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E-sports finds a foothold in the Basin
COLUMBIA BASIN — Among the activities that students can participate in, e-sports, or organized competitive video g…
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Late-night comics adjust to shows without an audience
NEW YORK (AP) — Due to the new coronavirus, late-night comedians — Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Pete Buttigieg — are taking to the stage without the affirmation of adoring audiences.
Disney sends 'Frozen 2' to streaming for housebound families
NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. will release “Frozen 2” on Disney Plus several months early to give families cooped up by the coronavirus a welcome distraction — and give its streaming service a boost.
Review: Juliana MacDowell offers a sunny set from Key West
Juliana MacDowell, “Leaving Home” (Conch Town Music)
Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by …
Virus darkens stages, silences orchestras across the US
NEW YORK (AP) — The stage at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle is quiet. There is no music coming from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the members of Pearl Jam won't tour. There is no one to admire the treasures …
'60 Minutes' tops television ratings with coronavirus report
NEW YORK (AP) — There's only one television show that can stand atop the weekly ratings and say it did the same thing more than 40 years ago.
Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt's book tackles forgiveness
NEW YORK (AP) — Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt has made a career of writing what she knows, from teaching about healthy body image to grappling with entering the real world after graduating college.
Review: Vin Diesel in the bruising 'Bloodshot'
It might be too harsh to recommend practicing social distancing with the new Vin Diesel movie “Bloodshot,” but I wouldn't want to shake its hand, either.
Federal prosecutors in NYC add to R Kelly's legal woes
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors hit R. Kelly with more criminal charges Friday, accusing the disgraced R&B singer of having unprotected sex with a girl in 2015 without disclosing he had herpes.
Broadway shows will go on despite virus concerns
NEW YORK (AP) — The new coronavirus has reached Broadway, but the shows on the Great White Way are scheduled to go on as planned.
Book critics give fiction prize to Edwidge Danticat
NEW YORK (AP) — Edwidge Danticat's story collection “Everything Inside” has won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction. Chanel Miller was awarded in autobiography for “Know My Name,” her book about bein…
French-American movie director Tonie Marshall dies at 68
PARIS (AP) — French-American filmmaker and actress Tonie Marshall, the only female director to ever win a Cesar award — France's equivalent of the Oscars — has died. She was 68.
Academy of Country Music to still hold awards show in Vegas
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Academy of Country Music said its April 5 awards show will still go on at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas, but officials are monitoring the spread of the coronavirus.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen dies at 81
NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Wuorinen, winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music and composer of the operas "Brokeback Mountain" and "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," died from injuries sustained in a fall last Septembe…