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‘Excellent adventure’
QUINCY — Veterans Operation Creation’s Veterans Day show Wednesday will span the decades with silliness and music.…
Gabriela Hearst, Kerby Jean-Raymond win top fashion awards
NEW YORK (AP) — The Council of Fashion Designers of America gave its top fashion awards on Monday to Gabriela Hearst for womenswear and Kerby Jean-Raymond for menswear. The two designers led a group of winners that…
Ex-diplomat Darroch astounded by UK plan to break Brexit law
LONDON (AP) — Kim Darroch is astonished.
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 20-26
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ACM Awards brings live performances back to TV amid pandemic
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — At the Academy of Country Music Awards on Wednesday, there won’t be fake fans, canned applause or pre-taped acceptance speeches. After a five-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, the…
Perfume brand says cutting Black actor from ad was misstep
NEW YORK (AP) — British perfume brand Jo Malone has apologized to Black actor John Boyega of “Star Wars” fame after cutting him out of the Chinese version of a cologne commercial he helped create.
Longtime San Francisco benefactor Ann Getty dies at 79
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ann Getty, a longtime benefactor of the arts and culture in San Francisco who married into the storied Getty family, died Monday. She was 79.
MPR reporter quits over handling of sex misconduct reporting
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An arts reporter at Minnesota Public Radio News announced her resignation Monday, accusing management of dragging their feet on a potential story about a male employee at a sister station acc…
Ex-sailor's film shows Mayflower II's colorful 1957 voyage
LONDON (AP) — The sea voyage that changed Peter Padfield’s life more than six decades ago started with an act of chance. In 1956, Padfield was third officer aboard a British cruise liner in Sri Lanka when he stumbl…
Uninvited Pigeon invades author Mo Willems' TV special
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mo Willems is very serious about the importance of being silly.
Margaret Atwood honored with Dayton Literary Peace Prize
CINCINNATI (AP) — Author Margaret Atwood thinks an American defiant streak is the country's defense against the kind of nightmarish totalitarian future she depicts for the United States in “The Handmaid’s Tale."
T.I. settles federal claim he pushed bogus cryptocurrency
ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper and actor T.I. has settled civil charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he helped promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency.
Regina King introduces 'One Night in Miami' to Oscars race
NEW YORK (AP) — With the smell of wildfire smoke seeping into her Los Angeles home, Regina King was getting ready for the premiere of her feature film directorial debut at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Netflix's ‘Cuties’ becomes target of politicized backlash
The backlash to the French independent film “Mignonnes,” or “Cuties,” started before it had even been released because of a poster that went viral for its provocative depiction of its young female actors. But the s…
North American box office muted; ‘Mulan’ fizzles in China
Moviegoing audiences in North America are not rushing back to the theater just yet and “Mulan” is also faltering in its China release as the global box office slowly comes back online in the COVID-19 era.
Jason Wu puts on a fashion week show before a tiny audience
NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Wu did what few designers dare during New York Fashion Week: He put on a live show Sunday with a tiny audience present in the middle of a pandemic.