Entertainment Stories from May 15, 2026 (Change date)
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Judge declares mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial after jury deadlocksMay 15, 2026 12:56 pm - Harvey Weinstein ’s rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked in the closely watched #MeToo-era case that another jury failed to decide last year.
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Goodman’s scary good ‘Covenant’ animated by desire, faith and repressionMay 15, 2026 12:16 pm - Goodman Theatre’s Chicago-area premiere of York Walker’s supernatural thriller “Covenant” is a scary good time.
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Sandra Oh, Tammy Duckworth, Kumail Nanjiani and Bowen Yang are in a HBO doc on being Asian American, Pacific IslanderMay 15, 2026 9:06 am - Director Eugene Yi has always been interested in the term Asian American and Pacific Islander and which ethnicities it includes. So Yi, who is Korean American, was beyond excited when approached to helm the new HBO documentary “The A List: 15 Stories From Asian and Pacific Diasporas,” which dropped Wednesday on HBO Max.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson takes on aliens and how we should greet them in ‘Take Me to Your Leader’May 15, 2026 8:39 am - Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a lifelong fantasy of being abducted by aliens. That’s right, he actually wants to be taken. America’s favorite astrophysicist has turned that lifelong fascination into a book, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.”
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Shakira and Burna Boy release official 2026 FIFA World Cup Anthem, ‘Dai Dai’May 15, 2026 8:26 am - As the song demands: “Let’s go!” The Colombian superstar Shakira and Afrobeats icon Burna Boy have teamed up for “Dai Dai,” the official song for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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