Tag Archives: Entertainment

LOS ANGELES - Larry Wilmore has been down the road as a talk show host before, with a Comedy Central show that was here and gone in two seasons - taking with it his droll and incisive brand of satire....

NEW YORK - Stories of voting rights, space exploration and displacement at home are among the young people's literature works that appear on the longlist for the National Book Awards. In the translati...

Say what you will, Antonio Campos' "The Devil all the Time" lives up to its title. Spanning numerous generations and set across a bleak and blood-stained Appalachian landscape, Campos' adaptation of D...

NEW YORK - Fiction writers Mari Christmas and Yalitza Ferreras and poets Elisa Gonzalez and Charleen McClure are among six winners of Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, $30,000 prizes for emerging...

FORT WORTH, Texas - Twin boys in Texas say that beginning when they were 13, "Cheer" star Jerry Harris sent them sexually explicit photos and videos of himself, and at one point cornered one boy in a ...

NASHVILLE - In surprise twist that fit an unexpected year of firsts, Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett tied for entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards, the first time the top p...

NEW YORK - The author of the million-selling debut novel "The Nest" has another story of family drama coming out next year. Ecco announced Wednesday that Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's "Good Company" will ...

NEW YORK - A biopic about Madonna has found a uniquely qualified director: Madonna, herself. Universal Pictures announced Tuesday that the studio is developing an untitled film about the pop star that...

NEW YORK - Many Americans have vivid memories of Jan. 28, 1986. That was the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded over a chilly Florida, just seconds after liftoff. School children across the cou...

LONDON - A Zimbabwean writer who was arrested during anti-government protests is among six finalists announced Tuesday on a diverse list of contenders for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. Tsi...