Assassin shows versatility on 1st album in years
Friday, 22 April 2016, 16:35
Last update: about 12 years ago
One of Jamaica's most underrated yet diverse and creative lyricists, Assassin A.K.A. Agent Sasco releases his first studio album in almost a decade. In a transition from dancehall,...
J.J. Abrams and Chris Rock talk films, comedy and being nice
Friday, 22 April 2016, 15:45
Last update: about 12 years ago
One way is, play nice, according to a pair of entertainment A-listers, J.J. Abrams and Chris Rock. Appearing for a Directors Talk session at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday,...
Stellar plot twists abound in 'Steel Kiss'
Friday, 22 April 2016, 15:25
Last update: about 12 years ago
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs battle a ruthless killer who utilizes common machinery to strike fear in Jeffery Deaver's latest novel, "The Steel Kiss." Sachs, a New York police detective,...
Iggy Pop's 'Post Pop Depression' rocks and shocks
Thursday, 21 April 2016, 16:34
Last update: about 12 years ago
Iggy Pop rocks and shocks on "Post Pop Depression," evoking his 1977 peak achieved with David Bowie but enhanced by all he's gone through since. In Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and...
Jon Stewart-produced film gives close-up to Syrian refugees
Thursday, 21 April 2016, 15:45
Last update: about 12 years ago
Before the Syrian refugee crisis spilled across Europe, first-time feature filmmakers Ellen Martinez and Steph Ching were in Jordan's Zaatari Refugee Camp with their cameras. There at the camp...
'Running: A Love Story' is too shallow to enjoy
Thursday, 21 April 2016, 15:24
Last update: about 12 years ago
File this book under "I was misinformed." I came across a reference to the new book "Running: A Love Story" in New York magazine last month titled, "How Running and Meditation Change the Minds of...
Beautiful harmonies from Teddy Thompson, Kelly Jones
Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 16:34
Last update: about 12 years ago
Teddy Thompson's musical influences come from this side of the Atlantic, so his first duets album sounds nothing like the British folk rock produced more than 30 years ago by his parents, Richard and...
Sean Parker plays coy as Screening Room VOD debate heats up
Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 15:43
Last update: about 12 years ago
The spotlight was on Sean Parker and the Screening Room at CinemaCon in Las Vegas this past week, but while the nation's theater owners and studio executives mulled the implications of the proposed...
'The 14th Colony' by Steve Berry is gripping novel
Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 15:22
Last update: about 12 years ago
Cotton Malone fights a ticking clock and a Russian conspiracy to give the United States government payback in Steve Berry's latest adventure, "The 14th Colony." This is his third book in the...
'Don Quixote' presented to the Prime Minister
Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 12:44
Last update: about 12 years ago
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was presented with a copy of DUN KIXOTT MILL-MANĊA (Don Quixote from Mancha), Miguel de Cervantes’ picaresque novel which has been translated as a long poem in...