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Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib among 8 winners of $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes.
By The Associated Press on April 2nd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib, fiction writers Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan and playwright Christopher Chen are among this year’s recipients of Windham-Campbell Prizes, for which winners each receive $175,000 cash awards. The prizes are designed to enable artists to “focus on their creative practice independent of financial concerns,” prize officials announced Tuesday. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police say JK Rowling committed no crime with tweets slamming Scotland’s new hate speech law
By The Associated Press on April 2nd, 2024
LONDON (AP) – J.K. Rowling did not break the law with tweets criticizing Scotland’s new hate speech law and referring to transgender women as men, the police said Tuesday. The “Harry Potter” author opposes the law, which came into force on Monday and makes it illegal to stir up hatred on the basis of characteristics ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!John Sinclair, a marijuana activist who was immortalized in a John Lennon song, dies at 82
By Mike Householder, The Associated Press on April 2nd, 2024
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert to free him, has died. He was 82. Sinclair died Tuesday morning at Detroit Receiving Hospital of congestive heart failure ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj submit letter to AI developers to honor artists’ rights
By Maria Sherman, The Associated Press on April 2nd, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Stevie Wonder, Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Peter Frampton, Katy Perry, Smokey Robinson and J Balvin are just some of the over 200 names featured on a new open letter submitted by the Artist Rights Alliance non-profit, calling on artificial intelligence tech companies, developers, platforms, digital music services and platforms ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘SCTV’ star, comedian Joe Flaherty dies following illness, daughter says
By The Canadian Press on April 2nd, 2024
Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. His daughter Gudrun says Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness. Flaherty, who was born in Pittsburgh, spent seven years at The Second City in Chicago before moving north of the border to help establish the theatre’s Toronto outpost. He went ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Klaus Mäkelä, just 28, to become Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director in 2027
By Ronald Blum, The Associated Press on April 2nd, 2024
Klaus Mäkelä was hired Tuesday to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since its start in 1891. A Finn who turned 28 in January, Mäkelä has had an astonishing rise in the music world, becoming principal guest conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!This mob-era casino is closing on the Las Vegas Strip. Here’s some big moments in its 67 years
By Rio Yamat, The Associated Press on April 2nd, 2024
LAS VEGAS (AP) – From its lavish opening in 1957 on a Las Vegas Boulevard surrounded by wide-open desert, to its sleepier years amid a boom in megaresorts, the Tropicana Las Vegas has been a familiar landmark home to colorful events in a city known for constant reinvention. Now the Strip’s third-oldest casino is set ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wallace Peeples, activist-influencer otherwise known as Wallo267, has memoir out in September
By The Associated Press on April 2nd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Wallace Peeples has lived many lives – activist, speechmaker, podcaster, social media influencer – since serving 20 years in prison. And he plans to write about all of them. 13a, an imprint of Gallery Books, announced Tuesday that it has signed Peeples, best known as Wallo267, for his memoir “Armed With ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Maryse Condé, prolific ‘Grande Dame’ of Caribbean literature, dead at age 90
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on April 2nd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Maryse Condé, an acclaimed French-language novelist from Guadeloupe who in novels, stories, plays and memoirs imagined and redefined the personal and historical past from 17th century New England to contemporary Europe, has died at age 90. The death of Condé, winner in 2018 of an “alternate” Nobel Prize, was announced by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Anthony M. Kennedy to reflect on his life and his years on the Supreme Court in two-volume memoir
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on April 2nd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall, tracking his life from growing up in California to his 30 years on the court, when he cast key votes on landmark cases ranging from abortion to gay marriage to campaign finance. Simon & Schuster announced ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce earn Webby Award nominations, along with Sydney Sweeney, Ryan Gosling
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press on April 2nd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Taylor Swift and her Super Bowl-winning boyfriend Travis Kelce, along with Sydney Sweeney,Ryan Gosling and Timothee Chalamet, are among the nominees for this year’s Webby Awards, recognizing the best internet content and creators. The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced the nominees on Tuesday, the result of 13,000 entries ... Read More »
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