Castle Douglas Scout Group appeals for new volunteers

Kanye West has fans questioning what is going on at Donda Academy, the new private school that he founded.

Liza Foreman Expanding the diversity of Spain’s film-TV sector, Moroccan-Spanish director, Swel Noury Cazorla’s “Azahar Baby,” is 10 of ten projects pitching at San Sebastian first Creative Investors’ Conference, which is co-organized with CAA Media Finance.  Written, and to be directed, by Noury (“Heaven’s Door,” “The Man Who Sold the World”), the feature project is the first out of the gate for Noury and executive producer Sonia Ziadi Trives, who is also Moroccan–Spanish, at their Madrid-based joint production venture,Two Flavours Productions. “Azahar Baby” weighs in as a coming-of-age dramedy. It tells the story of Yusef, an aspiring filmmaker who is making a documentary to make sense of his identity as a second-generation Moroccan immigrant. 

A rocky split! Sylvester Stallone is doing everything he can to move on from ex Jennifer Flavin — including covering up tattoos he’s gotten in her honor.

Malia Obama and her rumored boyfriend Dawit Eklund were photographed together once more. This time, the pair appear to have coordinated outfits, and were spotted wearing almost identical pants.Sasha Obama masters the college look with a Poppy Lissiman tote and boyfriend jeansMalia Obama wore an oversized denim jacket with these celebrity-loved bootsThe two were photographed as they went on a walk in New York. At one point, the two turned to each other and smiled.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor It’s surreal enough that the legendary Rough Trade record store — an indie-rock mecca that was born in punk-era London and opened a sprawling location in Brooklyn’s hipster heaven Williamsburg in 2013 that sadly did not survive the pandemic — is now located in Rockefeller Plaza in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, literally in the same building as NBC. Things will get even more surreal this weekend, when “Indieplaza 2022” — a free music festival co-presented by Rockefeller Center and Rough Trade featuring a bevy of up-and-coming acts — will take over Rockefeller Plaza on Saturday and Sunday. Highlights include an hour-long DJ set from Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, singer-songwriter Claud, rapper-singer Yaya Bey, rockers Horsegirl and Steve Gunn, and many more (the full lineup and set times appear below).

A new food, drink and shopping development has just opened on the site of a historic train terminus that was last used in the 1800s. Department Store is set within the old bonded warehouse that was formerly part of the Granada Studios complex.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Franco-Swiss director and New Wave linchpin Jean-Luc Godard, who revolutionized world cinema with his ground-breaking debut, “Breathless,” and never stopped pushing the envelope of his creativity, has died. He was 91. The news was first reported in Liberation.

The 2022 Emmys … or Euphoria High? Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney dominated the red carpet at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, September 12.

Jennie Punter Tucked in a corner of the Catskills, Casa Susanna was a modest private resort where cross-dressing heterosexual men and transgender women gathered on summer weekends through the 1950s and ‘60s to live as their true selves, dressed in the ladies’ fashion of the day and engaging in bourgeois social activities such as taking snapshots.   Over the past 15 years, a handful of articles, academic research, and photography exhibitions (and let’s not forget the 2014 Tony-nominated play by Harvey Fierstein) have gradually opened the door to this secret subculture of Cold War America. Now “Casa Susanna,” a new documentary by French filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz (“Wild Side,” “Little Girl”), flings it open.

Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi and EP Kenya Barris have released the official trailer and key art to Entergalactic, an original animated story about a young artist named Jabari — voiced by Mescudi — as he attempts to balance love and success.

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker have mastered the art of coordinated couple style. The lovebirds attended the Tommy Hilfiger spring 2023 show during New York Fashion Week in looks that had Us doing a double take.

Billy Nomates has announced details of her second album,’CACTI’, and is previewing it with first single ‘Balance Is Gone’.The new record, which follows a debut album from 2020 and last year’s follow-up EP ‘Emergency Telephone’, is released on January 13, 2023 via the Invada label.Speaking of the process of writing the new album, Billy Nomates – aka Tor Maries – said: “Writing ‘CACTI’ took just over a year. I wrote very intensely and then none at all. (This seems to be the way I work best).“I picked up old drum machines, mapped out things in my kitchen with the same small micro keyboard I always use and then raided the cupboards and rooms at Invada Studios, to play and experiment with old synths, an upright piano, this weird organ thing.

Disney is announcing some new additions!

Chairman of Disney Parks Experiences and Products Josh D’Amaro brought in some heavy hitters for his presentation at D23 Expo, including Mark Ruffalo, Jon Favreau and Marvel boss Kevin Feige.

There is definitely a trend of late for film directors to take a look in thinly disguised cinematic memoirs of their early influences that shaped the artist and person they have become. Kenneth Branagh with Belfast and Paolo Sorrentino with The Hand Of God did it last year. Of course there is Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, others over the years. Sam Mendes, while not drawing a portrait of his younger self revisits the movie palaces of his youth in another 2022 offering, Empire Of Light, which premiered last weekend at Telluride and will also hit the Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF is also where the man I recently described as the GOAT, Steven Spielberg, has chosen to debut his own story where the names have been changed but the story is  clearly his. The Fabelmans basically chronicling his early Jewish family life and infatuation with making movies  had its World Premiere Saturday night, the first of Spielberg’s directed movies ever to premiere at a film festival. This one seems entirely appropriate, and it has been gestating in the director’s head ever since he and his co-writer Tony Kushner started kicking it around during the making of Lincoln over a decade ago. He says he finally made it primarily as a way to bring his late parents Leah and Arnold (to whom the film is dedicated) somehow back to his life. Movies can do that, and no one knows it better than Steven Spielberg.

“The Summer I Turned Pretty”, actor Christopher Briney will also appear in TIFF’s closing night film “Dalíland” alongside Sir Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Ezra Miller, Suki Waterhouse and more. Directed by Mary Harron, from a screenplay by John C.

Clayton Davis “Abbott Elementary” just might do it. After winning for casting, the ABC hit freshman sitcom could make history in many significant ways. After Quinta Brunson made history by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated for comedy series, acting and writing categories in the same year, she would be only the second Black person ever to win as a producer in the comedy series. The first was Winifred Hervey for “The Golden Girls” back in 1987. Also, forecast to go along with the top category a win for writing (Brunson would be the third Black person after Larry Wilmore for “The Bernie Mac Show” in 2002 and Lena Waithe for “Master of None” in 2017) and Sheryl Lee Ralph in supporting actress (she would be the second Black woman to win the category after Jackee Harry for “227” in 1987).

New York City Center, home of, among other arts endeavors, the popular Encores! series of concert-style theatrical productions that recently gave Broadway one of its biggest current hits with Into The Woods, has named Michael S. Rosenberg  as its new president and CEO.

HBO Documentary Films has acquired U.S. television and streaming rights to Oscar winner Laura Poitras’s film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, fresh from its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and sneak preview at Telluride.

Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have set off with their mum and dad to start their brand new school.

The Television Academy has opened the envelope on its first batch of presenters for Monday’s 74th annual Primetime Emmy Awards.

NYFF taking place between Sept. 30 through Oct. 16, will be his last after stepping into the role in 2020 and navigating the complexities of COVID in that time.

EXCLUSIVE: Madeleine George, playwright and writer on Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, has been newly selected as the 2021 recipient of the Hermitage Major Theater Award, a national jury-selected prize that offers one of the largest non-profit theater commissions in the country.

Naman Ramachandran Vice has signed a worldwide license deal for director and producer Jason Loftus’ “Eternal Spring: The Heist of China’s Airwaves,” Canada’s entry in the Oscars’ international feature film category. Sales agent Sideways Film, which represents the production on behalf of Lofty Sky Entertainment, has also scored domestic deals on the film with Arte for France and Germany, RTS for Switzerland, VG for Norway, Current Time for Russian language European territories and Al Jazeera Doc for the Middle East and North Africa. Through the lens of celebrated comic book artist Daxiong (“Justice League”), the documentary explores a plot by Falun Gong adherents in China to hack state television and expose repression.

This is the moment a guest on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow was left heartbroken after being told a statue - thought to be worth £250,000 - was actually only worth just £150.

Squid Game.On September 4, Lee Yoo-mi took home the Outstanding Guest Actress award at the 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for her role as Ji-yeong in 2021’s hit Netflix series Squid Game. This makes the 28-year-old the first Korean actor to win the award.“I’m so grateful.

Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series: “Abbott Elementary”Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series: “Succession”Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie: “The White Lotus”Outstanding Period Costumes: “The Great”Outstanding Contemporary Costumes: “Hacks”Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes: “What We Do in the Shadows”Outstanding Period and or Character Hairstyling: “Bridgerton”Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series: “How I Met Your Father”Outstanding Choreography for Scripted Programming: “Euphoria”Outstanding Sound Mixing for A Limited or Anthology Series or Movie: “The White Lotus”Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series: “Stranger Things”Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half Hour) and Animation: “Only Murders in the Building”Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy: Laurie Metcalf, “Hacks”Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half Hour): Christian Sprenger, “Atlanta”Outstanding Cinematography for Single-Camera Series (One Hour): Marcell Rév, “Euphoria”Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Lee You-mi as Ji-yeong, “Squid Game”“I’m so happy, thank you,” she said when accepting her award.Outstanding Special Video Effects in a Season or a Movie: “The Book of Boba Fett”Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode: “Squid Game”Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or Variety Program: Wade Allen, “Barry”Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Drama Series, Limited Anthology Series or Movie: “Stranger Things”Outstanding Stunt Performance: “Squid Game”Outstanding Period and/or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic): “Pam and Tommy”Outstanding Contemporary Makeup (Non-Prosthetic): “Euphoria”Outstanding Prosthetic

It was a “bittersweet” night for the team behind Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.

The Beatles: Get Back director Peter Jackson overcame formidable competition from some Hollywood heavyweights tonight to claim the Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” the photographer Nan Goldin tells a woeful, revealing, and in its way rather funny anecdote about how in the 1980s, when she first gathered up her photographs — casually transgressive images of her and her friends, who were often drag queens and addicts, along with shots of the assorted other people and situations she experienced as part of the hummingly squalid East Village New York subculture — and tried to shop them around to galleries and museums, they were roundly rejected, because the arbiters of taste, who were inevitably men, favored photographs that were black-and-white and composed in elegant meticulous ways. Goldin’s photographs were in garish verité color, set in environments that were so scruffy (messy bohemian apartments, ordinary people just lolling around) that it looked, to the gallery mavens, like there was no visual organization to them, no art.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent PBS International has unveiled the trailer for “Casa Susanna,” Sébastien Lifshitz’s follow up to “Little Girl,” which is having its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section. Produced by Agat Films, ARTE France and American Experience Films, in association with BBC Storyville, the documentary film will have its North American premiere at Toronto on Sept. 9. “Susanna” delivers a look at the underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men who found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place for them to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed—dressed as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression.

Gaelic for ‘great melody of life’ or ‘big song’, the thriving arts and entertainment venue, Òran Mór, is a well-kent face for a lot of people in Glasgow's West End.

A 16th century castle with its own helicopter pad and maze is on the market for £3.5million - and sellers said potential buyers should not worrying about heating it.

Selling New York City? Kelly Killoren Bensimon may have left her life as a Housewife long behind, but she is open to returning to reality TV one day.

Jennifer Lawrence is enjoying the sunny weather with her husband.