By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS NEW YORK (AP) " Craft labels from the now-shuttered fabrics seller Joann are making their way to a new home: Michaels. The Michaels Companies announced on Thursday…
By GENE PUSKAR MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) " Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsbu…
By PETER SMITH MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) " When the scaffolding came down inside the unassuming hilltop church near Pittsburgh, it revealed a raging storm of biblical proportions. A wide-eyed Moses…
By ELISE RYAN NEW YORK (AP) " Kimberly Belflower knew "John Proctor is the Villain" needed its final cathartic scene to work " and, for that, it needed Lorde's "Green Light." "I literally to…
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) " Twenty-nine shows on Broadway got Tony Award nominations this season, but not all will walk away with a trophy " and the box office attention they usually bri…
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) " A Shaquille O'Neal docuseries about his time at Reebok's basketball division and Mario Kart World on Nintendo's Switch 2 are some of the new televisio…
It reignited long-running debates over artistic expression, national symbols and the country's colonial history.
Images of an enigmatic new work by elusive street artist Banksy set off debate about its meaning.
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) " The beloved cartoon duo Phineas and Ferb are returning for new episodes this summer after a decade away and pretty much nothing has changed. Except maybe one …
By MATT SEDENSKY NEW YORK (AP) " You'd be forgiven for looking around Andrei Kozlov's studio, dotted with paintings inspired by his eight months as a hostage of Hamas, and seeing only darkne…
By ELÉONORE HUGHES RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) " If you have been to Rio de Janeiro' beaches, this probably sounds familiar: samba music drifting from a nearby kiosk, caipirinha cocktails sold b…
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) " "Succession" creator Jesse Armstrong's satirical drama "Mountainhead" and Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel playing dysfunctional siblings in the murde…
Some places seem to communicate with you when you visit. Not audibly, of course, but they somehow impart the echo of a life lived long ago. That's the feeling I get at Planting Fields Arbore…
By JAKE COYLE CANNES, France (AP) " Last year, the Cannes Film Festival produced three best actress nominees at the Oscars. This year's edition may have just supplied another. In Lynne Ramsa…
By LINDSEY BAHR Death is not looming for the "Final Destination" franchise at the box office. Its sixth installment, "Final Destination: Bloodlines," drew big crowds to movie theaters this w…
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) " Joe Jonas' sophomore solo album Work It Out" and John Krasinski and Natalie Portman searching for immortality in Guy Ritchie's adventure movie "Founta…
LONDON (AP) " Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was ordered held in custody after appearing Friday in a British courtroom to face a charge that he seriously beat a music producer in a London…
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) " You can't keep Stanley Tucci from his beloved Italy just like you can't keep cheese from lasagna. The Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning actor is once again elega…
CANNES, France (AP) " The Cannes Film Festival red carpet is perhaps the most rigidly controlled red carpet in the world. Now, the festival has added a new stipulation: no nudity. While nudi…
By DAVID FISCHER MIAMI (AP) " Just in time for bathing suit season, the HistoryMiami Museum is opening a new exhibit that examines the relationship between the evolution of swimwear and the …
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) " Paddington bear going on an Indiana Jones-style adventure in "Paddington in Peru" and Alexander Skarsgard playing a robot with free will in Apple TV+'…
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) " The last time Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman went on a motorcycle adventure, they rode cutting-edge, electric Harley-Davidsons. For their latest trip, they…
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) " Jeffrey Seller, the Broadway producer behind such landmark hits as "Rent," "Avenue Q" and "Hamilton," didn't initially write a memoir for us. He wrote it for …
Everett and another winner were fellows of the NEA, which is cutting back funding.
It didn't begin a long time ago or in a galaxy far far away, but every May 4 it feels like images, memes and promotional deals involving "Star Wars" have an inescapable gravity. May 4 " or M…