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TORONTO — Video games have long been a form of escapism from the banalities of life, often by giving players the chance to act as outsized characters tasked with performing improbable acts of heroism.

NEW YORK — Working at home on Wednesday was a little more involved than a laptop and cellphone for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.

NEW YORK — The spreading coronavirus cancelled several touring performances from A-list musical artists, but those acts have found a new venue to sing: their living rooms.

NASHVILLE — Kelsea Ballerini is an oversharer, both on social media and in songs, and those inner conversations, anxieties and obsessions show a country star navigating fame and pop music on her third album “kelsea.

NEW YORK — Movie theatres may be shuttered across the country, and projects delayed, but there is still newly released work of lurid and pulpy goodness from Brian De Palma.

OSSINING, N.Y. — Busting out of Sing Sing has been a dream of inmates since cell doors started clanging shut along the Hudson River in the 1820s.

From finding ways to help others cope to sheltering in place to cancelling events, here's a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reacting to the spread of the coronavirus, which most people recover from but can cause severe illness

The Globe and Mail leads the nominations for the 2019 National Newspaper Awards, with 19 of the 63 finalists in the running.

NEW YORK — Movie theatres may be shuttered across the country but there is still newly released work of lurid and pulpy goodness from Brian De Palma.

“ The Banker ” is an odd title for this film. It has the effect of underselling a fascinating story about a black business savant that was inspired by real events.