Tag: Arts and entertainment
Review: Pandemic makes folkie Todd Snider a funky studio rat
<p>Todd Snider, "First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder” (Aimless Records/Thirty Tigers)</p>
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Chicken Soup for the Soul will soon be served to kids
NEW YORK — The multimillion-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise is reaching for a younger demographic.
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Angie Thomas Scholarship is awarded to aspiring writer
<p>JACKSON, Miss. — Bestselling author Angie Thomas has surprised an incoming freshman with news that the young woman is receiving a full scholarship to...
Review: Love, loss and racism in ‘The Son of Mr. Suleman’
“The Son of Mr. Suleman,” Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton)
“The Son...
Jim Steinman, hitmaker for Meat Loaf and Celine Dion, dies
<p>NEW YORK — Jim Steinman, the Grammy-winning composer who wrote Meat Loaf's best-selling “Bat Out Of Hell" debut album as well as hits for...
Oscar predictions: Can anything beat ‘Nomadland’?
Ahead of Sunday’s 93rd Academy Awards, Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr share their predictions for a ceremony that is forging...
Andre Odom went from scouting players to representing them
<p>Andre Odom worked as a graduate assistant at Temple after his college football career ended and eventually landed a job as a scouting assistant...
Bush criticizes GOP isolationism, anti-immigration rhetoric
WASHINGTON — George W. Bush says the Republican Party he served as president has become “isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist” and...
Amy Coney Barrett has book deal with conservative imprint
<p>NEW YORK — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has a book deal with a Penguin Random House imprint, The Associated Press has learned....
Searchlight Pictures chairs Nancy Utley, Steve Gilula retire
<p>Veteran film executives Nancy Utley and Steve Gilula who in their two decades at Searchlight Pictures oversaw the releases of major hits including “Juno,”...