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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The East Coast Music Awards have been cancelled this year amid concerns about COVID-19. The conference and festival was scheduled to run from April 29 to May 3 in St. John's, N.L.

Apple Books US Bestseller List - 03/15/20 - Paid Books Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher 1. End of Days by Lindsay Harrison & Sylvia Browne - 9781440631412 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 2.

iTunes Movies US Charts: 1. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2. Bombshell 3. Knives Out 4. 1917 5. Contagion 6. Spies in Disguise 7. Uncut Gems 8. Ford v Ferrari 9. Little Women 10. Jumanji: The Next Level iTunes Movies US Charts - Independent: 1.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 22-28: March 22: Composer Stephen Sondheim is 90. Actor William Shatner is 89. Actor M. Emmet Walsh is 85. Singer Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy is 79. Singer-guitarist George Benson is 77.

NEW YORK — U.S. movie theatres have closed nationwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, turning dark nearly all of the country's 40,000-plus screens in an unprecedented shutdown.

NEW YORK — Anyone tuning into the new TV series “Motherland: Fort Salem” will find a few changes in the America depicted. For one thing, women are in charge of the military. For another, they're all witches.

Dave Simonett, “Red Tail" (Thirty Tigers) Dave Simonett does wistful well.

NEW YORK — Military historian Rick Atkinson has won a $50,000 prize for his first of three planned volumes on the Revolutionary War.

NEW YORK — Six people at CBS News have tested positive for coronavirus, including a correspondent stationed in Italy, as media organizations fought Monday against the same epidemic they're charged with describing.

TORONTO — Canada's largest movie exhibitor Cineplex Inc. says it's closing all of its 165 theatres nationwide until at least April 2 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.