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VHT / Christopher Barret An award-winning estate that spans three city lots in Chicago has just landed on the market, with a price tag of $7,250,000."It was really Brad Lynch's tour de force," says Compass listing agent Brad Lippitz of the architect, who designed the totally modern residence in the Bucktown neighborhood.

Kevin Frazier is a six-time Emmy Award-winning host of the Emmy Award-winning syndicated entertainment newsmagazine "Entertainment Tonight."He continues to have a lasting impact on the entertainment industry as a multi-faceted journalist, producer, and entrepreneur.He has interviewed Hollywood's biggest stars from Oprah Winfrey to Brad Pitt to Beyoncé.

The Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, Ian Greer, has said he is deeply humbled to be knighted in the King's first Birthday Honours.Sir Ian said it was a proud day both for himself and for the university, which recently hosted a major conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

US president Joe Biden and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have joined those paying tribute to the once-in-a-generation talent of Tina Turner.Biden hailed the singer's remarkable personal strength in addition to having changed American music forever.Multiple Grammy-award winner Turner, famous for hits including The Best and Proud Mary, died peacefully on Wednesday at the age of 83.

Close Paul O'Grady: TV star and comedian dies at the age of 67 Lorraine Kelly, Piers Morgan, and others from the TV industry have paid tribute to Paul O'Grady, who died on Tuesday evening (28 March).The news of O'Grady's death was announced by his partner Andre Portasio.It is with great sadness that I inform you that Paul has passed away unexpectedly but peacefully yesterday evening, he said.

Entertainer Peter Corry says being made an MBE is a testament to the power of music.Mr Corry is a singer, director and producer who has had an extensive career in the world of musical theatre, as well as presenting a TV show and performing at the funeral of George Best.For his work with production company Peter Corry Productions, he has been made an MBE for his services to music and entertainment in Northern Ireland, as part of the King's Birthday Honours.

Margot Robbie stars in the live-action Barbie movie, whose production reportedly required jaw-dropping amounts of pink paint.Warner Bros. Entertainment As any Barbie fan knows, life in plastic is fantastic and also very pink.So much so, in fact, that the makers of the highly anticipated live-action movie say they wiped out a company's entire global supply of one shade of it.

There are a lot of legal reasons why different TV shows and movies jump between different streaming platforms.But, as the entertainment industry makes repeated cutbacks, bloodletting has become borderline unthinkable.Why would Disney+ delete original shows that haven't even been streaming for a full year yet?

In a world where the influencer and entertainment industry is often marred by a focus on profit and flash, a group of dedicated managers have joined forces to revolutionize the landscape.They call themselves THIS Group, a collective driven by the unwavering principles of Trust, Honesty, Integrity, and Success.

The 2007 writers' strike couldn't have come at a worse time for the screenwriter Zack Stentz.After three years of being unemployed, Mr. Stentz was happily ensconced in a new job as an executive story editor on Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.He was working with a high-caliber group of writers on a show he described as dark, thoughtful and weird.

AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Angela Yee is no stranger to the ear.She's the longtime host of "Lip Service," a podcast focused on sexuality and romance, and was a co-host of "The Breakfast Club," the massively popular and trendsetting radio program which featured all things culture, music and community.

Netflix shareholders voted on Thursday to reject the lucrative pay packages of the company's leaders, including the co-chief executives Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters.The vote is nonbinding and can be overruled by the company's board of directors the next time it meets.But the result was notable just days after the Writers Guild of America, which represents writers taking part in a strike, sent a public letter urging the streaming giant's shareholders to reject the compensation plans.

President Joe Biden announced Monday that his nominee for the next Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) will be Deborah Robinson, head of intellectual property enforcement at Paramount Global.The position has been vacant since Vishal Amin, who was confirmed to the post under President Donald Trump, left in 2021.

(You might want to play this in the background as you read this post) Typically, the entertainment industry in the United States is great for adapting stories from other countries and putting their own "red, white, and blue" spin on them.In Germany, it appears that Bayern Munich might be doing the reverse and taking that to the next level with a Deutschland version of the HBO smash hit Succession ( BFW Editor's Note: Sadly, I gave up on this in season one).

What agreement around remote work did the federal government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada come to this week?Who's the latest figure from the entertainment industry to be part of a bid for the Ottawa Senators?And why is a Rideau Lakes, Ont., couple being forced to sell the home they've lived in for the past 43 years?

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Jeff Strauss made people smile with sitcoms.Now he does it with sandwiches, cocktails and matzo ball ramen.Whether it's with the entertainment industry or with food, his priority is cheering people, so it's no surprise, he said, that he's found a way to delight and support his fellow Writers Guild of America members as they strike this week and beyond: Strauss is offering them discounts at both of his restaurants and will be dropping off food to the picket lines periodically.

The power of artificial intelligence to encroach human labor is a not-so-speculative premise writers have explored for decades.You've seen it in movies, from 2001: A Space Odyssey, to WALL-E, to Her.But in 2023, it is movie and TV writers themselves who are fighting for survival from the machines.On the evening of May 1, the Writers Guild of America West called a strike that went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, May 2. Of the proposals the Hollywood writers union put forward to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (who represent studios), one sought protections against the rapid, ongoing growth of AI.

Members of the Writers Guild of America union picket outside Netflix headquarters Wednesday near Union Square in New York.Stefan Jeremiah/AP NBC's late night talk show hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are covering a week of pay for their non-writing staff during the Writers Guild of America strike, which has disrupted production for many shows and movies as Hollywood's writers hit the picket lines this week.

Getty Images / Realtor.comActor Simon Helberg is best known for playing Howard Wolowitz on "The Big Bang Theory."The character is a nerdy guy with questionable taste.But offscreen, the actor lives in an ultrastylish Spanish Colonial in Los Angeles' laid-back Loz Feliz neighborhood.The house has been meticulously restored and redesigned by Nickey Kehoe, a prominent L.A. interior design firm.

From Nashville, US Recommended if you like Blake Mills, Julia Jacklin, Phoebe Bridgers Up next New album Honey released 27 January via Grand Jury Honey, the rich, raw second album by Samia, opens with an explosion of mild-mannered rage.Over organ and shimmering autoharp, the Nashville-based songwriter sings in a placid deadpan: I hope you marry the girl from your home town / And I'll fucking kill her / And I'll fucking freak out.

A front-page rescue
Albany lawmakers have the chance this month to do something their colleagues in Washington, DC couldn't: Give a major shot in the arm to local journalism.The New York version of the "Local Journalism Sustainability Act" is being considered as being enacted as part of the state budget due to be adopted on or about April 1.

What does generative AI technology have to do with social media platforms?Not much, it seems.However, when you dig deeper, it becomes clear that these two things have a lot in common.In fact, generative AI technology could be the death knell for several social media platforms.Here are some of the platforms most at risk of negative effects from generative AI...
Quora is dearly beloved by the curious.

The sale of the Washington Commanders is an ever-evolving beast with stories coming out almost daily that can seem conflicting.Dan Snyder has been known to use certain media outlets in New York to get his message out, and that seems to be happening again with this sale.The range of "bids" placed on the team started with reports from Forbes that there were several well north of $7 billion.

Balkan Streat, a new fast-casual street food joint serving burek, yeasted doughnuts, cevapi, and Balkan-style burgers, opens today, January 24, at 353 Sixth Avenue, near West Washington Place, in Greenwich Village.The counter-service restaurant comes from William Djuric, an alum of Bouchon Bakery, Gramercy Tavern, and Momofuku Ssam Bar.

Have you ever watched the movie "The Joker?"What a sociopath he was!His acting was tremendous but the experience of watching that movie was on a different level!He literally spooked up the fear of clowns in me.Also, if you have ever watched "Sex and The City", you must be aware that Carrie also had a fear of clowns.

The CW has reached a multiyear agreement for the TV rights to LIV Golf events, a deal that will raise the U.S. profile of the controversial Saudi-backed league.The pact announced Thursday is the first major programming move for the CW under the ownership of Nexstar Media Group, which acquired a majority stake in the network last year.

Two deeply moving parent-child stories, drawn from their filmmakers' real-life experiences.Aftersun, an achingly sad memory piece from the Scottish director Charlotte Wells, features pitch-perfect performances from Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio as a father and daughter trying to connect on a summer holiday - a journey that builds to an ending of startling emotional force.