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Jewel recounts family hardships in new memoir, album

Saturday, 3 October 2015, 15:20 Last update: about 12 years ago

Most people know Jewel's rags-to-riches story - growing up on an Alaskan homestead, getting discovered as a homeless teen in a California coffee shop, going platinum on her debut album, "Pieces of...

'Hotel Transylvania 2' is scarily unfunny

Saturday, 3 October 2015, 14:15 Last update: about 12 years ago

The second feature in as many months to contain animated zombies (and Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" lurking just around the corner), "Hotel Transylvania 2" checks in as an anemic example of pure...

Lock details triumph and tragedy of climbing in 'Thin Air'

Saturday, 3 October 2015, 13:32 Last update: about 12 years ago

After watching a slide show of Mount Everest in a small room in the back of a pub 30 years ago, Andrew Lock made a decision to climb the world's tallest peak. Thus launched a 24-year journey ascending...

Official CHOGM song and music video launched

Friday, 2 October 2015, 17:46 Last update: about 12 years ago

‘The People We Are’, the official song for CHOGM Malta 2015, and accompanying music video were launched this afternoon during an event organized by the CHOGM Malta 2015 Taskforce. Both the...

Jason Crabb delivers strong performance on new album

Friday, 2 October 2015, 15:18 Last update: about 12 years ago

Jason Crabb is as good as the Christian singer has ever been on his new album, "Whatever the Road." Crabb sings about love, faith and hoping for miracles on his fifth solo album, his first with...

'Everest,' a harrowing spectacle that lacks emotion

Friday, 2 October 2015, 14:13 Last update: about 12 years ago

The truly breathtaking spectacle and technical achievements can make you feel like you too are on a vertical slope at 29,000 feet. But this awe-inspiring movie is also one that's laced with dread,...

Lee Child has another winner with new thriller 'Make Me'

Friday, 2 October 2015, 13:26 Last update: about 12 years ago

All the elements that readers have come to expect from a Lee Child book are in place: the wandering man who stumbles onto a conspiracy because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time; the gorgeous...

Digital song downloads slipped further in first half of year

Thursday, 1 October 2015, 15:18 Last update: about 12 years ago

Digital downloads of songs continued to fall out of favor with Americans in the first half of the year, while free and paid music-streaming revenue kept growing, even without much of a bump from the...

Chilling Depp, expert ensemble in 'Black Mass'

Thursday, 1 October 2015, 14:12 Last update: about 12 years ago

Shakespeare had his tortured Hamlet, his ambitious Macbeth, his malevolent Iago, his warring Montagues and Capulets. But what would the Bard have done with the tale of James "Whitey" Bulger, and...

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