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The organizers of Wacken Open Air, a hard rock and metal festival in northern Germany, have asked visitors to leave their heavy metal at home.

Top New Shows (US): 1. The Girlfriends, iHeartPodcasts 2. The Really Good Podcast, Bobbi Althoff 3. How Rude, Tanneritos!, iHeartPodcasts 4. Detective Perspective, Derrick Levasseur 5. Rattled & Shook , Tenderfoot TV 6.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Dead Fall by Brad Thor - 9781982182229 - (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. The Collector by Daniel Silva - 9780062834935 - (Harper) 3. Light Bringer by Pierce Brown - 9780425285985 - (Random House Worlds) 4.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. The Little Mermaid (2023) 2. The Super Mario Bros. Movie 3. The Flash 4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 5. John Wick: Chapter 4 6. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 7. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 8. Sisu 9.

Nonfiction 1. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 2. American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, narrated by Jeff Cummings (Blackstone Audio, Inc.) 3.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 6-12: Aug. 6: Children’s music performer Ella Jenkins is 99. Actor-director Peter Bonerz is 85. Actor Louise Sorel (“Days of Our Lives”) is 83. Actor Ray Buktenica (“Rhoda”) is 80. Actor Dorian Harewood is 73.

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese distributor of the Warner Bros. movie “Barbie” has apologized for its U.S. parent company’s reaction to social media posts about the “Barbenheimer” blitz that combined images of Barbie and a mushroom cloud.

The creator of the CBC hit series "Little Mosque on the Prairie" is among the finalists for this year's Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

TORONTO — Cineplex Inc. says it saw its highest July box office of all time as "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" sent droves to theatres last month. The Toronto-based cinema chain says the record month surpassed $86 million in net box office revenues.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O'Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25. Cloud's publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California.