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Sedona Prince's college journey reaches its final year and she hopes to leave a mark on the court

Oct. 29, 2024 16:18 PM EDT

Sedona Prince is beginning her seventh and final year of college basketball. From her viral video back in the NCAA Tournament bubble in 2021 to her role in a landmark antitrust lawsuit that will help get money for college athletes, she has already left her mark off the court. If she...

Bass David Leigh finding that a successful opera career is no 'impossible dream'

Oct. 22, 2024 11:41 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — When David Leigh sang “The Impossible Dream” at his father’s funeral, the moment was both a testament to his past and a harbinger of his future. Leigh, an operatic bass, is the son of Mitch Leigh, who wrote the score for the musical “Man of La Mancha,” one...

Prince fans can party overnight like it's 1999 with Airbnb rental of 'Purple Rain' house

Sep. 27, 2024 18:24 PM EDT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For a short time, up to 100 Prince fans visiting the music superstar's hometown will have a place to stay when the party's over that will let them go crazy over his cultural legacy, a home featured in the film “Purple Rain.” Although the white, two-story home...

A list of Maggie Smith's film appearances

Sep. 27, 2024 10:48 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, who died Friday aged 89, appeared in dozens of films over more than 60 years. Roles ranged from her iconic turn in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" to her Professor Minerva McGonagall in seven Harry Potter films, and films from Shakespeare's “Othello” to the...

After 20 years and a move to Berlin, Xiu Xiu is still making music for outsiders

Sep. 27, 2024 10:38 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Since its inception more than two decades ago, the experimental rock band Xiu Xiu has danced between extremes. They’ve made music — drenched in synthesizers, breathy vocals and distorted guitar — that is somehow both cacophonous and beautiful, frightening yet poignant,...

Nashville's Mother Church of Country Music retains its roots as religious house of worship

Sep. 07, 2024 08:16 AM EDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is known as the Mother Church of Country Music. And, indeed, it began as a church, built by a riverboat captain who was converted to religion by an evangelist. More than 130 years after it was built as the nondenominational...

Artists who object to Trump using their songs from Celine Dion and Isaac Hayes' estate: How it works

Aug. 15, 2024 23:54 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Pop powerhouses, American classics, British artists and the estates of deceased legends — many musicians have objected to Donald Trump using their songs at campaign events. After a video of Celine Dion performing her hit “My Heart Will Go On” was broadcast at...