LOS ANGELES — Streaming services have been getting more expensive, and Spotify is next in line.

Starting in February, the price of ad-free individual plans will rise by $1 to $12.99 per month, the company said on Thursday. The last time the price was raised was in June 2024, when premium plans were bumped from $10.99 to $11.99.

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MINNEAPOLIS — For north Minneapolis singer/songwriter Geoffrey Lamar Wilson, it started even before the public knew anything about Renee Good.

“I came home and started writing this song before learning her name,” said Wilson, better known by the stage moniker Laamar.

By the time he and the rest of the world learned the identity of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Actor Todd Bridges and Bettijo B. Hirschi are headed separate ways after three years of marriage.

“After much prayer and reflection, my spouse and I have made the difficult decision to separate,” Bridges told The Times in a statement Thursday. “This was not an easy choice, and it comes with a heavy heart, but also with ...Read more

NEW YORK — After 16 years on the “Today” show, Jenna Bush Hager is dipping her toe into scripted TV.

On the Wednesday episode of the morning show, the “Today With Jenna & Sheinelle” co-host revealed that she’ll serve as a producer on the upcoming NBC series “Protection,” announcing that the network has officially ordered a pilot...Read more

Hockey player Jesse Kortuem has come out as gay, crediting HBO Max’s hit show “Heated Rivalry” — about the love story between a pair of rival hockey stars who remain in the closet — for giving him the courage to do so.

The self-described “private person” shared in social media posts Wednesday that while he long felt he “had to ...Read more

Tiffany Haddish felt like an "Egyptian goddess" on The Masked Singer.

The Girls Trip actress - who was unmasked as Le Who Who on Wednesday's (14.01.26) episode of the celebrity singing competition - admitted she felt "special" on the set of the reality show because she had so many people to assist her when she was in costume.

She told ...Read more

The director of the Stranger Things documentary doesn't believe the Duffer Brothers wrote the final episode using AI.

Matt and Ross Duffer documented the making of the show's final season in One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 in which they revealed they started shooting the feature-length last episode before they'd written the ...Read more

The visceral, often stomach-churningly violent "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" is about the search for hope, humanity and a few good Duran Duran songs after the landscape has been ravaged by a zombie apocalypse.

Director Nia DaCosta (2021's "Candyman," last year's "Hedda") picks up right where Danny Boyle's frantic "28 Years Later" left off ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Regulators, mount up.

The official name of Long Beach's new minor league baseball team was announced Tuesday along with the name of its "alter ego": the Long Beach Regulators. Both monikers were revealed during Long Beach's State of the City address.

Officially known as the Long Beach Coast, the new Pioneer League team is set ...Read more

Despite its equestrian-themed title, misfit-spies motif and occasional reference to "Moscow rules," Peacock's new espionage thriller "Ponies" has little in common with Apple TV's "Slow Horses." Set in Cold War Moscow, "Ponies" falls, intriguingly and occasionally uneasily, somewhere between FX's "The Americans" and underappreciated female-...Read more

CHICAGO — The sexiest man alive and the blond star of “Wicked” made a stealth visit Tuesday to the Art Institute of Chicago to promote an upcoming production of “Sunday in the Park with George” — in London.

An Instagram post on Wednesday featured Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey staring thoughtfully at each other on folding chairs ...Read more

Connor Storrie doesn't think his dad "needs to see" Heated Rivalry.

The 25-year-old actor plays closeted Russian hockey player Ilya Rozanov opposite Hudson Williams as his love interest Shane Hollander in the show, and while his mom is his "number one supporter", he won't be forcing his father to watch the steamy HBO Max series, in which he ...Read more

Tom Brady doesn't "have much time for a personal life".

The retired quarterback - who has Jack, 18, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan, and Benjamin, 16, and Vivian, 13, with ex-wife Gisele Bundchen - has claimed work and his family keep him too busy to have the time to date.

He told People magazine: "You know what? I don't have much time for...Read more

Carol Burnett wants to quit acting now she's in her 90s.

The 92-year-old comedian/actress returned to the small screen in 2024 with a regular role in Apple TV Plus series Palm Royale as well as recent guest appearance in Hacks and Frasier, but Carol has admitted she now wants to wind down her onscreen work so she can focus on jobs ""behind the ...Read more

A woman who claimed to be Freddie Mercury's secret daughter has died after a battle with a rare form of spinal cancer.

The woman - named only as B - has passed away at the age of 48 just months after her claims about the Queen legend were published by author Lesley Ann Jones revealed her existence in the book Love, Freddie, last summer.

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Queen guitarist Sir Brian May is worried that Sam Mendes' upcoming four films about The Beatles will feel like "it's a competition between them".

Mendes is creating The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event, which is comprised of four separate but inter-connected movies that will tell the phenomenal rise and eventual break-up of The Beatles ...Read more

Zoe Saldana is the highest-grossing actor of all time.

The 47-year-old actress' global box office haul has rocketed thanks to the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash, taking her from third place on the list to first with a combined total over $15.47 billion thanks to her roles in major franchises including Guardians of the Galaxy and other Marcvel ...Read more

Teyana Taylor won't "abandon" Kanye West.

The 35-year-old singer-and-actress was previously signed to the rapper's G.O.O.D. Music record label and has collaborated with him on a number of musical projects over the years and despite the controversies that have embroiled the star in recent times - including his anti-Semitic rants and a run for ...Read more

Todd and Julie Chrisley experienced a "humbling season" following their release from prison.

The couple were jailed in 2023 after being found guilty of 12 counts of tax evasion and fraud with Todd, 56, sentenced to 12 years behind bars and Julie, 52, ordered to serve seven, but they were freed last year after being pardoned by President Donald ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As a child, John Forté was a violin prodigy from a bad part of Brooklyn who earned a scholarship to an exclusive private high school in the Northeast. His life took him from working as an A&R executive at an indie label to out-of-nowhere commercial success with the Fugees and then to disappointment as a solo artist.

Then he was...Read more