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Pipes, punk and tradition
MOSES LAKE — The pipes will skirl and the fiddles will ring out at the Cascade Celtic Festival in Leavenworth May …
Yemeni-American poet Threa Almontaser wins Whitman award
NEW YORK (AP) — The Yemeni-American poet Threa Almontaser has won the Walt Whitman Award for best first book. Almontaser's “The Wild Fox of Yemen” comes out in April 2021.
'Ghostbusters,' 'Morbius' postponed to 2021 due to virus
NEW YORK (AP) — Sony Pictures on Monday cleared out its summer calendar due to the coronavirus, postponing the releases of Jason Reitman's “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” and the Marvel movie “Morbius” to 2021.
Review: Irby offers comic relief in third essay collection
``Wow, No Thank You,'' Vintage Books, By Samantha Irby
McConaughey says stay home now, great things may lie ahead
NEW YORK (AP) — Matthew McConaughey has gone from advertising for going out and driving to selling people on staying home, and says that successfully navigating this crisis could bring great things from Hollywood a…
Virus: Elton John-led concert raises $8M; Rihanna ups aid
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…
Indie rock band led by Michael C. Hall spreads its wings
NEW YORK (AP) — This might one day be a trivia question: Which rock band with a celebrity frontman and a very long name was one of the last acts to play live in New York before the city shut down in 2020?
Audible best-sellers for week ending March 27th
Audible best-sellers for week ending March 27th
Polish composer, conductor Krzysztof Penderecki dies at 86
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Krzysztof Penderecki, an award-winning conductor and one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical music composers whose works have featured in Hollywood films like “The Shining” and …
Need a laugh? SiriusXM launches channel for female comics
NEW YORK (AP) — The midst of a global pandemic might seem like an odd time to launch a radio channel devoted to female comedians, but executives at SiriusXM believe that it's precisely the right time.
New online store offers help to shuttered indie booksellers
Andy Hunter, founder of a new online sales outlet for independent booksellers, had seen a crisis building well before the coronavirus pandemic shut down many of the country's stores.
'Strega Nona' author Tomie dePaola is dead at age 85
CONCORD, New Hampshire (AP) — Tomie dePaola, the prolific children's author and illustrator who delighted generations with tales of Strega Nona, the kindly and helpful old witch in Italy, died Monday at age 85.
CNN's Cuomo, with coronavirus, completes show from basement
NEW YORK (AP) — A bleary-eyed Chris Cuomo, saying he wanted to be a cautionary tale for his audience, anchored his CNN show from his basement Tuesday after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Review: Friendships carry on in 'It's Not All Downhill’
“It’s Not All Downhill From Here” (Ballantine Books), by Terry McMillan
Review: Paranoia seeps through a starship in 'Providence'
"Providence” by Max Barry (Putnam)
Finances hurting? Watch 'Let's Make a Deal'
NEW YORK (AP) — Instead of watching their own finances crater, shut-in television viewers tuned in to the game show “Let's Make a Deal” in record numbers last week.