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The Hold Steady have announced their eighth album ‘Open Door Policy’ – listen to lead single ‘Family Farm’ below.Following on from last year’s ‘Thrashing Thru The Passion’, the 11-track record is due for release in February on the band’s Positive Jams label (via Thirty Tigers).It was recorded at The Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, New York alongside producer Josh Kaufman and engineer D. James Goodwin.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences plans to keep with an all-virtual roster of awards — including the Daytime Emmys — in 2021. The New York-based org made the announcement on Tuesday morning, and impacts the Sports Emmy Awards, the News & Documentary Emmys and the Technology & Engineering Emmys.

first celebrity to win the US edition of the quizshow Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – and he has donated the million-dollar top prize to restaurant workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.For his final question, Chang was asked to name the first US president to have electricity in the White House.

Natalie Oganesyan editorLongtime technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and former CEO of Zappos Tony Hsieh died as a result of injuries sustained in a house fire Nov. 18 while visiting family in Connecticut, the New York Times reported.

The 21st Century witnessed some of the best performances from World Cinema. While there were a few veteran actors who continued to hold moviegoers' attention in the past two decades, there were several others who held the spotlight and had the world bowing down to them.

Mariah Carey, Kevin Bacon and Kelly Ripa appearing on Heroes of New York, to Joey Fatone celebrating a ’90s throwback Friendsgiving, to DJ Cassidy announcing his third Pass The Mic airing on BET.

Jordan Moreau Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill” audiobook, in which details how he broke the Harvey Weinstein story, earned a Grammy nomination for best spoken word album on Tuesday.Farrow won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for public service for his reporting in The New Yorker.

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NEW YORK -- “Jeopardy!” record-holder Ken Jennings will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Alex Trebek when the show resumes production next Monday.Producers announced Monday that Jennings, who won 74 games in a row and claimed the show's “Greatest of All Time” title in a competition last year, will host episodes that air in January.A long-term host for Trebek, who died of cancer on Nov.

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Eli Countryman New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be given the International Emmy Founders Award for effective communication and leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced Friday.The award is being given to acknowledge Cuomo’s use of television to provide information and a sense of calm to viewers.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorTim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, continued his attacks on Apple and Google for the 30% share of app sales they take from his company and other app developers.“Apple is a monopoly and it’s not just a matter of a distributor charging a commission,” Sweeney said at the New York Times DealBook Online Summit, a rare public appearance during which he also touched on topics like financial models, COVID-19, virtual events and the future of gaming.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEncores!, the acclaimed series of concert-style theatrical productions founded to rediscover overlooked Broadway gems of years past, announced plans to stage Into The Woods, the beloved Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical that is anything but overlooked.Into The Woods, which has been staged, revived and filmed many times over (including the 2014 feature film starring Meryl Streep and James Corden), will be the first of a new Encores! mission to

NEW YORK -- James McBride's latest novel and nonfiction by poets Claudia Rankine and Natasha Trethewey are among the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for fiction and nonfiction.The American Library Association announced Tuesday that McBride's “Deacon King Kong" was a fiction nominee, along with Ayad Akhtar's novel “Homeland Elegies” and an acclaimed debut novel, Megha Majumdar's “A Burning.” The nonfiction finalists are Trethewey's “Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir," Rankine's “Just

Muzz, the new band formed by Interpol frontman Paul Banks, The Walkmen drummer Matt Barrick, and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman, have announced their first ever live performance.The band, who announced their formation in March along with debut single ‘Bad Feeling’, will play a livestreamed set preceded by a Q+A on December 4 at 9pm GMT (1pm PST, 4pm EST).The show is set to be broadcast direct from Reade’s Old Kingston Theater in New York, with the trio playing alongside additional musicians

Donald Trump just spoke in public for the first time since losing the 2020 presidential election and he still is not accepting the results.

Kim Ng is making sports history after being hired as the general manager of the Miami Marlins.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAs first reported last week by Variety, the Los Angeles-based Television Academy has eliminated its children’s program category at the Primetime Emmys, ceding kids awards to its New York counterpart: the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which administers the Daytime Emmys (as well as sports, news and documentary and other awards).That may not sound like a big deal — after all, it makes sense that kids TV be grouped together on one