Poster for Prince Celebration’s 10th year anniversary (Paisley Park Enterprises)
Another year, another opportunity for Prince fans to “Play in the Sunshine.” This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Prince Celebration, where fans, artists and music lovers come together to pay homage to the late star, as well as his music, artistry and cultural impact.
The 2026 program will feature concerts, screenings, panel discussions and immersive fan experiences. It will also celebrate the anniversaries of Prince albums Parade, Emancipation, Rainbow Children, Chaos and Disorder and 3121, while giving exclusive access to his unreleased music and rare concert footage.
“The PRINCE FAM will come back together to celebrate a decade of legacy, love, and the music that still moves us all,” reads a joint post on Prince and Paisley Park’s Instagram accounts. “From Parade to 3121, we’re honoring the eras, the artistry, and the everlasting spirit that unites the Purple family across the world.”
“A decade later. The music still lives. The legacy still shines,” the post continued. “Let’s celebrate Prince Rogers Nelson.”
The Prince Celebration takes place in Minnesota across St. Paul, Paisley Park in Chanhassen and downtown Minneapolis from June 3 to 7. Early-bird tickets are currently on sale.
Ashley Tisdale French has found her next role. Deadline reports the actress is set to star in and executive produce a new comedy series for CBS called You’re Only Young Twice. The show centers on a pair who got pregnant and married while in high school, who then plan to get divorced and start their lives over again when their child goes to college and they both turn 35. The nearly divorced empty-nester couple tackle dating, co-parenting and a second chance at love …
Have you watched the Oscar-nominated film Hamnet yet? No fear if not. The movie makes its exclusive streaming debut to Peacock on March 6. Chloé Zhao directed the film that tells the fictionalized story of what inspired one of Shakespeare’s most memorable works. Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn and Noah Jupe star in the film …
Speaking of Buckley, she’s part of some major star power that’s joined the upcoming film adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s bestselling book Three Incestuous Sisters. Deadline reports that Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan and Josh O’Connor are all set to star in the new film, which will be directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Plot details are being kept under wraps, as the outlet reports this will be a loose adaptation of Niffenegger’s novel. Rohrwacher wrote the film’s script alongside Ottessa Moshfegh …
Two people are dead and 14 others hospitalized following a mass shooting early Sunday morning. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — The FBI said it is investigating a possible terrorism motive in a mass shooting early Sunday outside a bar in Austin, Texas, that left two people dead and more than a dozen others injured.
The suspected gunman was killed in a confrontation with police officers, who were already staged in the city’s entertainment district when the shooting broke out, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said at a news conference on Sunday.
The suspect has been identified as Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Senegal, sources with knowledge of the matter told ABC News.
Davis said the suspect was living in Pflugerville, Texas.
The suspect was wearing clothing that referenced Allah and a T-shirt that referenced Iran, with an Iranian flag underneath the word, according to multiple law enforcement officials.
Diagne entered the U.S. in March 2000, on a B-2 tourist visa. In 2006, he adjusted to lawful permanent resident (IR-6) based on marriage to a U.S. citizen, according to multiple law enforcement officials.
He naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2013.
In 2022, he was arrested in Texas for a collision with a vehicle damage, a source told ABC News.
Alex Doran, the acting special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Antonio field office, said a motive for the shooting remains under investigation, but terrorism is a possible motive.
“There were indicators on the subject and in his vehicle that indicate potential nexus to terrorism,” Doran said Sunday. “Again, it’s still too early to make a determination on that.”
In a social media post on Sunday afternoon, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Donald Trump had been briefed regarding the shooting in Austin.
Davis said 911 callers began reporting a shooting on West Sixth Street in downtown Austin just before 2 p.m. She said the 911 callers stated that someone was shooting around Buford’s Bar.
“We know that a large SUV drove several times around the block in that area,” Davis said. “At one point, [the suspect] put his flashers on, rolled down his window and began using a pistol, shooting out of his car windows, striking patrons of the bar that were on the patio and that were in front of the bar.”
Davis said the suspect then parked his vehicle, got out and opened fire on people gathered on the sidewalk.
She said the Austin police department had a contingent of officers assigned to patrol the area in the busy West Sixth Street entertainment district. She said the officers were about 55 to 56 seconds away from where the suspect was shooting, and rushed toward the gunfire.
Davis said the suspect was walking in the direction of the police when officers confronted him and killed him.
Bystander video verified by ABC News captured the suspected shooter walking on the sidewalk toward police officers as he fired a barrage of shots. The video shows officers returning fire, striking the suspect before he falls to the ground as someone screams in the background, “Oh, my God!”
The sources told ABC News that the suspect initially fired five to seven shots from a handgun into a crowd of people before police said he exited his vehicle and was confronted by Austin Police officers.
“There is no question in my mind that the quick response of the police officers and of our EMS personnel and those professionals made a difference and saved lives,” Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said at the news conference.
Three Austin Police Department officers encountered a suspect armed with a gun on the street near Buford’s Bar, police said at an earlier news conference. The officers returned fire, fatally shooting the man, police said.
The FBI’s Joint terrorism Task Force is joining the investigation into the shooting, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Law enforcement is also probing whether there were any mental health issues related to the suspected shooter, sources said, adding that as of now the shooting is considered an isolated incident, rather than part of a larger plot.
ABC News spoke via telephone with a woman in Texas, who confirmed that she is Diagne’s ex-wife. She said they divorced in 2022 and that she has not spoken to her ex-husband in four or five years. The woman said she knew nothing about the Austin shooting and said she was shocked when she heard about it.
Asked if her ex-husband was religious, she said, “He was religious, yeah.” She did not elaborate.
She said they previously lived in New York together and then, in 2017, moved to Texas because Diagne wanted more space for their family, including their two children. She said that before moving to Texas, her ex-husband went there for a week to check it out as a possible place to move, and then he came back to New York and told her, “Oh, I think you’re gonna love it, it’s quiet.”
She said they initially moved to San Antonio.
The Austin Police Department had earlier released a statement urging people to avoid the area near the 600 block of Rio Grande Street, the Downtown Austin block where the bar is located.
Photos and videos from the scene showed a major emergency response. Paramedics and officers arrived on the scene less than a minute after the first call came in, Chief Robert Luckritz, of the Austin-Travis County EMS, said on Sunday.
Three people, including a suspect, were pronounced dead at the scene, Luckritz said, adding that another 14 were transported to local hospitals for treatment for injuries.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement on Sunday that he has directed the state Department of Public Safety (DPS) to increase patrols in the West Sixth Street area during the weekends.
Abbott said that before the shooting, he directed the DPS and the Texas National Guard to intensify patrols and surveillance across the state in a precautionary measure in response to the joint U.S.-Israel military operation in Iran.
“This act of violence will not define us, nor will it shake the resolve of Texans,” Abbott said of the mass shooting. “To anyone who thinks about using the current conflict in the Middle East to threaten Texans or our critical infrastructure, understand this clearly: Texas will respond with decisive and overwhelming force to protect our state.”
A Department of Homeland Security seal on a podium at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters, Mar. 13, 2024. (Luke Barr/ABC News)
(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security has warned of potential lone-wolf and cyberattacks amid the ongoing strikes in Iran, according to a law enforcement bulletin obtained by ABC News.
“Although a large-scale physical attack is unlikely, Iran and its proxies probably pose a persistent threat of targeted attacks in the Homeland, and will almost certainly escalate retaliatory actions—or calls to action—if reports of the Ayatollah’s death are confirmed,” according to the bulletin.
“In the short-term, we are most concerned that Iran-aligned hacktivists will conduct low-level cyber attacks against US networks, such as website defacements and distributed denial-of-service attacks,” officials said in the bulletin.
The alert was issued on Saturday, a day before a gunman opened fire in Austin, Texas, and authorities are investigating whether or not the suspect was inspired by the situation overseas.
Law enforcement sources told ABC News the suspect was wearing a sweatshirt with “Property of Allah” on it and underneath, a shirt with “Iran” and the Iranian flag on it.
Officials are also investigating whether the suspect had mental health issues.
The bulletin said physical attacks are rare for those inspired by Iran.
“Lone offenders in the Homeland have not historically been motivated by issues related to Iran, the IRGC, or Shia violent extremism; however, the existential threat to the Iranian regime and increased US or Israeli actions could prompt some US-based violent extremists or hate crime perpetrators to attack targets perceived to be Jewish, pro-Israel, or linked to the US government or military,” officials said in the bulletin.
Derek Mayer, the former assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service’s Chicago field office, said law enforcement is always on alert for a lone offender.
“I think law enforcement authorities are concerned about attacks happening every day. And obviously, yesterday with the bombings taking place in Iran, the attacks could come even at a higher rate, but it’s your schools, it’s your churches, it’s at your airports,” Mayer, now the chief security officer and vice president of executive protection at P4, said. “The current threat environment in the United States and across the world is, it’s very dangerous right now, but it’s also to say the last quarter of a century, since the September 11th attacks of 2001, the landscape across the United States and also across the world has been very dangerous.”
Police departments across the country have stepped up patrols in high-traffic and high-target areas.
“At times like this, they will be up in patrols and officers, more posts at government facilities, but there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes that the public doesn’t see, whether that be, you know, counter surveillance, whether it be extra intelligence monitoring,” he said.
LOCASH’s latest top-30 hit, “Wrong Hearts,” is a tip of the hat to classics by Garth Brooks and Rascal Flatts, according to Preston Brust and Chris Lucas, who helped co-write the tune.
“This song is basically a journey to find the right one. I mean, you’re gonna go through lots of stuff,” Chris says, as Preston interjects: “Broken hearts!”
“Some ex-girlfriends and like, ‘Ah, man, it’s horrible,'” Chris continues.
“You’re gonna find some ex-girlfriends!” Preston picks up, as Chris echoes his sentiment: “You’re gonna find some ex-girlfriends! Yep, glad that didn’t work out, you know.”
“But it’s almost like the Garth Brooks song, you know, ‘God’s greatest gift[s] are unanswered prayers,'” Chris continues.
“Bless the broken road. You know, that kind of a sentiment,” Preston agrees.
“[That] led the way to [where] we are today,” Chris finishes.
“Wrong Hearts” is the follow-up to “Hometown Home,” which topped the chart for two weeks last April.
Scream 7scared up big numbers at the box office this weekend.
The latest in the horror franchise brought in $64.1 million, landing it in the #1 spot. According to Variety, that makes it the highest debut for a Scream film, beating out 2023’s Scream VI which previously held the record with a $44.4 million debut.
The animated film GOAT came in at a distant #2 with $12 million, while Wuthering Heights was #3 with $6.95 million.
This week’s only other new release to crack the top 10 was the concert film Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined, which came in at #4 with $4.3 million.
1. Scream 7 — $64.1 million 2. GOAT — $12 million 3. Wuthering Heights — $6.95 million 4. Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined — $4.3 million 5. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert — $3.5 million 6. Crime 101 — $3.4 million 7. I Can Only Imagine 2 — $3.1 million 8. Send Help — $2.8 million 9. How to Make a Killing — $1.6 million 10. Zootopia 2 — $1.4 million
Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder are releasing two new CDs exclusively in Japan to celebrate Vedder’s upcoming debut solo tour in the country.
One of the CDs is a reissue of Pearl Jam’s 2003 live album recorded at the famed Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. The set includes performances of songs such as “Even Flow,” “Alive,” “Better Man,” “Corduroy” and “Daughter.”
The other CD is an expanded edition of Vedder’s 2022 solo album, Earthling, which also includes his 2020 Matter of Time EP, and his 2024 covers of “Room at the Top” by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and “Save It for Later” by The English Beat.
If you don’t live in Japan, limited quantities of both CDs are available to preorder for members of Pearl Jam’s Ten Club.
Vedder’s Japan tour kicks off in April.
In related news, Vedder’s Ohana Festival has announced the date for its 2026 event. It will return to Dana Point, California, Sept. 25-27.
Sombr performs live on stage during The BRIT Awards 2026 on Feb. 28, 2026 in Manchester, England. (Karwai Tang/WireImage)
During sombr’s performance of “Undressed” at the BRIT Awards on Saturday night, some guy ran onstage and pushed him off the podium he was standing on. While security guards removed the person — who was wearing a t-shirt reading, “Sombr is a homewrecker” on the back — the unbothered singer got back up on the podium and started singing “back to friends.” Was it an actual attack? Nope.
On Instagram, sombr posted a photo of the moment, with the guy’s t-shirt clearly visible. He captioned it, “He should’ve pushed me harder. My first @brits, thank you. The shirt he’s wearing is available now x.” Sombr’s current single, in case you didn’t know, is called “Homewrecker.”
Sure enough, the same photo is on sombr’s official website. You can buy the tee for $40, and you’ll get it in three to four weeks.
If that wasn’t enough proof for you, a rep for sombr confirmed to Variety that the entire thing was staged.
At the BRITs, which took place in Manchester, England, sombr was nominated for international artist of the year and international song for “Undressed.” He lost in the latter category to “APT.” by Rosé and Bruno Mars, and in the former category to Rosalía.
Chris and Rich Robinson of the The Black Crowes at the Hard Rock Casino in Rockford Illinois ( Paul Natkin / Contributor)
The Black Crowes just received their second nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and guitarist and founding member Rich Robinson tells ABC Audio he feels honored to be recognized.
Rich says he thought last year’s nomination was amazing as well, and while they didn’t get in the first time around, he really is happy “just to be nominated” again.
“I know when people used to say that, I used to always roll my eyes and be like, ‘Yeah, whatever,’” he says. “But, you know, it feels that way.”
Rich says recognition like the Rock Hall nomination, and their Grammy nod this year for best rock album for Happiness Bastards, really means something to the band.
“It’s just like, ‘Holy s***, that’s — 40 years in this is pretty amazing to be nominated and recognized by our peers.’ And that’s a really cool, amazing thing,” he says. “I have the utmost respect for it.”
Should they get voted in, Rich says he hasn’t really thought about who he and his brother, bandmate Chris Robinson, would want to handle their induction.
“I don’t really think about that stuff,” he says. “You know, Chris will have more ideas for that kind of thing.”
“I’m just happy to be nominated,” he reiterates. “It’s kind of cool … it’s a huge honor for us and I hope it goes well.”
Fan voting for this year’s class is now open. Inductees will be announced in April, with the induction set to take place this fall.
The Black Crowes will release the new album A Pound of Feathers on March 13 and will kick off The Southern Hospitality tour, with country rock band Whiskey Myers, on May 17 in Austin, Texas. A complete list of dates can be found at TheBlackCrowes.com.
