National Lifestyle

NEW YORK (AP) — Pulp has returned with a new album, their first in 24 years. Who could've predicted that? Not even the band, it turns out. “It took us by surprise as well,” dynamic frontman Jarvis Cocker told The Associated Press.

NEW YORK (AP) — When he was first asked to helm the Broadway hit musical “Death Becomes Her,” director and choreographer Christopher Gattelli loved it, but refused to work on the big, splashy opening number. It was just too delicious.

TORONTO — Blue Rodeo is making the most of its 40th anniversary with a coast-to-coast Canadian tour. The legendary Toronto alt-country act has announced a 27-date run that kicks off this fall and continues into early next year.

Charlotte Sitterly and her 14-year-old daughter, Iris, are suddenly shut out of their comfortable life in an upscale coastal community in North Carolina.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Old Dominion's eighth group of the year victory broke the tie for consecutive wins at the Academy of Country Music Awards last month, it changed the record books — but not their perspective.

Decades before the violent Unite the Right rally in 2017 in Charlottesville that drew white nationalists protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, the city was targeted by a white supremacist who hoped to ignite a race war.

A film chronicling the rise of Donald Trump won best motion picture at the Canadian Screen Awards on Sunday, where its Toronto-born producer used his acceptance speech to address the U.S. president’s threats to Canadian sovereignty.

Once a second banana, always a second banana when in the shadow of a brighter star. For musician and actor Desi Arnaz, that shadow belonged to Lucille Ball, his wife and co-star on the ground-breaking 1950s sitcom “I Love Lucy.

At age 13, Sydney Singleton discovered an old photograph tucked away in a drawer in her paternal grandmother’s guest room. It was a portrait of a Black girl just entering her teen years — a girl who looked a lot like Sydney.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 8-14: June 8: Singer Nancy Sinatra is 85. Singer Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night) is 83. Singer Boz Scaggs is 81. Actor Kathy Baker (“Picket Fences”) is 75. Actor Sonia Braga is 75. Singer Bonnie Tyler is 74.