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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Buckle up for a sad girl fall. Olivia Rodrigo — the Grammy-winner best known for her 2021 smash single “drivers license” — will release her highly-anticipated sophomore album in September.

NEW YORK (AP) — Yannick Nézet-Séguin is remaking the Metropolitan Opera from the bottom up.

Angela Bassett may have gone home empty handed at the Oscars in March, but the two-time nominee will be getting a golden statuette this year after all – and in very good company too.

NEW YORK (AP) — Costume designer Patricia Field has never liked fashion rules.

“Fireworks Every Night” by Beth Raymer (Random House) C.C.’s isn’t your typical rags-to-riches story. She remembers growing up in a single-wide with her older sister, stay-at-home mom and car-salesman dad.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 2023 BET Awards celebrated 50 years of hip-hop with tributes to the genre’s earliest voices, late legends, and new talent during a show packed with spectacular performances that consistently felt like a party.

“Dead Man’s Wake,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur) Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch’s on-again, off-again romance with Stacey Stevens is definitely on again, the pair celebrating their engagement at a relative’s lake house when the night is interrupted by t

Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 2-8: July 2: Actor Robert Ito (“Quincy”) is 92. Actor Polly Holliday (“Alice”) is 86. Writer-director Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” ″Seinfeld”) is 76. Keyboardist Roy Bittan of the E Street Band is 74.

“The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession” by Michael Finkel (Alfred A.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam museum that severed ties with St.