"Black Horizon" (Harper), by James Grippando   "Black Horizon," the eleventh book in James Grippando's Jack Swyteck series, revisits the Deepwater Horizon oil spill...

ScHoolboy Q, "Oxymoron" (Top Dawg/Interscope)   ScHoolboy Q's major label debut plays out like an unsettling 21st-century film noir.   "Oxymoron" is all...

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...

With Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" and Ridley Scott's "Exodus" preparing to duke it out for Old Testament auteur supremacy, Hollywood's religious renaissance gets off to a...

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Pharrell, "G I R L" (Columbia Records/Back Lot Music)   On the heels of two monster hits where he was the co-star — the Daft Punk jaunty funk jam "Get Lucky" and...

Forget 3-D glasses.   Oscar-nominated documentarian Danfung Dennis believes the next evolution in filmmaking will be to surround viewers with images in 360 degrees — directly on their...

Dierks Bentley, "Riser" (Capitol Nashville)   Contemporary country singer Dierks Bentley has changed producers for "Riser," his seventh album, and the results play up a...

Settling in for a film that takes place almost entirely on an airplane, as does the latest Liam Neeson action flick "Non-Stop," one's instinct is to search for the nearest sleeping...

Dianne Reeves, "Beautiful Life" (Concord)   On her first studio album in five years, four-time Grammy winner Dianne Reeves comes back strong with a genre-crossing collection of 12...