Entertainment

The best TV shows of 2022 (so far)

Summer is the perfect time to catch up on all the shows your friends are buzzing about, especially if you subscribe to streaming services. Here are 10, in alphabetical order, that stood out during the first six months of 2022.
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A record boom: Manufacturers struggle to keep pace with demand for vinyl

The arrival of the compact disc nearly killed off record albums, with vinyl pressing machines sold, scrapped and dismantled by major record labels. Four decades later, with resuscitated record album sales producing double-digit annual growth, manufacturers are rapidly rebuilding an industry to keep pace with sales that reached $1 billion last year.
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An updated take on Elvis

On the day of Austin Butler’s final screen test for “Elvis,” director Baz Luhrmann threw everything at him. Butler had spent five months building up to that moment, workshopping the role with Luhrmann, doing hair and makeup tests, rehearsing the songs.
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‘The Lies I Tell’ is a hard to put down thriller

“The Lies I Tell” by Julie Clark (Sourcebooks Landmark) NEW YORK (AP) — Clear your schedule to read “The Lies I Tell” because this book is nearly impossible to put down from the first page. It begins from the perspective of Kat Roberts, an unsatisfied journalist, who has waited 10 years to expose the many grifts of Meg Williams, a con artist who she blames for altering the course of her own life when she was on an uphill trajectory.
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The Heart and Hand: Former ISD art teacher goes full-time with artwork

A while back, Susan Jackson was looking through some family mementos when she found a letter she wrote to herself when she was 9 years old. The former Independence School District art teacher, who is now a fulltime artist who works under the banner The Heart and Hand Company, read the letter and began to smile.
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‘Lightyear’ blends adult drama, kid adventure

Disney has made big business mining content from content, with spinoffs and sequels and multiverses dancing through multiplexes and streaming apps. “Lightyear,” the latest Disney/Pixar animated film, has been extracted from the much-beloved “Toy Story” universe, but it’s a bit unique.
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Debut novelist hits the right notes

“Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus; Doubleday (400 pages, $29) Beautiful, unconventional intellectual Elizabeth Zott and lonely, athletic genius Calvin Evans have survived childhood trauma and loneliness and found happiness. The talented young midcentury scientists have “actual chemistry” — and the toxic envy of their colleagues at the Hastings Research Institute in Commons, California.
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Carrie Underwood amps it up with album and tour

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — No one can accuse Carrie Underwood of underdressing — or underdelivering — when the country superstar puts out her latest record “Denim & Rhinestones” during the same weekend of CMA Fest and giving tens of thousands of fans a stadium-sized performance.
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