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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…
AP, Sony reach deal for new still and video cameras
NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press says it has reached a deal with Sony Electronics to exclusively equip its visual journalists with new video and still cameras over the next two years.
Annie Ross, jazz singer turned actor, dies at 89 in New York
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Annie Ross, a popular jazz singer in the 1950s before crossing over into a successful film career, has died. She was 89.
Sports Illustrated taps model who is 56 and stands 5-foot-3
CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — Kathy Jacobs says it’s important not to discount people because of their age or height. She should know — the petite 56-year-old is a brand new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model.
New literary prize is $50,000 honor for best New York story
NEW YORK (AP) — A new literary award with a $50,000 cash prize will honor those best at telling a New York story.
Review: Don't watch 'The Rental' from an Airbnb, just saying
To the list of established movie genres, we must now add another: the Airbnb horror film. Wait! A sub-genre: The pandemic-era Airbnb horror film.
Animals, caretakers at Disney theme park getting TV show
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The lions, kangaroos and elephants at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom are ready for their closeups.
Review: A Marie Curie biopic in 'Radioactive'
It was dirty work, Marie and Pierre Curie's discovery of radium and polonium. To investigate uranium at their Paris laboratory, Marie acquired several tons of pitchblende, a black ore, and the industrial waste prod…
Amber Heard accuses Depp of throwing bottles like 'grenades'
LONDON (AP) — Amber Heard alleged in a British court on Wednesday that ex-husband Johnny Depp threw "30 or so bottles" at her as if they were “grenades or bombs” during a drunken and frenzied assault in Australia i…
Review: Another dull go-around with ‘The Kissing Booth 2’
We all like bad movies when we’re young and sometimes we like good movies for the wrong reasons. I can pretend my 11-year-old self loved “Clueless” when it came out in 1995 for its smart satire of teen movies in a …
Tucker Carlson battles with The New York Times over privacy
NEW YORK (AP) — Tucker Carlson says The New York Times wants to put his family in danger, the newspaper says he knowingly lied and now the Fox News host's fans are taking up the fight.
Rachel Maddow and Mary Trump make formidable TV combination
NEW YORK (AP) — Not only can President Donald Trump's niece Mary sell books, she can draw a crowd on television.
Review: 'Jeopardy!' host Trebek searches for answers in book
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Answer Is ... Reflections on My Life,” Alex Trebek (Simon & Schuster)
The late Nick Cordero to have an album released in his honor
Nick Cordero, the Broadway actor who spent more than 90 days in a hospital fighting for his life after contracting coronavirus, will have an album released posthumously.
Amber Heard says she 'did not want to expose' Johnny Depp
LONDON (AP) — Amber Heard insisted Thursday that she never wanted the world to know the details of her years of alleged abuse by Johnny Depp, as she concluded her evidence in her ex-husband's libel case against a B…
Singer, songwriter, activist Baez named Guthrie recipient
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Singer, songwriter, activist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Joan Baez is this year’s recipient of the Woody Guthrie Prize, an award that recognizes artists who speak out for the less fort…