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NEW YORK (AP) — You can forgive John Larroquette for thinking he'd entered a time machine when he stepped onto the sound stage of the rebooted NBC sitcom “Night Court.

“We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship," by Will Schwalbe (Knopf) Will Schwalbe’s new memoir, “We Should Not Be Friends,” explores an unlikely bond between two men who met in college and maintained a four-decade-long friendship.

NEW YORK (AP) — The honors keep coming in for fiction writer-poet Percival Everett.

TORONTO — Kardinal Offishall has a message for his fellow Canadian celebrities: you've got to step it up at home.

“I Have Some Questions for You,” by Rebecca Makkai (Viking) Take a pinch of “Prep,” the boarding school drama by Curtis Sittenfeld.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 26-March 4: Feb. 26: Actor-director Bill Duke is 80. Actor Marta Kristen (“Lost in Space”) is 78. Singer Mitch Ryder is 78. Keyboardist Jonathan Cain of Journey is 73. Singer Michael Bolton is 70.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, the Illinois Republican who broke with his party two years ago after the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, has a book deal.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — On the shores of the Persian Gulf, a new complex houses a Catholic church, a Jewish synagogue and an Islamic mosque in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

YELLOWKNIFE — A construction crew is hard at work in Yellowknife with power tools, heavy machineryand canoe paddles. But they aren't using the usual timber, bricks and mortar; their materials are ice and snow.