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Lady Gaga leads 2025 MTV Video Music Awards nominations, followed by Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar

NEW YORK (AP) — Abracadabra, feel the beat under your feet — Lady Gaga is back on top. The “Mayhem” musician tops the 2025 the MTV Video Music Award nominations with 12, ending Taylor Swift’s two-year run in the top spot. Gaga is up for best collaboration, pop, direction, art direction, cinematography, editing, choreography, visual effects as well as song, video, album and artist of the year. Rounding out the artist of the year category nominees announced Tuesday are Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Morgan Wallen and The Weeknd as well as Beyonce and Swift. The latter two are ...

Hank Hill returns to a changed world in new ‘King of the Hill’ episodes

NEW YORK (AP) — Hank Hill is back and he’s the same ol’ Hank Hill, but a lot of things around him have changed. The lovable animated hero of “King of the Hill” has returned from a 15-year lull and he isn’t sure what boba tea is, how ridesharing works and is confused by all-gender ...

A former Rolling Stone says the Met has his stolen guitar. The museum disputes it

LONDON (AP) — It’s only rock ‘n’ roll, but it’s messy. A guitar once played by two members of the Rolling Stones is at the center of a dispute between the band’s former guitarist Mick Taylor and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The 1959 Gibson Les Paul was donated to the Met as part of what the New York museum calls “a landmark gift of more than 500 of the finest guitars from the golden age of American guitar making.” The donor is Dirk Ziff, a billionaire investor and guitar collector. When the Met announced the gift in May, Taylor thought he recognized the guitar, ...

DuMM returns to the floating stage on Sunday night

LOCK HAVEN —This Sunday, Aug. 3, DuMM will be playing the Floating Stage, from 6:30-9 p.m. Performing over 220 shows a year, and celebrating nearly 10 years of near constant touring, DuMM is no stranger to visiting Jason’s hometown of Lock Haven to play the Floating Stage. DuMM came ...

Robert Richardson returns to Triangle Park on Friday night

LOCK HAVEN — Robert Richardson, known for his performances on the Floating Stage with Hybrid Ice, and most recently with Mix Tape, will be performing his solo show, What About Bob, this Friday night, Aug. 1, at Triangle Park, from 6-8 p.m. Robert Richardson is a multi-instrumentalist ...

1996’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ is a unique take on Shakespeare’s classic

Hi everyone! It’s been far too long since I’ve written a Throwback Thursday column… a crime really. I’ll admit my movie watching has been limited to some in-theater movies and I’ve been binge watching “Law and Order: SVU” (Olivia Benson is an icon) while at home. But it’s ...