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BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Philharmonic is giving itself up to a year to find a successor to chief conductor Simon Rattle after the orchestra deadlocked in a marathon vote to anoint a new candidate.
NEW YORK (AP) — Major works by Mark Rothko and Roy Lichtenstein (LIHK’-tehn-styn) lead a Sotheby’s auction of contemporary art.
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC is adding a fourth series next season from producer Shonda Rhimes, another drama topped by a tough female character.
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You can take the Real Housewives out of New York City, but that Big Apple drama follows them across state lines. The women of The Real Housewives of New York City make their way to Atlantic City…
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Paula Deen has put her Savannah mansion on the market with an asking price of $12.5 million.
AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is asking HBO to film its movie about abolitionist Harriet Tubman at the historic site of her former home in central New York.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Many viewers will come to the HBO biopic “Bessie” with scant knowledge of its subject, blues legend Bessie Smith.
ISTANBUL (AP) — A statue erected in a Turkish city of an Ottoman prince taking a selfie with a cellphone has been vandalized amid strong criticism of the artwork.