Entertainment
For the latest news in entertainment, see our articles and headlines below.
Pipes, punk and tradition
MOSES LAKE — The pipes will skirl and the fiddles will ring out at the Cascade Celtic Festival in Leavenworth May …
Best-Sellers-Books-USAToday
1. “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng (Penguin)
Ashley McBryde reveals familial secrets on new record
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ashley McBryde doesn’t have any problem with using real people to inspire her country songs and revealing the sordid details of their lives, even if she’s dishing dirt about her own family a…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS
Best-Selling Books Week Ended March 28th.
Taylor Swift donation will help Nashville record store
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift is helping out a Nashville record store closed by the
SXSW partners with Amazon to put its film festival online
NEW YORK (AP) — The popcorn will be bring your own and the barbecue won't be as good, but the Austin, Texas, SXSW Film Festival is moving online after having its
'Top Gun Maverick' postponed to December due to coronavirus
NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood's summer movie season is all but finished. “Top Gun Maverick” became the latest would-be blockbuster to be rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Andrew Lloyd Webber shares musicals online; actor diagnosed
From finding ways to help others cope to sheltering in place to canceling events, here’s a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reacting to the spread of the coronavirus, which most people recover…
To share or not to share, that is the question for Sam Hunt
NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Hunt’s sophomore album opens and closes with two of the most personal songs he’s ever written, as he draws from his own life to paint candid portraits for listeners.
Son: Jazz great Ellis Marsalis Jr. dead, 85; COVID involved
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ellis Marsalis Jr., the jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan, died late Wednesday from pneumonia brought on by the new
James Patterson sets up fund to help indie booksellers
NEW YORK (AP) — James Patterson has a history of helping independent bookstores.
'Lost Children' author: Writers must 'document' pandemic
NEW YORK (AP) — Cooped up at her Bronx home with her daughter and a niece because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli says she has lowered the “volume and speed” of her life. She is arrangi…
Shut-in TV viewers push 'Let's Make a Deal' to record rating
NEW YORK (AP) — Shut-in television viewers tuned in to the game show “Let's Make a Deal” in record numbers last week.
Review: Reissue of 1982 Nina Simone disc a work of contrasts
Nina Simone, “Fodder On My Wings” (Verve/UMe)
Dav Pilkey launches new 'Cat Kid Comic Club' series
NEW YORK (AP) — Dav Pilkey is going to the cats.
DiCaprio, others launch $12M coronavirus relief food fund
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio will help launch America’s Food Fund, which has already raised $12 million to help communities impacted by the coronavirus.