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Actor Dustin Hoffman believes America has a problem with racism that goes beyond the film industry. On Wednesday, during the opening of New York City’s Metrograph theater, the first independently owned movie theater to open in Manhattan in more than decade, Hoffman had a few words for the Oscars and society as a whole.

The Squamish Valley Music Festival, which has featured headliners such as Drake, Bruno Mars, Mumford & Sons and Sam Smith since it first launched in 2010, has been abruptly cancelled this year. Organizers behind the outdoor festival revealed the bad news today (March 2) on the festival’s website, explaining that while they had been set to bring bands up to …

February smashed monthly world temperature records, according to the satellite data analyzed by the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH). Climatologists John Christy and Roy Spencer report satellite temperature data each month as measured against the 30-year average of 1981 through 2010. Both climatologists are quite skeptical that man-made global warming will result in catastrophic consequences.

Disney announced on Tuesday that ‘High School Musical 4’ is finally happening and the nationwide casting search is underway. According to Disney’s press release, “High School Musical 4 … will continue the story of the global sensation High School Musical — and introduce new East High Wildcats and their crosstown school rivals, the West High Knights.”

Merle Haggard is still struggling to get healthy. The country icon is back in the hospital due to double pneumonia and has again been forced to cancel some upcoming shows. According to the Associated Press, Merle Haggard has been hospitalized in California for a recurring bout of double pneumonia. A statement from his publicist states that all of his concert …

Apple filed an appeal late Tuesday in its dispute with federal investigators over demands that it create software to help the FBI break into an iPhone used by one of the terrorists who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December. Apple has already indicated its desire to oppose the FBI’s request and in a motion filed last week …

Madonna and ex-husband Guy Ritchie have been chastised by a New York judge for fighting over custody of their teenage son Rocco. While neither was physically in court, their attorneys faced off in a New York court on Wednesday about the 15-year-old, who has been living in the UK with his father since December. The couple, who filed for divorce …

Electric skateboards are great if you’re too lazy to kick and push yourself around town. But apparently they can also be absolute speed demons. A man named Mischo Erban recently sat a Guinness World Record for the fastest speed on an electric skateboard when he went 59.55 mph on one at Portoroz airport in Piran, Slovenia. The board the man …

After Kanye West shared a picture of his computer screen, which showed him using Pirate Bay, Deadmau5 slammed the rapper, calling him a dick and suggesting a Kickstarter be set up to help him raise enough money to buy the software he was pirating. “What the fuck @kanyewest…” Deadmau5 wrote. “Can’t afford serum? Dick. Let’s start a Kickstarter to help …

There is a good likelihood that the piece of debris recovered in Mozambique is from a Boeing 777, like the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared two years ago this month, according to a U.S. official familiar with the search for MH370. The debris was found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel — the ocean strait between Mozambique and Madagascar. …

Sarah Hyland has joined ABC’sDirty Dancing remake, Deadline reports. Sarah Hyland will star as Lisa Houseman, the role played by Jane Brucker in the classic 1987 film, reports Deadline. If you need a refresher, the character is Baby’s older sister. On March 1, former Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger joined the made-for-TV movie. She will play Johnny’s dancing partner, who …