Flo Rida playing

city in October

Time to break out the boots with the fur and the Reeboks with the straps: Flo Rida is coming to Winnipeg in the fall.

The Miami-based rapper will perform at Canada Life Centre on Oct. 1 with Canadian rapper Kardinal Offishall opening.

Flo Rida burst onto the scene in 2007 with his debut single Low, featuring T-Pain, which spent 10 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Since then, he’s released a cavalcade of chart-toppers, including Right Round (featuring Ke$ha), In the Ayer (featuring will.i.am) and Club Can’t Handle Me (featuring David Guetta).

Tickets go on sale Friday, Aug. 22, at Ticketmaster. Prices have not been announced.

Police nab 18 drunk drivers

after B.C. Nickelback show

Police on Vancouver Island say roadside checks set up for a Nickelback concert this month resulted in 142 breath demands and netted 18 alleged drunk drivers.

The BC Highway Patrol says 54 other types of violation tickets were handed out after the checks were conducted in Lake Cowichan, B.C., for the concert by the rock band on Aug. 9.

The alcohol screenings resulted in 13 drivers being issued immediate 90-day driving prohibitions, four receiving three-day prohibitions and one 24-hour ban.

The Nickelback concert at the Laketown Amphitheatre was billed by ticket retailers as the band’s first performance on Vancouver Island in 20 years.

BC Highway Patrol says it also made 220 roadside breath demands during the previous weekend around Lake Cowichan for the four-day Sunfest concert festival.

These resulted in 11 driving prohibitions and 172 other violation tickets.

Audrey Plaza opens up

about husband’s death

Actress Aubrey Plaza opened up about how she’s coping with grief after the sudden death of her husband, Jeff Baena.

Plaza talked about the “daily struggles” she goes through during an appearance on the podcast Good Hang — hosted by her Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler.

“I feel happy to be with you. I’m here and I’m functioning and I feel, you know, I feel really grateful to be moving through this world,” Plaza said.

Baena, an independent filmmaker, died by suicide in January. The couple tied the knot in 2021 and collaborated on several films together, such as Spin Me Around, The Little Hours and Life After Beth.

During the interview, Plaza compared her grieving process to the recent film The Gorge starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.

“In the movie, there’s a cliff on one side and then there’s a cliff on the other side and then there’s like a gorge in between and it’s filled with all these monster people that are trying to get them,” she said.

“There’s like a giant ocean of just awfulness that’s right there and I can see it. And sometimes I just want to just dive into it and just be in it. And sometimes I just look at it. And sometimes I’m just trying to get away from it, but it’s always there. It’s just always there.”

Osbourne’s family wants

to wait before airing doc

The BBC has offered an explanation for its recent decision not to air a documentary about late rock legend Ozzy Osbourne.

In a statement to BBC News on Tuesday, the British broadcaster said it opted to hold back the documentary centered on the musician’s final years out of respect for Osbourne’s loved ones who are still mourning the Black Sabbath frontman’s death. Osbourne died July 22 of a heart attack at the age of 76.

“Our sympathies are with the Osbourne family at this difficult time. We are respecting the family’s wishes to wait a bit longer before airing this very special film,” the BBC said.

BBC turned heads on Monday after it pulled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home from its programming lineup before it was supposed to air later that evening.

Osbourne, who lived with Parkinson’s disease, died two weeks after his farewell concert at his hometown of Birmingham, England. The BBC announced its documentary on Aug. 7, revealing that Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home would chronicle the English rock star’s final years, from his health issues to the preparations for his grand finale.

The documentary was filmed over three years and also features Osbourne’s wife Sharon Osbourne and children Kelly and Jack Osbourne. The pair also have another daughter together: Aimee Osbourne.

The documentary started out as a series, then titled Home to Roost, but evolved into a one-hour film due to the rocker’s deteriorating health.

— staff/wire services