Selena Gomez is having quite a year, and it’s being capped with an engagement to music producer and songwriter Benny Blanco.

Jung Kook of BTS will join the Global Citizen Festival lineup, making one of his first live solo appearances at the Sept. 23 benefit concert in New York’s Central Park.

A sweeping novel set in a low-income housing community in Indiana, Tess Gunty’s “The Rabbit Hutch” has won the National Book Award for fiction.

The week dawned gloomily in New York.

A group of inter-generational stars from film, TV, sports and music — including Bruce Springsteen, Hugh Jackman, Elton John and Jon Bon Jovi, Jonas Brothers and Billie Eilish — have signed up for a social media campaign to show support for Ukraine.

At only 7 years old, Ji-Young is making history as the first Asian American muppet in the “Sesame Street” canon.

It was a family affair at the Billboard Music Awards: Pink twirled in the air in a powerful performance with her daughter, and Drake was named artist of the decade, accepting the honor alongside his 3-year-old son.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay, Riz Ahmed, Dua Lipa, Andra Day and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson all won honors Tuesday at the Webby Awards, which recognize the best internet content and creators.

HOUSTON – 15 of the best chefs around the country will be competing on the newest season of Bravo’s popular show “Top Chef,” and two local chefs will be representing Houston in what promises to be a sizzling culinary showdown. For more information on Top Chef, click here. Dawn Burrell on Season 18 of Bravo's "Top Chef" (David Moir/Bravo)Burrell is the partner and executive chef of Late August, a restaurant focused on Afro-Asian flavors, expected to open later in the year. To connect with Burrell, click here. AdTo connect with Grumman, click here.

Game show host Alex Trebek poses for a photo in his Los Angeles home on Aug. 3, 1988. Six nights a week for 36 years, after the evening news and before the firebrands of primetime cable opinion shows, Trebek brought together liberals and conservatives, city dwellers and rural folk, grandparents and grandchildren for a half-hour of brainy exercise. He was the composed college professor whose students endlessly speculated about what he was like when class was over. Trebek gave the role a gravitas, and a virtuosity, that didn't seem possible before him. Viewers will get a good bit more Trebek through episodes he has already taped, and through well over three decades of reruns.

Truly, Padma Lakshmi’s new show on Hulu, “Taste the Nation,” is the perfect thing to watch if you’re missing life on the road. The first episode of “Taste the Nation” illustrates just how Lakshmi will get to the bottom of her questions. “Taste the Nation” is also just a great showcase for Lakshmi. After being a cookbook author and reality TV show host, getting to take the lead on “Taste the Nation” is the cherry on top for this gifted woman. All episodes of “Taste the Nation” are currently streaming on Hulu.

The season, which premiered in March and ran through June, was filmed last year, with their trip to Italy in the finale taking place in the fall. I was still finding myself and being comfortable with my style of cooking and my confidence as a person. I really just took that energy and carried it over the next five or six years. Im going to cook the prosciutto because its going to be great and its going to taste good. I do feel, from my own experience on my seasons, theyve done a very good job diversifying the type of people you see in this competition, she says.

Now shes stepping out on her own with her timely new Hulu series, Taste the Nation, which explores immigrant food cultures across the country and what defines American cuisine. With the series, she wanted to show the larger American public what its like to be an immigrant in this country. What is American food actually? she explains. It seemed to me, we were willing to embrace immigrant food and make it our own, but yet we were still unwilling to embrace the people that made that food. Not only does Lakshmi shine a much-needed light on various immigrant food cultures in the U.S., but she also turns the camera on herself and her familys experiences as immigrants and how they relate to America through food.

NEW YORK Padma Lakshmi's next book is designed for the children's table. The Top Chef host and best-selling author is working on her first picture book, Tomatoes for Neela. Viking Children's Books announced Tuesday that the book is scheduled for fall 2021. According to the publisher, Tomatoes for Neela is an intergenerational story about a little girl who likes to cook and helps prepare her family's savory tomato sauce. Cooking and the passing down of food knowledge is one of the most enriching ways I bonded with the women in my family, said Lakshmi said in a statement. "And its how I bond today with my daughter, passing down skills and advice that I hope will give her a lifetime of healthy eating long after I am gone.The book is a collaboration with prize-winning illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal, and will include a recipe by Lakshmi, whose previous works include Easy Exotic and Love, Loss and What We Ate.

This combination of cover images show, from left, Rough and Rowdy Ways," by Bob Dylan, "Homegrown," a release by Neil Young and "Bigger Love" by John Legend. Peoples film will debut Friday on-demand on Juneteenth, the annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Miss Juneteenth isnt about that history but the contemporary African American struggle to remain in the middle class. AP Film Writer Jake CoyleMUSICBob Dylan: Its been eight years since the legend Bob Dylan released an album of original material. Neil Young: Neil Young also has a new album out on Friday, though he finished it 45 years ago.