James Taylor on how he takes a song and makes it his own

NEW YORK -- The top 10 songs of the year by Associated Press Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu (a playlist of the songs can be found here ):1. Keedron Bryant, “I Just Wanna Live": During times of turmoil and unrest, people respond differently.

Trey Songz came under fire after holding a 500-person indoor “Champagne Saturdays” event at the Aftermath night club in Columbus, Ohio, per the New York Post. During the Dec.

James Taylor has revealed how John Lennon‘s killer gave him an unsettling message about the late Beatles icon only a day before he shot him dead.Today (December 8) marks 40 years since Lennon was killed by Mark David Chapman outside the entrance to New York’s Dakota apartment building, where he was living with wife Yoko Ono.Speaking to The Telegraph, Taylor explained how he encountered Chapman a day before the murder took place.Chapman, who was 25 at the time, was said to be “glistening with

New York City is allowing parents to send their kids back to school with consent to perform required COVID testing but New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz, a NYC school district parent, told Fox & Friends" this is just another “ridiculous” protocol by the state. The New York City Board of Health announced Saturday students who have not completed testing consent forms will be prohibited from returning to school.

NEW YORK -- Roddy Ricch is the king of Apple Music: The rapper has the music platform’s most-streamed song and album of the year.Apple announced Thursday that Ricch achieved the feat with his hit “The Box” and his debut album, “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial.”Rappers dominated the Top 5 most-streamed albums on Apple Music, with Lil Baby’s “My Turn,” Pop Smoke’s “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon” and Lil Uzi Vert’s “Eternal Atake — LUV vs.

A small side-effect of the pandemic—very small, given the scale of the overall disaster—has been an obvious buckling of the film calendar. Dates have been pushed. Release dates revised. Decisions postponed. The awards season is a mess.

NEW YORK -- Author James McBride and editor Chris Jackson were among those honored Thursday night by the Center for Fiction.McBride and Showtime received an On Screen Award for the acclaimed adaptation of his prize-winning historical novel “The Good Lord Bird,” which starred Ethan Hawke as the radical 19th century abolitionist John Brown. Jackson, whose authors range from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Bryan Stevenson, was given the Medal for Editorial Excellence Award.

Netflix, starring Hugh Grant.The actor, currently starring in The Undoing, confirmed his upcoming project with the Black Mirror creator in a recent interview with New York Magazine.“Charlie Brooker has written a mockumentary about 2020. It’s for Netflix,” Grant revealed.

Australia, worked on Wall Street for many years before taking over as the head of the World Bank, a loan-offering global development organization, in 1995.

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.

Taylor Swift’s new concert documentary, Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, is headed to Disney+.The film – which was directed by Swift and filmed at Long Pond Studio, New York – was announced on Tuesday (November 24, 2020) and will debut on the streamer just one day later, a short trailer for the project reveals.It sees Swift reunite with The National’s Aaron Dessner – who owns the studio – and her other co-producer, Jack Antonoff, to perform each song off Folklore and share the stories

Taylor Swift is confirming a heavily speculated fan theory.

Taylor Swift has yet another surprise in store for fans. The superstar singer-songwriter announced Tuesday that she'd filmed a concert film for her latest release, the quarantine-created Folklore, which will premiere on Disney+ on Wednesday, Nov.

The New York Times took three days to print a correction of a significant error in its reporting about the Georgia recount process. After stating Friday that only "several hundred" uncounted ballots were found during the recount of the Georgia presidential contest, the Timeswaited until Monday to correct it to "more than 5,000." The article appeared on the front page of Saturday's edition, and the correction did not make it to print until Tuesday.

New York City police announced Tuesday the arrest of a homeless man suspected of pushing a straphanger into the subway tracks in Brooklyn over the weekend. Michael Medlock, 33, was nabbed shortly after 12:30 a.m.Tuesday in connection with the Sunday morning attack, in which he allegedly shoved a 29-year-old man onto the tracks from the platform of the Atlantic Avenue station, the New York Police Department said.