xbox One is designed to deliver a whole new generation of blockbuster games, television and entertainment in a powerful, all- in-one device," said Don Mattrick, president, Interactive Entertainment ...
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Monsieur Popular For nearly two decades French actor Romain Duris has been charming audiences - and critics - in a wide variety of films. And hes set to do it again in a new retro romcom. Tara Brady met him
You have to remind yourself that Romain Duris is closing in on 40 and that later today, he'll return home to La Bastille to be with his actor partner, Olivia Bonhamy, and the couple's four-year-old son, Luigi. He has dressed down, in jeans, and his artfully messy, dark hair makes one think in style section bytes such as "campus chic" and not of phrases such as ...
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Sisters As the children of wannabe rock-stars Haim were always destined to make music. Our parents didnt wave us off to college they waved us off to a rock band they tell Brian Boyd
Welcome to the Haim household. You dry the dishes to Sister Sledge, do your homework to Joni Mitchell and wake up to Motown or The Beatles. There's even room for Mariah Carey and Destiny's Child. "It was just your wonderful Californian liberal-arts upbringing," said Haim, as they sat in their Dublin dressing room wolfing down Doritos ahead of an appearance with Florence ...
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Theater classical music dance and cultural stage events Muppets Cant Stop Singing in Sesame Street Live show in T.O.
Sesame Street Live in Thousand Oaks, L.A. and Long Beach Sure, your kids know that Bert from "Sesame Street" has only one eyebrow. But do they know that in Denmark, Bert is called "Bent," and his sidekick Ernie is known as "Erik"? Here's some other Muppet trivia to wow your toddler, preschooler or spouse with when you go see Sesame Street Live's ...
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Dipson Theatres will no longer operate North Park Theatre
May 23--It was the news that Buffalo's informed movie audience both long dreaded and long expected: Dipson Theatres announced today that it will no longer be operating the North Park Theatre on Hertel Avenue after June ...
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Market for Specialty Films Expected to Grow
US demand for specialty films is expected to grow 5.1 percent annually to $8.0 billion in 2017. Expansion of the market will be fostered by the increasing need for high-performance plastic films that offer such advantages as barrier properties, mechanical strength, and chemical resistance in packaging and construction applications. Additionally, the penetration of specialty films into ...
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