LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson out-muscled the competition at domestic movie theaters as Warner Bros.’ earthquake epic “San Andreas” hauled in an estimated $53.2 million over the weekend. It was his biggest debut for a movie where he’s the top-billed actor, according to box office tracker Rentrak.
PARIS (AP) — Painted by one of the world’s most famous street artists, installed first at a mud-soaked music festival and then beneath an oak tree, the trailer was home first to an itinerant British couple and then their growing family.
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — It’s a 122-year-old stage that has played host to soaring speeches, debates and musical performances from such luminaries as Susan B. Anthony, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert F. Kennedy and Duke Ellington.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The autobiography of prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder, a blockbuster for the South Dakota State Historical Society Press, is expected to jump to about 145,000 copies in print by mid-summer.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — From drought-shaming to eco-boasting, willing or not, celebrities are playing a role in raising awareness about California’s debilitating drought.
Twenty-year-old South Korean violinist Ji Young Lim has won Belgium’s prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition. Ji’s interpretation of Brahms’s violin concerto in D major landed her the top prize of 25,000 euros ($27,470) and a four-year loan of a 1708 Stradivarius from the Nippon Music Foundation, the jury announced around midnight Saturday. Oleksii Semenenko of Ukraine and William Hagen of the United States came second and third respectively.
NEW YORK (AP) — Iggy Azalea has canceled her U.S. tour for a second time.
AQUINNAH, Mass. (AP) — A historic Martha’s Vineyard lighthouse arrived at its new location on Saturday after a painstaking 135-foot move from the edge of an eroding cliff.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says a new federal rule regulating small streams and wetlands will protect the drinking water of more than 117 million people in the country.