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Netflix is releasing a new film about the Paralympics and its athletes

As the U.S. marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, many event organizers have been careful to present it as a commemoration, not a celebration

Katy Perry has two very personal projects being released this summer — the 12-track album “Smile” and a baby

The Republican National Convention is off to a bumpy start with the news media

Joyce Carol Oates, Douglas Brinkley and Lauren Groff are among more than 20 writers contributing essays for a book on the legacy of Henry David Thoreau

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Aug. 30-Sept. 5 include singers Beyoncé Knowles and Van Morrison

This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album by Katy Perry and the British black comedy film “Get Duked!”

The author and educator Kleaver Cruz has traveled the world asking the same question: “What does Black joy mean to you?”

Turner Sports and WarnerMedia have reached a multi-year extension with Shaquille O’Neal, who joined Turner in 2011 after a 19-year Hall of Fame NBA career

Singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, a leading performer of American roots music known for his introspective and haunting style, has died at age 38

Grammy-winning rapper Roddy Ricch and Colombian superstar J Balvin will no longer perform at this month’s MTV Video Music Awards

“America’s Got Talent” winner Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. has put his down time during the coronavirus pandemic to good use

A decade ago, Katy Perry could sing the alphabet and top the music charts

Organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival say they will stop awarding separate acting prizes to women and men beginning next year

John Ridley will write the new Batman comic series with plans of the Dark Knight being a person of color

Lea Michele is a mom of a baby boy.

Kirk Franklin made a splash at the Stellar Gospel Music Awards

Takuma Sato gave Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing its second Indianapolis 500 victory, while Graham Rahal's third-place run made it a banner afternoon for the team

Plácido Domingo denied ever abusing power during his management tenure at two U.S. opera houses in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, but deflected questions about sexual harassment

A group of theater and business professionals is hoping to rebuild a renown Shakespearean theater in Connecticut that burned to the ground last year

Frank Cullotta, a former mobster turned government witness who had a cameo role in the 1995 movie “Casino” and later was a Las Vegas mob museum tour guide, has died

A renewed focus on social justice in the wake of police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd has seen sales soar at Black-owned bookstores around the country as customers seek out knowledge from their own communities

Kamala Harris made history last week by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated to run for vice president on a major party's ticket

Fox News has its critics, but the author of the new book “Hoax” on the network and its relationship with President Donald Trump says he was surprised at the level of internal unease he found there

Opera companies are keeping up the momentum for new pieces and conversations.

German researchers studying the spread of the coronavirus packed a Leipzig arena with volunteers on Saturday, collecting data in a “real life” simulation of a pop concert with strict health and safety controls

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

The life-sized statue was outside the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle.

Tourists are flocking to Nashville to see a new mural of Dolly Parton that celebrates her position on Black Lives Matter

A fire that tore through celebrity chef Rachael Ray’s upstate New York home started in a fireplace chimney

Wisconsin elections officials have decided to keep rapper Kanye West off the battleground state's presidential ballot in November because he turned his nomination papers moments late

Staff for the Wisconsin Elections Commission is recommending that rapper Kanye West be kept off the battleground state's presidential ballot in November because he missed a deadline to submit nomination papers

Former coach and NBC Sports analyst Mike Milbury has apologized for comments he made during a game broadcast

Disgraced Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein is asking a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to allow him to pursue arbitration in New York over what he claims is his wrongful termination from the company he co-founded

A talented 11-year-old Nigerian boy says he is pleasantly surprised after a cellphone video of him dancing in the rain went viral

He spins effortlessly and leaps elegantly. His pirouette is effervescent. Cellphone video of 11-year-old Anthony Mmesoma Madu practicing ballet barefoot in the drizzling rain in Nigeria has caught fire on social media. The video has garnered more than 20 million views on social media and got the attention of award-winning actors Viola Davis and Cynthia Erivo. “It is hard to learn but if you put your effort, you can learn it,” Madu says. Madu’s practice dance session was so impressive that it earned him a ballet scholarship with the American Ballet Theater in the U.S. Davis shared Madu’s video with her 1.4 million followers on Twitter. She said in the caption “Reminds me of the beauty of my people. We create, soar, can imagine, have unleashed passion, and love... despite the brutal obstacles that have been put in front of us! Our people can fly!!!” Erivo decided to sponsor Madu’s training and helped bring the video to the attention of the American Ballet Theater, said Laura...

As movie theaters come back to life across the country, the National Association of Theater Owners is helping to take the guess work out of safe operating practices in the era of COVID-19

An investigation into 2016 killing of a man whose grandmother’s St. Louis-area soul food restaurant was the setting for the reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” has led to fraud charges against his uncle and a man who helped produce a hit Nelly album

Despite being interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the shortened Broadway season will nonetheless have a Tony Awards

More than a month after she was shot in the feet after a party in the Hollywood Hills, hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion is saying for the first time that fellow rapper Tory Lanez was the person who pulled the trigger

The star of “Veep” brought some bite to her role at the Democrats' virtual convention

Marco Andretti has quite the eclectic group of celebrities rooting for him to win the Indianapolis 500

Carol Burnett and her husband are seeking to become the legal guardians of her teenage grandson as his mother struggles with substance abuse

In a typical Hollywood awards show, it’s the orchestra’s task to nudge off winners whose acceptance speeches wander into overtime

After five months of being closed due to the coronavirus, the major movie theaters chains in the U.S. are starting to reopen

The Nielsen company says 22.8 million people watched the third night of the Democrats' virtual convention on television

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The Venice Film Festival is requiring participants to wear face masks during screenings and take a coronavirus test if they are arriving from outside Europe

The Oklahoma zoo featured in Netflix’s “Tiger King” documentary has closed after federal authorities investigated it for alleged maltreatment of animals and suspended its license