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Fish story
MOSES LAKE — The line between fantasy and reality, and the lines between generations, are woven together in the mu…
Concert special, Jordan doc entice homebound TV viewers
NEW YORK (AP) — Lady Gaga, Michael Jordan and the remote Rolling Stones provided television entertainment over the weekend for millions of Americans homebound because of the coronavirus.
Texas venue that launched Janis Joplin's career set to close
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A live-music venue in Texas where college student Janis Joplin launched her singing career will not be reopening after the coronavirus pandemic lifts.
Lester Holt starts show for children about the coronavirus
NEW YORK (AP) — In the NBC “Nightly News” inaugural kids edition, Sadie of Morristown, New Jersey, posed the question that everyone wishes had an answer.
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…
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)
Wainwright brings his 'Robe Recitals' to fans on lockdown
Despite canceled tour dates and a delayed album release, Rufus Wainwright is still working hard in lockdown.
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…
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…