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February 14, 2019

A very prompt Marc Jacobs welcomes back a '90s supermodel

Marc Jacobs didn't waste a second before starting his fall runway show on Wednesday. Literally. The designer, whose ...

February 14, 2019

Bloomberg rips Trump for not taking action on climate change

Democratic presidential prospect Michael Bloomberg is promoting a new documentary film on climate change, but the billionaire ...

February 14, 2019

People magazine names the most stylish stars

They are the A-listers who wow on the red carpet. Ahead of the Academy Awards on Wednesday, People magazine released its list ...

February 14, 2019

Anne Firor Scott, groundbreaking historian, dead at 97

Anne Firor Scott, a prize-winning historian and esteemed professor who upended the male-dominated field of Southern ...

February 14, 2019

K-pop and fancy sneakers: Kim Jong Un's cultural revolution

Dancers in hot pants. Factories pumping out Air Jordan lookalikes. TV dramas that are actually fun to watch. North Korean pop ...

February 14, 2019

"Empire" actor expresses anger over attack, public's doubt

Actor Jussie Smollett says he's "pissed off" that some have doubted his claims about being attacked outside his Chicago ...

February 13, 2019

Tribeca Film Festival to open with Apollo Theater doc

The 18th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival will open with the premiere of a documentary about New York City's iconic ...

February 13, 2019

Lawyer says rapper 21 Savage freed from immigration custody

Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage was released Wednesday from an immigration detention center in south Georgia, his lawyers ...

February 13, 2019

Review: 'High Flying Bird' is an exhilarating fast break

Straight, "no chaser" is how NBA agent Ray Burke (Andre Holland) likes his news in "High Flying Bird," and the same could be ...

February 13, 2019

Reports: British Bolshoi dancer suspected of having cocaine

Russian news reports say police in Moscow suspect a British dancer with the renowned Bolshoi Ballet of possessing cocaine.

February 13, 2019

Heidi Toffler, assisted on 'Future Shock,' dead at 89

Heidi Toffler, who collaborated with husband Alvin Toffler on the best-selling "Future Shock" and other influential books, ...

February 13, 2019

Cosby vows no remorse, even if he sits in prison 10 years

Bill Cosby says he "will never have remorse" for the sexual encounter that sent him to prison because he considers his ...

February 13, 2019

China's Huawei soft power push raises hard questions

Canada's national game — brought to you by China's Huawei. As a nasty diplomatic feud deepens between the two countries over ...

February 13, 2019

Greatest Western film? 'Wild Bunch' book argues its case

"The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury), by W.K. Stratton

February 13, 2019

Rolling in the deep: HBO film looks at roller skate culture

First-time documentary filmmakers Tina Brown and Dyana Winkler lugged their cameras to Central Park in New York one day to ...

February 13, 2019

Delays mean Chicago 'Hamilton' exhibit opening 3 weeks late

The world premiere of an exhibit based on the Broadway hit "Hamilton" will be delayed three weeks in part due to recent ...

February 13, 2019

Trombonists who died in 2018 honored with music in Cleveland

The late American jazz great Urbie Green and three other accomplished trombonists who died in 2018 will be remembered ...

February 13, 2019

Review: Cass McCombs evokes the West on 'Tip of the Sphere'

Cass McCombs, "Tip of the Sphere" (ANTI-) Cass McCombs follows up 2016's "Mangy Love," the most all-around successful and ...

February 13, 2019

Indictment: Ex-'American Idol' contestant was drug courier

A recently unsealed court document says a former contestant on both "American Idol" and "Fear Factor" worked as a courier for ...