Comic Con festival of Superheroes lands soon in Stockport

Images from our archives look back at the Dutch style cannabis café that came to Greater Manchester before police raids shut the venue for good. The Dutch Experience, in Stockport, opened to a blaze of publicity in September, 2001. Modelled on Amsterdam's coffee shops, it inspired other copycat venues to open in other parts of the UK.

There’s really no overstating the sociocultural impact of Elvis Aaron Presley, whose music and celebrity cleaved the twentieth century in half as an Ozymandias colossus foretelling the future of fame: merchandising, overexposure, descent into self-parody. That’s all in Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic “Elvis,” though mostly because he’s jammed everything he possibly can into its million-millennia run time.

Work on a "buzzing" new £60 million neighbourhood centred around a historic mill in Stockport is set to start next month, it has been announced. Plans for the transformation of Weir Mill on King Street West on the banks of the River Mersey - hailed as a "cornerstone" of the £1billion town centre transformation -were given the go-ahead last Autumn.

After months of speculation, it’s finally official: the original cast of “That ’70s Show” will be returning to reprise their characters in the upcoming Netflix spin-off, “That ’90s Show” — and Tommy Chong will be among them.

Tommy Chong will be back as Leo in Netflix’s upcoming That ’90s Show, a follow-up to hit sitcom That ’70s Show.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“That ’90s Show,” the spinoff of “That ’70s Show” at Netflix, is bringing back Tommy Chong as Leo.Chong made the announcement during an interview with The Dark Mark Show, saying “They gave me a call and I did my part…They never gave me any instructions, so I don’t know if I’m supposed to be talking about it or not. I really don’t give a s— to tell you the truth.

Jackson Wang’s Magic Man Experience, NIKI and Rich Brian.Also on the bill are Jay Park, BIBI, Chung Ha, the debut of Audrey Nuna and Deb Never’s collaborative project, No Rome, Warren Hue and a Yebi Labs DJ set from Joji, among others. Check out the complete lineup below.Get ready Los Angeles, we're back!  Register now at https://t.co/QWmTFoz7T2 for first access to 2-DAY passes.

CANNES, France -- The Cannes Film Festival, yet again, belongs to Léa Seydoux.The French actress has already shared in a Palme d’Or at the festival, in 2013 for “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” which made her and Adèle Exarchopoulos the first actors to ever win Cannes' top prize, which they shared with director Abdellatif Kechiche.Last year, she had four films at the festival, but missed all of them because she tested positive for COVID-19. But this year, Seydoux gives two of the best performance of her career in a pair of films unveiled at Cannes: Mia Hansen-Love’s “One Fine Morning” and David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future.” Together, they have only reinforced the view that Seydoux is the premier French actress of her generation.On a recent afternoon a few blocks from Cannes' Palais des Festivals, Seydoux greeted a reporter cheerfully.

Bachelor in Paradise’s Mary Viturino and Conor Canning have welcomed another baby together today, growing their brood to five.WATCH BELOW: Bachelor star Mary Viturino opens her push present from partnerMary took to Instagram to announce the birth of her baby girl, sharing several snaps of her from the hospital."Luna Audrey Canning. She is just a dream," she penned.Connor shared the news to his own page, sharing a picture of himself holding baby Luna and another of her with Mary."Welcome to the world Luna Audrey Canning.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorAfter 25 years, the Colcoa (City of Lights, City of Angels) French Film Festival has been renamed the American French Film Festival, with the 26th edition of the festival set for Oct. 10-16.

Dua Lipa has reportedly landed a role in the upcoming Barbie film, having set her sights on carving out a career in Hollywood. The 26 year old pop star is set to star opposite Hollywood actors Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in the highly anticipated upcoming film, with the pair taking on the iconic roles of Barbie and Ken.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSoi Cheang’s “Twilight of The Warriors: Walled In” has been licensed to WellGo USA for North American release. The deal with Hong Kong’s Media Asia marks a rare advanced-sale of a commercial Cantonese-language movie in a market that has recently been marked by uncertainty.The action thriller is a live-action adaptation of the cult manga series “City of Darkness” that is set in the 1980s inside the almost lawless Kowloon Walled City.With a stellar cast headlined by Louis Koo (“Election”), Sammo Hung (“Ip Man”) and Richie Jen (“Trivisa”), the film recently completed production and is now in post-production.

Flags, flares and joy filled the air as the promotion party continued for Stockport County fans this evening. Almost 24 hours after clinching the league title at Edgeley Park, the Hatters were back in town as supporters lined the streets to cheer their heroes.

They'd waited a long time for this moment in Stockport and they weren't going to wait a second longer than necessary. With five minutes of their 2021/22 season to go hundreds of supporters ringed the edge of the Edgeley Park pitch. It was time to get the party started.

Angelique Jackson In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Amazon has announced the first in-person installment of its Voices series, featuring a conversation with “The Summer I Turned Pretty” and “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” author and screenwriter Jenny Han.Han, whose series adaptation of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” launches June 17 on Prime Video, will sit for a for a wide-ranging discussion about her New York Times bestselling books moderated by journalist Dino Ray Ramos (The Diaspora Times). The three-hour event, titled “Voices: Asian & Pacific Islander Representation in Film & Media,” will take place on May 19 from 4-7 p.m.

On Tuesday, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” actor Simu Liu was presented with IMDb’s “Fan Favourite” STARmeter Award.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe Palm Springs area will live up to its reputation for seediness under the cover of never-ending nights — irony intended — as the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival returns to town for its 22nd annual marathon of vintage crime dramas this weekend. Leonard Maltin and TCM “Noir Alley” host Eddie Muller will be among the guest hosts joining festival curator Alan K.

Donna Mills took a break from Hollywood for 18 years — and she has zero regrets. The actress became a mother in her 50s when she adopted a daughter named Chloe, who is now 27. "I was very concentrated on my career, but at a certain point, I realized there was something missing — it was a child," the "Knots Landing" star recently told People magazine.