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Johnny Pacheco played music that made it impossible to sit still. The Dominican-born multi-instrumentalist experimented with different Latin American musical styles, though he was particularly enamored with Afro-Cuban genres like charanga and pachanga. He was a bandleader, producer and record label head with an eye for talent, and his famed Fania Records would make stars

Lord Anthony Bridgerton officially has his love interest for Season 2 of the hit Netflix series “Bridgerton.” Actress Simone Ashley has been cast as Kate Sharma, according to a tweet from Netflix. “Get ready to fall in love with Simone Ashley, who will play Kate in Season 2 of Bridgerton. Kate is a smart, headstrong

NBC puts together a high-profile tag team in “Young Rock” and “Kenan,” comedies featuring Dwayne Johnson and Kenan Thompson. While the former feels a tad overinflated in its biographical dive into the star’s early life, the latter crafts a pretty conventional series around the “Saturday Night Live” star, all the way down to the dead

Kenny Chesney has shared that he lost a close friend in a helicopter crash. The country star took to Instagram to share the sad news. “Today I have to say a very hard goodbye to my friend Maria Rodriguez in the Virgin Islands. Maria and others were killed today in a helicopter crash in St.

Several gorillas are back in public view for visitors at the San Diego Zoo after making a full recovery from Covid-19, according to an update from the zoo. Eight western lowland gorillas caught the West Coast variant of the virus, despite employees adhering to all recommended biosecurity precautions, zoo officials said. A surge of Covid-19

What do you get when you put a former opera singer, two ex-boyfriends, her French mother, an adopted Scottish brother, a Dutch tango instructor, a Norwegian flower designer and a cheery Argentine house manager together into a sprawling 40-room French chateau? Well, you get “The Chateau Diaries,” the unlikely YouTube quarantine hit that has made

“American Idol” returned Sunday night, with Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie behind the judges table once again. Season 19 kicked off with Bryan growing emotional over a performance by contestant Grace Kinstler, who performed Gladys Knight & the Pips’ “Midnight Train to Georgia” and Aretha Franklin’s “(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural

John Oliver returned to TV Sunday after a winter hiatus from “Last Week Tonight.” It was the first episode since his last show, which aired in November, and he covered a lot of ground, including former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, and a stark warning about the possibility of another

Freed from the formalities that accompany a traditional royal baby announcement, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, turned to a friend to reveal their news on Sunday. The result was an understated, black-and-white portrait of the pair, gazing into each other’s eyes under a wintry sun, Meghan’s hand resting gently on a bump that

Netflix has added another true-crime series to its ever-growing roster — and it certainly has people Googling all the dark details about the hotel at the center of it. “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” which premiered this week, is a four-part docuseries about the mysterious death of Canadian college student and hotel

Premium economy. The two words might seem a weird combination in airline terms, since it’s a rare airline where economy seats feel premium these days. But these seats between coach and business class on international flights were heating up even before Covid-19, and as we all start to travel again in 2021, they’re set to

“Bachelor” host Chris Harrison said Saturday he is “stepping aside” from the show “for a period of time” after defending a frontrunner on the current season who came under scrutiny for social media photos from her past. “This historic season of The Bachelor should not be marred or overshadowed by my mistakes or diminished by

Something you have on your 2021 bingo card? Netflix is adding another true-crime series to its ever-growing roster. “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” which premiered this week, is a four-part docuseries about the mysterious death of Canadian college student and hotel guest Elisa Lam. After disappearing from her room in the Los

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not recommending a Covid-19 testing requirement before domestic air travel, the CDC tells CNN. Federal officials said this week that they had been considering a testing requirement. “At this time, CDC is not recommending required point of departure testing for domestic travel,” according to a CDC

Actress Ashley Judd is in an ICU unit in South Africa after her leg was “shattered” in an accident in the Congo, which she recounted in an Instagram Live interview. “Accidents happen — and there was a fallen tree on the path which I didn’t see and I had a very powerful stride going and