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Signed in purple ink, Minnesota dedicates highway to Prince

CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) — The late pop superstar Prince is being honored in Minnesota as the state renames a seven-mile stretch of highway that runs past his Paisley Park recording studios. Minnesota Gov. Tim Waz used purple ink on Tuesday to sign the bill that dedicates the roadway formerly ...

Summer Movies: 6 breakout performances to watch

Anonymity can be an actor's best friend, but this summer several talents are primed to make themselves known in major film roles, whether it's losing the alien makeup, the protective shield of character work or the comforts of niche small-screen fandoms. Here are six actors bound to have ...

Grace Bumbry, 1st Black singer at Bayreuth, dies at 86

NEW YORK (AP) — Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world's top stages, has died. She was 86. Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in ...

Review: ‘Heavens’ profiles figures in modern space race

"When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach," by Ashlee Vance (Ecco) During the space race of the 1960s that was chronicled by Tom Wolfe in "The Right Stuff," the era was personified by larger-than-life heroes like John Glenn, Gus Grissom and Alan ...

Review: All creatures great and small in ‘Guardians 3’

When Peter "Star-Lord" Quill, while inspecting a murky extraterrestrial region, pressed play on Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love" in the first "Guardians of the Galaxy," it would have been hard to imagine that James Gunn's space opera would ultimately lead to something as sincere, poignant and ...

‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ opens to $114 million

There is nothing like the promise of a chapter closing to draw people to the movie theater, especially when tied to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This weekend, " Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," which says goodbye to this iteration of the space misfits and its driving creative voice, director ...