Wednesday, June 11, 2025
By MARIA SHERMAN NEW YORK (AP) — The musical world lost a giant with news Wednesday that Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader, had died. He was 82. Attempting to di…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:07PMSaturday, June 7, 2025
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Country superstar Dierks Bentley returning with the album “Broken Branches” and Sydney Sweeney in the dark, dramatic thriller “Echo Valley” …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMBy ELDAR EMRIC SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — There is an unmistakable air of Peckham these days in Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo, as the legendary yellow three-wheeled van from the BB…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMFriday, June 6, 2025
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS NEW YORK (AP) — Craft labels from the now-shuttered fabrics seller Joann are making their way to a new home: Michaels. The Michaels Companies announced on Thursd…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:22PMThursday, June 5, 2025
By GENE PUSKAR MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pitts…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:13AMBy PETER SMITH MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — When the scaffolding came down inside the unassuming hilltop church near Pittsburgh, it revealed a raging storm of biblical proportions. A wide-eyed Mos…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:01AMBy ELISE RYAN NEW YORK (AP) — Kimberly Belflower knew “John Proctor is the Villain” needed its final cathartic scene to work — and, for that, it needed Lorde’s “Green Light.” �…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMSaturday, May 31, 2025
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-nine shows on Broadway got Tony Award nominations this season, but not all will walk away with a trophy — and the box office attention they usually…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:45AMBy The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Shaquille O’Neal docuseries about his time at Reebok’s basketball division and Mario Kart World on Nintendo’s Switch 2 are some of the new t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMFriday, May 30, 2025
It reignited long-running debates over artistic expression, national symbols and the country’s colonial history.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:37PMImages of an enigmatic new work by elusive street artist Banksy set off debate about its meaning.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:32PMThursday, May 29, 2025
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — The beloved cartoon duo Phineas and Ferb are returning for new episodes this summer after a decade away and pretty much nothing has changed. Except maybe on…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
By MATT SEDENSKY NEW YORK (AP) — You’d be forgiven for looking around Andrei Kozlov’s studio, dotted with paintings inspired by his eight months as a hostage of Hamas, and seeing only …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMBy ELÉONORE HUGHES RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — If you have been to Rio de Janeiro’ beaches, this probably sounds familiar: samba music drifting from a nearby kiosk, caipirinha cocktails sold …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMSaturday, May 24, 2025
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong’s satirical drama “Mountainhead” and Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel playing dysfunctional siblings …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMWednesday, May 21, 2025
Some places seem to communicate with you when you visit. Not audibly, of course, but they somehow impart the echo of a life lived long ago. That’s the feeling I get at Planting Fields Arbo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMMonday, May 19, 2025
By JAKE COYLE CANNES, France (AP) — Last year, the Cannes Film Festival produced three best actress nominees at the Oscars. This year’s edition may have just supplied another. In Lynne R…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMSunday, May 18, 2025
By LINDSEY BAHR Death is not looming for the “Final Destination” franchise at the box office. Its sixth installment, “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” drew big crowds to movie theater…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:11PMSaturday, May 17, 2025
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Jonas’ sophomore solo album Work It Out” and John Krasinski and Natalie Portman searching for immortality in Guy Ritchie’s adventure movie…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, May 16, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was ordered held in custody after appearing Friday in a British courtroom to face a charge that he seriously beat a music producer in a Lond…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:18AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — You can’t keep Stanley Tucci from his beloved Italy just like you can’t keep cheese from lasagna. The Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning actor is once again…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00AMMonday, May 12, 2025
CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival red carpet is perhaps the most rigidly controlled red carpet in the world. Now, the festival has added a new stipulation: no nudity. While nu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:53PMSunday, May 11, 2025
By DAVID FISCHER MIAMI (AP) — Just in time for bathing suit season, the HistoryMiami Museum is opening a new exhibit that examines the relationship between the evolution of swimwear and th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:30AMSaturday, May 10, 2025
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Paddington bear going on an Indiana Jones-style adventure in “Paddington in Peru” and Alexander Skarsgard playing a robot with free will in Appl…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45AMFriday, May 9, 2025
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — The last time Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman went on a motorcycle adventure, they rode cutting-edge, electric Harley-Davidsons. For their latest trip, th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, May 6, 2025
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Seller, the Broadway producer behind such landmark hits as “Rent,” “Avenue Q” and “Hamilton,” didn’t initially write a memoir for us. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMMonday, May 5, 2025
Everett and another winner were fellows of the NEA, which is cutting back funding.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:07PMSunday, May 4, 2025
It didn’t begin a long time ago or in a galaxy far far away, but every May 4 it feels like images, memes and promotional deals involving “Star Wars” have an inescapable gravity. May 4 …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMSaturday, May 3, 2025
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The popular whodunit series “Poker Face” starring Natasha Lyonne returning for its second season and Steven Soderbergh’s sleek and lean spy th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMBy FRANCESCA PRIMAVILLA and TRISHA THOMAS ROME (AP) — Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the fact tha…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMBy LINDSEY BAHR “How to Train Your Dragon” filmmaker Dean DeBlois has heard the “remake fatigue” concerns. In Hollywood’s quest to get family audiences to movie theaters, the indus…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
