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NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize Board has revised its longtime rules on eligibility for many of its arts and letters awards and will now allow those not born in the U.S. and other non-citizens to compete.

NEW YORK (AP) — Incoming music director Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the New York Philharmonic at its spring gala on April 24, the orchestra said Tuesday as it announced a $40 million gift from co-chairman Oscar L.

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Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. No Hard Feelings 2. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 5. Strays (2023) 6. Meg 2: The Trench 7. Fast X 8.

TORONTO — The stage adaptation of the CanLit classic "The Diviners" will get its world premiere at the Stratford Festival in its 2024 season.

TORONTO (AP) — Louis C.K. came to the Toronto International Film Festival six years ago with the hotly anticipated “I Love You, Daddy,” just as allegations of sexual misconduct against the comedian were gaining new prominence.

As a leading blogger in the pre-Substack era, novelist and public-interest technologist Cory Doctorow often warned that Big Tech was rendering of cyberspace a polluted, dystopian, crassly commercial and often hostile world of limited options.

TORONTO — A boisterous world première for Talking Heads’ revamped classic “Stop Making Sense” brought a Toronto International Film Festival audience to its feet as moviegoers and the band themselves jumped up to dance, hoot and clap along to ‘80s hit

NEW YORK (AP) — Author Sandra Cisneros is this year's winner of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, honoring writers who help foster “understanding between and among people.