Arts & Entertainment News

8:37 AM on Monday, May 18

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of May 24-30 include “Hidden Figures” actor Octavia Spencer, “Beef” actor Carey Mulligan and actor-comedian Mike Myers

5:58 AM on Monday, May 18

A Spanish court has acquitted pop star Shakira in a tax fraud case and ordered the government to return over 55 million euros in wrongly imposed fines

9:04 PM on Sunday, May 17

Cheng Lei is rebuilding her life after three years in a Beijing prison

2:35 PM on Sunday, May 17

Barbra Streisand says she won’t attend the Cannes Film Festival ceremony where she was to receive an honorary Palme d’Or after sustaining a knee injury

2:18 PM on Sunday, May 17

Cate Blanchett says that the #MeToo movement “got killed very quickly” in remarks at the Cannes Film Festival

1:55 PM on Sunday, May 17

The full range of Sandra Hüller’s talent is on full display this year in four films that run from big to small

1:41 PM on Sunday, May 17

Hundreds of cheering fans waving Bulgarian flags have welcomed Eurovision Song Contest winner Dara upon her return home

11:43 AM on Sunday, May 17

The Michael Jackson biopic, “Michael,” is reclaiming the top spot in the North American box office

1:29 AM on Sunday, May 17

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library

10:39 PM on Saturday, May 16

The day John Lennon was shot in 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments

6:03 PM on Saturday, May 16

The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest final in Vienna has showcased acts from 25 countries

3:14 PM on Saturday, May 16

Bulgarian singer Dara’s dance anthem “Bangaranga” has won the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, her country's first ever win in the competition

1:42 AM on Saturday, May 16

Spain is boycotting this year’s edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, after repeatedly expressing disapproval over Israel’s participation

12:02 AM on Saturday, May 16

Cody Johnson won the top prize of entertainer of the year at the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards, but it was Ella Langley’s show from the start

12:01 AM on Saturday, May 16

Bulgaria has won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest with singer Dara’s party anthem “Bangaranga.”

6:59 PM on Friday, May 15

A New York has declared a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape case from the #MeToo-era that has gone to trial three times so far after a jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision

4:37 PM on Friday, May 15

A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty in the 2021 shooting death of Young Dolph during a daytime ambush at a Memphis bakery

3:24 PM on Friday, May 15

A new exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland features the largest public display ever assembled of Paul McCartney’s personal artifacts

1:19 PM on Friday, May 15

John Krasinski returning as Jack Ryan in “Jack Ryan: Ghost War” for Prime Video and “Stranger Things” masterminds the Duffer Brothers producing a Netflix show in which a retirement community teams up to battle monsters are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

12:29 PM on Friday, May 15

Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial has ended in a mistrial