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Love him? Hate him? For Donald Trump, attention is attention

Love him? Hate him? For Donald Trump, attention is attention

In the currency of today’s attention economy, Donald Trump is the world’s richest man. His media-engulfed arraignment in New York was an out-of-court Exhibit A.
Q&A: Lewis Capaldi feels 'naked' releasing new documentary

Q&A: Lewis Capaldi feels 'naked' releasing new documentary

Lewis Capaldi’s first album went multiplatinum and led to chart-topping hits, sold-out stadiums, and a Grammy nomination for the singer-songwriter.
Senegal's Baaba Maal returns after years with new album

Senegal's Baaba Maal returns after years with new album

Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven years, “Being.
Writers' Trust Poetry Prize more than doubles to $60K with Scott Griffin contribution

Writers' Trust Poetry Prize more than doubles to $60K with Scott Griffin contribution

TORONTO — Scott Griffin is shaking up the Canadian poetry landscape for the second time in a year, lending his name to the Writers' Trust poetry prize and more than doubling its purse.
Review: 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' is okey-dokey

Review: 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' is okey-dokey

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. But it is also, if I check the clock, Mario Time. “The Super Mario Bros.
Caregivers: Returning orca Lolita to Northwest is risky

Caregivers: Returning orca Lolita to Northwest is risky

SEATTLE (AP) — A plan announced last week to return Lolita, a killer whale held captive for more than a half-century, to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound thrilled those who have long advocated for her to be freed from her tank at the Miami
Percival Everett, Ling Ma among winners of $175,000 prizes

Percival Everett, Ling Ma among winners of $175,000 prizes

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett and Ling Ma, already two of the year's most honored writers , are among eight winners of the lucrative Windham-Campbell Prize.
Catan board game creator, Klaus Teuber, dies at 70

Catan board game creator, Klaus Teuber, dies at 70

Klaus Teuber, creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional island, has died after a brief illness, according to a family statement. He was 70.
Once-prestigious 24 Sussex full of rodents, carcasses: National Capital Commission

Once-prestigious 24 Sussex full of rodents, carcasses: National Capital Commission

OTTAWA — When a lumber baron first built a home for his wife at 24 Sussex Drive, he described it as a place of peace. Now, it has become a place of rodents.
Yiyun Li's 'The Book of Goose' wins PEN/Faulkner award

Yiyun Li's 'The Book of Goose' wins PEN/Faulkner award

NEW YORK (AP) — Yiyun Li's novel “The Book of Goose,” the story of two mischievous teenage girls in post-World War II France and their improbable literary success, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.
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