When Mark Barden received the first “thinking of you” text on Tuesday afternoon, he assumed the well-wisher had the anniversary of some other horrific school shooting on their mind. Late May is ripe with them: This week marks the four-year anniversary of a shooting spree at a high school Santa Fe, Texas, that left 10 dead, and eight years since a University of California, Santa Barbara student murdered two fellow students outside a sorority house in Isla Vista, California. “They do just seem to stack up,” Barden sighed.
Barden would soon find out,...
Barden would soon find out,...
- 5/28/2022
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
If it weren’t for former President Barack Obama, Jack Schlossberg, 24, “might still be sitting on my couch, eating Doritos and watching sports.”
The comment, from John F. Kennedy’s only grandson, came as he introduced Obama at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s May dinner gala Sunday night, where Obama was honored with the annual Profile in Courage Award.
Schlossberg and mother Caroline Kennedy presented Obama with the award. The recent Yale graduate likened the impact the 44th president had on him with the influence his grandfather, JFK, had on the country.
“Throughout his presidency, my grandfather made...
The comment, from John F. Kennedy’s only grandson, came as he introduced Obama at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s May dinner gala Sunday night, where Obama was honored with the annual Profile in Courage Award.
Schlossberg and mother Caroline Kennedy presented Obama with the award. The recent Yale graduate likened the impact the 44th president had on him with the influence his grandfather, JFK, had on the country.
“Throughout his presidency, my grandfather made...
- 5/8/2017
- by Juliet Pennington
- PEOPLE.com
20th Century Fox’s Blue Sky Studios has extended its lease at it home facility Greenwich American Center that will keep the animation unit behind Ice Age and the upcoming Ferdinand in Connecticut through 2025. The Fox division employs more than 450 artists, engineers and scientists and has been headquartered there since 2009. In a release announcing the move, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said Blue Sky has doubled its staff during the past eight years, helping the…...
- 4/7/2017
- Deadline
Fox News host Tucker Carlson clashed with Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy on Thursday night over Malloy’s decision to ignore President Donald Trump’s requests to detain undocumented immigrants. “The President can’t order us to do federal work,” Malloy said. “Quite frankly, the federal government should do its own job and get it done.” The “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host noted that the state has “gotten worse” under Malloy, pointing to businesses leaving the state. Also Read: Tucker Carlson Battles Anti-Trump Protester Who Compared Potus to Hitler (Video) Malloy got defensive and anyone who regularly watched Carlson probably got the sense things would quickly escalate.
- 2/24/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Jack Schlossberg's first year out of college has brought plenty of changes and made him appreciate his roots, the 23-year-old son of Caroline Kennedy and only grandson of former President John F. Kennedy revealed while presenting the Profile In Courage Award to Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy Sunday. Following up his 2015, headline-making hosting gig, the Yale graduate seemed more at ease in front of the audience, and said that he's transitioned from "naive college student," joking, "Why didn't any of you warn about life after school?" Schlossberg, who's recently been living in Tokyo, revealed that he hadn't "been in a room...
- 5/1/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
From Broadway to the Acm Awards, organizers are scrambling to shuffle planned events because of the storm
As a crippling winter storm barreled into the Northeast Monday, millions of people braced for the worst including members of the entertainment industry.
The Academy of Country Music Awards announced its nominations for the 50th Acm Awards would be postponed “due to unforeseen weather circumstances on the East Coast,” the academy said in a statement. The group had planned to make the announcements Tuesday but will now release a list of nominees later this week.
Also Read: Blizzard Streaming Guide: 15 Hot Titles to...
As a crippling winter storm barreled into the Northeast Monday, millions of people braced for the worst including members of the entertainment industry.
The Academy of Country Music Awards announced its nominations for the 50th Acm Awards would be postponed “due to unforeseen weather circumstances on the East Coast,” the academy said in a statement. The group had planned to make the announcements Tuesday but will now release a list of nominees later this week.
Also Read: Blizzard Streaming Guide: 15 Hot Titles to...
- 1/27/2015
- by Itay Hod and Anita Bennett
- The Wrap
WWE.com
Update: For what it’s worth, the Xl Center website has posted on their events page;
Monday Night Raw will take place as scheduled.
There is a massive snowstorm heading to the northeast United States on Monday night and will cause massive travel delays for the next couple of days. Tonight’s edition of Raw is supposed to take place from the Xl Center in Hartford, Connecticut, but it may not actually happen. It’s not too far from WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
Last night’s Royal Rumble was in Philadelphia and talent likely drove to the Hartford area last night without problem, but the storm is coming into the area tonight. There have already been over 4,000 flights cancelled in the northeast Us for Monday and Tuesday with more of them possibly being cancelled the following days as well. It’s been called a “historic” storm in...
Update: For what it’s worth, the Xl Center website has posted on their events page;
Monday Night Raw will take place as scheduled.
There is a massive snowstorm heading to the northeast United States on Monday night and will cause massive travel delays for the next couple of days. Tonight’s edition of Raw is supposed to take place from the Xl Center in Hartford, Connecticut, but it may not actually happen. It’s not too far from WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
Last night’s Royal Rumble was in Philadelphia and talent likely drove to the Hartford area last night without problem, but the storm is coming into the area tonight. There have already been over 4,000 flights cancelled in the northeast Us for Monday and Tuesday with more of them possibly being cancelled the following days as well. It’s been called a “historic” storm in...
- 1/26/2015
- by John Canton
- Obsessed with Film
CAA agent Michael Kives opened the doors to his Hollywood Hills home on Monday night to host eight state governors from across the U.S. to mix and mingle with a list of prominent industry names. Taking advantage of the Democratic Governors Association holiday party and meeting — currently taking place in Los Angeles on Dec. 8-9 — Kives’ cocktail party drew the following governors: Vermont’s Peter Shumlin, Maryland’s Martin O’Malley, Montana’s Steve Bullock, Connecticut’s Dannel Malloy, New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan, Washington’s Jay Inslee, Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf, and Virginia’s Terry McAuliffe. Read more Hillary Clinton Responds to Age, Health
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- 12/9/2014
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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