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“Honeybees and Distant Thunder” by Riku Onda (Pegasus Books) The Yoshigae music competition will never be the same after this year’s pianists push the boundaries of the art form, leaving judges to wonder if a particular contestant is a gift from the

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aerosmith will be touring a city near you for the last time to celebrate the rock band's 50-plus years together.

Le Sserafim, “Unforgiven” (SOURCE Music) A year to the day of their debut, K-pop girl group Le Sserafim release their first studio album “Unforgiven,” a mish-mash of ear worms, head bangers and body shakers mixing English, Korean and Japanese.

NEW YORK (AP) — Last year, it took 275,000 bright pink roses to adorn the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Met Gala, the biggest night in fashion and one of the biggest concentrations of star power anywhere.

“Don’t Call Me Home,” by Alexandra Auder (Viking) It takes guts and a sense of humor to kick off your debut memoir with an insult from Andy Warhol. “Seeing Alexandra was sad — a big rug-rat hanging off Viva — she’ll probably turn out a mess.

If you think seafood and cheese don’t mix, these incredible shrimp tacos will change your mind. Tacos gobernador, or “governor’s tacos,” are a modern Mexican classic.

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 7-13 May 7: Singer Thelma Houston is 80. Actor Robin Strasser (“One Life To Live,” “Passions”) is 78. Singer-songwriter Bill Danoff (Starland Vocal Band) is 77.

SALAMANCA, N.Y. (AP) — The profile of a Native American man, a braid trailing down and feather jutting up, is tiled into a high school hallway, dyed into the weight room carpet and laid into the turf of the football field at Salamanca city schools.

Here's a roundup of standout TV series and films debuting on subscription streaming platforms in May: “Little Bird” Named Esther Rosenblum when she was adopted by a Jewish family as a young child, Bezhig Little Bird still remembers a life years earli