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NEW YORK (AP) — Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world's top stages, has died. She was 86.

There is something for everyone at the movies this summer , both in theaters and streaming at home.

PRAGUE (AP) — Soňa Červená, a Czech opera singer who became known for playing Carmen and more than 110 roles in San Francisco and other opera houses behind the Iron Curtain, has died. She was 97.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often dubbed the prince of indie music, Mac DeMarco has built a devoted fanbase through his mix of distinct slacker rock and being unafraid to show off his endearingly offbeat personality.

TORONTO — Canadian pop-punk band Sum 41 is calling it quits.

“When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach,” by Ashlee Vance (Ecco) During the space race of the 1960s that was chronicled by Tom Wolfe in “The Right Stuff,” the era was personified by larger-than-life h

The Gordon Lightfoot who first performed in Toronto's Yorkville, what's now one of Canada's ritziest neighbourhoods, is not the Gordon Lightfoot we know today.

TORONTO — A film about a young carpenter who built shelters for the homeless won top prize at Toronto's Hot Docs film festival Sunday.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 14-20 May 14: Guitarist Gene Cornish of The Rascals is 79. Movie director-producer George Lucas is 79. Actor Meg Foster (“Cagney and Lacey”) is 75.

ORILLIA, Ont. — Over 2,400 fans attended a public visitation Sunday in Gordon Lightfoot's hometown in central Ontario to say goodbye to the folk singer-songwriter. In the pouring rain, a line stretched down the street outside St.