Get your boots ready for summer: Get a four-pack of country concert tickets this weekend. The Country Megaticket goes on sale Friday, featuring four hot summer shows at Hartford’s Xfinity Theatre: Jason Aldeanwith Luke Combsand Lauren Alaina, May 25; Rascal…

NEW YORK (AP) — The return of the Grammys to New York City for the first time in 15 years has hit a sour note, with the Recording Academy complaining that the city hasn’t met its commitment to shoulder the…

ABBEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has visited the grave of a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention and whose story was highlighted in Winfrey’s recent Golden Globes speech. Winfrey said in…

CHESTER, Va. (AP) — The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a leader in the civil rights movement who helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. assemble his famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” has died. He was either 88 or 89. Family…

Behind the headlines at the Academy Award nominations on Tuesday, there were some special achievements, including honors for Christopher Plummer and Kobe Bryant. – At age 88, Christopher Plummer becomes the oldest acting nominee to date. He already holds the…

Rachel Morrison made history Tuesday morning, becoming the first woman nominated for cinematography in the 90-year history of the Academy Awards. Nominated for Netflix’s “Mudbound,” Morrison made similar history two weeks ago with her nomination in the feature-film category at…

“Lady Bird” writer and director Greta Gerwig achieved on Tuesday what only four women before her have: an Academy Award nomination for directing. Gerwig is only the fifth woman to ever be nominated in the directing category, joining the short…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) – A drama about a dispute in divided Lebanon, a Chilean film with a transgender heroine and a Swedish art world satire were among the five contenders nominated Tuesday for the Academy Award for best foreign…

NEW HAVEN — A Connecticut theater’s artistic director is on administrative leave due to allegations of sexual misconduct. Long Wharf Theatre board chair Laura Pappano says she placed Gordon Edelstein on leave Monday following a report by The New York…

NEW YORK (AP) – Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” winner of the National Book Award for fiction, is now a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle prize. Other finalists announced Monday include Mohsin Hamid’s “Exit West” for fiction, Roxane…

LONDON (AP) – It will be a busy year for royal weddings: Princess Eugenie is engaged to be married later this year, several months after her cousin Prince Harry’s nuptials. Eugenie, the daughter of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah…

LOS ANGELES – The coordinated black-dress blackout of the Golden Globes from earlier this month may be in the rearview mirror, but there was still plenty of sartorial symbolism to be found on the arrivals red carpet Sunday at the…

NEW YORK – NBC’s Megyn Kelly lashed out at actress Jane Fonda Monday in a simmering dispute over an interview gone awry, even invoking the old “Hanoi Jane” nickname. Fonda had appeared alongside Robert Redford on one of the first…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With a still undetermined awards race and an industry undergoing tectonic shifts with the Me Too and Time’s Up movements, awards shows have become canaries in the coal mine. After the Golden Globes, it was clear…

LONDON (AP) — Former Kinks bassist Jim Rodford has died after a fall. He was 76. The Zombies, the group Rodford had played with since 1999, confirmed the death of the British musician on their Facebook page Saturday. Zombies co-founder…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Screen Actors Guild Awards’ tendency to predict eventual Oscar winners won’t be the only thing commanding attention when the 24th annual ceremony airs Sunday. The show is also focusing its spotlight on women, with nearly…

PARIS (AP) — Paul Bocuse, the master chef who defined French cuisine for nearly half a century and put it on tables around the world, a man who raised the profile of top chefs from invisible kitchen artists to international…

LOS ANGELES – Tom Petty’s family says his death last year was due to an accidental drug overdose. His wife and daughter released the results of Petty’s autopsy via a statement Friday on his Facebook page. Dana and Adria Petty…

HELSINKI (AP) — A “Game of Thrones”-themed ice hotel complete with a bar and a chapel for weddings has opened in northern Finland in a joint effort by a local hotel chain and the U.S. producers of the hit TV…

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gets a great inductee this year, and so does Mohegan Sun. Rock icons Bon Jovi will bring the spring leg of “This House Is Not for Sale” Tour to the casino, fresh off…