2,163 stories by "Mark Kennedy"
NEW YORK (AP) -- When it comes to protest music, there's the subtle stuff and the really angry stuff. The all-star band Prophets of Rage takes the latter to a whole new grab-…
You might expect a lot of glamorous footage of Demi Lovato in the new YouTube-exclusive documentary that she co-produced - and you won't be disappointed. She's often shown …
Niall Horan, "Flicker" (Capitol Records)...
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's time for James Arthur's next interview of the day and the soulful British singer gets up off a sofa at Sony headquarters, dutifully tucks away …
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new documentary about anxiety argues that everyone to some extent suffers from stress, nerves and social fear. And, to make their point, the filmmakers have enliste…
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda released a new original song Friday to raise money for Puerto Rican hurricane relief and he's enliste…
"The Mountain Between Us" is about two strangers who survive a plane crash only to end up in the unforgiving snowy Utah mountains, with no cell reception and precious littl…
You think your day was rough? At least you didn't have to outrace an army of slithering snakes on your first day. Or cross a swollen river filled with hungry predators. Or, despite …
NEW YORK (AP) -- Marilyn Manson is canceling several upcoming tour dates after the singer was injured in a mishap onstage during a New York City performance and taken to a hospital....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some bands are created by giddy accidents or random meetings. Others are created cynically for the bottom line. The new band Roadcase Royale was created to overcome l…
NEW YORK (AP) -- To many fans of Pearl Jam, the band's two-concert stand last summer at Wrigley Field in Chicago was epic. What happened a few months later at that hallowed v…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Anne Jeffreys, the actress and opera singer who likely had her greatest impact on TV audiences as Marion Kerby "the ghostess with the mostess" in th…
NEW YORK (AP) -- When he was still a teenager, Jason Mraz considered musical theater as a career option but feared he'd end up frustrated and as a waiter. Now the singer-song…
NEW YORK (AP) -- While working on his new album, electronic music pioneer Gary Numan found himself stuck. He'd been working on a song all day in his Los Angeles home studio a…
In the first film about a secret spy group known as Kingsman, we learned they are well-dressed, courtly and perfectly groomed. But by the second film, there's a decidedly ungentlema…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner, who captured Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and preserved legendary music acts like Jim…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Gurinder Chadha hoped her new film would be very personal, one that explored her family's South Asian history. But when it was done, it turned out to be the …
NEW YORK (AP) -- When Joan Osborne first met Bob Dylan, the two singers got very, very close. There wasn't much of a choice - they had to share the same recording studio micr…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bernard Pomerance, the playwright best known for the Tony Award-winning play about a horribly deformed man that has lured some of Hollywood's biggest names, …
The playwright best known for the Tony Award-winning play, "The Elephant Man," has died. Bernard Pomerance was 76.
There's been a lot of talk about who should be the next James Bond after Daniel Craig puts aside his shaken martini. Orlando Bloom? Idris Elba? Damian Lewis? After watching the form…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sabaah Folayan went to Ferguson, Missouri, three summers ago as a pre-med student hoping to find a way to ease the anger engulfing police and residents. She left a fi…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three-time Tony Award-winning book writer Thomas Meehan, best known for transforming the Little Orphan Annie cartoon strip into the smash Broadway musical "A…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The three-time Tony Award-winning book writer best known for transforming the Little Orphan Annie cartoon strip into the smash Broadway musical "Annie&qu…
Any parents of young children (AP) -- or anyone thinking of hearing the pitter-patter of little feet - are urged to go to their local movie theater and see "The Glass Castle.&q…
