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NEW YORK (AP) — Krystal Joy Brown has planted her flag on Broadway — first professionally and now personally.

TORONTO — Suzette Mayr, Iain Reid and Susan Musgrave are among the well-known finalists for the Governor General's Literary Awards. The Canada Council for the Arts named 70 finalists across seven categories in both English and French on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective in several “Shaft” films beginning in the early 1970s, has died. He was 81.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’d be hard pressed to find a rap duo doing it like City Girls.

NEW YORK (AP) — On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions of Shakespeare's plays, including one that sells for $1,500.

EDMONTON — Video game industry workers in Edmonton have voted unanimously in favour of strike action.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — How does a group follow up their biggest release to date? In the case of K-pop act SEVENTEEN , they continue to grow their successes — and release another mini-album in the same year.

Not quite dark pop, not quite techno, not quite any genre at all, Poppy's fifth studio album, “Zig," is rather a mix of several different styles and an example of how far she's come since her debut five years ago.

Nonfiction 1. Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith, narrated by the author (HarperAudio) 2. Prequel by Rachel Maddow, narrated by the author (Random House Audio) 3.

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