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War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s.

The evening news brought the Vietnam War into American living rooms, but once the news was over, so was the war. Prime-time shows brought nary a mention of it as networks looked to bring uncontroversial content to the broadest possible audience.

Vietnam has been called the first “television” war.

NEW YORK (AP) — Many of Tina Knowles’ fondest childhood memories are of sitting under a pecan tree as her mother recited the history of their family, stretching back generations.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein ’s #MeToo retrial opened Wednesday, giving a new jury a fresh look at familiar rape and sexual assault allegations — plus a newly added claim from a former model.

TORONTO — Carly Rae Jepsen has been tapped to help adapt the teen rom-com "10 Things I Hate About You" for the Broadway stage. Producers say the singer-songwriter from Mission, B.C.

TORONTO — No Canadians are in the running for the Griffin Poetry Prize for the first time in the literary award's 25-year history.

Hot Docs is one step closer to selling its flagship theatre that's located in Toronto's midtown Annex neighbourhood.

“The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid.

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century. Burnett, 81, shot “Killer of Sheep” on black-and-white 16mm in the early 1970s for less than $10,000.