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As Malia Obama makes strides in her Hollywood career, she’s decided to take on a new name. The writer and producer, who is also the eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama, will now go by her middle name: Malia Ann, perhaps in an effort to distance herself from her powerful parents’ fame. The change was revealed in the Sundance Institute’s “Meet the Artist” spotlight video, which introduced her as a filmmaker. She described her film project “The Heart” as “an odd little story, somewhat of a fable, about a man grieving the death of his mother after she leaves him an unusual request in her ......

SAN DIEGO — The 2024 edition of San Diego's Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival will feature a mix of veteran music stars — including Beck, Weezer and the Roots — along with such rising young acts as singer-actor Dominic Fike, Samm Henshaw, Abby Anderson and the hip-hop duo Paris Texas. This will mark the first San Diego-area festival performance by the Roots — the longtime house band on TV's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" — since 2015. To be held May 10-12 alongside San Diego Bay, the festival is again receiving underwriting and in-kind services from the Port of San Diego and the San ......

A dancer in Madonna’s Celebration Tour fell while dragging the star in a chair mid-concert in Seattle on Sunday, sending the chair and the pop goddess tumbling to the floor. Madonna, 65, didn’t miss a note or a beat. Landing on her back, she quickly flipped onto her stomach, singing all the while, and finished belting out her line in “Open Your Heart to Me.” She then giggled and leaped to her feet, declining offers of assistance. In video posted on social media, Madonna was seen sitting in the chair as the dancer tilted it back and dragged it across the stage. He apparently lost his grip, thou......

TIJUANA, Mexico — Rising Mexican corridos singer Jesús Cárdenas, better known as Chuy Montana, was shot to death Wednesday on a stretch of the Rosarito to Tijuana highway, according to multiple reports. The body was found handcuffed with gunshot wounds at the roadside, Tijuana’s Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Fernando Sánchez said Thursday to local media. Police believe he was kidnapped before the murder. Sánchez said police later confirmed that the victim was a singer. The news site Punto Norte and others reported that the victim was Cárdenas. A spokesperson with the Baja Califo......

Attorneys for Taylor Swift have threatened legal action against a Florida college student who has been tracking the private jets of celebrities and other high-profile figures, including the likes of Tom Cruise, Elon Musk and Drake, as well as the 14-time Grammy winner. Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, confirmed to the Washington Post that he was contacted by Swift’s legal team over a series of social media accounts he uses to log the takeoffs and landings of the singer’s private planes. In a cease-and-desist letter sent in December, lawyer Katie Wright Morrone liken......

Bruce Springsteen’s mother, Adele, died on Wednesday at the age of 98, the singer announced in a touching Instagram post on Thursday afternoon. “I remember in the morning mom hearing your alarm clock ring,” Springsteen wrote in a heartfelt caption under a video of the two of them dancing. The words are lyrics from his 1998 song “The Wish,” which was inspired by his mother. “I’d lie in bed and listen to you getting ready for work, the sound of your makeup case on the sink. And the ladies at the office all lipstick, perfume and rustling skirts, how proud and happy you always looked walking home ......