NEW YORK — The popular whodunit series “Poker Face” starring Natasha Lyonne returning for its second season and Steven Soderbergh’s sleek and lean spy thriller “Black Bag” are some of the new television, films, music […]
May 8 1541: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River, the first recorded European to do so. 1846: U.S. forces led by Gen. Zachary Taylor defeated Mexican forces near modern-day Brownsville, Texas, in […]
These celebrities have birthdays this week: May 8 Singer Toni Tennille is 85. Country singer Jack Blanchard is 83. Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett is 80. Drummer Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A striking collaboration has yielded “Susto Stringband: Volume 1,” a debut release on New West Records in which Justin Osborne of Susto’s poignant songwriting meets the rarified Appalachian sound of Asheville’s Holler […]
NEW YORK — Marvel Studios’ “Thunderbolts” opened with $76 million in domestic ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, kicking off the summer box office with a solid No. 1 debut that fell shy of […]
It’s fun to hear Willie Nelson sing such words as “ninja,” “fishmonger” and “absinthe,” which are among the many pleasures found in the songbook of influential country songwriter Rodney Crowell. “Oh What A Beautiful World” […]
LOS ANGELES — Steven Spielberg proclaimed, “The Godfather” the “greatest American film ever made,” Robert De Niro teasingly bemoaned being cast in the sequel and not the original and Harrison Ford fought back tears reflecting […]
Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to of wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into […]
NEW ORLEANS — Each spring, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is known for hosting some of the world’s most famous jazz, funk and rock acts. Yet it’s also become a showcase for lesser-known […]
NEW YORK — Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick going to Italy for a wedding and some mafia intrigue in the movie “Another Simple Favor” and Tina Fey and Steve Carell reuniting for the Netflix series […]
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