Art & Entertainment

NEW YORK (AP) — The year of Cardi B continues — this time with 10 MTV Video Music Award nominations. MTV announced Monday that the white-hot rapper is the most nominated act at this year’s show, which returns to New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on Aug. 20. Five of Cardi B’s nominations are thanks to her collaboration with...

NEW YORK (AP) — The online video star named Dr. Pimple Popper, who films herself squeezing pus from acne, is a different kind of voyeur when she’s off the clock. Dr. Sandra Lee likes to search for mukbangs, a Korean term for people who film themselves eating large amounts of food while interacting with the camera. “I’m just shocked at...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. has reinstated Hulk Hogan to its Hall of Fame, three years after he was found to have used racial slurs in a conversation caught on a sex tape. The Connecticut-based company made the announcement in a statement Sunday. “This second chance follows Hogan’s numerous public apologies and volunteering to work with...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” has checked into the No. 1 spot at the box office in its opening weekend and left the Dwayne Johnson action thriller, “Skyscraper,” in the dust. Sony Pictures estimated Sunday that the animated family movie earned $44.1 million from North American theaters. As the first in the franchise to open in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Music stars like Bruno Mars, Ricky Martin and Sara Bareilles are nominated for Emmys, but for John Legend — who is up for two awards — winning could land him in the elite club of EGOTs. Legend earned nominations Thursday for “Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert” — outstanding lead actor in a limited series or...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Game of Thrones” roared back onto the Emmy battlefield, topping Thursday’s nominations with 22 bids. HBO’s fantasy saga is a two-time best drama winner that sat out the last year’s awards. It’s returning to face formidable competition: “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the dystopian sci-fi series that claimed top drama honors last year, drew 20 bids, with “Westworld”...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cardi B is celebrating the birth of her first child. The 25-year-old rapper welcomed Kulture Kiari Cephus during a post on Instagram Wednesday, which her representative confirmed. The girl was born Tuesday. The announcement comes two weeks after Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, confirmed she and rapper Offset, of the hip-hop group Migos, had secretly...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A decade ago, Apple opened a store peddling iPhone apps, unlocking the creativity of software developers and letting users truly make their mobile devices their own. The resulting explosion of phone apps — there are now more than 2 million for the iPhone alone — has changed daily life for billions of people around the world....

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Charlie Puth is done playing by the rules. “I’ve wanted to make music like this for a very, very long time, but I almost wasn’t, dare I say, allowed?” Puth said of his recently released sophomore album, “Voicenotes.” “No one wanted to hear too much jazz in pop music.” His response: “Let me prove to...

OLBIA, Sardinia (AP) — Actor George Clooney slammed his motorbike into an oncoming car that turned suddenly into his lane Tuesday and was thrown several meters (yards) in the air on the Italian island of Sardinia, according to video of the crash. “He is recovering at his home and will be fine,” Clooney spokesman Stan Rosenfield told The Associated Press...

Bahamian activist and local recording artist Terneille Burrows released her latest single on iTunes Monday called 'Are You Ready?', with a message of protecting the nation's youth. The ballad, which she put off almost a decade after penning, tells the story of a five-month-old Bahamian girl who was raped and died in 2009. Just two years later in 2011, eleven-year-old Marco...

Summertime yields many opportunities for parents to enroll their children into summer programs and American Dance company, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Dance Academy have done just thanks to partnering with local dance schools for an immersion programme set for July 16 – 20. Local dance schools collaborating with Prospect Lefferts Gardens include Soulful Feet Dance Academy, Passionate Expressions Dance studio and several...

NEW YORK (AP) — Drake officially owns the Billboard charts, where seven of his songs currently sit in the Top 10. All 25 tracks from Drake’s ultra-popular “Scorpion” album, released on June 29, are on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. His former No. 1 hit, “Nice for What,” returns to the top of the chart, while “Nonstop” debuts at No....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It was only a matter of time, just a couple of months actually, before a preteen boy captured in a viral video yodeling in a Walmart put out a record. Mason Ramsey, the adorable 11-year-old whose version of a Hank Williams classic has been watched more than 50 million times on YouTube and spawned multiple remixes,...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Beyonce and Jay-Z will headline a special Global Citizen Festival in honour of Nelson Mandela in South Africa late this year. The Dec. 2 concert in Johannesburg is part of events marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, organizers announced Monday. Others headlining the festival include Ed Sheeran,...