SEATTLE — Seattle-born rapper Macklemore released a new song Monday about the Israel-Hamas war with all proceeds, he says, benefiting United Nations relief workers.

Macklemore, born Benjamin Haggerty, released the single and accompanying music video on X.

The song, titled “Hind’s Hall,” references demonstrators at a Columbia University...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

MAY

7: The Taste of Things

7: Altered Perceptions

7: Heavy

7: A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu

7: The Crow

14: Dune: Part Two

14: Imaginary

14: One Life

14: Land of Bad

14: The American Society of Magical ...Read more

Vera Drew wasn't sure anyone would ever see "The People's Joker."

"I think in the beginning it was just for myself to finally make a movie," says the filmmaker, on a Zoom call last month from her home in Los Angeles. "I wanted to make a film my entire life and I just hadn't yet, and it was the beginning of the pandemic and the world seemed like...Read more

The resumption of an epic sci-fi saga tops the DVD releases for the week of May 14.

"Dune: Part Two":

Director Denis Villeneuve continues his adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic novel with this sequel that follows Paul Atreides on Arrakis as he becomes one with the Fremen and accepts his destiny. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Corinthia Peoples seated herself in the front row for Bobby McFerrin’s weekly Circlesongs performance at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage, she didn’t look like someone who lacked confidence.

The San Francisco resident came to the communal sing-along elegantly dressed in flowing white and wearing silver and stone ...Read more

SEATTLE — To transform an actor into a believable Olympic-level rower isn’t easy. Just ask the cast of the 2023 movie “The Boys in the Boat,” who came to Seattle to experience rowing up close at the Windermere Cup Regatta on the Montlake Cut — the same location where their 1930s counterparts trained for three years at the University of...Read more

Know that phrase “the numbers don’t lie”? It’s a lie. The numbers lie constantly. With the movies, as with every creative medium in which visionaries must cross the six-way intersection of greed, exploitation, risk, reward, art and commerce, it’s a mug’s game to lie about numbers not telling the whole story about anything.

This ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism on Monday.

Chang was honored for his work published last year, led by an August article that defended director Christopher Nolan’s controversial decision to avoid depictions of the horrific atomic bombings of the Japanese cities ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago historian Jonathan Eig won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for “King: A Life,” his 2023 biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a bestseller widely recognized for its monumental scope and fresh findings. Even some previous King biographers have called Eig’s work the new definitive narrative about the civil rights ...Read more

In a surprising move, Miss USA Noelia Voigt announced she was relinquishing her crown.

The 24-year-old Utah native cited her mental health as the reason she is stepping down from the title awarded to her Sept. 29, 2023.

“I realize this may come as a large shock to many,” she wrote in the caption of an Instagram post on Monday. “Never ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jeannie Epper, a pioneering stuntwoman who performed in more than 100 films and television series, has died. She was 83.

Epper died Sunday night of natural causes surrounded by family at her home in Simi Valley, a spokesperson confirmed Monday.

In a long career spent bursting through doors, kicking down walls and falling off ...Read more

ATLANTA — The proud Columbia dad supports the students who have camped on campus to protest the situation in Gaza.

As long as his daughter hasn’t been among them, given the tuition he’s paying by driving for Uber, delivering for Uber Eats and working multiple other jobs (a year at Columbia approaches $70,000 per year, according to U.S. ...Read more

The latest man who’s been swept up in the chaos that seems to regularly surround Britney Spears’ is Paul Soliz Jr., her 37-year-old handyman and possible lover.

But a new report shows that Soliz, identified as a participant in Spears’ reported meltdown at the Chateau Marmont last week, has been dealing with plenty of personal chaos of his...Read more

Jeff Landry is between a rocker and a hard place.

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger took a jab at the conservative Louisiana governor during the rock band’s sold-out performance Thursday at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

“We’re a welcoming crowd, aren’t we?” Jagger said to the thousands of festival attendees, per NBC ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Supermodel Bella Hadid is opening up about her life in Texas and living in Fort Worth.

Hadid, 27, has appeared in fashion and fragrance campaigns for over a decade amassing an estimated net worth of $25 million. She is one of the more well-known runway models in the business, accumulating over 60 million followers on ...Read more

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Who needs pomp and circumstance when you can give up the funk, instead?

The Mothership arrived in Rock Hill on Friday afternoon, as music icon George Clinton accepted an honorary doctorate degree from the college named for his great-great-grandfather, Bishop Isom Caleb Clinton.

"Today in Rock Hill, South Carolina," Clinton ...Read more

Prime Video’s “Gen V” is looking for a way forward without one of its young stars, who died unexpectedly in March.

Producers behind the college-set superhero drama updated fans about Season 2 in a social media statement posted over the weekend. “As we continue to navigate the tragic loss of Chance Perdomo, everyone at ‘Gen V’ is ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — This week’s return of San Diego’s Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival, after a one-year hiatus, comes at a time when the live-music industry is swirling with pressing questions.

Have music festivals peaked? As production costs soar ever higher, are there too many festivals competing for the same acts? Are there too few superstar...Read more

NEW YORK — The Met Gala returns to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night in Manhattan, with celebrities from many fields expected to attend the glamorous event.

Here’s what to know about fashion’s biggest night:

When is it?

Guests are expected to arrive for the red carpet beginning at 6 p.m.

How can I watch?

The television ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Pamela Anderson once co-starred in a show on the Strip. She was magician Hans Klok’s sidekick in Klok’s short-lived “Beauty of Magic’ production at Planet Hollywood for six months in 2007. Anderson was the “Beauty” in this one.

The veteran actress is now portraying a Vegas performer theatrically, in Gia Coppola’s “...Read more