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Cecilia Bartoli veers into opera management while still singing at 57

Cecilia Bartoli veers into opera management while still singing at 57

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Cecilia Bartoli has a favorite role she wished she could sing. “There is one character which I was always in love with since I started my Mozart career, and it’s Don Giovanni,” she said. “With me, you never know.
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Book Review: 'Disobedient' deftly paints the inspiring story of artist Artemisia Gentileschi

Book Review: 'Disobedient' deftly paints the inspiring story of artist Artemisia Gentileschi

“Disobedient” by Elizabeth Fremantle (Pegasus Books) Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting skills quickly surpass her father’s, but society dictates that as a woman, she must stay home and protect her virtue.
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Music Review: Neil Young caught in his 1970s prime with yet another 'lost' album, 'Chrome Dreams'

Music Review: Neil Young caught in his 1970s prime with yet another 'lost' album, 'Chrome Dreams'

“Chrome Dreams,” Neil Young (Reprise Records) Neil Young is captured in his mid-1970s prime with “Chrome Dreams,” yet another “lost” — or “unreleased" — album officially seeing the light of day as Young originally envisioned nearly half a century ago
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From Killer Mike to Fat Joe, hip-hop stars talk about how first rap song resonated with them

From Killer Mike to Fat Joe, hip-hop stars talk about how first rap song resonated with them

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Remember the first rap song you heard? Some of your favorite rappers and DJs do.
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Bark beetles are eating through Germany's Harz forest. Climate change is making matters worse

Bark beetles are eating through Germany's Harz forest. Climate change is making matters worse

CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany (AP) — Nestled in the spruce trees in the Harz mountains of northern Germany is a bark-eating pest not much bigger than a sesame seed.
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CBS game show 'Superfan' celebrates musicians like Shania Twain, Kelsea Ballerini and Pitbull

CBS game show 'Superfan' celebrates musicians like Shania Twain, Kelsea Ballerini and Pitbull

NEW YORK (AP) — CBS' latest game show doesn't ask its contestants to have any skills — no need to sing, dance, cook or pull a rabbit out of a hat. All it asks from its competitors is adoration — lots of it.
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Book Review: A private eye’s death sets a Chicago cop on a hairy investigation in 'Dead and Gone'

Book Review: A private eye’s death sets a Chicago cop on a hairy investigation in 'Dead and Gone'

“Dead and Gone,” by Joanna Schaffhausen (Minotaur) A private eye named Sam Tran is dead, hanged from a tree in a local cemetery, and Chicago P.D. Detective Annalisa Vega catches the case.
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Book Review: James McBride’s latest novel is a tour de force celebrating community and compassion

Book Review: James McBride’s latest novel is a tour de force celebrating community and compassion

“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride (Riverhead Books) “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” James McBride’s tour de force of a new novel, opens in 1972, when authorities discover a human skeleton and mezuzah at the bottom of a w
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 13-19

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 13-19

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 13-19: Aug. 13: Actor Kevin Tighe (“Emergency,” ″Murder One”) is 79. Opera singer Kathleen Battle is 75. Director Paul Greengrass (the “Bourne” films) is 68.
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Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise

Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise

The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won't allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery. D&D art is supposed to be fanciful.
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