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CANNES, France — A major power outage struck southeastern France on Saturday morning, threatening to jeopardize the Cannes Film Festival’s closing celebrations, including the much-anticipated Palme d’Or ceremony. Police said they have opened an investigation into possible arson. Power was restored hours before the ceremony, around 3 p.m. local time,...

It takes a true showman like Barry Manilow to say goodbye in style. The soft-rock singer and songwriter has sent more than 50 songs into the Adult Alternative Top 40 since the mid-1970s — and amassed an impressive number of “Fanilows” in the process. Even if Manilow’s tunes aren’t your...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip them of legal protections. The move was made to make sure that the employees were not in violation of...

Piano man Billy Joel has canceled all upcoming tour dates, including a scheduled stop with Rod Stewart on July 5 at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium. The announcement came Friday from Joel, who revealed he has been diagnosed with a brain disorder known as normal pressure hydrocephalus. The condition occurs when excess...

The second installment of the 2025 Tapas Talks speaker series was held May 1 at the Allegheny Country Club. The talk featured former financier, U.S. Army infantry officer, Pentagon official and author Will Bardenwerper, entitled “Foul Deeds and Fair Balls: An Insider’s View of a Captured War Criminal and the...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. The summer’s most popular direct-to-streaming title is likely to be the Netflix movie “Happy Gilmore 2” (July 25), starring Adam Sandler. But beyond that one-shot, there are a slew of scripted shows coming to streaming...

NEW YORK — Rapper Kid Cudi testified Thursday that Sean “Diddy” Combs broke into his Hollywood Hills home in 2011 after finding out he was dating Combs’ ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, and that he was sure Combs was behind the firebombing of his car weeks later. Speaking at Combs’...

Happy Memorial Day weekend! For many, this means an extra day to relax — but it’s also an extra day to fill with fun. Here are a few things going on this weekend around town, so make room in your three-day weekend schedule. Riverlife Chalk Fest For a lot of...

In 1985, classic rock radio station 102.5 WDVE started a tradition of playing a countdown of the top 500 best rock songs over Memorial Day weekend. For the most part, their way of formulating that list has been a bit mysterious. This year, for the 40th anniversary of the Memorial...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Kim Kardashian is a step closer to following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a lawyer. She has completed a legal apprenticeship and is now eligible to take the California bar exam, her representative confirmed Wednesday. The entrepreneur and reality TV star posted an Instagram Story...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Why do a lot of network television series run shorter seasons than they used to? For example, ABC’s “High Potential” only has a 13-episode first...

NEW YORK — George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to Broadway in “Art,” “Hairspray” and “Elf,” has died. He was 76. Wendt’s family said he...

Sam Gentile was always intrigued by the arts, but his interest really piqued about a decade ago. Following his retirement from the science and engineering field, he began taking classes and workshops with his artist wife, Judith. He didn’t intend to learn rules or techniques; Sam wanted to create artwork...

The creator of the Dilbert comic strip, which was canceled by most newspapers two years ago over the creator’s racist comments, said Monday that he has been diagnosed with the same aggressive prostate cancer as former President Joe Biden. “I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,” Scott Adams...

CANNES, France — “Is this what the end of the world feels like?” So asks a character in one of the most-talked about films of the 78th Cannes Film Festival: Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât,” a Moroccan desert road trip through, we come to learn, a World War III purgatory. It’s well...

Brothers Robby and Nathaniel King have wanted to make music since they were kids, and they’re doing it now as Mellowscape. The indie rock band released its third album, “Sunsick,” in April. “‘Sunsick’ is Mellowscape at full throttle. If you need a rock album to dive in to, ‘Sunsick’ is...

Death is not looming for the “Final Destination” franchise at the box office. Its sixth installment, “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” drew big crowds to movie theaters this weekend and easily topped the domestic charts with $51 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The movie earned the same internationally,...

Walking into the New Hazlett Theater on the North Side on Saturday night was like walking into a supersized, candy-colored building block structure in a sunny nursery. It was a sight that was both intriguing and comforting, a perfect introduction to Front Porch Theatricals’ season opener musical, “Baby.” The show...

Canada has produced some truly great folk singers, from Joni Mitchell to Neil Young to Gordon Lightfoot. But there’s a name that belongs on that list that isn’t as commonly known: Bruce Cockburn. While he did have a couple of hits in the U.S. — namely “Wondering Where The Lions...