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Family, fans bid adieu to music icon Jerry Lee Lewis

by Associated Press November 5, 2022

He was the last survivor of a generation of artists that rewrote music history.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News, Politics

An underwhelming end to Oprah’s Dr. Oz drama

by Maura Judkis The Washington Post November 4, 2022November 4, 2022

Winfrey’s silence-breaking endorsement comes at the end of a long campaign filled with medical drama and debate drama and hors d’oeuvres drama and too many social media burns to count.

Arts & Entertainment

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Washington guitarist Libba Cotten

by Eddie Dean Special To The Washington Post November 4, 2022November 4, 2022

The Black D.C.-area guitarist who came to fame in her 70s receives the posthumous honor Nov. 5.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Nation & World, News

Federal court says beauty pageant can bar trans contestants

by REBECCA BOONE Associated Press November 3, 2022November 3, 2022

The pageant has several requirements for contestants, including some based on contestants’ age, marital status and gender identity.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

‘The Banshees of Inisherin’: When old friendship goes violently awry

by Ann Hornaday The Washington Post November 3, 2022November 4, 2022

The Irish writer-director Martin McDonagh has earned an adoring audience for his ability to find grace amid the grotesque. With films like “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” he’s been rapturously received for his auteurist signatures, which include extravagant profanity, wickedly caustic humor, and a penchant for putting his characters into alternately amusing […]

Arts & Entertainment, Business

Kanye West’s t-shirt is a fashion don’t. Someone else owns ‘White Lives Matter’ trademark.

by Christie D’Zurilla Los Angeles Times November 3, 2022November 3, 2022

A trademark request was filed under the name Jae Gibson on Oct. 3, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s database, and Phoenix radio hosts Ramses Ja and Quinton Ward acquired the mark on Oct. 28, according to Capital B.