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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A little too country for rock ‘n’ roll, and a little too rock ‘n’ roll for country, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams has always played by her own rules.

A third of the way through her debut album, “Paint My Bedroom Black,” Gen Z pop singer Holly Humberstone initiates a sort of slow dance, but one set in an anxious daydream.

If you’re going to write a novel, why not do as the title of Isa Arsén’s debut suggests? “Shoot the Moon” refers to the actual act of getting astronauts to the lunar surface, but this work of fiction also attempts to shoot the moon like a fearless pl

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 15-21: Oct. 15: Singer Barry McGuire is 88. Actor Linda Lavin (“Alice”) is 86. Drummer Don Stevenson of Moby Grape is 81. Actor Victor Banerjee (“A Passage To India”) is 77.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The annual Nobel Prize announcements are over with the final award, for economics, going to Harvard professor Claudia Goldin for advancing the understanding of women’s labor market outcomes.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Exorcist: Believer” drove out all foes at the box office , but its numbers didn't entirely make heads spin. Facing competition from no major new releases, the latest resurrection of the demonic franchise brought in $27.

TORONTO — Decades of MuchMusic programming is being rescued from the sands of time.

LONDON (AP) — British filmmaker Terence Davies, best known for a pair of powerful, lyrical movies inspired by his childhood in postwar Liverpool, has died at the age of 77.

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta has brought colorful displays to the New Mexico sky in an international event that attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators every year.

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