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Bloomberg
a day ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Dallas Mavericks Weigh Two Arena Sites Ahead of Cooper Flagg Era
The Dallas Mavericks are looking at two sites for a new arena and entertainment complex as the team prepares for its first season with Cooper Flagg, the top pick in this year's NBA draft. Both locations are within Dallas city limits and the franchise is aiming to choose one by early 2026, Chief Executive Officer Rick Welts said in an interview. The Mavericks are planning a development of as much as 40 acres (16 hectares) with hotels, restaurants and public space as they plan their future after their lease at the American Airlines Center in Dallas expires in 2031.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Spartacus: House of Ashur' Comic-Con trailer throws first female gladiator to the wolves
See Tenika Davis in action as Achillia, a gladiatrix. Welcome back to the arena. There have been some changes while you were gone. Spartacus: House of Ashur dropped its first trailer during Saturday's Comic-Con panel, showing off Nick E. Tarabay's return as Ashur and the introduction of the first female gladiator. Spartacus creator Steven DeKnight already gave Entertainment Weekly the inside scoop on how he settled on the concept for the show, which is a revisionist history that imagines what would've happened if Ashur didn't die on Mt. Vesuvius and instead took over the gladiator school from Batiatus (John Hannah). The trailer now shows Ashur, a former slave, struggling to be accepted by high society. So he decides to make his mark by introducing "a sight never before witnessed in the arena." Tenika Davis (Wrong Turn) debuts as Achillia, a gladiatrix, i.e. female gladiator. She becomes a spectacle in the gladiatorial matches, but first she, too, must fight for the respect of the male gladiators. The trailer shows her in action, performing acrobatic flips mid-air in the arena. "We wanted to bring in the female gladiators, but historically they didn't appear in ancient Rome until about 100 years later," DeKnight previously told EW. "This time around, Ashur upsets history and introduces the female gladiator 100 years early." On Achillia, the showrunner said, "She's just as driven, just as dangerous as the men. One of the things we wanted to do on this show is, of course, have all those great staples of the original — the sex, the intrigue, the violence, the complicated twists and turns — but also offering something new. One of those main pillars were the gladiatrices." The trailer also confirms Spartacus: House of Ashur will arrive on Starz this winter, though specific timing is still unknown. Tarabay, Davis, Graham McTavish (The Witcher), Jamaica Vaughan (Home and Away), Jordi Webber (Choose Love), and Jaime Slater (Jupiter's Legacy) all joined DeKnight for the Spartacus: House of Ashur Comic-Con panel. And although DeKnight told EW that Spartacus himself is still dead in the timeline of this successor show, Liam McIntyre, who played the role on the previous Vengeance and War of the Damned seasons of the original drama, returned to moderate the conversation. Watch the trailer above. Check out more of . Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
BBC News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
New Bristol arena 'could have larger capacity of 20,000'
The group behind a massive new music venue planned for Bristol says it is now planning for a maximum capacity of 20, YTL Arena is being created inside a hangar on the old Filton Airfield, with the latest estimates saying it could open in plans suggested it would be able to hold 17,000 fans, with that later increased to 19, a statement YTL Arena Chief Executive Andrew Billingham said increasing the capacity beyond even those numbers is "really important". Plans for the arena in Filton were first announced in 2018, with it set to be the centre point of the Brabazon development, which will also include 6,500 huge scheme has been much delayed, with the developers - Malaysian-owned YTL - initially saying it could be open by expected opening has already been pushed back by six years, and the idea to increase capacity will now require new planning permission from South Gloucestershire Council. Andrew Billingham, Chief Executive of YTL Arena, said: "We want to attract the biggest artists and events to Bristol, so increasing the capacity to 20,000 is really important to us."We'll achieved this by maximising the size of the floor of what will be our standing area, where concertgoers will be stood on the very same concrete where Concorde was built."The Filton arena was promoted as a more affordable alternative to a previously council-backed scheme next to Bristol Temple Meads railway was first proposed in 2003, but building work never started, and while the plan was resurrected in the 2010s, former city mayor Marvin Rees scrapped the construction is yet to begin on the Filton arena, work on a railway station to bring concert-goers to the venue is under brand new station, North Filton, is set open as an unstaffed station in late 2026, though this is set to be enlarged later when the arena nears hundreds of people have already bought and moved into new homes as part of the development, and there are plans for schools, student accommodation and sports facilities.
New York Times
22-07-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Senators hopeful for LeBreton site deal ‘by the fall': Inside the team's new arena push
OTTAWA — Good news appears on the horizon in the Ottawa Senators' quest to replace their home arena at the Canadian Tire Centre. The Senators are hopeful that a deal could be completed as soon as this fall between the team and the federally run National Capital Commission, giving them control of a 10-acre plot of land at LeBreton Flats that would bring them much closer to the city's downtown core. Last September, the NCC and the Senators agreed in principle on a new entertainment venue to be built on the land. But a sale price had yet to be determined, with the Senators setting a goal of obtaining the land sometime in 2025. Advertisement 'I think we're close. I think we're really close,' Senators owner Michael Andlauer told The Athletic in an interview earlier this month. 'There has been great cooperation from the NCC lately. I think we both want this to happen now.' Late last week, the Ottawa Sun reported that 'real progress' was being made between the NCC and the Senators on a new arena to be built at LeBreton Flats, located west of Parliament Hill. The matter could even be resolved by late September, when the NCC holds its annual public meeting. 'You have to get an agreement. We're not there yet,' Senators president Cyril Leeder told The Athletic on Monday. 'Then, when you get an agreement, you have to satisfy your due diligence. We're not there yet. And then you have to satisfy all the conditions, one of which will be a plan that everybody likes and agrees to, including us, the NCC, the city, everybody else that's involved. I think, by the fall, it'd be reasonable to think that we should have the site under contract and we should be well underway, if not completed, most of the due diligence.' 'Both parties are working hard to reach an agreement and are committed to bringing a major events centre to LeBreton Flats,' NCC spokesman Benoit Desjardins wrote in an email to The Athletic. Leeder says that once a deal is completed, the team will be at the 'starting line' for its new event centre. So, don't expect shovels in the ground just yet. The Senators still need to complete studies on mobility, transport, parking and remediation, in addition to financing. 'So, there's a whole host of issues that keep me awake at night that have to get resolved,' Leeder said. When asked about what the sale price could be for the land, Leeder could only say that it would be a 'fair market value,' as was agreed upon last September. Advertisement 'Whatever the fair market value is, we're going to pay,' Leeder said. 'We're not looking for a bonus. We're not looking for (the NCC) to do us a favour. But we don't want to pay over market, and we have to buy the land.' Until then, the Senators expect to stay at the Canadian Tire Centre, located in the western Ottawa borough of Kanata, for 'at least' the next five years, Leeder said. Previously known as the Palladium, the Corel Centre and Scotiabank Place, the rink has been the Senators' home since 1996. But attempts to move to a downtown arena have been ongoing for over a decade, from when Eugene Melnyk was still the team's primary owner. Andlauer envisions the new arena being a 'destination' for tourists as well as citizens of Ottawa and Gatineau, while also attracting more musical artists to perform. 'There's so many areas of opportunity,' Andlauer said. 'And all we are is a catalyst in making this happen, because all we really are is a hockey club that's only going to play 40 — hopefully 46 to 47 — times a year.' In the meantime, the Senators will make adjustments to their current home. Andlauer told The Athletic in early July that they planned on replacing the older, fabric-based seats — which had been in place for over 30 years — in the lower bowl of Canadian Tire Centre with more leather-bound ones. That process was completed last week, according to Leeder. 'Michael was pretty adamant,' Leeder said. 'He said that he wanted to upgrade those seats. I think you'll see more of those upgrades, not less, in the future.' The Senators owner touted additional 'improvements' in the form of paint jobs, upgrades to the team's gym and new arena catering. Andlauer has also considered a new JumboTron, estimating that a new one might cost $10 million. 'It's been on my mind because I don't know how long it's going to take to get LeBreton going,' Andlauer said. 'How do I make it better for the fans without blowing my brains out too? I mean, there's got to be a balance, right?' Advertisement Leeder teased that more announcements could come soon but declined to speak further. 'We have a few things we're working on that we may be able to talk about,' Leeder said. 'But we're, we're not far enough along, and I don't want to let the cat out of the bag yet.' However, don't expect a 'huge overhaul' on the Canadian Tire Centre with a pending resolution for LeBreton Flats on the way. 'Because if we're going to go to LeBreton, I'll spend that money there,' Andlauer said. 'We've got that five-year window,' Leeder said. 'And we're going to continue to make upgrades to the building that are necessary and the ones that we see fit. And yes, most of them will be just keeping the lights on and keeping it going. But it's still a pretty good building. It still functions at a high level.'
Condé Nast Traveler
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Condé Nast Traveler
Kelsea Ballerini Doesn't Pack Light and She's Okay With It
First things first, tell us about the tour! It was so fun. I'm just far enough past it now that I really miss it. I think at the end I was like, that was the perfect amount of shows that I was able to stay locked in the whole time and not get too mechanical. And now that we're a couple months past it I'm like, damn. Every now and again I'll get on TikTok and watch videos of people in the crowd singing along and I'm like wow, that was so fun I can't believe that happened. Truly, headlining an arena tour was at the very top of my career bucket list, and so it just feels like it was a huge undertaking, it took 10 years to do it, it was so fulfilling, and now I'm like…what now? What's next? Being on tour is obviously physically and mentally demanding—how did you stay healthy? I'll tell you, when I was touring in my 20s I slept like a baby on a moving tour bus, my skin wasn't reactive to different climates, I could not warm up and rip a shot of tequila and just go on stage. It's so different in my 30s. I really had to adjust to that, and plus I cared so much, so I was doing everything I could to keep my train on the tracks in every way: mentally, physically, and then also skin, hair, all of it. I took lots of magnesium for sleeping. And then every day just looked a little bit different, so just letting that be okay was a big part of it. Letting go of the structure of what my life looks like outside of tour was the mental game that I had to play. Thorne Magnesium glycinate supplement $25 Amazon I've heard that you wore a wig on tour—is that true?
