Photo The rapper Cardi B performs at the BET Hip-Hop Awards. Credit Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images for BET BET celebrates hip-hop’s prized artists and producers. And the Flash is reborn in the superhero series’ fourth season. What’s on TV HIP-HOP AWARDS 8 p.m. on BET. The producer DJ Khaled hosts as …

Photo Mark Hamill in a scene from the new trailer for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” Look who’s back! Fans saw more of Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker in the 154-second trailer unveiled Monday night for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” than they did in the entire 135-minute running time of …

Photo Anna Netrebko Credit Maxim Shipenkov/European Pressphoto Agency MOSCOW — Two of the world’s most important opera companies, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Bolshoi Theater here, will collaborate on three stagings in coming years, they announced on Monday. The productions — Verdi’s “Aida,” Strauss’s “Salome” and Wagner’s …

As angry as “{my lingerie play}” is, and it is pretty angry, it’s also a friendly, feel-good celebration of human beings sharing a space where it’s safe for them to be themselves — and safe for Ms. Oh to stand onstage in her lingerie with her skimpily attired, glitter-dusted band …

Photo “Do not let me be fired,” Harvey Weinstein wrote in an email sent Sunday to Hollywood agents and studio executives. Credit Loic Venance/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images LOS ANGELES — Late Thursday, Harvey Weinstein called top Hollywood talent agents to ask for a substantial favor: to please speak up …

Photo Samantha Bee poses with the Emmy for best writing for a variety special in September. Her show “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” won for its alternative to the White House Correspondents’ dinner. Credit Richard Shotwell/Invision, via Richard Shotwell/Invision/Ap Jo Miller, the executive producer and head writer of “Full Frontal …

Photo A rendering of the new International Center of Photography, scheduled to open as part of the Essex Crossing complex in 2019. Credit Moso Studio The International Center of Photography is on the move again. A year after settling into a $23.5 million exhibition space on the Bowery, the center …

Getty Images Streaming player menu screen featuring Netflix, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu, and Redbox Instant. When choosing between streaming service subscriptions, there are many things to consider — price, live channel offerings and number of simultaneous streams, for example. Another factor is the quality of original content. But if you can’t …

Bitcoin staged a rally over the weekend to hit a one-month high despite experts warning of a potentially volatile upcoming event for the cryptocurrency. The digital currency hit a high of $4,867 Monday, its highest since Sept. 2 and before the China crackdown, according to data from industry website CoinDesk. …

Thomas B. Shea | AFP | Getty Images A car gets towed while men walk in the flooded waters of Telephone Rd. in Houston, Texas on August 30, 2017. American International Group said Monday it estimates third quarter pre-tax catastrophe losses of $2.9 billion to $3.1 billion. Shares of the …