Newcomers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are the top contenders at the 2013 American Music Awards.   The rap duo is up for six awards, including artist, new artist and single of the...

In "Seduced and Abandoned," Alec Baldwin and James Toback present a portrait of today's movie business and an elegy to what it once was. In person, Baldwin's even more candid,...

"The Circle" (Alfred A. Knopf/McSweeney's), by Dave Eggers   A tech giant with tentacles deep into the lives of its users is no longer an unusual thing to imagine, but Dave...

Calling all Jake Cassar’s fans! The wait is over.  Two new ‘book-episodes’ have just landed!   For all those who are eager to discover how Jake and Mel’s...

Kenny Rogers, "You Can't Make Old Friends" (Warner Bros.)   Kenny Rogers enters his 75th year with an album that blends the familiar with the challenging, seeking new hits and...

It is surely a bad sign for any "Romeo and Juliet" when its most pulse-quickening moments come from Paul Giamatti.   This latest adaption of the Shakespeare tragedy of young love...

If you saw Paul Greengrass's "United 93," a terrifying depiction of one of the doomed flights on 9/11, you know this director can evoke a harrowing, real-life event like few others. In...

An appeals court has rejected claims that author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson committed fraud by lying in his best-selling book "Three Cups of Tea" to boost sales and donations to...

How to Tackle Behavioural Issues   My puppy, Honey, is adorable, but she wasn’t always like that...   Not long ago, Honey was becoming a bit of a handful and developing A...

After eleven years as one of the most effective traditional country singers of his generation, Joe Nichols crosses over to rocking contemporary songs, most of them about seducing young women and...