Senate Passes Bill To Avoid Shutdown, Keep Government Funded Through Early December

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Commitment Hasan,” a Turkish drama by Semih Kaplanoglu which world premiered at Cannes’s Un Certain Regard, has been sold by Films Boutique to several key markets.The movie is part of a trilogy which began with “Commitment Asli,” Turkey’s official entry for the Oscar’s international feature film race in 2020.

Hate for the haircut. Kanye West debuted quite the interesting half-shaved ‘do — and Chris Brown isn’t holding back how he feels about the Yeezy founder’s new look. 

Popular Survivor alum Michelle Yi is recovering after a horrifying attack at a pilates studio in Santa Monica, California late last week.

Turkey’s Mediterranean coast has been hit by a strong earthquake, according to the country’s disaster management agency.

Airline and tour operator Jet2 is putting on extra flights to the Canaries and Turkey amid 'phenomenal' demand for last-minute trips to the sun.

The Red Devils are set to move out of the AJ Bell Stadium in a switch with Salford City FC.

A woman who has been declared the tallest in the world hopes to inspire people to accept themselves for who they are.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorCritical Role, the company that built itself on livestreaming Dungeons & Dragons gameplay, has teamed up again with Wizards of the Coast — the official publisher of D&D — for a big new adventure due out next year.The book “Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep” is inspired by the campaigns of CR’s live play series and is being designed in collaboration with Critical Role dungeon master Matthew Mercer.

Ankara Pride 2012 participants in Turkey

Chris Willman Music WriterThe 2021 baseball season isn’t quite over yet, but some rock fans are already looking forward to spring training next year, if only for the opportunity it provides for a resumption of the Innings Festival in Tempe, Arizona Feb.

The Sunday Night Football match-up last night was billed as “The Return” with Tom Brandy coming back to Gillette Stadium to face his old coach Bill Belichick and his old team the New England Patriots.

The government narrowly avoided a shutdown this week, and while some are touting that as a bipartisan victory, others — like Bill Maher — are left rolling their eyes over the “stupid game of chicken” that played out on the Hill this week.On Friday’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the host kicked off his monologue by sarcastically celebrating the start of the government’s new fiscal year.“It’s the fiscal New Year, so people are going nuts. That’s the big story.

David Lee Roth is ready to call it a night.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dylan has 21 concerts scheduled through Dec. 2, hitting cities like Chicago, New York, Boston and Washington, as well as Moon Township, Pennsylvania and Knoxville, Tennessee.Dylan turned 80 on May 24.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSenators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) today introduced the 
“SOS Extension Act,” which would extend the timeline for using Small Business Administration Shuttered Venue Operators Grants, created by his bipartisan Save Our Stages Act, from the end of 2021 to spring of 2023.The move is largely inspired by the six-month-plus delay between the $16 billion “Save Our Stages” Covid relief act being passed into law in December and independent venues and

The much nominated and tremendous Slave Play came up empty handed and Jagged Little Pill’s Lauren Patten showed exactly what an acceptance speech should be last night as CBS took the Tony Awards to a whole new stage or sorts on Sunday