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BASIN EVENTS: April 10-18
COLUMBIA BASIN — Crafts, theater, music and more await this week in the Columbia Basin. Here are a few chances to …
Literary scholar Cheryl A. Wall dies at age 71
NEW YORK (AP) — Cheryl A. Wall, a longtime Rutgers University professor and prominent scholar of African American women writers who edited two Library of America volumes of Zora Neale Hurston's work, has died at ag…
Warner Bros. delays many releases including 'The Batman'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Warner Bros. is delaying a batch of theatrical releases including “The Batman” and “The Sopranos” prequel “The Many Saints of Newark.”
Pandemic and chill: Netflix adds a cool 16M subscribers
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Netflix picked up nearly 16 million global subscribers during the first three months of the year, helping cement its status as one of the world's most essential services in times of isolatio…
Fans invited to compete for 'Friends' reunion special spot
NEW YORK (AP) — The big upcoming “Friends” reunion special is inviting a few extra friends — maybe even you.
News outlets, long resistant to government help, take loans
NEW YORK (AP) — The idea of taking government money was once anathema to news organizations that guarded their independence, but attitudes change when survival is at stake.
Review: 'Book of Longings' has an ambitious, lasting power
“The Book of Longings,” by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking)
Stuntmen are increasingly Hollywood's go-to action directors
Some of today's top action directors were first doubles for Brad Pitt, Neo and Wolverine.
Apple Books Top 10
Apple Books US Bestseller List - 04/19/20 - Paid Books
A teeming, violent pre-pandemic world in 'Extraction'
NEW YORK (AP) — The big-budget action thriller “Extraction” belongs, in many ways, to another world.
Betsy Wyeth, widow and muse of Andrew Wyeth, dies at 98
CHADDS FORD, Pa. (AP) — Betsy James Wyeth, the widow, business manager and muse of painter Andrew Wyeth, died Tuesday at age 98, according to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, which s…
Queen Elizabeth II marks 94th birthday without fanfare
LONDON (AP) — Britain marked Queen Elizabeth II's 94th birthday with silence Tuesday, as the nation in lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic forgoes the usual gun salutes and ringing of bells.
Mantel, Evaristo among finalists for fiction's Women's Prize
LONDON (AP) — Hilary Mantel’s Tudor blockbuster “The Mirror and the Light” and Bernardine Evaristo’s tapestry of black women’s stories, “Girl, Woman, Other,” are among six finalists for the international Women’s Pr…
Review: Hemsworth finds a worthy action pic in 'Extraction'
Tyler Rake sounds like a Mad-Libs action hero name. When you add to the mix that this character actually, literally kills someone with a rake, it starts to veer into parody territory. That’s why it’s somewhat surpr…
Judge tosses Smollett's malicious prosecution lawsuit
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed actor Jussie Smollett’s malicious prosecution lawsuit against the city of Chicago and several police officers.
Robert Loomis, editor of Angelou, Styron, dies at 93
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Loomis, a blue-chip editor of old-fashioned sense and persistence who in more than 50 years at Random House encouraged, prodded and befriended William Styron, Maya Angelou, Calvin Trillin and…