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Lee Daniels and Andra Day take on Billie Holiday’s legacy

Lee Daniels and Andra Day take on Billie Holiday’s legacy

Lee Daniels didn’t want to touch the story of Billie Holiday. “Lady Sings the Blues” already existed after all. The 1972 film with Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams showed him Black romance and a Harlem like he’d never seen on screen before.
Some Ontario hair salons booked for months as they trim wait-lists in reopening rush

Some Ontario hair salons booked for months as they trim wait-lists in reopening rush

Hair salons that have been allowed to reopen in parts of Ontario are scrambling to slot in appointments for a backlog of clients looking to clean up their lockdown locks.
Grammy-winning duo Daft Punk break up after 28 years

Grammy-winning duo Daft Punk break up after 28 years

NEW YORK — Grammy-winning electronic music pioneers Daft Punk have announced that they are breaking up after 28 years. The helmet-wearing French duo shared the news Monday in an 8-minute video called “Epilogue.
Court won't revive porn star’s defamation suit against Trump

Court won't revive porn star’s defamation suit against Trump

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from porn star Stormy Daniels, who sought to revive a defamation lawsuit she filed against former President Donald Trump.
If a stranger offers you student loan forgiveness, hang up

If a stranger offers you student loan forgiveness, hang up

Student loan scammers have a brand-new hook: “Biden student loan forgiveness” or “stimulus forgiveness.
Angry youths rattle Spain in support of jailed rap artist

Angry youths rattle Spain in support of jailed rap artist

BARCELONA, Spain — The imprisonment of a rap artist for his music and tweets praising terrorist violence and insulting the Spanish monarchy has set off a powder keg of pent-up rage this week in the southern European country.
In 'Minari,' harvesting an American dream

In 'Minari,' harvesting an American dream

NEW YORK — The riverbed, more than anything else, needed to be exactly right. In Lee Isaac Chung’s Arkansas-set family drama, “Minari,” land is something more than a setting. It’s a future. It’s a dream.
Norway museum: Munch wrote 'madman' sentence on 'The Scream'

Norway museum: Munch wrote 'madman' sentence on 'The Scream'

COPENHAGEN — Norway’s National Museum says a small, barely visible sentence written with a pencil on Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” was penned by the Norwegian painter himself.
Podcast odd couple: Obama, Springsteen in Spotify series

Podcast odd couple: Obama, Springsteen in Spotify series

NEW YORK — Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are teaming up for an eight-episode Spotify podcast series, swapping stories about their upbringings and even a White House singalong around a piano.
DISPATCH: Covering loss, even as it comes to your own door

DISPATCH: Covering loss, even as it comes to your own door

SALT LAKE CITY — Louise Delfino was tough as nails. She worked as a legal secretary at the same law firm for more than six decades until she was forced into retirement at 84 when she broke her leg at the office. She was my mother’s mom.
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