When Garth Brooks, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton take the stage at Sunday’s 50th Academy of Country Music Awards, they will be continuing a music tradition that began a century ago in the mountains of Virginia. If there can be only one father of country music, it would be A.P. Carter. And if there’s only one founding family of the genre, it’s the Carter family. Alvin Pleasant Carter was marked by a ring of fire—though not the one his niece June would later write a song about.

Steve Irwin’s friend and cameraman, who was with the famed wildlife expert when he died on Sept. 4, 2006, revealed Irwin’s final words on an Australian talk show on Sunday: “I’m dying.” Irwin, 44, was filming a documentary on the world’s deadliest sea creatures near the Batt Reef in Queensland, Australia when he was stabbed “hundreds” of times by a stingray, per cameraman Justin Lyons. “It probably thought that Steve’s shadow was a tiger shark,” Lyons said on Studio 10, an Australian talk show.

There was once a time when buying something in a store was simple. You would give a cashier some money or swipe a card, and you’d get your thing and maybe some change and a receipt and be on your way. No longer. A plethora of new mobile payment services and apps, in combination with the country’s switch to so-called “chip-and-PIN” cards, has left the retail process a confusing mess. Should I swipe or dip my card?

In his fifth directorial feature, George Clooney transforms a fascinating art-world detective story into a surprisingly lifeless prestige picture. It’s not only the great works of European art that have gone missing in “The Monuments Men”; the spark of writer-director-star George Clooney’s filmmaking is absent, too.

Welcoming the summer Olympics in Paris for the first time in 100 years, organizers have set the bar high for the Los Angeles Games that will take place in 2028. Along with beating the odds by hosting the opening ceremony entirely outdoors along the Seine in spite of the country being on high security alert and wrangling over chaotic politics, the Paris Olympics have outshined even the flashiest episode of “Emily in Paris” with selfie-friendly competitions held at iconic Parisian landmarks.