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This Aug. 30, 2019 photo shows chef JJ Johnson posing with two signature rice bowls, one salmon and one vegetable, outside his Field Trip counter-service restaurant kiosk on the food court at the US Open tennis championships in New York. Johnson's new cookbook "The Simple Art of Rice: Recipes from Around the World for the Heart of Your Table," a book co-authored with Danica Novgorodoff, celebrates rice's versatility. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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Chef JJ Johnson's new cookbook celebrates rice, the humble grain that feeds the world
By MARK KENNEDY - AP Entertainment Writer
Mon,09/25/23-1:41PM , 43 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Chef JJ Johnson uses rice at home in many different ways — making crepes with his kids, using leftover rice for his wife's salad and frying it for dinner multiple ways. “Rice is a Swiss army knife. It can do so much for you,” he says.
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This image shows cover art for the latest edition of the Guinness World Records. The 2024 edition has taken our watery world as its theme. That means there's entries for the largest octopuses, largest hot spring and deepest shark among the 2,638 achievements. (Guinness World Records via AP)

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Longest, fastest, zaniest: Guinness World Records celebrates the 'crazy, fun, inspiring'
By MARK KENNEDY - AP Entertainment Writer
Mon,09/25/23-12:59PM , 57 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Do you know the highest average grossing movie franchise in history? That's easy, “Avatar.” What about the record for the most balloons popped in one minute by a pogostick?
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This image released by the Signature Theatre shows Nova Y. Payton during a performance of "Into the Woods" at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va. The theater offers a monthly streaming interview program, new online play readings and digital previews of upcoming shows for subscribers. (Daniel Rader/Signature Theatre via AP)

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It's not all grim across regional theater. Some venues offer ways to beat the post-pandemic blues
By MARK KENNEDY - AP Entertainment Writer
Fri,09/22/23-9:57AM , 109 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Everyone who enters Barter Theatre in southwestern Virginia is met and welcomed by Katy Brown, the producing artistic director.
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Bill Maher arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 27, 2022. Mahr has delayed returning to his HBO talk show during the ongoing strike by writers and actors, a decision following similar pauses in the past few days by “The Drew Barrymore Show,” “The Talk” and “The Jennifer Hudson Show.” (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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Bill Maher postpones return to the air, the latest TV host to balk at working during writers strike
By MARK KENNEDY - AP Entertainment Writer
Mon,09/18/23-12:16PM , 5 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Maher has delayed returning to his HBO talk show during the ongoing strike by writers and actors, a decision that follows similar pauses over the weekend by “The Drew Barrymore Show,” “The Talk” and “The Je
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