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Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty, Maroon 5 to headline Jazz Fest

Thursday, 2 March 2017, 16:51 Last update: about 9 years ago

Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Maroon 5, Usher and Dave Matthews are among some of the big names playing at this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The lineup,...

Premiere of 'A Dog's Purpose' canceled amid treatment issue

Thursday, 2 March 2017, 16:15 Last update: about 9 years ago

This weekend's premiere of "A Dog's Purpose" has been canceled following the release of a video that appears to show a frightened dog being forced into churning water during production of the...

Evan Smoak returns in Hurwitz's 'The Nowhere Man'

Thursday, 2 March 2017, 15:50 Last update: about 9 years ago

Evan Smoak, the anti-hero from last year's "Orphan X," returns in an even more intense and harrowing thriller. Smoak was trained as an operative in the orphan program and was known as Orphan X....

'The Freedom Broker' has gripping action, thrills

Thursday, 2 March 2017, 15:35 Last update: about 9 years ago

A woman who runs an organization that specializes in recovering victims from kidnappings finds herself in a case that hits too close to home in K.J. Howe's novel "The Freedom Broker." Thea Paris...

The poverty of paternalism

Thursday, 2 March 2017, 14:48 Last update: about 9 years ago

A new book, MIN JGĦIDU N-NIES LI JIEN – IL-FAQAR TAL-PATERNALIŻMU (who do people say i am - The poverty of paternalism) , written by Mark Montebello,  is being launched at...

Krauss sings classic country on 'Windy City'

Thursday, 2 March 2017, 13:53 Last update: about 9 years ago

When it comes to selecting songs, Alison Krauss' aim is true. "Windy City" is classic country, with most of the tunes older than their 45-year-old singer. Krauss embraces them as her own, expanding...

North American rhapsody: Queen, Lambert tour; no record yet

Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 16:50 Last update: about 9 years ago

Since joining forces with the "American Idol" runner-up for a series of shows in 2012, the band that ruled rock radio in the 1970s and early '80s has enjoyed tremendous success, with audiences...

Oscar-caliber cast can't elevate 'Collateral Beauty'

Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 16:15 Last update: about 9 years ago

With its cast of Oscar-caliber actors and pervasive theme of loss, "Collateral Beauty" should have been a deeply moving tear-jerker. Instead, it comes off as a melodramatic...

Depravity on display in 'Homesick for Another World'

Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 15:45 Last update: about 9 years ago

Ottessa Moshfegh's story collection, "Homesick for Another World," couldn't come at a better time. Notions of class and power are in an unpredictable flux. A new elite rises, flipping the deck...

Publisher cancels Milo Yiannopoulos book 'Dangerous'

Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 15:34 Last update: about 9 years ago

Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint announced Monday that "after careful consideration" they had pulled the book, which had been high on Amazon.com's best-seller lists and was the...

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