The Time Jumpers have long represented the best thing you could do in Nashville on a Monday night, but they stopped being a secret many years ago. Still, being discovered hasn't ended the fun....

There is no misfortune too shattering for Derek Cianfrance it seems. The writer and director of "Blue Valentine," ''The Place Beyond the Pines" and now, an adaptation of the M.L. Stedman novel "The...

The Veils led by Finn Andrews deliver gloom and doom on "Total Depravity," an album packed with drama and dread, disturbing images and devilish sounds. The song titles reflect the mood - "Here...

The shimmering glow of Barry Jenkin's "Moonlight," a poetic coming-of-age tale told across three chapters about a young gay black kid growing up in a poor, drug-ridden neighborhood of Miami, has lit...

Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick, Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," a historical novel that imagines the network of safe houses and passages that helped slaves escape to free...

Of stories to dine out on, David Cornwell has an abundance. Or should we say John le Carre has? Cornwell's pen name overshadows the title on the cover of this, his first memoir, "The Pigeon Tunnel."...

Kubo, a young boy with bangs draped over his patched eye, is no traditional warrior. He sits down, pulls out his shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese lute) and soon his strumming sends the paper...

In 1962, when he turned 15, Steven Gaines slashed his wrists on a glass window in the back of his grandparents' undergarments store in Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood. The act seemed to be the...

Tamela Mann was distraught after a recent robbery, until the Grammy-nominated gospel singer unexpectedly heard her new single, "God Provides," on the radio for the first time following the...

Wilco's "Schmilco" finds the Chicago sextet in a mostly acoustic mood, musing on happiness, loneliness, isolation and loss. Not exactly arena rock anthem material. And that should hearten...