From rapper to mogul, Jeezy continues to make power moves
Thursday, 25 January 2018, 11:18
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Rapper Jeezy was so poor growing up as a child that he and his mother sometimes knocked cockroaches off their meals so they could eat. It's a moment Jeezy will never forget. The four-time...
Spielberg, Streep and Hanks deliver in 'The Post'
Thursday, 25 January 2018, 11:01
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
"The Post " is kind of like the Yankees of movies. A Steven Spielberg directed film about the Pentagon Papers starring Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and a murderer's row of all your favorite television...
Author delivers compassionate look at the displaced
Thursday, 25 January 2018, 10:54
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
"Wonder Valley" (Ecco), by Ivy Pochoda A naked man running through rush-hour traffic that's backed up for miles jumpstarts "Wonder Valley," author Ivy Pochoda's enthralling look at people mired...
Woody Allen goes in circles with dark 'Wonder Wheel'
Wednesday, 24 January 2018, 16:19
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
The great playwright Eugene O'Neill looms as large over Woody Allen's latest film as the giant Ferris wheel that dominates the movie's Coney Island setting. It's not exactly clear whether "Wonder...
Ron Chernow's latest historical subject: Ulysses Grant
Wednesday, 24 January 2018, 16:14
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
As he began work on what became a thousand-page biography of Ulysses S. Grant, Ron Chernow knew he was joining a very old argument. "I wanted to retire three chief myths about Grant: that he was...
Carpenters returns with vinyl remasters of hit albums
Tuesday, 23 January 2018, 16:21
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
Carpenters fans have a dozen reasons to be on top of the world this week. Nearly 30 years since the last LP album of new Carpenters material was released, remastered vinyl versions of 12 of the...
Film about Russian czar's affair draws hostility
Tuesday, 23 January 2018, 16:17
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
A film about the last Russian czar's affair with a ballerina sparked outrage among some Russians that has been expressed through pickets, arson, and Molotov cocktails hurled at a movie...
Book ponders appeal, then and now, of 'The Graduate'
Tuesday, 23 January 2018, 16:12
Last update: about 10 years ago
Associated Press
"Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How 'The Graduate' Became the Touchstone of a Generation" (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill), by Beverly Gray The title of Beverly Gray's insightful look back at 1967's...
Another edition of the Rabat Agape Festival begins next week
Tuesday, 23 January 2018, 09:56
Last update: about 10 years ago
Fondazzjoni Paulus is once again organising the Rabat Agape Festival, a celebration of music and culture in some of Malta's most historical venues. This festival serves to celebrate Malta's...