PHILADELPHIA — Portugal. The Man, Dawes, and Little Feat will be the headliners at the 2026 XPoNential Music Festival.

This year’s festival, produced by University of Pennsylvania radio station WXPN-FM (88.5) at Wiggins Park on the Delaware River waterfront, will be staged on the weekend of Sept. 18-20.

On opening night on Sept. 18, top ...Read more

DETROIT — Emily Gilmore is coming to Brighton.

Actress Kelly Bishop, who played Emily Gilmore on the hit TV show "Gilmore Girls," will be making her way to Brighton for this year's "Gilmore Girls"-themed fan event, Destination Stars Hollow, organizers announced Wednesday.

Bishop, 82, will participate in a series of exclusive Q&As at the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In a year when the word “free” will automatically add buzz, the Minnesota State Fair will deliver a lot of bang for no bucks with the newly announced 2026 lineup for its free stages.

Hip-hop legends the Sugarhill Gang, alt-country hero Margo Price and early ’00s rockers Vertical Horizon are the leading names scheduled to ...Read more

Matthew Rhys has got into "heated" rows with strangers over their refusal to use headphones in public.

The Americans actor - who lives in Brooklyn, New York, with partner Keri Russell, their nine-year-old son Sam, and her two kids from a previous relationship - thinks it is important to "school" people in behaving with consideration around ...Read more

Chelsea Handler is "dabbling" but isn't in a serious relationship.

The 51-year-old comic revealed earlier this year that she was dating a guy she had met in a Las Vegas casino, but she's now suggested things are not as serious as they may have seemed because she doesn't want to be "tethered" to one person.

Speaking on the Howie Mandel Does ...Read more

James Franco has insisted he hasn't been "hiding out" in the wake of his sexual misconduct scandal.

The Pineapple Express actor has largely been out of the spotlight since he settled a lawsuit in 2021 after being accused of sexually inappropriate behaviour by a number of former acting students, but he denied deliberately trying to keep a low ...Read more

Hilary Duff has suggested she is "done" with having children.

The 38-year-old singer-and-actress - who has son Luca, 14, from her marriage to Mike Comrie, and daughters Banks, seven, Mae, five, and Townes, two, with husband Matthew Koma - struggled with a lot of pain during her last pregnancy and also found it hard to keep up with the needs of ...Read more

CHICAGO — “‘A Raisin in the Sun’ is a remarkable play,” Tribune critic Claudia Cassidy wrote in the winter of 1959, “acted to the Blackstone hilt of its warm heart, its proud backbone and its quicksilver funnybone by a gifted cast headed by Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill and Ruby Dee.”

Its “Blackstone hilt”?

The famous ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Jeremy Culhane was studying abroad in Scotland, writing an economics research paper at 3 a.m., when he concluded, “I’m gonna die if I keep on having to do this, I think I’d rather do comedy.”

Eleven years later, he’s wrapping up his freshman season on “Saturday Night Live.”

“’SNL’ is a beautiful thing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Not every summer movie needs to be a mystery that unfolds hallway after hallway, with a creature hiding around every corner ready to pop out. But maybe the best one is: A24's “Backrooms,” opening May 29 and directed by 20-year-old phenom Kane Parsons. Apart from that inspiring story, what can we hope for at the multiplex? We ...Read more

Why do I love Jane Wickline? Why might you? I won't say "should" because comedy is funny that way. (Ha ha.) Humor resonates with something individual, possibly innate and probably inexplicable inside each of us; our sense of it is something we can't control. "Helpless laughter," that's a phrase.

I know from online testimonials that I'm not the ...Read more

Julia Louis-Dreyfus felt "so awkward" kissing Stephen Colbert with their partners backstage.

The 65-year-old star made her final appearance on her friend's Late Show one week before it comes to an end, and she joked she wanted to join Colbert's lists of guests he's kissed over the years.

Earlier this week, the late night legend reveals he's ...Read more

Paris Jackson is celebrating a victory in her long-running legal battle against the executors of father Michael Jackson's estate.

The 28-year-old musician has accused John Branca and John McClain of making business decisions which are not in the best interests of the estate and alleged they made payments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in ...Read more

Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson hadn't seen one another since their divorce until a chance encounter last month.

The former couple - who were married from 2002 to 2006 and famously starred together on reality TV show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica - enjoyed a "cordial" and "respectful" meeting on a plane to Hawaii with their respective families a ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — “Dutton Ranch” director Christina Alexandra Voros has spent quite a bit of time in North Texas over the past few years.

The 48-year-old Massachusetts native has worked as a cinematographer and director since the late 2000s, racking up a number of film and television credits. In 2019, she was hired as cinematographer ...Read more

Sir Paul McCartney has revealed he wasn't thrilled after paying to see Bob Dylan live - only to spend most of the gig trying to work out what he was actually playing.

The Beatles legend, 83, takes issue with artists who don't play their most popular material for the fans.

Speaking on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast, McCartney said of the 84-...Read more

Elle Fanning is returning for a second season of Margo's Got Money Troubles.

The 28-year-old actress stars in the title role of the hit Apple TV comedy drama series, and a week before the season one finale, the streamer has made a decision on its future.

Elle, who will also serve as an executive producer, said in a statement: "Having the ...Read more

Erik Fleming is "regretfully sorry" after being sentenced in connection with Matthew Perry's death.

Fleming, an acquaintance of the late Friends actor, is one of five people charged after his death aged 54 in October 2023, having source ketamine from Jasveen Sangha the so-called Ketamine Queen before giving the drugs to Kenneth Iwamasa, Perry's...Read more

Sharon Stone's older brother has died.

The Basic Instinct star - who has adopted sons Roan, 25, Laird, 21, and 19-year-old Quinn - has paid tribute to Mike Stone after he passed away "following an extended illness" at the age of 74.

Sharing a photo of Mike on Instagram, Sharon wrote: "Mike Stone, My oldest brother, Has passed away.

"Following...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — More than 75 acts are scheduled to appear during the 2026 BottleRock Napa Valley festival.

They range from top-tier headliners — such as Lorde, Foo Fighters, Backstreet Boys, Lil Wayne, LCD Soundsystem, Sombr and Teddy Swims — to rising-star acts like Good Neighbors, BigXthaPlug and The Heavy Heavy.

There are longtime ...Read more