Associated Press5 hours agoJurors in trial of Salman Rushdie's attacker likely won't hear about his motiveAssociated Press - By CAROLYN THOMPSONMAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Jurors picked for the trial of a man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack likely won’t hear about the fatwa that authorities have said motivated him to act, a prosecutor said Friday. “We’re not going there,” District Attorney Jason Schmidt said during a …
Associated Press6 hours agoQ&A: RZA on the nostalgic origins of his first classical album, 'A Ballet Through Mud'Associated Press - By RYAN PEARSONLOS ANGELES (AP) — RZA’s hoarding habit led to his newest adventure in music: a ballet and surprisingly traditional classical album he calls “A Ballet Through Mud.” Early in the pandemic, the 55-year-old Wu-Tang Clan founder, born Robert Diggs, was rummaging through a bag of old spiral notebooks he …
Associated Press9 hours agoCivilization 7 makers work with Shawnee to bring sincere representation of the tribe to the gameAssociated Press - By GRAHAM LEE BREWER and MATT O’BRIENMIAMI, Okla. (AP) — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes grew up playing video games, including “probably hundreds of hours” colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. So when that same game studio, Firaxis, approached the tribal nation a quarter-century later with a …
Associated Press17 hours agoInternational fiesta fills New Mexico's sky with colorful hot air balloonsAssociated Press - By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — One of the most photographed events in the world is set to kick off Saturday with a mass ascension of color for the 52nd annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The nine-day gathering draws hundreds of thousands of spectators and pilots to New Mexico each fall for …
Associated Press1 day agoQ&A: Mariah Carey wasn't always sure about making a Christmas albumAssociated Press - By KRYSTA FAURIALOS ANGELES (AP) — Mariah Carey relishes the fact that she has become culturally synonymous with Christmas — thanks in part to the longevity of her iconic song “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” and its ubiquity every year when the holidays roll around. But the Grammy winner admits she initially …
Associated Press1 day agoGarth Brooks accused of rape in lawsuit from hair-and-makeup artistAssociated Press - By ANDREW DALTONLOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who says she worked as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel in 2019. The woman does not use her name and goes by Jane Roe in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. Brooks …
