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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…
Review: 'Tesla,' with Ethan Hawke, is low on electricity
Before it was possible to buy “a Tesla" and probably since, Nikola Tesla has been chronically underappreciated. Wider recognition has been steadily climbing for the Croatian-born visionary whose electric innovation…
Josh Groban won't let virus stop his live music and album
It's the sound of silence that Josh Groban finds hardest to hear during the pandemic.
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 23-29
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 23-29
South Carolina man accused of trying to kidnap WWE star
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A South Carolina man who stalked a 26-year-old WWE star for years and spent eight months planning to kidnap her was arrested Sunday after breaking into her home near Tampa, sheriff's officials sa…
Elizabeth Debicki to play Princess Diana on 'The Crown'
NEW YORK (AP) — “The Crown” has found its Princess Diana.
Extradition hearing to send Weinstein to Los Angeles delayed
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Harvey Weinstein's lawyers and Los Angeles prosecutors have agreed to postpone extradition proceedings that would send the imprisoned former film producer from New York to California to face se…
R. Kelly's manager charged with phone threats to theater
NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly's manager has been arrested in California on charges that he threatened a shooting at a Manhattan theater two years ago, forcing an evacuation and the cancellation of the screening of a doc…
The year the music might die: British clubs face closure
LONDON (AP) — When Keiron Marshall was 15, he found his way out of a desperate situation with help from an unexpected source: Eric Clapton. The guitar great was host at the first gig Marshall ever went to, and he w…
Sentencing date set for NY self-help guru in sex slave case
NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of a cult-like self-improvement group in upstate New York who was convicted last year on charges that he turned some of his followers into sex slaves will face sentencing on Oct. 27, a ju…
J Balvin says he is recovering from the coronavirus
NEW YORK (AP) — Colombian superstar J Balvin says he is recovering after battling the coronavirus.
Dev Patel celebrates India from his Los Angeles front yard
LONDON (AP) — Quarantine brought opportunities to Dev Patel’s front yard.
Coronavirus upends conventions, changes TV coverage
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Democratic and Republican conventions will lack for crowds but not television coverage.
Mercedes Barcha, widow of Gabriel García Márquez, dies at 87
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mercedes Barcha, who was credited by late husband and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez with making it possible for him to write his masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude," has died at t…
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows:
'Succession' star Nicholas Braun writes a virus dating song
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Nicholas Braun, who plays fan favorite Cousin Greg on HBO’s “Succession,” has captured the fraught nature of dating during the pandemic in a catchy new punk song that started as a joke.