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Bon Jovi is marking its 40th anniversary

The 68th Eurovision Song Contest is taking place in May in Malmö, Sweden

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has managed to turn his series of detective novels into a social and political chronicle of Cuba, especially his native Havana

At a time when book bans have soared to their highest levels in decades, a countertrend is emerging

The baseball players’ association has asked a federal court to confirm an arbitrator’s decision denying an attempt by a baseball agent at Bad Bunny’s Rimas Sports firm to block the agent's decertification by the union

With cameras not allowed at former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York, live news blogs are coming into their own as an important news tool

Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers’ group PEN America has called off its annual awards ceremony

Neil Young offers a ragged and raw live take of his 1990 album ‘Ragged Glory’ with a new album that has a somewhat profane title

A leading fashion designer whose accessories were used by celebrities from Britney Spears to the cast of the “Sex and the City” TV series was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in Miami federal court to charges of smuggling c...

The ambiguity of Imagine Dragons’ next album starts from the cover

Longtime Iowa football broadcaster Ed Podolak has announced he will move out of the radio booth this season and limit his appearances to pregame shows and podcasts

The final letter that George Mallory wrote to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago has been digitalized

“Funny Story” isn’t a funny story at all, but it is a good one

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of 28-May 4 include wrestler-actor Dwayne Johnson, sports reporter and TV personality Erin Andrews and singer Willie Nelson

True love’s kiss or an invite to the Met Gala

A $12 billion high-speed passenger train line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area has started construction

One of the country’s leading artist residency programs, MacDowell, has awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Yoko Ono

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Actor Kevin Bacon has returned to the Utah high school where his cult classic movie “Footloose” was filmed more than 40 years ago

Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia remained the top film in theaters.

Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on three continents, has died

Authorities say more than a dozen people suffered mostly minor injuries when a tram used for tours crashed into a railing at Universal Studios Hollywood near Los Angeles

If you were to close Alicia Keys’ big semi-autobiographical musical on Broadway with any of her hit songs, which would it be

The hotel featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film “The Shining” says it will reopen to guests Sunday after a fire that prompted evacuations but caused only minimal damage

Thousands of fans flocked to the Southern California desert town of Indio this year for the Coachella Valley Music Festival, now on its second of two weekends. Headline acts for the 2024 edition of the annual bash included Lana Del Rey; Tyler, The Creator; and Doja Cat. Famous faces spotted in the crowd at the Empire Polo Club included Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and Justin Bieber, along with Ice Spice and Sabrina Carpenter, who were also performing. Reneé Rapp, whose popularity skyrocketed with the release of the “Mean Girls” movie remake and her debut album “Snow Angel,” joined Kesha on stage to perform Kesha’s hit song “TiK ToK.” They sang alternate lyrics that were critical of Sean “Diddy” Combs, who has been accused by multiple people of sexual assault and rape. Fans from across the country and beyond dressed up in festive outfits and held up signs to show support for their favorite artists. General admission ticket prices were in the $500-$600 range for one weekend, and many...

Roman Gabriel was known for his big size and big arm

Country music star Morgan Wallen says he’s “not proud” of his behavior and accepts responsibility after being charged following accusations that he threw a chair off the rooftop of a six-story bar

Romeo Castellucci has dropped out of his production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Belgium’s La Monnaie theater halfway through because of what the company says is a lack of money and time

More than 1,000 kites filled the skies of Weifang, an eastern Chinese coastal city that touts itself as the “kite capital of the world,” on Saturday. Locals say there is nothing that can’t sail the skies of Weifang. From dragons to pandas, modern cars to mythical characters from a canonical Chinese novel, kite craftsmen and aficionados showcased their latest art at the Weifang International Kite Festival. Kite-makers say the craftsmanship has evolved over the years, with nylon fabrics becoming more common at the expense of traditional materials such as paper and silk. Modern craftsmanship also means kite-makers are boasting more elaborate, complex and bigger designs, among them a centipede kite measuring 70 meters (230 feet) in length.

Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition

Record Store Day celebrates independent retail music sellers who have endured long after megastores like Tower Records closed

A five-piece rock band enters a recording studio in 1976 at the beginning of “Stereophonic” on Broadway

A man who set himself on fire outside the Manhattan courtroom where Donald Trump was on trial tested news organizations on how quickly they could respond to an incident and what to show viewers

Phish opened its four-night stay at the Sphere Thursday with a four-hour show

Jonathan Tetelman transformed from nightclub DJ to international opera star

On Friday, Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”

Viewers don't have to be young or a parent to appreciate the Australian kids' television program “Bluey,” as this week’s release of a special episode proved

Firefighters doused a late-night fire at Oregon’s historic Timberline Lodge before it caused significant damage

Kit Harington says he jumped at the chance to sport what he calls a “proper porn ‘stache'' to play a drug-running killer in “Blood for Dust.”

Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.”

Dick Van Dyke is vying for a historic Daytime Emmy at age 98

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include the Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell hit romantic comedy “Anyone But You” hitting Netflix, two teen ghost detectives who appear in DC comic books star in their own series called “Dead Boy Detective...

The superintendent and several other top officials of a Pennsylvania school district say their school board's cancellation of a gay actor's visit to a middle school was premature and ill-advised

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Could there be a Taylor Swift new album rollout without a few additional surprises

Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley have appealed aspects of their convictions on federal charges of bank fraud and tax evasion

Who knew what Taylor Swift’s latest era would bring

The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered the media not to report where potential jurors have worked

A Pennsylvania school district has canceled an upcoming appearance by actor and children’s book author Maulik Pancholy

An attorney has been added to the special prosecution team that is pursuing an involuntary manslaughter charge against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie “Rust."