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SKS publications shortlisted for National Book prize

Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 16:43 Last update: about 10 years ago

SKS Publishers expressed their satisfaction that two of its books published during 2016 have been shortlisted by the adjudication board of the 2017 edition of the National Book Prize. WESTERN: bejn...

Pink resurfaces with a slick and gloomy new CD

Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 10:39 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Things are not as perfect as they might seem in the land of Pink. The three-time Grammy winner may have loads of money, two kids and an 11-year marriage, but her new album is filled with unease and...

Miley Cyrus packs out honky-tonk for release of new album

Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 10:35 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Pop star Miley Cyrus returned to her Tennessee roots, musically and geographically, for the release of her new album "Younger Now" with a hometown performance at Nashville honky-tonk. Cyrus...

'Battle of the Sexes' serves up a too-timely story

Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 10:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Can an inspirational movie also be a drag? That's the distinct feeling one can't shake walking out of "Battle of the Sexes ," a fictionalized rendering of the 1973 tennis match between...

Man in print: filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld writing memoir

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 10:15 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Filmmaker and cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, whose credits range from "Misery" to "Men in Black," has a book deal. Hachette Books told The Associated Press on Thursday that it has acquired...

Travis Meadows lays it out there with hard-won grit

Sunday, 29 October 2017, 09:22 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

On two different cuts from his new release, "First Cigarette," singer-songwriter Travis Meadows acknowledges his voracious appetites. "I've been hungry like a stray dog in an old abandoned town,"...

Shania is back with her own brand of country pop

Saturday, 28 October 2017, 15:18 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

When Shania Twain declares on her new album, "I'm independent to a fault, I know this well," she's singing about love, but she could be talking about her career as well. Twain broke a lot of the...

'Kingsman' sequel lacks punch and vibe of first film

Saturday, 28 October 2017, 14:29 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

In the first film about a secret spy group known as Kingsman, we learned they are well-dressed, courtly and perfectly groomed. But by the second film, there's a decidedly ungentlemanly whiff about...

Main character in Coben thriller is endearing, witty

Saturday, 28 October 2017, 10:12 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

A New Jersey detective finds himself still haunted by events that occurred 15 years earlier in Harlan Coben's latest thriller, "Don't Let Go." Napoleon "Nap" Dumas spends his time working for the...

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