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BASIN EVENTS: May 8-16
COLUMBIA BASIN — The weather is just about perfect and there are things going on all over the Basin. Here are some…
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1. "Too Much and Never Enough″ by Mary L. Trump (Simon & Schuster)
Review: Steve Howe's ‘Love Is’ echoes Yes but needs more
Steve Howe, “Love Is” (BMG)
In an upside-down summer, 'Jaws,' 'E.T.' are hits again
NEW YORK (AP) — When historians look back on the top films at the box office in the summer of 2020, they may feel like they’ve slipped into a time warp, or maybe “Back to the Future.”
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Placido Domingo to receive lifetime award in Austria
SOAVE, Italy (AP) — Placido Domingo will make his first public appearance since recovering from coronavirus to accept a lifetime achievement award in Austria next week.
Ominous whipped cream art comes to London's Trafalgar Square
LONDON (AP) — The latest eye-catching sight in London’s Trafalgar Square is a giant swirl of whipped cream topped with a cherry, a fly and a drone.
UK rapper Solo 45 sentenced to 24 years for violent rapes
LONDON (AP) — British grime musician Solo 45 was sentenced Thursday to 24 years in prison for raping four women in what police said was among the most violent sexual behavior they had seen.
Writer Milan Kundera donating archive to Czech library
PRAGUE (AP) — Milan Kundera, the 91-year-old author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and other acclaimed novels, has decided to donate his private library and archive to a public library in the Czech city whe…
Court records show injury reports for Universal water slide
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — At least 115 injury reports have been made involving a water slide at Universal Orlando's Volcano Bay, according to court records filed in a lawsuit by a tourist who says he was left paralyzed …
Women embrace #challengeaccepted, but some ask: To what end?
CHICAGO (AP) — “Challenge accepted," they wrote — female Instagram users across the United States, flooding the photo-sharing app with black-and-white images. Together they formed a grid of millions of magazine-sty…
Conservative commentator Eric Metaxas works on memoir
NEW YORK (AP) — Conservative author, commentator and radio host Eric Metaxas is working on a pair of books, including a memoir about his youth and conversion to Christianity.
Pandemic hits Comcast 2Q; Peacock service has 10M sign-ups
NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic took a toll on Comcast in the second quarter as movie theaters closed, theme parks shut down and advertisers cut back.
Toronto sets lineup, Regina King to debut Muhammad Ali film
NEW YORK (AP) — The Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday unveiled a lineup bearing little in common with its normal barrage of awards contenders and premier fall films, but features the directorial debut…
Blake Bailey's 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April
NEW YORK (AP) — In the Fall 2012, as the willing subject of one of the most anticipated literary biographies in recent memory, Philip Roth joked that he had surrendered power over his own life to author Blake Baile…
Bent Fabric, Danish Grammy-winning composer, dies at 95
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Grammy award-winning composer and pianist Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, known internationally as Bent Fabric, who had an international hit in 1962 with the tune “Alley Cat,” has died. He …