Lauryn Hill, Tyla and more will perform at the 2024 BET Awards. Here's what...
NEW YORK (AP) — The 2024 BET Awards are fast approaching. Last year's show celebrated 50 years of hip-hop with tributes to the genre’s earliest voices, late legends and new talent during a show packed...
View ArticleNaomi Klein and V. V. Ganeshananthan win Women's Prize literary awards
LONDON (AP) — Author-activist Naomi Klein won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction on Thursday with “Doppelganger,” a personal account of her plunge into the world of online misinformation. Its...
View ArticleTony Bennett's daughters sue their brother over his handling of the late...
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Bennett's two daughters are suing their brother, alleging he mishandled and failed to disclose some of their father's assets in his role as trustee of the late singer 's estate....
View ArticleCuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez, icon of the revolution, dwells on island's...
HAVANA (AP) — He was the poetic voice of the Cuban Revolution, an inspiration for millions of Latin Americans living under dictatorships throughout the 1960s and 1970s who dreamt of the ideal Cuba...
View ArticleR.E.M. reunite at Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony also honoring Timbaland...
NEW YORK (AP) — A comet must have landed at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The members of R.E.M. had joked only hours before it would take “a comet” to get the band to perform...
View ArticleZsela is letting go and leaning into uncertainty with her debut album ‘Big...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zsela leans into the ebb and flow of uncertainty and invites listeners to do the same throughout her debut album “Big For You.” The album, written over four years, follows Zsela’s...
View ArticleTony Award-winning Broadway producer Ron Simons dies at 63
NEW YORK (AP) — Ron Simons, an actor who turned into a formidable screen and stage producer, winning four Tony Awards and having several films selected at the Sundance Film Festival, has died. He was...
View ArticleHannah Einbinder uses comedy as a coping mechanism in debut standup special
LOS ANGELES (AP) — To rising comic Hannah Einbinder, her bits are for more than just laughs. She says her jokes are a coping mechanism she uses to process the tough topics she tackles in her material....
View ArticlePope Francis meets more than 100 comedians at the Vatican: 'You also make God...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Before flying to Italy's southern Puglia region to meet world leaders at the Group of Seven summit, Pope Francis hosted a very different audience at the Vatican on Friday...
View ArticlePrincess of Wales says she's making ‘good progress’ in cancer treatment, will...
LONDON (AP) — The Princess of Wales said Friday she is “making good progress” in her cancer treatment and will attend King Charles III 's ceremonial birthday parade on Saturday, Kate’s first public...
View ArticleBiden goes straight from G7 to Hollywood fundraiser, balancing geopolitics...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Flying through the night across nine time zones, from southern Italy to Southern California, President Joe Biden will shift focus from Russia's challenge of Western unity to raking...
View ArticleCharles Barkley says next season will be his last on TV, no matter what...
Charles Barkley said Friday that next season will be his last on TV, no matter what happens with the NBA's media deals. The Hall of Fame player has spent the last 24 years working as a studio analyst...
View ArticleMeet Will Butler, the singer-songwriter who makes Broadway's 'Stereophonic' rock
NEW YORK (AP) — The assignment was daunting: Write a song for an onstage moment of transcendence. Make it kind of funny and exciting and for a five-piece band. Write it so it justifies an audience...
View ArticlePhotos offer a glimpse of Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee
MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) — The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is underway in Tennessee, bringing tens of thousands of fans to a 700-acre farm campground and concert venue for more than 150...
View ArticleSean 'Diddy' Combs returns key to New York City in response to video of him...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “ Diddy ” Combs has returned his key to New York City after a request from Mayor Eric Adams in response to the release of a video showing the music mogul attacking R&B singer...
View ArticleBroadway celebrates a packed and varied theater season with the 2024 Tony Awards
NEW YORK (AP) — The 28 Broadway shows that earned at least one Tony Award nomination are hoping Sunday is the day the sealed envelopes break in their favor. The three-hour main telecast from New York...
View ArticleScooter Braun says he’s no longer a music manager, will focus on Hybe duties...
NEW YORK (AP) — Scooter Braun, one of the most recognizable names in the music business known for representing artists like Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, will no longer work as a music manager. On...
View ArticleFrancis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' will hit US theaters in September
NEW YORK (AP) — After months of conjecture about the fate of Francis Ford Coppola's self-financed epic, “Megalopolis” has finally found a home. Lionsgate will distribute “Megalopolis” in U.S. and...
View ArticleTonys moments: Hillary Clinton and (sort of) Jay-Z in the house, strides for...
NEW YORK (AP) — “People, stop texting me!” pleaded Kecia Lewis, with comic exasperation. The veteran Broadway performer had just won her first Tony award in a 40-year career, for the Alicia Keys...
View ArticleThat cool Tony Awards moment when Jay-Z joined Alicia Keys? Turns out it...
NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z's electrifying reunion with Alicia Keys on what appeared to be a live duet of “Empire State of Mind” at the Tony Awards was actually pre-taped, a show official who wasn't...
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