Golden Globes 2025: Full list of winners

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on January 6, 2025. Posted in Celebrities, Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Movies, Network, Things To Do, TV and Streaming.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The 82nd Golden Globes, airing Sunday night, hope to rekindle some of the frothy comic energy of the days when Ricky Gervais or Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted. Comedian Nikki Glaser is emceeing the ceremony from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. At a gala dinner Friday, Viola Davis received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and Ted Danson accepted the Carol Burnett Award. The Globes are airing on CBS and available to stream live for subscribers to Paramount+ with Showtime. Here’s a partial list of winners of the Golden Globes: Irish actor Colin Farrell...

Book reviews: Tension builds in Prohibition-era ‘Trouble Island;’ ‘The Rivals’ takes on the bots

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 10, 2024. Posted in Books, Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Things To Do.

‘Trouble Island’ by Sharon Short. Minotaur, 336 pages, $29 The aptly named Trouble Island is a dark, foreboding place, located in Lake Erie and containing a large, gothic-like mansion with a few outlying buildings. The island is a midway point for criminals moving between Canada and the United States in 1931. “Trouble Island,” by by Sharon Short. (Minotaur/Courtesy) It’s also a refuge — admittedly an uncomfortable one — for two women with different reasons to hide from the world. Rosita McGee owns the island but has sequestered herself away in her large bedroom since her young son Oliver...

‘Sharks’ vet pitches from entrepreneurs at FAU. See who scored a deal

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 6, 2024. Posted in Business, Education, Entertainment, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, National News, News, Things To Do.

Three prominent investor-judges from “Shark Tank,” television’s high court of American entrepreneurship, descended on Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton to hear pitches from hopeful local innovators in search of financial backing. The visiting judges for the so-called “CrocTank” event, sponsored by Noble Capital Markets of Boca Raton, included Canadian venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary, a.k.a “Mr. Wonderful,” FUBU apparel founder Daymond John, and cyber-tech entrepreneur Robert Herjavec, also from Canada. The contest was a wrap-up event of a two-day financial investment conference...

Christmas on Las Olas rings in the holidays

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 4, 2024. Posted in Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Local News, Restaurants, Food and Drink, Things To Do.

Kids have their photo taken with Santa during the 62nd Christmas on Las Olas celebration on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)Jolene Game, 4,, sleds on the snow during the 62nd Christmas on Las Olas celebration on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)Students from St. Bernedette Catholic School sing during the 62nd Christmas on Las Olas celebration on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)People enjoy the 62nd Christmas on Las Olas celebration on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun...

Emmys 2024 red carpet: See photos of what the stars wore for the show

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 16, 2024. Posted in Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Network, Things To Do.

Who’s ready for TV’s biggest night? Hollywood’s primetime stars are on the red carpet for the 2024 Emmys. Here’s what celebrities wore for the illustrious event: Henry Giraldo, El SentinelLily Gladstone attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) Yvonne Valdez, El SentinelReese Witherspoon attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Henry Giraldo, El SentinelJennifer Aniston attends...

Actors and fans celebrate the ‘Miami Vice’ television series’ 40th anniversary in Miami Beach

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 14, 2024. Posted in Entertainment, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Things To Do, TV and Streaming.

MIAMI BEACH — Miami Beach residents and visitors can feel it coming in the air tonight — and the rest of the weekend — as “Miami Vice” cast and crew gather to celebrate the iconic television series’ 40th anniversary. The show premiered on NBC on Sept. 16, 1984, and ran for five seasons. The “cocaine cowboy”-era crime drama, featuring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as undercover cops, was revolutionary in its use of pop culture, style and music and spawned a film reboot in 2006. And by filming the show primarily in South Florida, the series helped transform the image of Miami and...

Fort Lauderdale’s Historic Downtowner and Maxwell Room set to close in October

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 3, 2024. Posted in Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Restaurants, Food and Drink, Things To Do.

Fort Lauderdale is about to lose one of its longest-running drinking, dining and dancing venues — the Historic Downtowner and Maxwell Ballroom — which for decades welcomed patrons who sought to celebrate, commiserate or just chill out on the south bank of the New River. “Sadly, I must announce the closure of the Historic Downtowner and Maxwell Room, effective October 6,” owner Roger Craft wrote in a Facebook post that took staffers by surprise. “This decision was not made lightly,” he said. “I carefully weighed the hard facts and numerous complex issues against every possible solution and...

The kids are all right: Why do these local teen musicians love their parents’ classic rock?

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 9, 2024. Posted in Entertainment, Events, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Music and Concerts, Things To Do.

To watch Pompano Beach-based cover band Unravel resuscitate a classic tune like AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell,” all snarling vocals, flailing hair and swagger, is to witness rock ‘n’ roll at its essence — when the music was about rebellion and passion and the audacious joy of playing it for a crowd. The bass player is 13. At a time when there are no rock bands near the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, young people across South Florida are doing deep dives into the classic rock of their parents, sometimes grandparents, and performing in bars and on festival stages across the region. Yes, they...

Sean Kingston and his mother indicted in $1 million fraud scheme

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on July 22, 2024. Posted in Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Things To Do.

Singer and rapper Sean Kingston and his mother have been indicted in Florida on federal charges related to a scheme in which they committed more than $1 million worth of fraud, prosecutors said. Kingston, 34, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, and his mother, Janice Turner, 61, both of Southwest Ranches, appeared in federal court Friday after a grand jury in Miami charged each with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and five counts of wire fraud, prosecutors said. The charges were based on their involvement in a scheme to defraud sellers of high-end vehicles, jewelry and other...

2024 Golden Globe Awards: List of winners

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on January 8, 2024. Posted in Entertainment, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Movies, Network, Things To Do.

Here are the winners at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards, presented Sunday, Jan. 7: MOVIES Cinematic and box office achievement: “Barbie” Motion picture, animated: “The Boy and the Heron” Motion picture, non-English language: “Anatomy of a Fall” Male actor, motion picture, drama: Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer” Female actor, motion picture, TV or comedy: Emma Stone, “Poor Things” Female supporting actor, motion picture: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” Male supporting actor, motion picture: Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer” Director, motion picture: Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”...

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