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Stephen King raises the bar with 'Elevation'

Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 09:30 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

"Elevation" (Scribner), by Stephen King After more than four decades of banging out best- sellers, Stephen King still has the power to surprise his beloved "constant readers." Consider...

'Let's Go Luna!' takes kids on a globe-spanning tour

Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 10:20 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Carmen, Leo and Andy are globe-trotters to envy, jumping from Paris to Nairobi to New Orleans and beyond in the company of a tour guide who knows her way around: Luna the moon. PBS' animated...

Janelle Monae on Lauryn Hill, vinyl and 'Dirty Computer'

Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 10:01 Last update: about 9 years ago

Janelle Monae doesn't remember the first album she owned as a child, but the first one she spent her hard-earned money on? "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." "I just connected with Lauryn on many...

Latest 'Fantastic Beasts' is a mixed bag of wonders

Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 09:38 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Like the bottomless trunk totted by "magizoolologist" Newt Scamander, "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" is a mixed bag of wonders. Newt (Eddie Redmayne) can reach into his suitcase...

Hunter S. Thompson bio tackles late reporter's drive

Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 09:28 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

"Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism" (PublicAffairs), by Timothy Denevi The common image of the late journalist Hunter S. Thompson is one of a...

Why everyone should watch Gawgaw this Christmas

Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 09:28 Last update: about 9 years ago

This Christmas you're in for a treat, a treat in the dark that is! Close your eyes and open your ears because between the 19th and the 23rd of December the Gawgaw is coming to the Esplora Planetarium...

Netflix docu-series 'Dogs' lovingly serves up the human bond

Monday, 17 December 2018, 10:19 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

In these heated and oft-difficult times, do we need dogs more than ever? Do we need to rescue them, let them run free, accept their precious help with our most trying physical challenges and...

Imagine Dragons deliver again but differently

Monday, 17 December 2018, 09:59 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Imagine Dragons, "Origins" (Interscope/KIDinaKORNER) Do Imagine Dragons ever sleep? Not apparently. Less than a year and a half after releasing the double-platinum album "Evolve" and...

Gary Hart biopic a great look at a political moment

Monday, 17 December 2018, 09:36 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Come closer, children, and listen to the tale of what politics was like before TMZ. Back in those dark ages, reporters simply didn't dig around and ask embarrassing questions of people running for...

From Trump to #MeToo, publishing made headlines in 2018

Monday, 17 December 2018, 09:25 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

The publishing world made headlines in 2018, and not always by design. A wave of best-sellers offered damaging accounts of Donald Trump's White House, a million-selling memoir by Michelle Obama had...

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