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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé leads the 2025 Grammys nominee pack, but Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Charli xcx are vying for their moment in the spotlight.

NEW YORK (AP) — Erin Entrada Kelly's “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year's outstanding children's book.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A lavish, MGM-style musical is not typical Sundance Film Festival fare.

As an executive producer and star of the new Hulu series “Paradise,” Sterling K. Brown put the hours of TV he watches to good use and cast actors he admires. “I got a chance to hire people that I am a fan of,” said Brown in a recent interview.

With the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the uncertainty of the geopolitical moment, it seems appropriate to start 2025 with some surreal fiction.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 2-8: Feb. 2: Singer Graham Nash is 83. Singer Howard Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers is 79. TV chef Ina Garten (“Barefoot Contessa”) is 77. Actor Jack McGee (“The McCarthys”) is 76.

NEW YORK (AP) — Expect some mayhem this spring, courtesy of Lady Gaga. The Grammy-winning songwriter and actor will release her seventh studio album March 7, which press materials say will explore “themes of chaos and transformation.

Marigold Hart walked out on her billionaire husband, taking their 7-year-old daughter with her. She moved cross country to New York City and has been living under an assumed name.

Paul Brightman, a former hedge fund manager, has been keeping a low profile, changing his name to Grant Anderson and making a modest living as a boat builder in a small New Hampshire town. But Paul fears it’s only a matter of time before he’s found.

If you read enough, you sometimes come across a book that defies description. That’s a decent enough way to start a review of “Old Soul,” the new novel by Susan Barker.