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Contest will pick opening acts for Bon Jovi tour

Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 16:38 Last update: about 8 years ago

The New Jersey-based platinum-selling rockers are holding a contest to choose bands or singers to open for their upcoming tour. Artists will upload videos of themselves performing...

Bening shines as a '70s mom, trying to figure it out

Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 15:33 Last update: about 8 years ago

Way too many films out there are heavy on plot and exposition, light on atmosphere and character development. It's safe to say "20th Century Women" isn't one of them. Indeed, this new...

Ani DiFranco working on memoir about 'eventful' life

Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 15:17 Last update: about 8 years ago

The million-selling musician and longtime activist has signed with Viking for a memoir that will reflect upon her "eventful and radical life." DiFranco left home at age 15, started her own record...

Wilson's words sing in Washington's 'Fences'

Sunday, 15 January 2017, 16:36 Last update: about 8 years ago

The blue music of "Fences" sings with a ferocious beauty in Denzel Washington's long-in-coming adaptation of August Wilson's masterpiece of African-American survival and sorrow. Transfers from...

'Sing' sings along, with humor and poignancy

Saturday, 14 January 2017, 16:35 Last update: about 8 years ago

We'll star a cuddly koala. We'll get McConaughey, Witherspoon, some other A-listers. We'll throw in everyone's favorite pop songs - get Legal on the phone! And hey, we'll add a fart joke. How could it...

Scorsese's 'Silence' is a gorgeous, tedious journey

Friday, 13 January 2017, 16:34 Last update: about 8 years ago

Martin Scorsese's "Silence " is not an easy film to watch. At times it's grotesquely violent, at others tediously slow. But it is a full and worthy cinematic experience that is bold, thought...

It's true, it's true! John Hodgman is writing another book

Friday, 13 January 2017, 16:15 Last update: about 8 years ago

The author, actor and comedian has a deal with Viking for a book called "Vacationland," in which he writes of his physical journey to the coast of Maine and his spiritual journey of living through...

'Blue & Lonesome' by the Rolling Stones

Thursday, 12 January 2017, 16:55 Last update: about 8 years ago

It shouldn't be a surprise, really, but still it's a bit startling to hear just how well the Rolling Stones can play the blues. Strip away the glitz, the oversized stages and the pyrotechnics, and...

In 'Barry,' a young Obama, long before 'hope'

Thursday, 12 January 2017, 16:33 Last update: about 8 years ago

Vikram Ghandi's "Barry," a snapshot of Obama as a college student, is the second of the year, following Richard Tanne's "Southside With You," a presidential rom-com about Obama's first date with...

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