Punk princess has
traditional wedding
Punk-pop princess Avril Lavigne has married a fellow Canadian musician.
Lavigne married Deryck Whibley, the guitarist and front man for the band Sum 41, on Saturday, at a private estate near Santa Barbara.
The young rockers had a mostly traditional ceremony. Lavigne wore a Vera Wang gown, carried white roses and was walked down the aisle by her father as Mendelssohn's “Wedding March” played.
Lavigne, 21, and Whibley, 26, exchanged vows under an awning covered in white flowers.
The pair have been dating since early 2004 and bought a house in Los Angeles later that year. They became engaged in Venice, Italy, in 2005 while Lavigne was on a European tour.
Pirates bag $62.2M
in Dead Man's loot
“Pirates of the Caribbean” is looking more like “Treasure Island.”
Already a record-shattering blockbuster, Johnny Depp's sequel “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest” dug up $62.2 million in its second weekend, raising its 10-day total to $258.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The movie has quickly become the year's top-grossing film, rocketing past “X-Men: The Last Stand,” which has taken in $232 million in eight weeks.
Robertson soars
high to aviation fame
Cliff Robertson was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame on Saturday.
The actor, who grew up in La Jolla, Calif., would wash airplanes and clean engines as a teenager in hopes that a pilot would give him a ride and a lesson.
In 1969, he organized an effort to fly food and medical supplies into Biafra, which had declared independence from Nigeria. And in 1978, he organized a similar effort for famine-stricken Ethiopia.
Wagoner rolls into recovery after surgery
Veteran Grand Ole Opry star Porter Wagoner underwent surgery to repair an abdominal aortic aneurysm and is expected to make a full recovery. Wagoner had the surgery Friday and will remain in the hospital for several days. He was hospitalized after he became ill at his home Friday.
Wagoner, 78, famous for his rhinestone suits, helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as a partner in 1967. His hits include “Carroll County Accident” and “A Satisfied Mind.”
Who joins lineup for new Virgin Festival
If you can't get tickets for the upcoming Who reunion tour, there's another chance to see the rock legends: The band will join the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gnarls Barkley, The Killers, Keane and others this fall for the first annual Virgin Festival.
The concert, presented by Virgin Mobile, is set for Sept. 23 at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course.
- From wire reports
where the Preakness, part of horse racing's Triple Crown, is held each year.
, organizers told The Associated Press.
The event will feature two performance stages and a DJ tent, and more than a dozen acts, ranging from alternative rock to dance. Among the artists participating include DJ Tiesto, the Jack White-fronted band the Raconteurs, Wolfmother and the Scissor Sisters. The concert, to be announced today in Times Square, is patterned after the annual V Festival held each year in Britain.
Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who announced last week they were launching their first U.S. tour together in two decades, kicking off in September.
- From wire reports
Punk-pop princess Avril Lavigne has married a fellow Canadian musician.
Lavigne married Deryck Whibley, the guitarist and front man for the band Sum 41, on Saturday, at a private estate near Santa Barbara.
The young rockers had a mostly traditional ceremony. Lavigne wore a Vera Wang gown, carried white roses and was walked down the aisle by her father as Mendelssohn's “Wedding March” played.
Lavigne, 21, and Whibley, 26, exchanged vows under an awning covered in white flowers.
The pair have been dating since early 2004 and bought a house in Los Angeles later that year. They became engaged in Venice, Italy, in 2005 while Lavigne was on a European tour.
Pirates bag $62.2M
in Dead Man's loot
“Pirates of the Caribbean” is looking more like “Treasure Island.”
Already a record-shattering blockbuster, Johnny Depp's sequel “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest” dug up $62.2 million in its second weekend, raising its 10-day total to $258.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The movie has quickly become the year's top-grossing film, rocketing past “X-Men: The Last Stand,” which has taken in $232 million in eight weeks.
Robertson soars
high to aviation fame
Cliff Robertson was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame on Saturday.
The actor, who grew up in La Jolla, Calif., would wash airplanes and clean engines as a teenager in hopes that a pilot would give him a ride and a lesson.
In 1969, he organized an effort to fly food and medical supplies into Biafra, which had declared independence from Nigeria. And in 1978, he organized a similar effort for famine-stricken Ethiopia.
Wagoner rolls into recovery after surgery
Veteran Grand Ole Opry star Porter Wagoner underwent surgery to repair an abdominal aortic aneurysm and is expected to make a full recovery. Wagoner had the surgery Friday and will remain in the hospital for several days. He was hospitalized after he became ill at his home Friday.
Wagoner, 78, famous for his rhinestone suits, helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as a partner in 1967. His hits include “Carroll County Accident” and “A Satisfied Mind.”
Who joins lineup for new Virgin Festival
If you can't get tickets for the upcoming Who reunion tour, there's another chance to see the rock legends: The band will join the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gnarls Barkley, The Killers, Keane and others this fall for the first annual Virgin Festival.
The concert, presented by Virgin Mobile, is set for Sept. 23 at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course.
- From wire reports
where the Preakness, part of horse racing's Triple Crown, is held each year.
, organizers told The Associated Press.
The event will feature two performance stages and a DJ tent, and more than a dozen acts, ranging from alternative rock to dance. Among the artists participating include DJ Tiesto, the Jack White-fronted band the Raconteurs, Wolfmother and the Scissor Sisters. The concert, to be announced today in Times Square, is patterned after the annual V Festival held each year in Britain.
Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who announced last week they were launching their first U.S. tour together in two decades, kicking off in September.
- From wire reports
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