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Shane MacGowan, the bold, Irish punk singer-songwriter and frontman of The Pogues, has died. He was 65. The legendary musician was in poor health and had been recently hospitalized. MacGowan was receiving treatment for a diagnosis of encephalitis, a dangerous infection that causes swelling of the brain. MacGowan’s wife, Irish writer Victoria Mary Clarke, announced
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The author of a new book about the British Royal Family has been scrutinized after a Dutch translation of the bombshell publication named two members of the family who allegedly raised concerns about the skin colour of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s unborn son, Archie. The Dutch version of Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and
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On Tuesday night, King Charles brought together a group of senior royals, including Queen Camilla, Prince William, and Kate Middleton to Buckingham Palace for the second state banquet of his reign. The spectacle aimed to celebrate a state visit by South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon-hee and emphasize the importance
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Image Credit: TLC Kody Brown’s fractured family dynamic continues to have an impact on his children. In the October 15 episode of Sister Wives, Savanah Brown and Breanna Brown open up about the demise of their sibling relationship in the midst of the family chaos. Savanah, 18, who is Janelle Brown’s daughter, explains to Christine
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In early 1969, Ken and Dub, two music fans from Los Angeles, found themselves in possession of some unreleased Bob Dylan songs recorded in 1967 that had been sent as demos to his music publisher. Copies of the acetate recording spilled out among people working in the recorded music industry. Ken and Dub, both employees
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Phil Mickelson has always been obsessed with money, owing to a life of conspicuous consumption (his own Gulf-stream IV, etc.), a visceral hatred of paying taxes, and a self-described gambling addiction. In 2013, he made a flippant comment to reporters bitching about California’s state income tax, touching off one of the many uproars in his
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Image Credit: Marion Curtis/StarPix for GIFF/Shutterstock Jenna Bush Hager, 41, let it slip on Thursday’s episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna that her four-year-old son, Hal, still sleeps in a crib. The confession came about as she was discussing an unrelated topic, David Beckham‘s militantly organized closet, with her co-host Hoda Kotb. “Hal is
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There are few personalities that unite Canadians quite like Mr. Dressup. For 29 years, spanning an impressive 4,000 episodes, the beloved children’s show host appeared on television screens across the country, inviting kids to explore his iconic Tickle Trunk alongside a legion of puppet sidekicks, including the cherished duo of Casey and Finnegan. And although
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Image Credit: Trask Smith/CSM/Shutterstock / Casey Flanigan/imageSPACE/Shutterstock Taylor Swift secretly spent time with her rumored boyfriend, Travis Kelce, after he celebrated his 34th birthday without the singer, according to a new report. An insider told US Weekly that Taylor, 33, flew from Nashville to Kansas City “to see Travis” on Friday, October 6. The “Style” singer and
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Illustration by Geoff Kim. Nimona Nimona arrived on Netflix this summer and earned passionate support from its admirers. Praised for its queer themes and its unique visual identity, the animated film follows framed knight Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed) and the shape-shifting Nimona (Chloë Grace Moretz) on a quest to exonerate the former, earning the latter
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Arnold Schwarzenegger wants young people to be comfortable with failure and struggle — characteristics he claims are necessary to develop mental resiliency. In a Wednesday interview for SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, the 76-year-old action star worried that modern society is raising “a generation of wimps and weak people” overly concerned with hurting feelings. “It’s nice
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“This is the opening of a film about Sarah Bernhardt, if I could get anyone to do it,” she says, drawing her hand through the air. “You start on a mirror, and the hand comes in the frame, and someone is trying to put on the eyeliner and it’s smudging. You have to erase it
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Image Credit: CBS Big Brother 25 premiered on August 2. There were 17 houseguests at the start of the season. Jared was the latest houseguest to be evicted. Big Brother 25 has been action-packed from the very beginning. This season’s houseguests are constantly gaming and the alliances continue to form and fall apart. Former Survivor player Cirie Fields
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Image Credit: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Brian Austin Green admitted “it has been a challenge” raising his openly gay son, Kassius. However, the Beverly Hills 90210 alum, 50, eventually realized that it “isn’t different” from raising a heterosexual child.  “Honestly, it was unknown for me,” Brian admitted during an appearance on NSYNC member Lance Bass’ “Frosted
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