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NEW YORK (AP) — Costume designer Patricia Field has never liked fashion rules.

“Fireworks Every Night” by Beth Raymer (Random House) C.C.’s isn’t your typical rags-to-riches story. She remembers growing up in a single-wide with her older sister, stay-at-home mom and car-salesman dad.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 2023 BET Awards celebrated 50 years of hip-hop with tributes to the genre’s earliest voices, late legends, and new talent during a show packed with spectacular performances that consistently felt like a party.

“Dead Man’s Wake,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur) Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch’s on-again, off-again romance with Stacey Stevens is definitely on again, the pair celebrating their engagement at a relative’s lake house when the night is interrupted by t

Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 2-8: July 2: Actor Robert Ito (“Quincy”) is 92. Actor Polly Holliday (“Alice”) is 86. Writer-director Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” ″Seinfeld”) is 76. Keyboardist Roy Bittan of the E Street Band is 74.

“The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession” by Michael Finkel (Alfred A.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam museum that severed ties with St.

JERUSALEM (AP) — A billionaire Hollywood mogul took the stand for a second day on Monday in Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial, acknowledging that the long list of champagne, cigars and jewelry he systematically gave to the Israeli prime minister

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of effusive marchers danced to club music in New York City streets Sunday as bubbles and confetti rained down, and fellow revelers from Toronto to San Francisco cheered through Pride Month's grand crescendo.

CALGARY — Nickelback has sealed its place in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame with an official plaque ceremony in Calgary.