Entertainment & Society

Britain’s famed Glastonbury music festival has embraced an unlikely headline act: Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn, 68, received a rock star welcome from thousands of festival-goers, who chanted his name and held up signs that read “I love Jeremy...

John Legend’s work has won Grammys, an Oscar and a Tony, but years before achieving global fame, the Legend-to-be took home another prize: spelling bee champ. A 1989 story in The Springfield News-Sun (http://bit.ly/2sQ6VSD ) proclaimed, “Product of home teaching...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were among the guests as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (mih-NOO’-shin’s) married a Scottish actress. Mnuchin exchanged vows Saturday night with Louise Linton at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington. Mrs. Trump wore...

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says the environment shouldn’t be a partisan issue. The actor-turned-Republican politician told reporters in Paris on Friday that he had a “wonderful” one-hour meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. Schwarzenegger says he and Macron, a...

The audience at the opening night on Broadway of a new stage adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian fantasy “1984” will include a special guest — the author’s son. Richard Blair, whose father finished the book in 1949 when he was...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 25, (THEWILL) - Ayo Balogun popularly known as Wizkid has been announced the winner of the Best International Act: Africa’s category in the BET Awards 2017. The singer was announced the winner on Saturday while the awards...

Rapper Prodigy, a member of the hardcore New York hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, has died. He was 42. The rapper’s publicist said in a statement Tuesday that Prodigy was hospitalized a few days ago in Las Vegas “for complications caused...

For British singer Rita Ora, this week is both emotional and exciting. Ora is one of the 50 artists singing Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” a charity music single to help the victims of the fire at Grenfell...

It’s been more than 25 years, and Ice Cube’s still got something to say. The 48-year-old entertainer has come a long way from his start as part of the West Coast rap group N.W.A. and later a solo artist, branching...

Sean “Diddy” Combs is often thinking of his old friend, the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G., whose career he helped launch in the early ’90s. The Grammy-winning rapper and producer said it’s the right time to commemorate his and B.I.G.’s...