David Wain's "They Came Together" identifies the tropes of the romantic comedy with uncommon acuity. If only it would stop winking so much.   Wain has made his film with an...

"My Old Neighborhood Remembered" (Barricade Books), by Avery Corman   Before Brooklyn became a hipster haven with pricey real estate and the Bronx became the poster child for urban...

50 Cent, "Animal Ambition" (G-Unit/Caroline/Capitol Music Group)   50 Cent made a ginormous splash more than a decade ago with his multiplatinum platinum debut "Get Rich or...

"Begin Again" sees Irish writer-director John Carney on a larger canvas, revisiting themes from his lo-fi 2006 indie hit "Once" — chief among them the emotional connectivity...

"All Day and a Night" (Harper), by Alafair Burke   Alafair Burke tells a compelling tale that combines a police procedural and a legal thriller in "All Day and a...

Willie Nelson, "Band of Brothers" (Legacy)   Willie Nelson has written a song â?” sometimes two, three or four â?” for every occasion, mood and moment....

Music luminaries honored Pete Seeger on the shore of the Hudson River at Saturday's Clearwater Festival, the first of the annual music and environmental program he started to be...

Roman Polanski. Sadomasochism. What could possible go wrong?   The combination of director and subject material in "Venus in Fur" is wickedly perverse, just as it should be....

Jennifer Weiner had so much to share with her readers.   The author of such best-sellers as "Goodnight Nobody" and "In Her Shoes" spoke before about 100 fans Tuesday at a...

Phish, "Fuego" (ATO Records)   For a band that made its name on being able to interact with one another while playing live, Phish has had a hard time translating that collaborative...