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By RONALD BLUM, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Afrofuturism is in the limelight at Carnegie Hall as New York’s bastion of music and culture takes another step toward normality. Flying Lotus, also known as the Grammy-winning FlyLo, debuts at Carnegie on Saturday night to open a two-month Afrofuturism festival, which includes more than 80 …

Facebook rattled investors on Wednesday by posting a rare drop in earnings, driven by the company’s heavy spending on its vision of a so-called metaverse while simultaneously facing advertising challenges on its existing services. The company, formerly known as Facebook, posted net income of nearly $10.3 billion in the last three months of last year, …

AMSTERDAM (AP) – Rembrandt van Rijn’s iconic and huge painting “The Night Watch” is now also an oversized museum photo delivered straight to your laptop with unparalleled detail. Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum posted on its digital portal on Monday what it called “the most detailed photograph of all works of art,” ready for review by scientists and …

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press entertainment reporters on what’s coming to TV, streaming services, and music platforms this week. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, “The Lost Girl,” scintillatingly adapts Elena Ferrante’s 2008 novel about maternal ambivalence and vacations in Greece. The film, which begins airing Friday on Netflix, stars Olivia Colman as a …

By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – Allyship, a revamped old name, is Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year. The search site with 70 million monthly users took the unusual step of anointing a word it added last month, although the “alliance” first surfaced in the mid-1800s, said one of the company’s content supervisors, …

By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lawyer for Quentin Tarantino said Wednesday he has every right to create and sell an NFT “Pulp Fiction” series. Lawyer Bryan Freedman’s statement comes a day after entertainment company Miramax filed a lawsuit against the director’s plan to create and auction an NFT series based …

HONG KONG (AP) – Hong Kong’s swanky new M + Museum – Asia’s largest gallery with a billion-dollar collection – is set to open on Friday amid political and censorship controversy. M + has 183,000 square feet (17,000 square meters) of exhibition space, 33 galleries and more than 6,400 works in its collection that range …

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press entertainment reporters on what’s coming to TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. – The western gets an elegant and kinetic update in “The Harder They Fall” by Jeymes Samuel. The film, co-produced by Jay-Z and starring a star-studded cast, is based on real black characters …

By JAKE COYLE, AP screenwriter NEW YORK (AP) – Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” debuted with $ 40.1 million in ticket sales during its opening weekend in North America, drawing large numbers of moviegoers to see the thundering sci-fi epic on the big screen though it’s also available to stream in homes. Warner Bros. launched the Legendary …

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Media Editor NEW YORK (AP) – Fox News Media enters another hectic world – the weather. The company is launching Fox Weather, a free streaming service and app that it says will be used most often by customers on their mobile devices. In anticipation of early Monday, Fox has assembled a …

By JAKE COYLE, AP screenwriter The thing most often said about the Velvet Underground is Brian Eno’s joke that the band didn’t sell a lot of records, but everyone who bought one made a band. You won’t hear that line in Todd Haynes’ documentary “The Velvet Underground”, nor will you see a montage of famous …

CLEVELAND (AP) – The Cleveland Orchestra will receive a $ 50 million grant from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, the largest donation in the history of the 103-year-old musical organization. The orchestra said Thursday that $ 31.5 million would go towards its endowment, the financial foundation of the orchestra and to support an …

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Media Editor NEW YORK (AP) – NBC opened the new TV season with a dominant week against its rivals, and it wasn’t just football that was to blame. The network’s Sunday Night Football franchise was by far the most-watched prime-time program last week, as it traditionally does every fall. But NBC …