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The Black Keys stick to roots on 'Let's Rock'

Monday, 29 July 2019, 09:38 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The Black Keys, "Let's Rock" (Nonesuch/Easy Eye Sound) The Black Keys are back with a return to their roots. And just in case their opening song doesn't make that clear enough, the album's title...

Toxic masculinity in a sitcom package in 'Shaft'

Monday, 29 July 2019, 09:34 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The latest "Shaft," which adds a new generation of bad mother------- to the mix, is not what you might expect. It's not gritty or raw or even attempting to be all that cool. Instead it maintains...

A vile conspiracy is taken down in novel 'Big Sky'

Monday, 29 July 2019, 09:31 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Big Sky," by Kate Atkinson (Little Brown) Former soldier and policeman Jackson Brodie, who last appeared nine years ago in "Started Early, Took My Dog," makes his long-anticipated return in Kate...

Iran spy TV show glorifies hard-liners imprisoning reporter

Friday, 26 July 2019, 12:14 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The Farsi caption has unfurled across the black screen of a channel of Iranian state television every night for days now, promising viewers that what they are about to witness is "based on a real...

Allman Betts Band feels staid on 'Down to the River'

Friday, 26 July 2019, 12:12 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Allman Betts Band, "Down to the River" (BMG) Southern comfort blues-rock has never been about bluster, but Allman Betts Band could have ramped things up a notch on "Down to the River," a...

Q&A: Coffee with Bill Murray and Jim Jarmusch

Friday, 26 July 2019, 12:09 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray's long-running relationship began, fittingly, with a cup of coffee. In the early '90s, Jarmusch was walking north on Manhattan's Columbus Avenue ("not my...

A rich mystery awaits in S.J. Rozan's 'Paper Son'

Friday, 26 July 2019, 07:57 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Paper Son" by S.J. Rozan (Pegasus Books) S.J. Rozan's affinity for little known facts about Chinese culture has fueled exciting thrillers featuring private detectives Lydia Chin and Bill Smith....

‘Ittri mill-mitħna tiegħi’

Thursday, 25 July 2019, 09:52 Last update: about 8 years ago

Ittri mill-mitħna tiegħi is the translation of a collection of short stories, Lettres de mon moulin, mainly located in Provence by the French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) published...

Il-Friefet and Is-Siġar

Thursday, 25 July 2019, 09:50 Last update: about 8 years ago

Here are a few things which you never knew about butterflies: they use their antennae to smell things, they are born super famished and there are butterflies in the world as big as a 30cm ruler. Now,...

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