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Jeanine Tesori becomes the first woman composer to open a season in the Metropolitan Opera’s 141-year history when a revised “Grounded” starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo is featured at Monday night’s gala

Wright Thompson travels back to his native Mississippi to examine the place where Emmett Till was murdered for his new book “The Barn.”

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Sept. 29-Oct. 5 include actor-singer Julie Andrews, astrophysicist and “Cosmos” host Neil deGrasse Tyson and singer Halsey

An Iranian Grammy award winner says he has been pardoned from serving a three-year sentence over his song that became an anthem to the 2022 protests that rocked the country following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody

Two new reports provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and challenges as the annual Banned Books Week begins for schools, stores and libraries nationwide

“Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,” a radio program created by CBS in 1949 that found a devoted listenership in Farsi, has returned to Iranian radio

Comedian John Mulaney and actor Olivia Munn now have a second child, a daughter named Méi June Mulaney

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” earned $226 million domestically in its three weeks.

Milan designers have wrapped up six days of runway womenswear previews with a gala award ceremony at Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala to honor innovations in sustainability

Brazil's mega music festival Rock in Rio has sign language interpreters on its screens around main stages for the first time in its 40-year history

Kate, the Princess of Wales, has made her first public appearance since she announced she had completed chemotherapy and would return to some public duties

The trial in the slaying of rapper Young Dolph is set to begin in Memphis, Tennessee

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Madonna has attempted a semi-stealth entrance to the Dolce & Gabbana runway show draped in a black veil for a runway show referencing her 1990s heyday and celebrating the cone bra

Sean “Diddy” Combs created a hit-making empire with big name performers, earning his place as a savvy music mogul and becoming a three-time Grammy winner while securing high-profile deals across other industries

Alec Baldwin has urged a New Mexico judge to stand by her decision to end his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie

Adrian Wojnarowski’s decision to be one of the first significant insiders to leave on their own and try something new is surprising because some thought it might have happened sooner

First lady Jill Biden invited cast members from “The West Wing” to the White House to mark the 25th anniversary of the hit drama

The Bureau of Prisons has increased staffing at the federal jail in New York City where Sean “Diddy” Combs is incarcerated amid criticism of poor conditions and violence

Not many small-budget, first-feature films can be fairly said to have shifted cinema but Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut “The Babadook” is one of them

New York magazine’s star Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, is on leave after disclosing she had a personal relationship with a former reporting subject

What Ellen DeGeneres says is her last comedy special hitting Netflix and George Clooney and Brad Pitt in a sleek, New York City caper are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

Kelly Clarkson says she’s learned a thing or two about interviewing after being in the spotlight herself as a recording artist since 2002

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Katy Perry’s new album title “143” is code for “I love you,” based on the number of letters in each word of the phrase

Peter Cat Recording Co_ is in the midst of their 77-concert world tour, “Good Luck Beta 24’” following the release of their 2024 studio album, “BETA.”

Joanna Levesque, the singer who rose to fame as “JoJo” when she was 13 years old, has written a memoir recounting her experiences with childhood fame

Robert Caro spends most of his days writing the fifth and final volume of his Lyndon Johnson series, more than a decade in the making and still without a scheduled release date

Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy’s first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother

The critically acclaimed French film “La Haine” is being adapted into a musical show nearly three decades after becoming a classic

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The New York Philharmonic and its musicians’ union have settled on a collective bargaining agreement that includes a 30% raise over three years

Vice President Kamala Harris was looking for a boost with persuadable and less-motivated voters as she participated in a livestream Thursday evening with former talk show host Oprah Winfrey

In its first two hours, “The Substance” is a well-made and entertaining movie

Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don’t like — with only movie-star beauty remaining

Before they were household names, many top U.S. designers got their start at The Council of Fashion Designers of America/Vogue Fashion Fund

With his arrest this week, Sean “Diddy” Combs joins a short list of celebrities prosecuted for sex crimes in the wake of the #MeToo movement

The Hulu series “Tell Me Lies” is about a toxic relationship between two college students, played by Grace Van Patten and Jackson White

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A charred transformer from one of Ukraine’s severely damaged power plants has come to a square in Kyiv’s city center

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Zachry Quinto is back on TV on Monday in a medical drama

Decades into one of the most consistent careers in contemporary country music, and you’d think Keith Urban has this whole album thing worked out

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Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter is receiving an award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation

Only a month after the adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally

The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the threat of police arrest or Albanian mob assassination — both of which are concerns

A U.S. district judge has dismissed a federal lawsuit against New York Knicks owner James Dolan alleging sexual assault a decade ago

A second judge refuses to grant bail to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, citing the possibility that he will tamper with witnesses