National Entertainment

NEW YORK — A new literary award with a $50,000 cash prize will honour those best at telling a New York story.

Nick Cordero, the Broadway actor who spent more than 90 days in a hospital fighting for his life after contracting coronavirus, will have an album released posthumously.

Lori McKenna, “The Balladeer" (CN Records/Thirty Tigers) On “When You're My Age," one of the best cuts from her fine new album “The Balladeer," singer-songwriter Lori McKenna readily concedes that these are challenging times.

A new project is bringing the drama of COVID-19 to your earbuds through a podcast series of pandemic-inspired plays.

TORONTO — Executives at Cineplex Inc. are asking the Ontario government to loosen restrictions over how many people can occupy its cinemas at a single time.

TORONTO — A live album recording of a cabaret show from late Canadian stage star Nick Cordero will hit shelves in September. Broadway Records says it will release "Nick Cordero: Live Your Life" on Sept. 17 — what would have been his 42nd birthday.

LONDON — Amber Heard alleged in a British court on Wednesday that ex-husband Johnny Depp threw "30 or so bottles" at her as if they were “grenades or bombs” during a drunken and frenzied assault in Australia in March 2015 that also saw him accidental

It was dirty work, Marie and Pierre Curie's discovery of radium and polonium.

To the list of established movie genres, we must now add another: the Airbnb horror film. Wait! A sub-genre: The pandemic-era Airbnb horror film.

NEW YORK — Kim Kardashian West is asking the public to show compassion and empathy to husband Kanye West, who caused a stir this week after fulminating in a series of social media posts. She says he is bipolar.