Cheryl Boone Isaacs to Head Sidney Poitier Film School at Arizona State

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) will resign his congressional seat at the end of the year to become CEO of Donald Trump’s social media and technology company.

Vudu surveyed thousands of film fans across the United States to find out their favorite holiday films set in their home states. And while states like New York or California offered plenty of choice, others had a bit more slim-pickens and resulted in some lesser-known titles being chosen.

I had just moved from Germany to Langley, Virginia, when the case of Kenneth Chamberlain became national news. I remembered I was upset by the events leading up to his death at the hands of the Police.

Charlie Amter For a band from England, Glass Animals, Variety’s Group of the Year, has spent so much time touring the United States, it may as well be American.“I feel comfortable here, and I get to eat all the food I grew up with, like Hot Pockets,” says Dave Bayley, the quartet’s ringleader and songwriter-­producer, on a Zoom call during a break between two sold-out shows in Santa Barbara in late October.Bayley did grow up in America, partly in Texas, where he says he was “very much exposed

In 2019, the series 'The President’s Concubine' was released on Netflix to lots of positive reviews. Although it was from a small production company, the series had an audience of millions from different parts of the world.

Foo Fighters have announced a huge stadium tour of North America in the summer of 2022.The band will perform 17 shows which will kick off at the Pavilion At Star Lake in Pennsylvania on May 14 before moving on to venues such as Citi Field in New York City, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, and T-Mobile Park in Seattle before wrapping up at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles on August 20.Tickets for the newly announced shows go on sale to the

Curley Culp was a Hall of Fame nose tackle who won a Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs.Curley Culp was drafted as a defensive lineman out of Arizona State in 1968 by the Denver Broncos. The Broncos wanted him to play offensive guard instead of defense but that did not work out so they traded him to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Bob Bondurant, a racecar driver-turned-instructor who taught and guided such actors as Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Christian Bale and Nicolas Cage for racing movies and other fast-car films, died on Nov. 12 at an assisted living facility in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He was 88.

Planting the seeds? Christine Brown and Kody Brown weren’t on the same page about building on a new property in Arizona ahead of their split.

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Veteran Marketing and Public Relations executive and former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been named to serve as Founding Director of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School. Boone Isaacs who is currently an adjunct professor at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts will begin as director the new three-campus  film school at ASU  starting on January 1, 2022.

Sidney Poitier New American Film School, the university announced on Tuesday. Boone Isaacs, also a former film marketing and public relations executive, will take the reins as director of the three-campus film school on Jan 1, 2022.

Handwritten activity logs from the Houston Fire Department offer a chilling look at how things unfolded both before and after the deadly crowd surge at Travis Scott's chaotic Astroworld Festival last week.  When Scott took the stage at his third ever Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, last Friday, a crowd surged forward, resulting in people getting crushed by one another.