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Leave it to Neil Young to give streaming songs a whole new meaning with a new album, “Before and After," out Friday. Young delivers reinventions of 13 deep tracks as one continuous piece of mostly acoustic music, with no breaks, over 48 minutes.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of some Athens short-term rental apartments by inventing a bedbug crisis.

Top Show of the Year Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus The Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — You won’t see Tom Hanks on one of those space tourism flights that whisk celebrities and millionaires on a suborbital jaunt for a few hours. He says it wouldn’t be enough time out of this world.

Top New Shows (US): 1. Tosh Show , iHeartPodcasts 2. Mortal Sin , Dateline NBC 3. Trump’s Trials , NPR 4. The Global Story , BBC Podcasts 5. Soder , Dan Soder 6. So Into That , Caro Chambers 7. Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty , iHeartPodcasts 8.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing, LLC) 2. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Inc.) 3.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. Oppenheimer 2. Barbie 3. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas 4. The Equalizer 3 5. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 6. The Holdovers 7. Dumb Money 8. Illumination Presents: Dr.

Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” Todd Haynes’ “May December” and Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” got a leading five nominations, including best feature, from the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

NEW YORK (AP) — Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts.

Hugh Grant learned some years ago that if a filmmaker doesn’t make something from the heart, it shows. The films that work best, and are most loved, he's found, are the ones that the directors really meant.