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AMSTERDAM — To tell the troubling story of the Netherlands' deep historical links to the slave trade, the country's national museum is making it personal.

Christopher Nolan movies almost demand another look and “ Tenet ” is no exception.

The Salzburg Festival in Austria is forging ahead with a full program for 2021 after becoming one of the few classical music organizations to manage a limited program last summer.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Ready Player Two” by Ernest Cline (Ballantine) 2. “Deadly Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 3. “A Time for Mercy" by John Grisham (Doubleday) 4. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 5.

LOS ANGELES — Ellen DeGeneres says she has tested positive for COVID-19 but is “feeling fine right now.

NASHVILLE — Musician and actor Kevin Bacon is bringing live music back to venues that have been shuttered this year with an all-star concert TV special.

A new series depicting railway workers in the historically Black Montreal community of Little Burgundy in the 1920s is bound for the CBC. The public broadcaster says it's partnered with the U.S.

And now, for our annual look at the year in pop culture…. Oh, wait. This was 2020. The year everything stopped cold. Well, not really.

BERLIN — A surrealist painting worth more than a quarter million euros (dollars) that was forgotten by a businessman at Duesseldorf's airport has been recovered from a nearby recycling dumpster, police said Thursday.

Marsha Hunt, the glamourous star of 1930s and '40s Hollywood films, doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about her own legacy.