"Romance Is My Day Job" (Dutton), by Patience Bloom   Patience Bloom works for a publishing house that's best known for its steamy romances with happy endings.   In...

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Mike Gordon, "Overstep" (ATO Records)   When Mike Gordon steps away from his day job playing bass for mega jam band Phish, he tends to get even more experimental and weird than...

Six years ago, Matthew McConaughey was starring in a movie called "Surfer, Dude," a film about as good as its title implies. He played a shirtless surfer plunged into an...

"The Counterfeit Agent" (Putnam), by Alex Berenson   With spy novels there is a tendency to divide writers into two groups: There are the literary John Le Carre types, with...

Phantogram, "Voices" (Republic Records)   The so-called "sophomore slump" is something most artists aim to avoid but somehow manage to hit with precision.   Not...

On the 27 February 2014, the album ‘Velvet’ by local singer Nadine Axisa will be launched. The album includes twelve original songs in the ‘easy listening jazz’ style, penned...

"Miracles can happen," says the trailer for "Winter's Tale," starring Colin Farrell and based on the 1983 novel of the same name.   Fair enough. But not long into the...

"Mad as Hell: The Making of 'Network' and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies" (Times Books), by Dave Itzkoff   You'll be forgiven if you think the...

Candice Glover, "Music Speaks" (Interscope/19 Recordings)   Candice Glover originally planned to release her debut two months after she won "American Idol" last May....