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Harry Styles looks to past icons on solo debut

Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 16:31 Last update: about 10 years ago

When listening to Harry Styles' solo debut, it will be hard to not think of David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Elton John and other rock icons who came decades before the former boy bander. The good thing...

Bryan Cranston shines in moody, escapist 'Wakefield'

Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 15:08 Last update: about 10 years ago

Have you ever fantasized about one day walking away from your well-ordered life? Just ditching work and the humdrum routine of life? You have? Then, before you go, you need to see the curiously...

Greg Iles brings his 'Natchez Burning' trilogy to an end

Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 14:47 Last update: about 10 years ago

"Mississippi Blood," the concluding novel by Greg Iles in a trilogy featuring lawyer Penn Cage, is part fast-paced crime thriller and part tense-but-tedious courtroom drama. All of it flows...

Erasure slow down on moving, topical 'World Be Gone'

Tuesday, 30 May 2017, 16:29 Last update: about 10 years ago

Erasure barely acknowledge the dancefloor on "World Be Gone," instead filling their 17th album with topical, poignant tunes worried about the state of the world but hopeful love can still make a...

Best-selling authors discuss art of 'the beach read'

Tuesday, 30 May 2017, 14:44 Last update: about 10 years ago

"I write my books in longhand, so I actually work on them at the beach," Hilderbrand, who sets her best-sellers at home on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket, told The Associated Press...

Sheryl Crow argues for return to empathy on her new album

Monday, 29 May 2017, 16:35 Last update: about 10 years ago

Last year, Sheryl Crow started a petition on Change.org to shorten the U.S. presidential election cycle. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter said she was exhausted by the mudslinging and...

The prism of all sin

Monday, 29 May 2017, 14:10 Last update: about 10 years ago

Joseph Anthony Debono   In the introduction to his latest book, L-Aqwa Żmien Għalihom - Erba' Snin ta' Skandli, Dr Mark A. Sammut remarks that he is not a novelist. But...

'Sad Mary' is back: Blige breaks down, toughens up on album

Sunday, 28 May 2017, 16:35 Last update: about 10 years ago

Let's state the obvious here: Mary J. Blige has a way with hurt. Songs like "Not Gon' Cry" and "No More Drama" might even prove that Blige is at her best when she's at her worst. Her latest set,...

RSVP 'no' to 'Table 19'

Sunday, 28 May 2017, 16:25 Last update: about 10 years ago

Stilted conversations. Empty niceties. Forced joy. That overwhelming sense that it might have been better to just stay at home in sweats. It's that horrifying feeling you get being at a bad wedding...

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