Solar eclipse playlist: 20 songs to rock out to on your cosmic adventure
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The total solar eclipse is quickly approaching. While you prepare to hit the road towards the path of total darkness or anticipate...
The Alley Theatre in Texas puts on Thornton Wilder’s last, unfinished play, ‘The Emporium’
NEW YORK (AP) — For Kirk Lynn, it was like a scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” He was in a library at Yale, nervously...
Robin Walter’s ‘Little Mercy’ receives poetry academy’s First Book Award
NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Walter’s “Little Mercy,” a debut collection of verse that celebrates the natural world, has won the 2024 Academy of American Poets’...
Suspects in the stabbing of an Iranian presenter fled UK after attack, counterterrorism police say
LONDON (AP) — British counterterrorism police investigating the stabbing of a journalist who works for a TV channel critical of the Iranian government said that three...
‘Greatest of all time’: Joe Flaherty created memorable, still funny ‘SCTV’ characters
Forty years after he invented them, Joe Flaherty’s characters can still raise a smirk, and often more, from Canadians of a certain age. “Rest in peace...
Morocco hosts one of Africa’s first exhibitions of Cuban art, a milestone for Afro-Cuban painters
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — When Morocco ‘s King Mohamed VI visited Havana in 2017, Cuban-American gallery owner Alberto Magnan impressed him with a “full immersion” in...
John Barth, innovative postmodernist novelist, dies at 93
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — John Barth, the playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates...
George Carlin estate settles with podcasters over fake comedy special purportedly generated by AI
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The estate of George Carlin has agreed to a settlement with the media company it sued over a fake hourlong comedy special...
Musician Allison Russell cancels, postpones shows after getting caught in storm
WINNIPEG – Montreal folk singer Allison Russell has been forced to cancel or postpone some tour dates after being caught in stormy winter weather in Western...
‘Dune: Part Two’ brings spice power to the box office with $81.5 million debut
Movie theaters were looking for a savoir and “ Dune: Part Two ” is delivering on the promise. Armed with sandworms, big screen spectacle and the...