Art & Culture

Saint Paul – October 29, 2026 -- PBS will air the documentary Medicine Ball on November 9 at 8 pm CST, during Native American Heritage Month. The film follows two Native college basketball players at the University of Minnesota Morris.

Two athletes play on a former boarding school site

Dakota/Diné filmmaker Leya Hale directed the film. It tracks Lexus Redthunder and LeRoy Staples Fairbanks IV through college life and basketball on a campus built on the site of a former Native boarding school. The film shows basketball as a way to carry culture forward, build community and find joy amid adversity.

Hale said: "Medicine Ball is about more than basketball."

LAS VEGAS – October 29, 2026 -- Starting Friday, Nov. 13, visitors to The Mob Museum can see the personal items Bugsy Siegel carried on the day he was shot, after nearly 80 years in police custody. The new exhibit, "What Bugsy Left Behind," pairs the never-before-seen collection with the competing theories about his unsolved murder.

Siegel was shot at his girlfriend's Beverly Hills home in 1947

On June 20, 1947, the 41-year-old mobster was killed at the Beverly Hills home of Virginia Hill while she was traveling in Europe. Siegel had come from Las Vegas to Southern California to meet his two daughters for a planned vacation, but he died before they could see him. He was shot while reading an early edition of the Los Angeles Times. The case remains one of the Beverly Hills Police Department's oldest cold cases.

TORONTO – October 29, 2026 -- A fourth PAW Patrol feature film is in development, and Paramount Pictures is set to distribute it in 2029, Spin Master Corp. announced.

Cal Brunker returns to direct and co-write

Brunker, who directed the first three PAW Patrol films and The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, is back in the director's chair. He is co-writing the new film with Bob Barlen. The movie is a Spin Master Entertainment production, made with Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies.

The first three films earned a combined half-billion dollars

Each of the earlier PAW Patrol films scored above 93% on the Rotten Tomatoes Popcornmeter. Together they grossed half a billion dollars at the global box office.

Brunker said the team has written a new story, adding that they "can't wait to share it with the world." Jennifer Dodge, President of Paramount Animation, described the project as an adventure made for the theatrical experience.

Hall-Wattens – October 29, 2026 -- Visitors to Tyrol's Hall-Wattens region can see the three oldest nativity scenes in Austria this Christmas season, and from about December 22, 2026, locals will guide them through private crib displays.

Tulfes shepherds wear Lederhosen

The village crib in Tulfes features carved wooden jointed figures with movable arms and feet. Its shepherds wear traditional Tyrolean dress, including Lederhosen, instead of Middle Eastern clothing.

The display goes up before the third Sunday of Advent and stays until shortly before Sebastian's Day on January 20. The Christ child in Tulfes parish church can be seen from December 24.

Hall and Thaur hold 17th-century cribs

The crib in Hall's Jesuit church dates to 1609 and counts among the oldest in Central Europe. The Maxnhof in Thaur holds the oldest surviving private crib, dated to the first half of the 17th century.

Munich/Leipzig – October 29, 2026 -- The 32nd José Carreras Gala airs live from Leipzig on Wednesday, December 16, at 8:15 p.m. on MDR, HR and SWR, with a parallel livestream in the ARD Mediathek. It is the first time three ARD broadcasters have carried the charity event together.

Carreras turns 80 on December 5

The tenor and foundation founder celebrates his 80th birthday on December 5, and the organizers say the performers backing him this year are the best present. The gala raises money for the fight against leukemia and related diseases. Hosts Stephanie Müller-Spirra and Sven Lorig, both foundation ambassadors, return to present the show alongside Carreras.

Mainz – October 29, 2026 -- German public broadcasters ZDF, 3sat and phoenix will cover the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Turkey, from November 9 to 20, 2026, with daily news segments, documentaries and streaming premieres.

Turkey hosts the 31st UN climate conference, while Australia chairs the negotiations. The source notes that the Pacific region and its island states are especially threatened by climate change, and that implementation and financing of projects will be debated heavily this year.

Reporters on the ground in Antalya

ZDF environment reporters Winnie Heescher and Elisa Miebach are on site, as is "NANO" presenter Gregor Steinbrenner for 3sat. ZDFheute adds fact checks, explainer articles, an updated KlimaRadar and information on the new Climate Change Performance Index. Reels, galleries and graphics will run on ZDF's social channels.

LONDON – October 29, 2026 -- McLaren's car for the Mexico City Grand Prix carries a 'Livery of Dreams': bespoke sticker artwork built from fan wishes submitted earlier in the season to Velo and the McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team.

The artwork also appears on paddock screens and in the garage during race weekend. Adult Velo consumers and motorsport enthusiasts from around the world were invited to share their most unique fan wishes, and the best submissions became part of the design.

Each sticker on the car encodes a real fan wish

The source highlights three examples:

Berlin – October 29, 2026 -- WELT TV will air the roughly 43-minute documentary "Vantara - Sein Herz für Tiere" ("Vantara - A Heart for Animals") for the first time on Sunday, 1 November 2026, at 14:50. The film goes inside an Indian rescue center where injured and formerly captive wildlife get a second chance.

One of its stories centers on the elephant Leelavati. She was left tied up when a circus tent caught fire, and burning debris fell on her body. She suffered severe burns but survived, and she now receives medical care at Vantara.

Three former German circus elephants now live in Gujarat

The film traces one story that begins in Germany. After decades of performing and traveling in a circus, the elephants could no longer stay there. Contact with Vantara came through the animal welfare groups PETA Deutschland and PETA India, and three of the former circus elephants now live at the center in the Indian state of Gujarat.

LOS ANGELES – October 29, 2026 -- Collectors can bid on jewelry, watches and gowns from the estate of Abbe Lane on December 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. PST, when John Moran Auctioneers opens the first of two sales.

The first sale puts luxury names and Lane's own gowns on offer

The December 9 auction features fine jewelry by Harry Winston, David Webb, Cartier and Oscar Heyman. Watches come from Audemars Piguet, Baume & Mercier and Franck Muller. Designer accessories include pieces by Chanel, Gucci, Bottega Veneta and Judith Leiber. Gowns Lane wore throughout her life and career are also on offer.

A second sale in February 2027 draws from her Los Angeles home

The follow-up, titled California Living: Featuring The Estate of Abbe Lane, takes place February 23, 2027. It covers design, fine art, furniture, decorative arts and lighting, plus additional jewelry and luxury items from her home.

Birmingham – October 29, 2026 -- A free three-part docuseries about the Catholic rite of exorcism, "In Jesus' Name," premieres Oct. 28 at 4 pm ET on EWTN+ and EWTN.com, with new episodes on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30.

The series trades Hollywood horror for first-person accounts

EWTN Studios and Cumberland Creative produced the series. It features experienced exorcists and survivors of demonic oppression describing how, in their telling, evil enters human lives and how it can be overcome.

Father Dan Reehil, a diocesan exorcist in the Diocese of Nashville and national director of Radio Maria USA, says in the opening scenes that the goal is not to glorify or overly dramatize the devil's work. He describes it as education about spiritual warfare.