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TORONTO — Canadian multihyphenate Sarah Polley will receive the Toronto Book Award at this year's Toronto International Festival of Authors, where CanLit titans including Margaret Atwood and Patrick deWitt are also set to appear.

NEW YORK (AP) — IBM is selling assets of The Weather Company — including Weather.com and The Weather Channel mobile app — to private equity firm Francisco Partners.

The deadly wildfires in Hawaii this month were fueled in part by plants , in particular invasive grasses that have taken over land once occupied by sugar and pineapple plantations.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — On New Year's Eve 2022, Colombian superstar Maluma bid farewell to his musical alter ego Papi Juancho , created during the coronavirus pandemic. “Fue un placer,” he wrote on Instagram . “It was a pleasure.

Ashnikko, “WEEDKILLER” (Warner Music UK Limited) Are all you girls, gays and theys out there feeling a little fed up? Maybe more than a little? Ashnikko is, too.

Top New Shows (US): 1. Dear Alana , Tenderfoot TV 2. Bombing with Eric Andre , Big Money Players 3. Handsome , Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin 4. The Meatball Pod , Audioboom 5. Erotic Stories , Sexuality and Erotica 6.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) 2. Tides of Fire by James Rollins (William Morrow) 3.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. No Hard Feelings 2. Elemental (2023) 3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 4. John Wick: Chapter 4 5. Kandahar (2023) 6. Sisu 7. Cobweb 8. The Super Mario Bros. Movie 9. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 10.

NEW YORK (AP) — Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney and the late bell hooks were among the authors honored this year by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Ishmael Reed that celebrates multicultural literature.

“Gay High School Fight Club” was the working title of the script that Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott sent off to a producer a few years ago, riding a surreal wave of virtual goodwill after their film “Shiva Baby” became a kind of cult sensation dur