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PBS Kids celebrates Autism Awareness Month

NEW YORK – A new child is introduced this month on the animated TV show “Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum” who is a little different. He’s sensitive to loud noises and he likes doing thin...

DATE: Apr 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Arthur Kopit, three-time Tony-nominated playwright, dies

NEW YORK – Arthur Kopit, a three-time Tony Award-nominated playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for fusing disparate genres, absurdism and a darkly comic world view, has die...

DATE: Apr 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

It’s Elton John’s birthday and he’s got rare music for fans

NEW YORK – Elton John is celebrating his 74th birthday today – and he’s sending fans a very rare present. Six deep cuts have been made available on streaming and digital formats f...

DATE: Mar 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Music

Meet Analiese Gregory, a chef who fishes, forages and hunts

NEW YORK – Analiese Gregory is a chef who knows first-hand where her ingredients come from. Usually, it’s her hand. Living on the wild and biodiverse Australian island of Tasmania...

DATE: Mar 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Food

‘The Bachelor’ host stepping away after racial controversy

Chris Harrison, host of “The Bachelor,” says he is stepping down from his TV role and is “ashamed” for his handling of a swirling racial controversy at the ABC dating show. In a n...

DATE: Feb 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Chick Corea, jazz great with 23 Grammy Awards, dies at 79

NEW YORK – Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. He wa...

DATE: Feb 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Music

Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and The Go-Go’s nominated for Rock Hall

NEW YORK – Jay-Z, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner and Iron Maiden lead this year’s nominees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a female-heavy list of 16 acts that includes for the first time The G...

DATE: Feb 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Music

Oscar winner, ‘Sound of Music’ star Christopher Plummer dies

NEW YORK – Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film “The Sound of Music” and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in histo...

DATE: Feb 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Netflix once again dominates Golden Globe TV nominations

NEW YORK – Netflix rode the voracious hunger for TV content during a year of pandemic viewership to a dominant showing at the Golden Globe nominations. The streaming giant scooped...

DATE: Feb 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actor, dead at 96

NEW YORK – Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV vie...

DATE: Jan 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Tom Hanks heads TV special celebrating Biden’s inauguration

NEW YORK – Tom Hanks will host a 90-minute primetime TV special celebrating the inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States, with performances by Justin Timberlake, Jon Bon J...

DATE: Jan 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Sidelined ‘Mean Girls’ musical won’t reopen on Broadway

NEW YORK – Producers of the Broadway musical “Mean Girls” have decided not to restart when authorities allow theaters to reopen in New York City, the second and likely not last established s...

DATE: Jan 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts