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Dirk Powell, “When I Wait for You" (Compass) Because Dirk Powell loves traditional music, and honours it on this fine album, his pledge to banish one category of front-porch favourites from his repertoire is especially powerful.

NEW YORK — Before she went into acting, Hilary Swank was one of those kids who looked up at the sky and dreamed of blasting off to outer space.

VENICE, Italy — Two stars at the Venice Film Festival, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, have praised the decision by the Berlin festival to award gender-neutral prizes, with Swinton predicting other award ceremonies will follow suit.

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — A film about a classical musician’s struggle to balance his career dreams and life in contemporary Mumbai will this week return India to the main competition at the Venice Film Festival for the first time in nearly two dec

VATICAN CITY — Actress Juliette Binoche and fellow French environmentalists received encouragement from Pope Francis at a private Vatican meeting Thursday where he told them people shouldn't lose hope even when the condition of the planet can appear

NEW YORK — A 21-year-old author has agreed to a seven-figure deal for a pair of young adult novels.

PHOENIX — An Arizona resident has asked a judge to bar Kanye West from appearing on the state's Nov.

LOS ANGELES — Not even a pandemic and television production shutdown can keep Baby Yoda down. A new season of “The Mandalorian” will arrive next month.

“I try to imbue my work with a sort of interiority,” says Lucy (Jessie Buckley), the artists-physics student-girlfriend of Charlie Kaufman's “I'm Thinking of Ending Things.

LOS ANGELES — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shared some unfortunate news on his home front: He and his family tested positive for the coronavirus. Johnson announced their diagnosis in an 11-plus minute video on Instagram on Wednesday.