ENTERTAINMENT

Winfrey picks ‘Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ for book club

NEW YORK — One of the year’s most anticipated debut novels, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” is now an Oprah Winfrey book… Read more

Olivia Culpo seemingly gives her business to American Airlines after dog fiasco with JetBlue

Olivia Culpo is seemingly giving her business to American Airlines after a recent disastrous situation with JetBlue. 

Earlier this month, the… Read more

When the music stops: Afghan ‘happy place’ falls silent

A few years after the Taliban were ousted in 2001, and with Afghanistan still in ruins, Ahmad Sarmast left his home in Melbourne, Australia, on a mission:… Read more

Country singer Tom T. Hall dies; wrote ‘Harper Valley PTA’

NASHVILLE, Tenn.  — Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s consummate… Read more

Surprise! Scarlett Johansson, Colin Jost welcome baby boy

Scarlett Johansson is a mom to two now. The “Black Widow” star recently gave birth to a son, Cosmo, with husband Colin Jost, the “Saturday Night Live”… Read more

Museum renovation, book re-release honor late author Haley

HENNING, Tenn. — Find the good and praise it.

It’s a phrase the late Alex Haley, author of the 1976 novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,”… Read more

Instagram apologizes for Almodóvar film’s poster censorship

MADRID  — Instagram has apologized for removing the official poster for Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s new film from the social network because… Read more

‘Reservation Dogs’ smashes stereotypes of Indigenous people

TULSA, Okla.— Two Indigenous filmmakers are smashing the caricatures and stereotypes of Native Americans, who since the earliest days of film and TV… Read more