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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...
Published on January 12, 2025 - Page 8
NEW YORK -- Capturing Sir Elton John's 50-year career is a herculean task. Good thing his husband, David Furnish, and filmmaker R.J. Cutler were up...
Published on January 12, 2025 - Page 28
NEW YORK (AP) -- The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award....
Published on January 10, 2025 - Page 8
WASHINGTON -- As movie theaters tried to entice Americans back into seats after COVID-19 lockdowns and labor strikes, the industry marketed...
Published on January 9, 2025 - Page 9
Movie ticket sales took a bit of a hit in 2024. The annual domestic box office is expected to end up at around $8.75 billion, down more than 3% from...
Published on January 7, 2025 - Page 14
The piano on the set of "The Piano Lesson" could be played and the cast members often did. It was adorned with pictures of the Washington family and...
Published on January 5, 2025 - Page 14
EDITOR'S NOTE: Stranger Than Fiction extends greetings for a peaceful and happy new year full of many notably strange moments. While you're welcoming...
Published on January 3, 2025 - Page 4
In the 35 years since Nick Park introduced the world to cheese-loving English inventor Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit, they've won Oscars, appeared...
Published on January 2, 2025 - Page 9
TORONTO -- "The Room Next Door" is Pedro Almod?var's first English-language feature. Tilda Swinton notes he's never written in a language that anyone...
Published on January 2, 2025 - Page 9
NEW YORK (AP) -- Avicii, the groundbreaking Swedish DJ-producer, died six years ago at 28. Two new movies streaming on Netflix aim to celebrate his...
Published on January 2, 2025 - Page 16
NEW YORK -- Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist" has taken on the imposing aura of its architect protagonist's style. It even has an intermission.
For...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 4
LONDON (AP) -- Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet," has died, her family said on social...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 7
LOS ANGELES -- When Willem Dafoe enjoys working with a filmmaker, he'll often jump at the chance to do it again.
The list of directors with whom the...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 7
Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Pansy in Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths."
Pansy,...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 14
In "What could possibly go wrong?" news, an Ohio funeral home may soon be able to serve alcohol to grieving families.
Evergreen Funeral, Cremation...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 20
NEW YORK -- RaMell Ross sometimes sends his photography students out on a unique assignment. He tells them to photograph a White person, a Black...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 20
NEW YORK -- Kane Brown is releasing his fourth studio album, "The High Road." He'd recently been in Los Angeles, performing at the iHeartRadio Jingle...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 20
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CONCORD, N.H. -- Before Christa McAuliffe was an astronaut, she was a vibrant teacher in New England keen on...
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 8
Happy holidays from Bad Bunny, who has announced he will release a new album Jan. 5.
"Debi Tirar M?s Fotos," which translates to "I should have taken...
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 14
LONDON (AP) -- It's Netflix's resolution every new year to give viewers a headscratcher in January.
Since 2020, the streamer has released a U.K....
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 14
Viewers may gasp, cringe or cry out watching characters die on Netflix's "Squid Game," but those simulated deaths have a different effect on its...
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 14
Christopher Nolan is following his Oscar-winning "Oppenheimer" with a true epic: Homer's "The Odyssey." It will open in theaters on July 17, 2026,...
Published on December 26, 2024 - Page 14
NEW YORK (AP) -- John Mulaney's second trip to Broadway took little convincing. He didn't even need to look at the script before signing on.
"I was...
Published on December 23, 2024 - Page 5
NEW YORK (AP) -- Matias Tarnopolsky will become president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic on Jan. 1 after six years heading the Philadelphia...
Published on December 22, 2024 - Page 6
NEW YORK -- After one particularly emotional premiere of his biopic Robbie Williams resolved he couldn't be "the crying guy" at every screening.
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Published on December 22, 2024 - Page 8
Visitors at the Great Hall in Winchester, Hampshire, England, are demanding refunds after the quality of the Santa stand-in was not up to their...