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Byron Janis, renowned American classical pianist who overcame debilitating arthritis, dies at 95

Mar. 17, 2024 17:13 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Byron Janis, a renowned American concert pianist and composer who broke barriers as a Cold War era culture ambassador and later overcame severe arthritis that nearly robbed him of his playing abilities, has died. He was 95. Janis passed away Thursday evening at a...

Book Review: 'Newshawks in Berlin' illustrates tough choices news organizations face in wartime

Mar. 18, 2024 17:53 PM EDT

Journalism is often referred to as the first draft of history, especially when covering war and international conflicts. “Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany” explores the challenges the world's largest news organization faced in trying to balance...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 24-30

Mar. 18, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 24-30: March 24: Harmonica player Lee Oskar of War is 76. Singer Nick Lowe is 75. Bassist Dougie Thomson of Supertramp is 73. Actor Robert Carradine (“Revenge of the Nerds”) is 70. Actor Donna Pescow is 70. Actor Kelly LeBrock is 64. DJ...

Delectable. Adorable. Inhalable. These sliders go well with March Madness entertaining

Mar. 18, 2024 16:06 PM EDT

Game day is one of my favorite times to entertain. I don’t know why foods associated with watching sports on TV are happy-making. But they are. The food is pretty much what I would categorize as bar food – things you would order with a group of friends with a round of cold beers....

What to stream this week: Shakira, Paul Simon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kristen Wiig and Princess Peach

Mar. 18, 2024 00:16 AM EDT

Chef and restaurateur Jose Andrés inviting actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Bryan Cranston and O’Shea Jackson Jr. over for dinner in a new TV special and Jake Gyllenhaal starring in an update of the pulpy cult classic “Road House” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a...

Music Review: Justin Timberlake returns on nostalgic 'Everything I Thought It Was'

Mar. 15, 2024 21:53 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In its better tracks, Justin Timberlake's first new album in six years, “Everything I Thought It Was,” is a return to form for the musician. In the moments when his immediately recognizable falsetto eases into a familiar kind of future funk, it works. In others, it feels...

In ‘Frida’ documentary, artist Frida Kahlo’s own words are used to tell her story

Mar. 14, 2024 14:47 PM EDT

Frida Kahlo used her own experiences to inform her art. In that spirit, Kahlo’s personal writings are used to help tell the story of her life in a new documentary, “Frida.” Filmmaker Carla Gutiérrez blends first person narration with archival footage and interpretive animation...

A new generation of readers embraces bell hooks' 'All About Love'

Mar. 12, 2024 08:45 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — In the summer of 2022, Emma Goodwin was getting over a breakup and thinking hard about her life and how to better herself. She decided to try a book she had heard about often, bell hooks’ “All About Love: New Visions." “I loved it. It takes seriously a subject...

Music Review: Kacey Musgraves’ 'Deeper Well' trades country-pop hooks for deep, folk-y meditation

Mar. 12, 2024 13:21 PM EDT

Just over a decade ago, Kacey Musgraves emerged as a fresh new voice in country music – a mid-tempo storyteller with an incredible acuity both in her lyrics and in her instrumentation, knowing just when to pick up the harmonica, whistle a tune or break out the vocoder. In the...

The Lionheart: Dan Wheldon documentary covers grief, loss, love and familial legacy

Mar. 12, 2024 13:54 PM EDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — It was 10 years after the death of their father that associates of filmmaker Laura Brownson brought her an article to read about the late Dan Wheldon. Standing below the monument on Dan Wheldon Way along the downtown St. Petersburg race course that...

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4 things to know from Elon Musk's interview with Don Lemon

Mar. 19, 2024 00:13 AM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former CNN reporter Don Lemon mixed it up with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an interview Lemon posted on Musk’s X social network Monday. The interview was supposed to kick off Lemon’s new talk show on X, formerly known as Twitter, at least until Musk canceled the show shortly...

Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez are officially divorced

Mar. 19, 2024 00:07 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez are now divorced. A Los Angeles Superior Court judgment dissolving their marriage of nearly three years became official Tuesday, six months after the 30-year-old pop star file a petition to divorce the 28-year-old real estate...

Today in History: March 19, Michael Jordan returns to basketball

Mar. 19, 2024 00:07 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Tuesday, March 19, the 79th day of 2024. There are 287 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 19, 1995, after a 21-month hiatus, Michael Jordan returned to professional basketball with his former team,...

Spotify paid $9 billion in royalties in 2023. Here's what fueled the growth

Mar. 19, 2024 00:03 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Spotify paid out $9 billion in streaming royalties last year, the streaming giant said Tuesday in its latest “Loud and Clear” report. Spotify's fourth annual report, which originally launched in 2021 following criticism over its lack of transparency, noted...

Former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner backs New York county's ban on transgender female athletes

Mar. 18, 2024 23:34 PM EDT

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner on Monday said she supported a local New York official’s order banning female sports teams with transgender athletes from using county-owned facilities. The ban applies to over 100 athletic facilities in New York City's...

London home Freddie Mercury bought in 1980 is for sale, minus his 'exquisite clutter'

Mar. 18, 2024 20:59 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Freddie Mercury ’s sanctuary in London, where he lived the last decade of his life, is on sale for the first time in nearly half a century — minus his “exquisite clutter.” Garden Lodge, as the neo-Georgian brick home in the posh Kensington neighborhood is...

Book Review: 'Newshawks in Berlin' illustrates tough choices news organizations face in wartime

Mar. 18, 2024 17:53 PM EDT

Journalism is often referred to as the first draft of history, especially when covering war and international conflicts. “Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany” explores the challenges the world's largest news organization faced in trying to balance...

A new Banksy mural sprouts beside a cropped tree in London. Many see an environmental message

Mar. 18, 2024 17:26 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — A new Banksy mural drew crowds to a London street on Monday, even before the elusive graffiti artist confirmed that the work was his. The artwork in the Finsbury Park neighborhood covers the wall of a four-story residential building and shows a small figure holding a...

Movie armorer challenges conviction in fatal shooting of cinematographer by Alec Baldwin

Mar. 18, 2024 17:10 PM EDT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie set armorer is challenging her conviction on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” court records released Monday show. Defense attorneys for “Rust”...

Singer R. Kelly seeks appeals court relief from 30-year prison term

Mar. 18, 2024 16:52 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly’s lawyer told an appeals court Monday that all kinds of legitimate organizations — even college fraternities — could be deemed racketeering organizations under a law used to convict the R&B superstar at his Brooklyn trial of sexually abusing young fans,...