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Head out into Manchester city centre at lunchtime and you're spoilt for choice when it comes to sandwich spots. There seems to be one on every corner - or back alley if you count Fat Pat's - but that doesn't mean there isn't room for more.

Caleb Williams will be playing in his first NFL Thanksgiving game today!

NFL viewership boosted by “Thursday Night Football” on Prime Video, fans are primed for more NFL action on Thursdays — especially during Thanksgiving. And in 2024, NFL on Thanksgiving Day games are spread over three networks (CBS, Fox and NBC), so if you want to catch games, there are a number of ways to watch online. The first game on Thanksgiving features the Chicago Bears battling the Detroit Lions at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.

Kanye West has released the music video for ‘Bomb’ featuring his children North and Chicago.The rapper dropped the visuals for ‘Bomb’ today (November 28), which appeared on his latest album ‘VULTURES 2‘. It’s the second instalment of the ‘VULTURES’ series, with the first album dropping in February this year.

Kanye West is making his new music video a family affair.

film “A League of Their Own,” including Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Rosie O’Donnell, had a mini reunion at Chicago’s Donald Stephens Convention Center for the Chicago Sports Spectacular on Sunday.The trio spent the day signing memorabilia and snapping photos with fans of the movie.The beloved Penny Marshall-directed sports comedy followed the true story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Davis, 68, and Petty, 61, played sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller, respectively, in the project while O’Donnell, 62, starred in a supporting role as third basewoman Doris Murphy.Also at the event were: Bitty Schram (right fielder Evelyn Gardner), Megan Cavanagh (second basewoman Marla Hooch), Tracy Reiner (left fielder Betty “Spaghetti” Horn), Anne Ramsay (first basewoman Helen Haley), Freddie Simpson (shortstop Ellen Sue Gotlander), Patti Pelton (second basewoman Marbleann Wilkinson), Connie Pounds-Taylor (outfielder Connie Calhoun) and Kelli Simpkins (outfielder Beverly Dixon).

Helen Gallagher, who won Tony Awards for Pal Joey and No, No, Nanette before starring as Maeve Ryan for all 13 seasons of daytime soap Ryan’s Hope, died November 24. She was 98.

In October Lil Durk was arrested near Miami International Airport on a federal charge of murder-for-hire. The Chicago-born Grammy winner and drill rap pioneer is alleged to have conspired to kill a rival rapper as retaliation for the 2020 killing of King Von, a member of Durk’s Only the Family (O.T.F.) collective.

EXCLUSIVE: Filming has wrapped in western Massachusetts on indie thriller After, starring Dónall Ó Héalai (Monster), Tracy Spiridakos (Chicago P.D.), Andy Richter (Conan), Kevin Pollak (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Karren Karagulian (Anora), Melia Kreiling (Emily In Paris), Ben Shenkman (Billions), Micheál Neeson (Somewhere Quiet) and Gabriella Piazza (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning).

Jennifer Hudson has kicked off her holiday tour and you can check out the setlist right here!

John Shiban has become the fifth showrunner to leave Law & Order: Organized Crime over the past four years. According to sources, his exit happened earlier this month, leading to a production pause. The Wolf Entertainment/Universal TV series, which is moving to Peacock for its upcoming fifth season, is now back filming, with its original showrunner, Matt Olmstead, stepping in as executive producer. He remains executive producer/showrunner on another Wolf Entertainment/UTV drama, CBS’ FBI: International.

Bill Murray has appeared in over 70 films.In early 2025, he’ll bypass the silver screen for a bit and hit the road.Starting Jan. 3, the “Saturday Night Live” alum is kicking off a quick five-show tour with his bluesy backing band The Blood Brothers featuring Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia.On the brief run, they’ll play rowdy shows at Chicago’s Thalia Hall (Jan.

For the first time in years, CBS will not be airing the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor NewsNation wants its viewers to know the cable-news outlet is keeping an eye on them, no matter how complex the headlines may get in the weeks ahead. The Nexstar-backed network is making a slight tweak to its slogan that it thinks carries outsize meaning.

bizarre interview from the “Wicked” press tour.A clip from Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s sit-down with an Out magazine reporter has been shared tens of millions of times online because of the confusion over the reporter’s claim that fans “are holding space” with the lyrics of “Defying Gravity,” which prompted an emotional response from Erivo, 37.The interview has been mocked not only by fans, but also by some Broadway stars. “Once Upon a Mattress” co-stars Sutton Foster, Ana Gasteyer and Michael Urie made a TikTok about the meme over the weekend.“I don’t know if you heard this, but people have been taking the lyrics of “Shy” and really holding space with them,” Urie, 44, told his co-stars in a dressing room at their Broadway show.“Shy” is the big musical number from “Once Upon a Mattress,” which is about a princess who tries to win the hand of a prince in a kingdom where the queen has banned marriage.Gasteyer, 57, mocked Grande’s initial reaction to the “holding space” comment by turning to Foster, 49, and asking, “Will you pull my finger?”Foster did just that, and Gasteyer made a farting noise with her mouth, which caused the three actors to burst out laughing.“Holding space for all the shy girls today,” Gasteyer captioned her TikTok.“We don’t deserve you.

Broadway musicals adapted to the screen are an erratic genre at the box office despite Miramax’s multi-Oscar winning Chicago reviving the long-dormant Hollywood genre back in 2002 with $306.8M WW. Yet for every Les Miserables ($442.7M) hit from Universal, there were massive misfires like Dear Evan Hansen and Cats. This weekend, Universal defied the odds with their feature take of the $5 billion-grossing Broadway stage show, Wicked, opening to $114M domestic, $164.2M worldwide.

said The Post’s Clive Barnes) and didn’t manage a coveted Tony Award nomination for Best Musical.But, as male lead Radames sings, fortune favors the brave. “Aida” stuck it out, sold plenty of tickets, and ran for four years at the Palace Theatre thanks to two words prominently emblazoned on the marquee: Elton John.Almost a quarter century later, and that world-famous name has all but become a liability. On Tuesday, the “Crocodile Rock” singer’s $25 million “Tammy Faye,” a migraine about mascara set to music, posted its closing notice only five days after opening night.

Charli XCX appears to be teasing a headline appearance at next year’s Parklife Festival.The festival is set to return to Manchester’s Heaton Park from June 14-15. It has confirmed that, rather than waiting till January like usual to drop the line-up, it will announce its first headliner next week.It may not be a coincidence that fans have spotted posters in Charli’s signature ‘Brat’ shade of green in various cities around the UK, including Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham, featuring the phrase ‘PL25’.Indeed, Charli teased her new US tour for 2025 in a similar fashion.

My car got trapped in a city centre car park again. Although this time, I was trapped inside with it.

Charli XCX has announced a new US tour for 2025, celebrating the ‘Brat’ album.The singer has been teasing the tour in recent days, with fans spotting various ‘Brat’-themed billboards cropping up in cities across the US. The signs all featured the album’s signature lurid green colour as well as its lo-fi font, reading ‘Chicago’, ‘Minneapolis’ and ‘Brooklyn’, in the respective cities.Other eagle-eyed fans on Reddit also noticed that the ‘Club Classics’ singer’s Ticketmaster page said there are “16 events”, although no exact shows showed up on the site. Now, following speculation, Charli has shared details of a US headline arena tour to take place in spring 2025.So far, five shows have been announced, with dates commencing on April 22 as the singer plays an opening show at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas.From there, she has dates at the Target Center in Minneapolis and the Allstate Arena in Rosemont scheduled for April 26 and 28 respectively, before wrapping up with two back-to-back dates at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on April 30 and May 1.A post shared by Charli (@charli_xcx)Tickets go on sale next Tuesday (November 26) at 2pm local time, although pre-sale options are also available that same day from 10am.

Thania Garcia Bardo Martinez of Chicano Batman, Lila Downs, Divino Niño, Arath Herce, Victor Internet and Loyal Lobos have signed management deals with Cosmica Artists. The indie record label and company represents Latin talent from alternative genres across Los Angeles, Miami, Austin and Mexico city. “Reaching our 20 year anniversary at Cosmica Artists is such a proud moment for me as I started this as a one person company, stuffing manilla envelopes with burned promo CDs, xeroxed bios and EPK’s,” Gil Gastelum, founder of Cosmica, tells Variety.