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Netflix to rely on Microsoft for its ad-backed video service

Netflix to rely on Microsoft for its ad-backed video service

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix has picked Microsoft to help deliver the commercials in a cheaper version of its video streaming service expected to launch later this year with a pledge to minimize the intrusions into personal privacy that often accompa
Review: With ‘Crawdads,’ a guess-you-had-to-read-it feel

Review: With ‘Crawdads,’ a guess-you-had-to-read-it feel

A stupendously popular source novel. A theme song by Taylor Swift. Reese Witherspoon as producer. And even a tantalizing, life-imitates-art news headline surfacing recently.
Award-winning conductor, composer Bramwell Tovey dies

Award-winning conductor, composer Bramwell Tovey dies

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Bramwell Tovey, the London-born composer and conductor who’s been the principal conductor and artistic director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra since 2018, has died.
Review: Splashes of color from jazz pianist Sam Reider

Review: Splashes of color from jazz pianist Sam Reider

“Petrichor,” Sam Reider (Slow & Steady) Jazz pianist Sam Reider can sound reflective or restless, pensive or playful, sometimes in adjacent measures.
‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ with dreams of owning Dior gown

‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ with dreams of owning Dior gown

In “ Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris ,” a middle-aged woman of very limited means in post-World War II London dreams of owning a Christian Dior gown. In 1957, however, at the height of Dior’s New Look renown, this was not a straightforward proposition.
Publisher of The Believer raises $300,000, exceeding goal

Publisher of The Believer raises $300,000, exceeding goal

NEW YORK (AP) — McSweeney's has raised just over $300,000 — exceeding its goal by $25,000 — in the two months since announcing it was buying back The Believer, the acclaimed literary publication that nearly went out of business last year.
Judge rejects Amber Heard's request to set aside Depp win

Judge rejects Amber Heard's request to set aside Depp win

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge on Wednesday rejected an effort by actress Amber Heard to set aside the $10 million judgment awarded against her in favor of her ex-husband, Johnny Depp .
Radio-Canada to appeal CRTC N-word decision and apologize to complainant

Radio-Canada to appeal CRTC N-word decision and apologize to complainant

MONTREAL — Radio-Canada said Wednesday it will apologize for the repeated on-air use of the N-word but will also appeal a CRTC decision ordering that apology.
Disgraced R&B star R. Kelly back in Chicago for sex trial

Disgraced R&B star R. Kelly back in Chicago for sex trial

CHICAGO (AP) — R.
Common-law couples on the rise, Statistics Canada data show

Common-law couples on the rise, Statistics Canada data show

TORONTO — A new tranche of census data shows the typical Canadian family is diverging further from the nuclear structure that was once the norm, with more couples living in common-law partnerships and without children.
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