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Where to stream some of this year’s top Emmy-nominated shows and how long it will take to…
Now that the Emmy nominations have been announced, you've got two months to catch up on some of the year's most acclaimed shows.
Some binges may take longer than others, but the list below should help you choose what to watch and how long…
With ‘The Grand Finale,’ ‘Downton Abbey’ is really coming to an end
Julian Fellowes has been saying goodbye to “Downton Abbey” for nearly as long as it has existed. By the fifth season of the series, he’d even grown accustomed to writing more definitive endings, not knowing that there would be a sixth…
Hitmaker Bert Berns is posthumously included in Songwriters Hall of Fame
NEW YORK (AP) — Songwriter and producer Bert Berns, who had a hand in some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, including co-writing “Twist and Shout” for the Isley Brothers and the plaintive “Piece of My Heart” sung by Janis Joplin, has been…
How to use 8 arms? Octopuses tend to explore with their front limbs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans may be right-handed or left-handed. It turns out octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they do tend to perform some tasks more often with their front arms, new research shows.
Scientists studied a series of…
At TIFF, the mid-sized movie strives to survive
TORONTO (AP) — Anyone will tell you it’s the audiences that make the Toronto International Film Festival. They aren’t purely industry folks, like they are in Cannes or Venice, but more boisterous, enthusiastic moviegoers with their own…
Americans still give awards shows consideration, a new AP-NORC poll finds
Most Americans still want to thank the academy, at least a little. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve watched all or most of an awards show on TV or streaming in the past year. That's according to a new poll from The Associated…
Today in History: September 11, al-Qaeda attacks the United States
Today in History
Today is Thursday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2025. There are 111 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners,…
A new Whitney Houston duet? How Calum Scott made ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’ with the…
NEW YORK (AP) — It sounds impossible, but that's the magic of it. On Thursday, a new Whitney Houston song arrives 13 years after her death.
English singer Calum Scott is responsible. The single is a duet between Scott and Houston, a…
Now summer’s over, here’s what to do with all those photos on your camera roll
LONDON (AP) — The summer holidays are over, and all those great times you had on vacation have been memorialized in hundreds of smartphone photos. Now what?
Some highlights — the prettiest sunset, the best group shots — have been posted on…
Movie Review: The guys from Spinal Tap are back together, but is the reunion worth it?
In an early scene from “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” the blisteringly obtuse Nigel Tufnel asks his wife a question after he and his bandmates have reunited after many years: “I don't know whether this was a good idea or not.”
Fans may…
Polly Holliday, theater star famous as the tart waitress Flo on sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies at…
NEW YORK (AP) — Polly Holliday, a Tony Award-nominated screen and stage actor who turned the catchphrase “Kiss my grits!” into a national retort as the gum-chewing, beehive-wearing waitress aboard the long-running CBS sitcom “Alice,” has…
Movie Review: The Crawleys — and their matriarch — get a loving sendoff in final ‘Downton…
Change comes slowly to the Downton Abbey universe and its Crawley family. Just watch Robert Crawley go flat-hunting in London.
Wait, what? FLAT-HUNTING? The Earl of Grantham? Well, yes, and it’s the most amusing scene in “Downton Abbey: The…
Movie Review: Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor collect folk songs in tender ‘The History of Sound’
If the algorithm was overseeing casting for a tender, queer romance, it’s likely that at least one combination would involve Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor. They are two of Hollywood’s most promising next generation stars, and, not…
Fashion meets Freud. A new exhibit explores clothes through a psychoanalytic lens
NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion and Freud? From top hats to stilettos, bustiers to bullet dresses, what we choose to put on our backs is interpreted through the lens of psychoanalysis in a new exhibit five years in the making.
Valerie Steele,…
Dan Brown on his new book, ‘The Secret of Secrets,’ and how he manages the writing…
NEW YORK (AP) — The plots of Dan Brown's novels have so many turns that even the author has to make sure he can keep it all organized.
“Anybody who writes a thriller needs to have a plan. There's a great saying that the thriller writer who…
David Bowie archive opens in London chronicling five decades of icon’s restless creativity
LONDON (AP) — When David Bowie died in 2016, he left a vast musical legacy – and a trove of unrealized projects.
Tantalizing details of those abandoned and unfinished ideas are revealed in Bowie’s archive, which opens to the public this…
Hitmaker Bert Berns is posthumously included in Songwriters Hall of Fame
NEW YORK (AP) — Songwriter and producer Bert Berns, who had a hand in some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, including co-writing “Twist and Shout” for the Isley Brothers and the plaintive “Piece of My Heart” sung by Janis Joplin, has been…
A new Whitney Houston duet? How Calum Scott made ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’ with the…
NEW YORK (AP) — It sounds impossible, but that's the magic of it. On Thursday, a new Whitney Houston song arrives 13 years after her death.
English singer Calum Scott is responsible. The single is a duet between Scott and Houston, a…
Movie Review: The guys from Spinal Tap are back together, but is the reunion worth it?
In an early scene from “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” the blisteringly obtuse Nigel Tufnel asks his wife a question after he and his bandmates have reunited after many years: “I don't know whether this was a good idea or not.”
Fans may…
Movie Review: Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor collect folk songs in tender ‘The History of Sound’
If the algorithm was overseeing casting for a tender, queer romance, it’s likely that at least one combination would involve Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor. They are two of Hollywood’s most promising next generation stars, and, not…
David Bowie archive opens in London chronicling five decades of icon’s restless creativity
LONDON (AP) — When David Bowie died in 2016, he left a vast musical legacy – and a trove of unrealized projects.
Tantalizing details of those abandoned and unfinished ideas are revealed in Bowie’s archive, which opens to the public this…
Music Review: King Princess scoffs at heartbreak on ‘Girl Violence’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s impossible to hear King Princess groan “I’m a loser” on their ambitious third album and not think of Beck singing the same line in his canonical slacker anthem released more than three decades ago.
Although “Alone…
Rick Davies, co-founder and singer of Supertramp, dies at 81
Rick Davies, the singer and co-founder of British band Supertramp, has died at 81 after a long battle with cancer. The band said he died Saturday after battling multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, for more than a decade. Davies…
This year’s song of the summer is a ballad, not a banger. Here’s what that says about us
NEW YORK (AP) — Every year, summer arrives with a buzzing energy. School’s out, the sun is shining, music is blaring out of car windows and speakers are blasting on the beach.
But this summer, the beaches seem quieter. The playlists feel…
