AP Entertainment Digest for Thursday, June 11, 2020

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THURSDAY, June 11

UPDATES with AMERICA PROTESTS-MUSIC-LADY A, COMCAST BYRON ALLEN , EDITORIAL CARTOON OWNERS RESIGN, AMERICA PROTESTS-PHARRELL-BLACK LIVES MATTER-ART

MUSIC-NORAH JONES — Non-released songs from recording sessions in the last two years make up Norah Jones’ new album “Pick Me Up Off the Floor,” to be released Friday. By Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu. SENT: 706 words, photos, video

AMERICA PROTESTS-MUSIC-LADY A — Grammy-winning country group Lady Antebellum is changing their name to Lady A, saying they are regretful for not taking into consideration the word’s associations with slavery. By Entertainment Writer Kristin M. Hall. SENT: 222 words, photos.

MUSIC-SINGING NURSES — Nurses at Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s palliative care unit are using music and songwriting to help them express the complexity of emotions they experience during a time of pandemic. By Entertainment Writer Kristin M. Hall. SENT: 536 words, photos, video.

COMCAST BYRON ALLEN — Comcast and Byron Allen have settled a long-running a long-running racial discrimination dispute, and the cable giant will add three of the black media mogul’s channels to its cable packages. By Business Writer Tali Arbel. SENT: 250 words, photo

ITALY-RECOVERED BANKSY — Italian authorities have unveiled a stolen artwork by the British artist Banksy that was painted as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks at the Bataclan music hall in Paris. The L’Aquila prosecutors office said the work was recovered Wednesday during a search of a home in Tortoreto. By Andrea Rosa. SENT: 265 words, photos.

BRITAIN-QUEEN-VIDEO CALL — Queen Elizabeth II has taken part in her first public video conference call to chat to four carers about the challenges they face looking after someone close to them during the coronavirus pandemic. The 94-year-old monarch made the call as part of Carers Week in the U.K. By Pan Pylas. SENT: 370 words, photos.

EDITORIAL CARTOON OWNERS RESIGN — The publisher of a family-owned Missouri newspaper has resigned after publishing a racist syndicated cartoon. The cartoon published in Wednesday’s Washington Missourian shows a black man grabbing a white woman’s purse. By Summer Ballantine. SENT: 243 words

AMERICA PROTESTS-PHARRELL-BLACK LIVES MATTER-ART — Virginia Beach is considering painting Black Lives Matter down its oceanfront boardwalk after a Grammy-winning musician from the city supported the idea on social media. Recording artist Pharrell Williams proposed the tribute in an Instagram post this week, adding a photo of what the message would look like along the boardwalk. SENT: 231 words, photo.

PROFESSOR-SOCIAL MEDIA PROTESTS — Celebrities from the former hit TV show “One Tree Hill,” are calling on a university in North Carolina to remove a professor after he called the state’s governor “Massa Cooper.” SENT: 392 words, photo.

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REVIEWS

FILM REVIEW-KING OF STATEN ISLAND. By Film Writer Lindsey Bahr. SENT Monday: 700 words, film stills.

FILM REVIEW-DA 5 BLOODS. By National Writer Jocelyn Noveck. SENT Wednesday: 780 words, film stills.

FILM REVIEW-ARTEMIS FOWL. By Film Writer Jake Coyle. Upcoming: 700 words by noon Thursday, per studio embargo, film stills.

MUSIC REVIEW-GONE WEST. Reviewed by AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy. SENT Tuesday: 406 words, album cover.

BOOK REVIEW-THIN GIRLS BY DIANA CLARK. Reviewed by Molly Sprayregen. SENT Monday: 224 words, cover image.