Children's author and illustrator Tomie dePaola tackled a big stack of his books on the table. A longtime fan plunked them down at the book signing — just a sampling of...

When Eric Clapton returned to the studio in 1974 after a long break from recording and performing because of heroin addiction, he embarked on a rebirth as an artist with three major albums that...

Bright is the new black when it comes to colors and styles for snow bunnies to look their best on the slopes.   The move to color in winter-sport outerwear follows a trend seen in clothing...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association split between the space odyssey "Gravity" and the futuristic romance "Her," lending no more certainty to an awards season...

"Brown Dog: Novellas" (Grove Press), by Jim Harrison   In 1990, the novelist, screenwriter and poet Jim Harrison wrote a novella about an unforgettable character named Brown...

Dig in and dig it, Duane Allman completists (you know who you are). The seven-CD set "Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective" doesn't include every note Allman ever played, but it...

Heaping seven nominations on both the con-artist melodrama "American Hustle" and the grimly historical "12 Years a Slave," the Golden Globes nominations set up a showdown of...

"The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams" (Little, Brown and Company), by Ben Bradlee Jr.   Ted Williams would have loved to see his Boston Red Sox go from worst to first and...

Ladies will continue to drive the feature lineup at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival as Robert Redford's independent-cinema fair celebrates its 30th anniversary next month in Park City,...

Nobody ever accused Spike Lee of an overabundance of subtlety.   He's an unapologetically bold filmmaker, one who hasn't shied away from using a tattered American flag or a...