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Frances Cone delivers dreampop with a purpose

Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 09:42 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

Frances Cone, "Late Riser" (Living Daylight/Thirty Tigers) Frances Cone's new album "Late Riser" is a brilliant work of modern melancholia that finds the sweet spot between soothing and soaring....

'Welcome to Marwen' is a fantastic misstep

Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 09:25 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

Eighteen years ago, a man named Mark Hogencamp was brutally beaten by five men outside of a bar in Kingston, New York. The assault put him in a coma for over a week and left him with permanent brain...

Author gives 'Judgment' a unique spin

Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 09:16 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

"Judgment" (Dutton), by Joseph Finder A one-night stand becomes a bigger mistake than she bargains for when judge Juliana Brody hooks up with a man at a conference in Chicago. The next morning...

“Donna Non Vidi Mai” - Gaulitana celebrates women

Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 22:01 Last update: about 7 years ago

Gaulitana returns between the 8th March and 7th April, with a programme entitled on "Women in Society". Indeed, taking cue from Manon Lescaut - this year's staged opera, the festival shall underline...

'Jane the Virgin' creator says finale should bring closure

Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 09:49 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

The upcoming final season of "Jane the Virgin" is already drawing tears. The CW show's creator, Jennie Snyder Urman, said she's crying in the editing room as she works on the concluding episodes...

Dave Keuning's solo album has a homemade feel, alas

Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 09:41 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

Dave Keuning, "Prismism" (Thirty Tigers) The Killers' founding member and guitarist Dave Keuning shows off some very different sides of his music on a new solo album. The question is who besides...

'Transformers' gets a great saviour in 'Bumblebee'

Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 09:23 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

The "Transformers" movie universe has lately been leaky and rusted out. It's become shorthand for bad blockbuster moviemaking — male-driven, mindless spectaculars with sophomoric humor. How can...

Ruffin's debut novel is challenging, thought-provoking

Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 09:15 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

"We Cast a Shadow" (One World), by Maurice Carlos Ruffin A fear-driven, racially charged world is the land in which the narrator of "We Cast a Shadow" lives. Half the black community — and...

Gates hopes to enlighten Americans about Reconstruction

Monday, 18 February 2019, 09:47 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

Historian Henry Louis Gates can trace the roots of his upcoming PBS documentary about the Reconstruction to his days in school, when he'd hear about the end of slavery during the Civil War, then...

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