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All-star Mose Allison tribute hits the right spots

Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 10:21 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Various artists, "If You're Going to the City: A Tribute to Mose Allison" (Fat Possum) It may be a tired cliche to say someone was one of a kind, but Mose Allison most definitely was. A jazz...

In 'The Report,' setting the record on torture straight

Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 10:12 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The unredacted Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's detention and enhanced interrogation program runs approximately 6,700 pages and includes some 38,000 footnotes. It doesn't exactly...

Winfrey picks 'Olive, Again' for her next book club read

Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 10:08 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Author Elizabeth Strout, whose "Olive, Again" is Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick, has a pretty good idea about how the plainspoken Olive Kitteridge would have responded. "Olive would say,...

Second To None - The New Victorians

Tuesday, 3 March 2020, 13:37 Last update: about 8 years ago

The New Victorians have just released a new music video for their latest single Second to None. This song will feature in their original music theatre experience Público, a work they have...

Coldplay do a 180-degree turn from arena pop-rock

Monday, 2 March 2020, 10:06 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Coldplay, "Everyday Life" (Parlophone/Atlantic) At the end of a year that saw musicians like Niall Horan and Ed Sheeran gingerly dip their toes into other languages, Coldplay have responded: Hold...

Hanks anchors a lovely Mister Rogers tale for adults

Monday, 2 March 2020, 09:59 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Director Marielle Heller frames “ A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ” as if it were an episode of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” with miniature sets of cars and bridges...

Reflections on writing about the lives of Beckett, Beauvoir

Monday, 2 March 2020, 09:57 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir," Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, by Deirdre Bair Deirdre Bair has spent her life writing well-received biographies of some of the...

The Art of Protest at the 2020 Campus Book Festival

Sunday, 1 March 2020, 11:40 Last update: about 8 years ago

Drawing on the recent contributions from local artists and writers, the 2020 Campus Book Festival is dedicating an evening to literature and music of protest. The National Book Council has invited a...

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