Entertainment
Published on February 1, 2025 - Page 16
LONDON -- Two decades ago, Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand became global icons for their deliriously hooky songs, hitting a critical mass in the...
Published on February 1, 2025 - Page 18
NEW YORK -- Nora Roberts is so prolific she had to take up a pen name so her publisher could release more books by her each year.
"I'm a fast writer...
Published on February 1, 2025 - Page 18
PARK CITY, Utah -- Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair...
Published on February 1, 2025 - Page 18
This spring the Academy Museum will take movie fans inside the mind of "Parasite" director Bong Joon Ho and the world creation of Greta Gerwig's...
Published on January 31, 2025 - Page 4
NEW YORK (AP) -- Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones'...
Published on January 31, 2025 - Page 18
NEW YORK -- When Lucy Walker debuted her harrowing documentary about California wildfires, "Bring Your Own Brigade," at Sundance in 2021, it was...
Published on January 29, 2025 - Page 15
PARK CITY, Utah -- In one of the more wide-open Oscar fields in recent history, there were plenty of nominations surprises.
Not too long ago, it...
Published on January 29, 2025 - Page 15
The startling "cold open" for a documentary about 50 years of "Saturday Night Live" music is proof a musician -- a specific kind of musician -- had...
Published on January 26, 2025 - Page 6
In early November, Emily James, 27, of Kansas City, Missouri, underwent a most unusual and expensive ($17,000) body-altering surgery, the New York...
Published on January 26, 2025 - Page 7
NEW YORK -- To celebrate an upcoming milestone, Alyssa Math could think of nothing more fitting than front-row tickets to "Onyx Storm" author Rebecca...
Published on January 26, 2025 - Page 8
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- The Sundance Film Festival welcomed back three Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers to help kick off the annual independent...
Published on January 26, 2025 - Page 20
NEW YORK -- Percival Everett's "James," a posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Adam Higginbotham's acclaimed work about...
Published on January 26, 2025 - Page 20
NEW YORK -- V, the playwright formerly Eve Ensler, is hoping her new piece of theater can do for climate change what her "The Vagina Monologues" did...
Published on January 26, 2025 - Page 20
Gary Ginstling has been hired as CEO of the Houston Symphony, six months following his surprise departure from the New York Philharmonic after just...
Published on January 26, 2025 - Page 28
ROME (AP) -- An introspective Pope Francis divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the 2013 conclave that elected him pope and the...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 4
NEW YORK (AP) -- Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen lead the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Award nominations with 10, followed closely by Kendrick Lamar,...
Published on January 23, 2025 - Page 9
Harris Dickinson was nervous to approach Nicole Kidman.
The English actor had been cast to star opposite her in the erotic drama "Babygirl," as the...
Published on January 19, 2025 - Page 14
A pair of pernicious porcine perpetrators are in the crosshairs of the Pataskala, Ohio, Police Department after a horrendous incident on Christmas...
Published on January 19, 2025 - Page 14
NEW YORK (AP) -- The science-fiction sequel "Dune: Part Two," the doomed fairy tale "Anora" and the Munich Olympics drama "September 5" are among the...
Published on January 19, 2025 - Page 14
NEW YORK (AP) -- Smooth like butter, like a superstar about to hit the road. BTS member J-Hope will embark on his first solo tour next month.
The "...
Published on January 19, 2025 - Page 20
The 2025 movie awards season is in full swing. But figuring out where to watch everything can be overwhelming. Are they streaming? For free? In...
Published on January 18, 2025 - Page 4
LONDON (AP) -- Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier, did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical...
Published on January 18, 2025 - Page 11
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sting, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the performers slated to take the stage at FireAid, a...
Published on January 17, 2025 - Page 9
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AP Film Writers
When the Palisades Fire broke out in Los Angeles, Hollywood's awards season was in full swing. The Golden Globes was...
Published on January 16, 2025 - Page 5
NEW YORK (AP) -- New fiction by such favorites as V.E. Schwab, Emma Donoghue and Maggie Stiefvater will be excerpted in a free e-book compilation...
Published on January 15, 2025 - Page 11
NEW YORK (AP) -- The authors of stories set everywhere from Australia to Central America are nominees for a $20,000 prize for short fiction.
The...
Published on January 12, 2025 - Page 5
LONDON -- Ed Sheeran wants people to take music in schools seriously.
The British singer-songwriter set up a foundation to ensure kids in the U.K....
Published on January 12, 2025 - Page 7
The Rockwall County Herald-Banner in Texas reported Valencia Smith, mother of a former football player for Rockwall-Heath High School, filed a suit...
Published on January 12, 2025 - Page 7
NEW YORK -- Appearing on "Sesame Street"? That's the best idea.
The 55th season of the acclaimed family program features a star-studded lineup of...
Published on January 12, 2025 - Page 7
NEW YORK (AP) -- Timothee Chalamet will return to "Saturday Night Live" for his third stint as a host -- but this time, he'll be pulling double duty...