For Black men, fashion has been a tool of self-expression — and a way they’ve been judged by The Associated Press

By DEEPTI HAJELA NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up on the south side of Chicago, the Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley was given the message early on: What one wore as a Black man mattered. Wesley’s …

AP PHOTOS: Pakistani truck art elevates heavy transport into mobile masterpieces by The Associated Press

By ANJUM NAVEED RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — Trucks thunder along Pakistan’s dusty highways and through bustling city streets, like rolling canvases ablaze with color and poetry, transfor…

‘Buena Vista Social Club,’ ‘Death Becomes Her’ and ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ lead Tony Award nominations by The Associated Press

Nominators gave nods to George Clooney, Sarah Snook and Bob Odenkirk in their debuts.

Oui, chef! ‘Carême’ introduces world’s first (sexy) celebrity chef, a Napoleonic-era kitchen god by The Associated Press

By JOCELYN NOVECK He’s a dream in the kitchen — and elsewhere in the house. He makes a mean cream-puff tower. And he’s got moves like Jagger. Alas, Antonin Carême has been dead since …

AP PHOTOS: LGBTQ+ models showcase Lady Gaga-inspired outfits at Rio de Janeiro train station by The Associated Press

By SILVIA IZQUIERDO RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Members of the LGBTQ+ community on Tuesday modeled creations inspired by Lady Gaga’s iconic style at a fashion show in Brazil featuring …

A look at dandyism, the Black fashion style powering the Met Gala by The Associated Press

By BEATRICE DUPUY NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion icons like Dapper Dan, Janelle Monáe and the late André Leon Talley are known for their distinctive approaches to sartorial style — bold splas…

Late photographers. Surly photographers. Here’s how to make sure wedding memories are made by The Associated Press

By LEANNE ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Like all brides, Elana Goldin had high hopes for her wedding photos and video. “I loved their images,” she said of the company picked by her dad and fu…

Summer Movie Guide 2025: Here’s what’s coming to theaters and streaming from May to August by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press Ethan Hunt’s last mission? A new Superman? Happy Gilmore as a dad? Three genre-spanning Pedro Pascal movies, including a romance, a superhero movie and an A24 Ari A…

Farmstand chic? Décor is awash in fruit and vegetable motifs by The Associated Press

By KIM COOK Interior designer and stylist Jonny Carmack has a “fruit room” in his Danbury, Connecticut, home. Colorful faux produce bedecks every inch, from the cherry-shaped ceiling fix…

Student gospel singers take stage at New Orleans festival known for celebrity acts by The Associated Press

By SHARON LURYE NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival each spring is known for hosting some of the world’s most famous jazz, funk and rock acts. Yet it’s also b…

What to Stream: Tina Fey and Steve Carell, Martha Stewart and José Andrés, and Maddie & Tae by The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick going to Italy for a wedding and some mafia intrigue in the movie “Another Simple Favor” and Tina Fey and Steve Carell reuniting for the …

A Mexican musician uses a contentious genre to sing of women imprisoned for killing their abusers by The Associated Press

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two days before her new album was launched, musical icon Vivir Quintana was behind barbed wire at a women’s prison in Mexico. The …

No burgers but plenty of crawfish at this iconic New Orleans music festival by The Associated Press

By JACK BROOK NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival kicks off on Thursday, bringing together a smorgasbord of the city’s most iconic homegrown artists for the nex…

Zimbabwe’s stone carvers seek a revival as an Oxford exhibition confronts a British colonial legacy by The Associated Press

By FARAI MUTSAKA CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe (AP) — A pair of white hands blinding a Black face. A smiling colonizer with a Bible, crushing the skull of a screaming native with his boot. Chained…

Superman’s religious and ethical undertones add to his mystique by The Associated Press

By DEEPA BHARATH of The Associated Press and BOB SMIETANA of Religion News Service Superman was born Kryptonian, raised Methodist and sketched into existence by two Jewish teens in 1930s Cle…

Takeaways from AP’s report on the religious and moral undercurrents in Superman comics by The Associated Press

By DEEPA BHARATH of The Associated Press and BOB SMIETANA of Religion News Service Superman comics are not overtly religious. Yet faith and morality have been baked into this superhero chara…

What to Stream: ‘Andor,’ ‘Babygirl’ and new Wu Tang Clan music by The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — The second season of the Star Wars series “Andor” and the streaming release of the Wu Tang Clan’s latest album are some of the new television, films, music and games …

PHOTO GALLERY: Japanese Star Wars fan convention by The Associated Press

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Maine’s hidden ‘Sistine Chapel’ inspires artists with 70-year-old frescoes by The Associated Press

The murals were painted by artists in the 1950s and have been appreciated by visitors for decades.

AP PHOTOS: Trump tariffs threaten the survival of the centuries-old Kashmiri carpet industry by The Associated Press

By DAR YASIN SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Mohammad Yousuf Dar and his wife, Shameema, sit cross-legged before their loom, deftly tying consecutive knots to create the floral patterns of the fame…

600 kinds of dogs? Pet illustrator Lili Chin aims to capture them all in whimsical drawings by The Associated Press

By ANITA SNOW Illustrator Lili Chin became fascinated with dog behavior in 2008 after her Boston terrier, Boogie, bit their landlord and they almost got evicted. Ordered by her landlord to g…

Artist Kehinde Wiley puts power in a new frame with paintings of African leaders by The Associated Press

The exhibition opened on Tuesday, entitled “A Maze of Power.”

See how a Michigan town moved 9,100 books one by one to their new home by The Associated Press

CHELSEA, Mich. (AP) — Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books — one by one — to a new storefro…

PHOTO COLLECTION: Bengali New Year by The Associated Press

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What to stream: Jude Law as a fed, a ‘Law & Order’ reunion and David Oyelowo in an oddball comedy by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press Mariska Hargitay reuniting with her old partner, Detective Elliot Stabler, on “Law & Order: Organized Crime” and Jude Law sporting a mustache and an American …

At a little known Rolls-Royce museum in Pennsylvania farm country, volunteers dote over iconic cars by The Associated Press

By MARK SCOLFORO MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Mike Fowler had been faintly aware that a museum of Rolls-Royce and Bentley vehicles existed near his boyhood home in the suburbs of Harrisburg, …

Prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington frees Ksenia Karelina, a U.S.-Russia dual national by The Associated Press

What to stream: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Viola Davis, Bon Iver, ‘The Last of Us’ and Jon Hamm by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” returning for its sixth and final season and Viola Davis playing a U.S. president in the action movie “G20” are some of the n…

Living abroad and hungry to see a Chinese movie on the biggest of screens, some took action by The Associated Press

By FU TING COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) — A group of Chinese people decided they wanted the nation’s biggest movie to be big in the United States, literally. So they made it really big. And therei…

Miami philanthropists donate an American masterpiece to Britain’s Tate Modern by The Associated Press

By JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Tate Modern art museum on Thursday unveiled one of the most significant gifts it has received in years – a masterpiece by an American abstract e…

‘The Friend’: When the star of the movie is a very good boy by The Associated Press

By JAKE COYLE NEW YORK (AP) — The star of “The Friend” has the loping stride of Robert Mitchum and the droopy, melancholy eyes of Peter Lorre. He has those classic Hollywood features �…