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Image copyright Michael Lionstar Image caption The author’s best-sellers include Breathing Lessons and The Accidental Tourist While many of us may be struggling to adapt to staying at home and avoiding social contact, Anne Tyler prefers it that way. “I need to be alone,” one of America’s greatest living writers told the BBC. “I feel […]

The coronavirus-era adaptation to working from home is taking its toll on everyone, and now there’s a face for that struggle: Potato boss. Lizet Ocampo is the political director of People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy organization that works to build democracy by tackling right-wing extremism and encouraging civic engagement. Like many offices

Image caption Greg James, Demot O’Leary, Lauren Laverne, Dotty and Harpz Kaur hosted the broadcast from separate studios UK radio listeners formed a nationwide choir on Thursday, as five BBC stations teamed up for a communal singalong. For the first time, Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music, 1 Xtra and Asian Network all broadcast the

Andrea Bocelli is doing his part to ease the strain as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic. The legendary Italian opera singer brought his soaring notes to the homes of Americans watching “HomeFest,” James Corden’s star-filled “Late Late Show” special on Monday night. He joined the show via video from Tuscany, which, like the rest

K-Pop star Kim Jaejoong faced backlash on social media after he reportedly falsely claimed — as part of an April Fools’ Day stunt — to have been hospitalized in Japan for the coronavirus. Multiple K-pop websites reported Wednesday that Jaejoong initially posted on Instagram that he’d been infected “as a result of my negligence, ignoring the

Police showed up to raid a comedy club in Liverpool, England, over the weekend after being tipped off about an illegal gig that was being held in front of a packed audience during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown. But officers from Merseyside Police found the Hot Water Comedy Club shuttered and completely empty. It later emerged

This April Fools’ Day may not have brought the same levity as previous years, but Lil Nas X found a self-effacing way to mark the unofficial holiday anyway.  On Wednesday morning, the newly minted LGBTQ icon declared he was “never gay” on Twitter, joking that his much-publicized coming out last year was merely a ploy

Ali Wentworth announced Wednesday she had tested positive for coronavirus. The 55-year-old actor and comedian revealed her diagnosis in an Instagram post, saying she was feeling extremely ill and was isolating from the rest of her family. “I’ve never been sicker,” she wrote. “High fever. Horrific body aches. Heavy chest. I’m quarantined from my family.

The star of the Netflix series “Tiger King” is now in isolation due to concerns about the coronavirus, according to his husband. Joe Maldonado-Passage, aka “Joe Exotic,” is currently being housed at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for his role in a murder-for-hire plot that was the focus of the popular crime documentary. “We

Songwriter Adam Schlesinger died Wednesday from complications of the coronavirus. He was 52. Schlesinger’s attorney of 25 years, Josh Grier, told Variety that the songwriter had been “very sick and heavily sedated” in an upstate New York hospital for more than a week at the time of his death. Schlesinger was best known for composing “Stacy’s