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NEW YORK (AP) — In an era where popular music is fluid, it is easy to forget the listening world was not always so open. Unless, of course, Roberta Flack's career is closely examined.

Pamela Anderson recently watched “Barb Wire” for the very first time. The B.C.-born actor says her son had asked if she’d ever seen the 1996 dystopian action flick — her first starring role in a movie that was a box-office and critical flop.

LONDON (AP) — Members of the British band The 1975 cannot be held personally liable for losses of a Malaysian music festival that was shut down by authorities after lead singer Matty Healy kissed a male bandmate on stage, a London judge ruled Monday.

TORONTO — Country singer Josh Ross is set to play the Juno Awards in Vancouver. The Burlington, Ont.-native is this year's leading Juno nominee, and among the latest wave of musicians added to the televised gala.

LONDON (AP) — It was not your typical smash-and-grab burglary and the booty was precious: a toilet worth more than its weight in gold.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 2-8: March 2: Actor John Cullum (“Northern Exposure”) is 95. Actor Barbara Luna is 86. Author John Irving is 83. Actor Cassie Yates is 74. Actor Laraine Newman (“Saturday Night Live”) is 73.

Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas' brain tumor has returned, and the 80-year-old intends to lead his final performance in April. Thomas announced in August 2021 that he had undergone surgery for a glioblastoma .

NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top recordings artists of the 1970s and an influential performer long after, died Monday. She was 88.

A history of aerobiology would normally be a book that would have little interest beyond the science community.

Ada Calhoun’s debut novel “Crush” is only a novel in the loosest sense. It’s really more of a well-sourced personal essay on love and relationships brilliantly disguised as a novel.