Train's new CD is stuck in the same soft-rock track
Friday, 3 March 2017, 16:52
Last update: about 8 years ago
Some people simply adore Train. Others simply loathe them. The band's new album is unlikely to change anyone's mind. The band - now without lead guitarist and founding member Jimmy Stafford - has...
Q&A: Sigourney Weaver on an unexpected life in sci-fi
Friday, 3 March 2017, 16:16
Last update: about 8 years ago
A movie has a way of sitting up straight whenever Sigourney Weaver is in it. Whether the part is small or large, she reliably jolts any film alive with her intelligence and commanding presence. She...
"Fatal" by John Lescroart
Friday, 3 March 2017, 15:50
Last update: about 8 years ago
A stupid mistake has serious ramifications in "Fatal," John Lescroart's latest stand-alone thriller. Kate Jameson loves her life and marriage to Ron. She has two children, and her best friend for...
An Americana icon ranges into new territory
Friday, 3 March 2017, 13:54
Last update: about 8 years ago
If Merle Haggard is the defining voice of country music, Jay Farrar might be the artist you'd turn to if you had to explain the Americana genre through the work of just one singer. Farrar is the...
Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty, Maroon 5 to headline Jazz Fest
Thursday, 2 March 2017, 16:51
Last update: about 8 years ago
Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Maroon 5, Usher and Dave Matthews are among some of the big names playing at this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The lineup,...
Premiere of 'A Dog's Purpose' canceled amid treatment issue
Thursday, 2 March 2017, 16:15
Last update: about 8 years ago
This weekend's premiere of "A Dog's Purpose" has been canceled following the release of a video that appears to show a frightened dog being forced into churning water during production of the...
Evan Smoak returns in Hurwitz's 'The Nowhere Man'
Thursday, 2 March 2017, 15:50
Last update: about 8 years ago
Evan Smoak, the anti-hero from last year's "Orphan X," returns in an even more intense and harrowing thriller. Smoak was trained as an operative in the orphan program and was known as Orphan X....
'The Freedom Broker' has gripping action, thrills
Thursday, 2 March 2017, 15:35
Last update: about 8 years ago
A woman who runs an organization that specializes in recovering victims from kidnappings finds herself in a case that hits too close to home in K.J. Howe's novel "The Freedom Broker." Thea Paris...