National Lifestyle

Canada's COVID-19 vaccine supply will get a boost this week, with its first shipment of Johnson & Johnson's single-dose jab expected to arrive in the coming days and be dispersed to provinces by early May.

TORONTO — Canadian independent film distributor Mongrel Media is launching its own subscription streaming service.

The Dallas Opera is starting an online subscription streaming service. Thedallasopera.

“Whereabouts,” by Jhumpa Lahiri (Alfred A. Knopf) Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri is back with what is sure to be one of the more unique “novels” of the year.

If Priscila Medina had gotten COVID-19 a year ago, she would have had no treatments proven safe and effective to try.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 2-8: May 2: Singer Englebert Humperdinck is 85. Country singer R.C. Bannon is 76. Actor David Suchet (TV’s “Poirot”) is 75. Country singer Larry Gatlin is 73. Singer Lou Gramm of Foreigner is 71.

NEW YORK — Red carpet glam was back Sunday at the Oscars with Andra Day and Carey Mulligan shimmering in award-worthy gold and Maria Bakalova among several stars in bright white princess gowns during the pandemic era's first big parade of fashion.

NEW YORK — A pair of prototype Nikes worn by Kanye West during his performances of “Hey Mama” and “Stronger” at the Grammy Awards in 2008 has shattered the record for a pair of sneakers ever sold.

LOS ANGELES — Three decades after Anthony Hopkins' chilling portrayal of serial killer Hannibal Lecter earned a lead-actor Oscar, the role of a man fighting dementia brought him his second trophy.

NEW YORK — Legend: Genghis Khan came up with an early concept for hamburgers that involved tenderizing meat scraps under the saddles of horses as his Golden Horde ransacked its way to China back in the 13th century.