LAS VEGAS — The new “SNL” documentary is revisiting a seldom-examined slice of Penn and Teller’s career.

Pre-legend status, P&T appeared seven times during the 1985-’86 season. This was the nadir of the series, during which “SNL” faced near-cancellation for low ratings and withering reviews.

The season is dubbed “The Weird Year...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Since debuting at a Baltimore YMCA Hall in 1902, the NAMM Show has undergone multiple transformations on its way to becoming the world’s largest annual trade event for the creators, manufacturers, retailers and distributors of music instruments, equipment, technology, sound, lighting and recording gear. More transformations are ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Taylor Swift is not scheduled to appear this week during the 2025 NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center, although she did perform at several earlier editions — between 2004 and 2008 — for San Diego’s Taylor Guitars ,whose instruments she often plays at her concerts.

But at the start of a recent San Diego Union-Tribune ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Lyric sits as its own island touching the Station North, Bolton Hill and Mount Vernon neighborhoods. This Mount Royal Avenue cultural institution resists change (its historic interior was last updated in 1982) and yet bends successfully.

The city’s grand music hall, now in its 130th year and showing no sign of slowing down, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Back in 2022, when Max Ochester loaded up his car with 15 U-Haul boxes of reel-to-reel tapes he purchased at a Montgomery County estate sale, he had no idea he was carrying a new chapter of David Bowie’s Philadelphia music history in his hands.

It would be another two years before the Brewerytown Records owner, who ...Read more

It has become a “Saturday Night Live” tradition to invite comedian Dave Chappelle on the show in the wake of a presidential election.

He famously did it in 2016 before Donald Trump assumed the White House, and again in 2020 right after Joe Biden defeated Trump for the presidency.

On Saturday, Chappelle used his 17-minute opening monologue ...Read more

Brian Cox thinks he was killed off "too early" on 'Succession'.

The 78-year-old actor didn't mind his alter ego, patriarch Logan Roy didn't live to see out the entire four season run of the media drama but he wishes he'd clung on for longer than the first three episodes of the final season.

Speaking at the Oxford Union, he praised the show's ...Read more

DeRon Horton is recovering after being shot.

The 'Dear White People' actor has revealed he was left with a shattered left arm after a bullet struck him through a car window shortly before Christmas, but the 32-year-old star is on the mend now and grateful to be alive and not more seriously injured.

Sharing a series of photos, including a ...Read more

Teddy Swims' girlfriend has helped ease his nightmares.

The 'Lose Control' hitmaker has struggled with his sleep for a long time but Raiche Wright - who is pregnant with their first child - has been "really helpful" in offering practical advice and suggestions and helping him to calm down.

Explaining how his single 'Bad Dreams' was inspired by...Read more

Laura Palmer goes through hell in "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me." Sheryl Lee, who plays Laura Palmer, goes through hell in "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me." Even the audience goes through hell watching "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me."

David Lynch's unrelenting 1992 horror film, a prequel to his "Twin Peaks" series, aimed to kill "Twin Peaks," ...Read more

With drones clotting the skies and Chinese spy balloons overhead, more and more people are starting to talk about UFOs. Are they little green men, aliens with enormous eyes determined to overpower mankind? Or are they something more benign?

At long last scientists are expressing their opinions about the subject. And not only them. Reputable ...Read more

Tyra Banks broke down in tears after discovering her home had burned to the ground in the California wildfires.

The supermodel-turned-TV star has revealed she was in Australia at a party with friends when she checked her phone and realised the house she shares in Los Angeles with her partner Louis Belanger-Martin had been consumed by flames - ...Read more

Kate Winslet is terrified of cows.

The 'Titanic' star, 49, believes they are the world's "scariest animal" and confessed her fears during an appearance on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' revealing she had a conversation with someone familiar with the animals who warned her she could get trampled in a stampede.

When asked to name the world...Read more

Matthew McConaughey wants Sir Anthony Hopkins to be named People's Sexiest Man Alive.

The 55-year-old actor - who picked up the coveted accolade in 2005 - reunited with his 'Amistad' co-star at the 2025 Joy Awards in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, over the weekend and the 'Sing 2' star believes the 87-year-old screen legend is long overdue in being ...Read more

Donald Trump has declared Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone need to be addressed as "Mr. Ambassador" from now on.

The president-elect recently announced he was planning to appoint the three actors, who have been staunch supporters of his political campaigning, to be "special envoys" to Hollywood, and at the 'Make America Great Again...Read more

'Captain America: Brave New World' director Julius Onah is proud of his work on the superhero movie.

The upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) blockbuster will be the cinematic introduction of Anthony Mackie's Captain America - after Chris Evans departed as the star-spangled superhero in 2019's 'Avengers: Endgame' - and the 41-year-old ...Read more

Adrien Brody's performance in 'The Brutalist' was inspired by the rejection his grandfather faced.

The 51-year-old actor plays Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor Laszlo Toth - who immigrates to the United States in an attempt to restart his life - in the new movie and revealed that his portrayal drew on the hardships his immigrant ...Read more

Bob Dylan's old will is up for sale.

The 83-year-old singer originally signed the plans for after his death as 'Robert Dylan' and it is dated 26 August 1976, with the wording showing it is an amendment to a document he originally filed on 22 September the previous year.

The typed codicil - which is hand signed and dated - is going up for sale...Read more

Robert Downey Jr. learned "what [he] wasn't" as a performer thanks to his brief stint on 'Saturday Night Live'.

The 59-year-old actor was cast on the show when he was just 20 years old and though he only spent one season on the programme because it wasn't the right fit for him, he appreciated the lessons he learned.

Speaking on new docuseries ...Read more

Adrian Brody denied Jack Nicholson's request to boycott the Oscars in 2003 because he didn't want to let his parents down.

The 'King Kong' star was invited to the Academy Awards after being nominated in the Best Actor category for his role in war drama 'The Pianist' and he'd arranged for his mother and father to come to the ceremony with him - ...Read more