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BASIN EVENTS: Dec. 19-27
COLUMBIA BASIN — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and a lot of people will be spending time at home wi…
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Apple Books US Bestseller List - 09/06/20 - Paid Books
Netflix film dissects a technology-driven 'social dilemma'
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — A new Netflix documentary is setting out to expose technology’s corrosive effects on society during a pandemic that's left people more dependent than ever on tools that keep them connected …
Dallas Symphony among 1st US orchestras to return
Fabio Luisi never expected his first performance as Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director to be in a mostly empty Meyerson Symphony Center.
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'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' will end in 2021
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Who do we keep up with now? After more than a decade, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” will be ending its run next year.
McBride, Wilkerson among nominees for Kirkus Prize
NEW YORK (AP) — Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honor for the best fiction, nonfiction and children's books.
Oscars set inclusion standards for best picture category
In an historic move, the Oscars are raising the inclusion bar for best picture nominees starting with the 96th Academy Awards in 2024. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday laid out sweeping el…
Review: 'Fool’s Paradise' is an unexpected disappointment
“Robert B. Parker’s Fool’s Paradise,” by Mike Lupica (Putnam)
Oscars diversity criteria 'not about exclusion' say leaders
Any change to the Oscars is going get people talking, so the leaders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were not exactly surprised that the
Fendi taps Dior designer Kim Jones to succeed Karl Lagerfeld
ROME (AP) — Rome fashion house Fendi announced Wednesday that Kim Jones is succeeding the late Karl Lagerfeld as creative director of haute couture, ready-to-wear and fur collections for women.
New this week: 'Cuties,' 'Unpregnant' and fresh 'Jeopardy!'
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
Washington Post journalist named executive editor at Crown
NEW YORK (AP) — A prize-winning journalist at The Washington Post has been named vice president and executive editor at Crown, a prominent division of Penguin Random House where authors include Barack and Michelle …
Lupita Nyong'o says Chadwick Boseman's 'power lives on'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lupita Nyong'o has written a stirring tribute to her late “Black Panther" co-star Chadwick Boseman, calling him a man whose power will ”reverberate for generations."
Review: Elizabeth Cook sings about regrowth on 'Aftermath'
Elizabeth Cook, “Aftermath” (Agent Love/Thirty Tigers)
Grammy-nominated composer William Pursell dies at age 94
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — William “Bill” Pursell, a Grammy-nominated composer who worked as a Nashville studio musician with artists like Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, has died. He was 94.