WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — To celebrate the nation’s 250th year, Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area will host a two-hour televised PBS event as the finale of the holiday weekend.

The PBS broadcast, “American Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together,” begins at 8 p.m. Saturday and will include live performances, historic interpretation, 400 ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — As the lead singer and co-writer of such upbeat disco anthems as “Y.M.C.A.,” “Macho Man” and “In The Navy,” Victor Willis had an enduring impact on pop culture, both straight and gay, young and old.

But Willis, who died Tuesday from what his wife Karen Huff-Willis described on social media as “a short but aggressive ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Danny Glover, the lifelong San Francisco resident and global activist who rose to the height of Hollywood fame as the star of the “Lethal Weapon” film series, “The Color Purple” and “Places in the Heart,” revealed Wednesday that he has Alzheimer’s disease.

In an interview on the “Today” show that appeared ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Bob Dylan’s first full Twin Cities gig in nine years will be just his sixth date with a newly retooled backing band. If the new lineup even sticks.

A tradition that goes back to his audacious hiring of loud rock ’n’ roll musicians for backers in the mid-1960s, Dylan is confounding fans once again with shake-ups in his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dine-in movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is launching a new initiative to show unreleased independent films that had successful festival runs, a move that comes as specialty films have struggled to gain distribution.

The Alamo Exclusives program, announced Wednesday, will give limited theatrical runs to films that ...Read more

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s reported Madison Square Garden wedding, shutting down a chunk of Midtown for the Fourth of July weekend, is eliciting almost as many questions as it is guests (the latter ostensibly topping one thousand).

But how exactly is the world’s biggest pop star, billions of dollars and streams aside, able...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It turns out “The Life of a Showgirl” involves a wedding fit for a princess, complete with a bespoke castle built inside Madison Square Garden — at least according to reports.

Despite tight security surrounding the event, details have begun to emerge about the highly anticipated wedding between pop superstar Taylor Swift ...Read more

Sadie Sink has "bittersweet" feelings about the end of Stranger Things.

The 24-year-old actress had her big career breakthrough portraying Max Mayfield in Stranger Things, the hit Netflix show, between 2017 and 2025, and Sadie has now admitted to having mixed feelings while watching the finale.

Sadie - who starred alongside Winona Ryder, David...Read more

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has joked about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's upcoming wedding.

The celebrity duo are expected to tie the knot at Madison Square Garden later this week, and Mamdani has claimed that the loved-up couple are setting "a good example" for "the city at large".

During a press conference about a heatwave in New ...Read more

Lindsay Lohan believes "your 30s are [when] things start clicking".

The Hollywood actress turns 40 on Thursday (07.02.26), and Lindsay has been reflecting on the last decade of her life.

Asked what advice she has for people entering their 30s, Lindsay told People: "I'd say that this decade is yours.

"I think there's so much pressure around ...Read more

'MINIONS & MONSTERS'

Rated PG for violence/action, language and rude/macabre humor.

What it’s about: In this love letter to Hollywood, we learn about a trio of filmmaking Minions who gatecrash the studio system of the 1920s, strike out on their own to make an independent monster movie and have to save the world from what they unleash.

The ...Read more

Advertised as "from the world of 'Legally Blonde,'" the new Prime Video series "Elle" revisits that film's heroine, Elle Woods (Lexi Minetree), as a 16-year-old high school student, suddenly transported from Beverly Hills to Seattle after her plastic surgeon father (Tom Everett Scott) botches a nose job and has to lie low.

Set in 1995, six ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Victor Willis, the Village People singer who co-wrote some the band's biggest hits including "Y.M.C.A.," has died. He was 74.

The band announced Willis' death in a statement to social media, saying, "We are profoundly sad to announce the death of Victor Willis, lead singer of Village People," adding that "Victor passed on ...Read more

As CNN prepares for change under a new owner, the network’s chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid is heading for the exit and expected to jump to MS NOW.

The Washington-based Reid’s contract with CNN is up in several months and she has told the network she does not plan to renew. She is expected to sign on with CNN competitor MS NOW,...Read more

Zoey Deutch loves to genre-hop in her film career.

The 31-year-old actress is always looking for new challenges in her movie career, with Zoey admitting that she never wants to "do the same thing again ever".

Speaking to People, Zoey explained: "I enjoy doing a completely different genre after I finish one thing. I don't want to do the same ...Read more

Sadie Sink has been surprised by the impact of the Marvel movies.

The 24-year-old actress - who stars in Spider-Man: Brand New Day and in Avengers: Secret Wars - has admitted to being surprised by the influence of the Marvel film franchise.

Speaking to Nylon, Sadie explained: "I knew that Marvel was a big deal and had a big brand, especially ...Read more

It’s the 250th birthday of the United States of America, and how better to celebrate than with a big-screen hagiography of America’s first president, George Washington? “Young Washington” arrives in theaters just in time for July Fourth with a chiseled, hot young actor in the lead role, and the sheen of a prestige HBO drama, though the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Ubiquitous British actor Michael Byrne has died.

The Shakespearean performer who appeared in films including “A Bridge Too Far,” “Braveheart,” “The Saint,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and “Gangs of New York” was 82, according to The Guardian.

U.S. movie audiences largely recognize Byrne for his role ...Read more

DETROIT — Ginger Zee is back home, and she's bringing viewers to the shores of Lake Michigan as part of her network's celebration of America's 250th birthday.

ABC News' chief meteorologist and chief climate correspondent will be broadcasting from Sleeping Bear Dunes on "Good Morning America" and from Traverse City's National Cherry Festival ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When the Beach Boys made their Hollywood Bowl debut on Oct. 27, 1962, it was the biggest venue the band had played in a year of gigs that included a run of shows at the Pandora’s Box nightclub in West Hollywood, a tour of Broadway department stores in Southern California, and the Howdy Hop in the Hawthorne High School ...Read more