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'Stranger Things': Even stranger for David Harbour in year 2

Sunday, 24 December 2017, 14:22 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Even the title is enigmatic. "Stranger Things" could mean so many things: the recent extreme weather; Washington politics; fad recipes for kale. Nearly everyone knows about "Stranger Things." But...

Quiet on the set and elsewhere with Woody Allen

Sunday, 24 December 2017, 14:05 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

If we had been allowed to watch God create the heavens and the Earth, we probably wouldn't have stuck it out for all six days. The act of creation can be slow and tedious when you're a...

'Mudbound' a moving, literary epic of family, race

Saturday, 23 December 2017, 14:20 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Perhaps it's a sign of the times that after seeing an epic story as poetically told as Dee Rees' "Mudbound ," feelings of awe and admiration are quickly replaced with frustration that Hollywood hasn't...

John Grisham explores student loan debt in latest novel

Saturday, 23 December 2017, 14:03 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

John Grisham explores student loan debt and the sharks that profit from it in his latest novel, "The Rooster Bar." Mark, Todd, Zola and Gordy are students at a mediocre law school that doesn't...

FIRST: A book inspired by Facebook racist comments

Friday, 22 December 2017, 15:10 Last update: about 10 years ago First Magazine

How different was it writing your second book compared to writing your first? When my publisher gave me the go-ahead for this second book, I promised myself I would be better prepared for the...

In 'Shape of Water,' a Technicolor ode to outsiders

Friday, 22 December 2017, 14:17 Last update: about 10 years ago

A warm, generous spirit of affection and insurrection washes over Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water," a Cold War-era fairytale that submerges you in the fantastical realm of the director's...

From Sweden, an unsentimental take on de-cluttering

Friday, 22 December 2017, 14:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

For anyone who somehow missed out on Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," or who found her de-cluttering style too quick, too cute or too oriented toward a younger set, a Swedish...

Curtain up!

Friday, 22 December 2017, 13:26 Last update: about 10 years ago

Midsea Books has published 'Curtain up!', a substantial volume containing a selection of 176 reviews in full text published by Paul Xuereb during the years (1963-2015) when he was the leading drama...

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