SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has announced even more acts for its 2026 festival, which runs Oct. 2-4 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

Alison Krauss & Union Station, Sierra Hull and Jesse Welles are among the acts included in this latest Hardly Strictly Bluegrass lineup announcement. Other newly announced Hardly Strictly ...Read more

The “Purge”-ification of other movie genres has begun.

The 2013 dystopian action horror film “The Purge” introduced a concept that would serve what would become a franchise well for several big-screen installments and a short-lived TV series: One night per year in the United States, all crime, including murder, is legal — largely in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The HBO crime thriller "Task" has added new cast members who will join stars Mark Ruffalo and Mahershala Ali for its second season.

The Emmy-nominated show from "Mare of Easttown" creator Brad Ingelsby follows Ruffalo’s Tom Brandis, a priest-turned-FBI agent who leads specialized task forces. This season, his team will ...Read more

MIAMI — Celebrity tracker Perez Hilton moved back home to Miami several weeks ago. But he has faced a trail of troubles.

Hilton rose to fame in the 2000s through his gossip website, and had been living in Las Vegas for a little over three years with his mother, helping to raise his family.

In late June, Hilton told his 600,000 plus followers...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Miami authorities on Tuesday night responded to a residence after a disturbing video was posted on social media that appeared to involve celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.

The Times has not confirmed the authenticity of the video. But the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office said in an emailed statement that authorities had received an ...Read more

Antonio Banderas' heart attack is the "best thing" to have happened to him.

The 65-year-old actor suffered a heart attack back in 2017 - but that scare prompted him to embrace a new lifestyle, including quitting smoking and relocating to Malaga in Spain.

The movie star told People: "You always have in your mind that you're going to die.

"But ...Read more

Kaia Gerber rediscovered her love of Los Angeles while filming The Shards.

The 24-year-old actress stars alongside Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Graham Campbell, Hayes Warner and Wes Bentley in The Shards, the new thriller series, and Kaia admits that she relished returning to Los Angeles.

Speaking to Hayes for Interview magazine, Kaia shared: "...Read more

Bella Thorne resented being pitted against Zendaya during her younger years.

The 28-year-old actress starred alongside Zendaya, 29, in Shake It Up, the hit Disney sitcom, between 2010 and 2013, and Bella has now opened up about her relationship with her co-star.

She said on the Call Her Daddy podcast: "I remember at the mix and matches, I ...Read more

Jacob Batalon was given "more liberty" on the set of Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

The 29-year-old actor has reprised the role of Ned Leeds in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the new Marvel superhero movie, and Jacob has hailed the influence of director Destin Daniel Cretton and co-star Tom Holland.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Jacob explained:...Read more

Eli Roth has bemoaned the impact of streaming platforms.

The 54-year-old director admits that streaming platforms, like Netflix, have dramatically changed the entire movie business.

Eli - whose new film is called Ice Cream Man - told Variety: "Decades ago, the studio owning the movie was fine because there was so much money to be made on home ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the opening scene of "The Shards," a teenage Bret Easton Ellis (Igby Rigney) cruises down Mulholland Drive in his black Mercedes-Benz, cigarette in hand, blasting the Cars' "Moving in Stereo," to catch a Saturday matinee of "The Shining."

Not only does the sequence evoke the eerie opening of Stanley Kubrick's seminal 1980 ...Read more

CHICAGO — She was a woman former Tribune critic Howard Reich called “the first lady of Chicago jazz,” and for decades Geraldine de Haas delighted in that role. She earned it too, through stunning performances and as a passionate promoter and producer of jazz programs and events that changed the cultural face of the city.

De Haas died the ...Read more

'ONE NIGHT ONLY'

Rated R for sexual material, language and brief nudity.

What it’s about: The government has banned premarital sex, except for one night a year. Can two crazy single kids fall in love?

The kid attractor factor: This is more for young adults.

Good lessons/bad lessons: It's not all about sex, even when it's all about sex.

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“Eli Roth is a special kind of disturbed.”

That’s by no means a clinical psychological diagnosis — I’m not remotely qualified to make one — but it is the thought I had early and often while taking in the director’s new serving of absurd but unsettling horror, “Ice Cream Man.”

In theaters this week, Roth’s 10th movie takes ...Read more

Bethenny Frankel has alleged she had something "major" diagnosed by a team of doctors.

The reality star told her fans on Instagram that she had "joined a medical community" that has "teams of doctors that sort of cross reference your markers, your labs, longevity".

Bethenny added that the health service, available in your home, is "legitimate"...Read more

Gary Glitter has appeared in court charged with a series of historic sexual offences, including three counts of indecent assault on a girl under 14 and one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13.

The 82-year-old disgraced former glam rock star, born Paul Gadd, appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court via videolink, ...Read more

Chris Rea left an estate worth more than £12 million to his family after his death aged 74, newly released court documents show.

The the singer-songwriter - whose festive anthem Driving Home for Christmas became one of Britain's most enduring seasonal hits - left a final will which placed the bulk of his fortune into a trust for his wife, Joan...Read more

After three years, "Ted Lasso" has returned to the pitch. Did it need to? The third season finale, which seemed until now to be a series finale, brought most every character's arc to a satisfying, credible conclusion — the less satisfying ones were just as credible — while pointing to a future you were free to imagine, or think nothing more ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — BEAT, the King Crimson offshoot band that performed launched in 2024 and features two alums on the pioneering progressive-rock group, is returning for an extensive 2026 North American tour. It will open with three dates in California and conclude in early December with concerts in Los Angeles and Riverside.

The group features two ...Read more

Neakasa Magic 1 Vacuum Steamer a game-changer: I once had a compact Rowenta steamer I used at home and when traveling. Sadly, I did not use it very often. I was never truly happy with the results, so using it was not worth the effort and it added weight and bulk to my bag. I also had a home steamer with a pole that held the steam wand and hose ...Read more