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‘An Audience With Kylie’: preview ITV’s pop extravaganza

Kylie Minogue will be entertaining the nation tonight on ITV with ‘An Audience With Kylie’ and we’ve got a clip and some images to share with you. The Pop Princess recorded the show at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this month in front of an audience packed with fans and celebs. Expect renditions of some of her biggest hits along with songs from her number 1 album ‘Tension‘. Kylie also takes questions from the audience throughout the show. Ahead of ‘An Audience With Kylie’ airing tonight, ITV has released some…

‘SNL’ recap: Adam Driver plays piano; cold open mocks antisemitism hearing

Adam Driver is a very serious actor, except when he’s being seriously silly on “Saturday Night Live.” For his fourth time hosting the show, Driver brought his usual go-for-broke energy, firmly committing 100% to even the most ridiculous comedic premise.It’s almost as if the more famous and respected Driver becomes, and the more acting awards he’s nominated for (he’s currently promoting “Ferrari”), the more the “SNL” writers want him to do things like spend five minutes playing with a penis-shaped chocolate Santa in a…

D’Angelo Russell gets revenge on Bruce Brown in Lakers’ win

Notorious B.I.G.’s “Get Money” played in the Lakers’ locker room during a mild celebration as D’Angelo Russell finished getting dressed in the corner.The Lakers point guard, as level-headed and poker-faced as the team has been on the court, had been animated throughout the Lakers’ 123-109 in-season tournament final win, barking at one particular Pacers player — Bruce Brown.Russell put two fingers in the air toward Brown after the wing picked up two quick fouls guarding him. And when Russell scored in the first quarter,…

Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ Is First Concert Tour to Gross $1 Billion

Updated Dec. 8, 2023 1:11 pm ETTaylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” is the first tour to gross $1 billion, according to new data, capping off a record-breaking year for the pop superstar. The star’s tour brought in an estimated $1.04 billion this year, concert trade publication Pollstar said Friday. And it’s set to gross even more as the tour heads overseas. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Updated Dec. 8, 2023 1:11 pm ETTaylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” is the first

Anthony Davis scores 41 as Lakers defeat Pacers for NBA Cup

LAS VEGAS —  The skepticism had long disappeared, replaced with the kind of toughness, focus and intensity that’s traditionally reserved for the playoffs.The NBA in-season tournament injected life into the Lakers, forcing them to accelerate their process to meet the challenge.The prize money, $500,000 to each player on the winning team, might have been the fuel early, but by Saturday’s finals, pure competition had organically added to the stakes.Forget gimmicks. Forget the bright courts, the point-differential…

With Shohei Ohtani gone, Angels have challenge of overhauling roster

The massive poster of Shohei Ohtani was long gone by the time Raymond Diaz, a 33-year-old Angels fan, walked up to Angel Stadium shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday. It had been about five hours since the two-way star announced he would join the Dodgers on a 10-year, $700 million deal.“ just to see Ohtani’s poster one last time,” Diaz told The Times under the gaze of the glossy window panes left behind by the poster’s absence. “It’s official, now that he’s gone.”Diaz wasn’t the only fan who stopped by.“I just wanted to go look…

Shohei Ohtani is finally in a perfect place with the Dodgers

Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger.Saying it brings chills. Hearing it brings cheers. Seeing it brings a disbelieving desire to see it again and again and again.Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger. Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger. Shohei Ohtani is… yeah, he’s really coming up the 5 to the 101 to Stadium Way to perhaps live out the rest of his wondrous career.Babe Ruth is a Dodger.Writing it feels right. Reading it makes sense. Imagining it makes the wait for next spring insanely intolerable.Batting third for the Dodgers, behind Mookie Betts and…

Local groups say new funding will help promote living shorelines in N.S.

The Nova Scotia government has pledged more than $2.4 million to seven community-led projects that focus on living shorelines.Living shorelines are seen as a nature-based way to reduce coastal erosion and flooding caused by climate change. They use natural materials — rocks, plants and sand — to stabilize land along the coast.One group to receive funding is the Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation for its work in Mahone Bay.Jordan Veinot, the climate change team lead for organization, believes introducing living shorelines…

Want to hear the wonder of deep space? This music is made from NASA’s telescope data

The Current13:00Turning deep space data into musicMusic can often transport you to another time and place. But now a Montreal composer is bringing listeners far out into the cosmos with a piece of music created from NASA's data on the Milky Way."At the end of the piece, especially … I'm focusing in on the black hole that's at the centre of the galaxy. And you get this feeling of stars spiralling toward the centre," said Sophie Kastner, composer of Where Parallel Lines Converge."I wanted to have all of these pingy, like,…

Fortnite Festival tries to bring back the heyday of music gaming

Between Fortnite’s propensity for big-name concerts and Epic’s purchase of Harmonix two years ago, the inclusion of some kind of music-making feature in the game was inevitable. What Epic is releasing today is actually far grander: an entirely new mode called Fortnite Festival, a social space where players can team up to perform their favorite songs or jam together on new mixes.There are two options, or stages, for users to play in the new mode. The main stage, or championship stage, is basically the Rock Band experience…