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Bill Maher said he put the kibosh on an interview with Ye – the mercurial rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who has been repeatedly accused of antisemitic rhetoric.

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It starts humbly, a gnarled turnip emerging from the soil in the early morning light; carrots and lettuces collected and assembled alongside fish and poultry and cream in a large country kitchen. These plants and animals pulled from the earth, ready to be transformed with the precise applications of fat and heat.

With “The Taste of Things” in theaters as an ideal Valentine’s Day movie date option, the only things to stream should be the best films of star Juliette Binoche, an Academy Award-winning icon whose streaming filmography should have a Valentine’s Day option for everyone, no matter the mood. For the more traditional romantic option, the best bet is “Chocolat” the 2000 film directed by Lasse ...

The equal parts forgettable and regrettable teen comedy “Lisa Frankenstein” stars Kathryn Newton (best known as Paul Rudd’s daughter in the latest “Ant-Man” movie) as the title character, a mopey high school misfit whose spiritual predecessors are “Beetlejuice”-era Winona and “Desperately Seeking Susan”-era Madonna.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am openly gay, as my family and friends have known for years. I have received an invitation from a close family member for a wedding to be held in a church that has taken public anti-gay positions.

Leftover rice is something many of us have on hand often, whether it’s surplus from a takeout order or homemade batch.

The question of who owns a recipe comes with a large dash of uncertainty.

Kate Otterstrom and Julia Child have a few things in common: They both love the book, “My Life in France” (written by Child, adored by Otterstrom); they both love food; and they both took several years to get their first cookbooks published (Julia Child: nine, Kate Otterstrom: 12.)

Country singer-songwriter Toby Keith passed away at 62.

Dear Annie: I have three kids and four bonus kids. They are all adults and living great lives. Most of them live in the same city as my husband and I.

Dear Doctors: It’s a tradition in my husband’s family to start the new year with a dip in the ocean. We live in Maryland, so that means it’s freezing cold. I see on social media that doing a cold plunge is now a craze. Is it true what they’re saying, that it’s good for you?

Dear Annie: When my parents divorced, they could barely stand to be in the same room with each other. This went on into my adulthood.

Taylor Swift just unveiled a new album at the 66th Grammy Awards on Sunday, and it's not the one her fans were expecting. Upon accepting the award for pop vocal album, Swift thanked the Recording Academy for its support, which is a "direct reflection of the fans." As a token of her gratitude to her devoted fan base, she announced her newest release, "The Tortured Poets Department," is on its ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m sorry, honey, but the dinner party is going extinct and has been for the last 50 years. Because who cares?

Women dominated the 66th annual Grammy Awards, with a history-making album of the year win by Taylor Swift and major wins for Miley Cyrus and Billie Eilish, along with victories for Lainey Wilson and Colombian pop star Karol G.

From the midst of the audience at the opening of Saturday’s concert of the Spokane Symphony at the Fox there sounded a plaintive song, longing for release from the disappointments and alienation of earthly life and a wish that the singer be able to take flight and live out his life beyond the sky. It was a deeply touching Ukrainian song of the 19th century and the singer was Michael Sinitsa, whose beautiful baritone voice and crystalline diction must have melted the hearts of everyone present and set the tone for the moving and thought-provoking concert that followed.

“If you are not rich, you’re not getting rich,” the writer Fran Lebowitz once quipped about life in contemporary America. Judging from “Get the Picture,” Bianca Bosker’s mesmerizing new book about New York’s contemporary art scene, Lebowitz might as well have been talking about cultural capital. If you’re not born with it, you probably won’t amass much of it, because the gatekeepers in this book make it clear that they’re not sharing any wealth. “The art world is the way it is because not everyone has access to it. And not everyone understands it. And that’s sort of what creates interest and intrigue,” a gallerist on the Lower East Side tells the author.

Gonzaga professor Reinaldo Gil Zambrano's printmaking art exhibit, "Pulling Roots: Reinaldo Gil Zambrano," debuts February 10 and runs through April 20 at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.