For the debut Bartlett's anthology of black quotations, editor Retha Powers wanted to capture the personal, the political and the artistic.   "When you think about black history,...

The Velvet Underground, "White Light/White Heat" 45th Anniversary edition (Polydor/Universal)   Who knew that the release on Dec. 10 of the 45th anniversary super deluxe edition of...

It's not always easy being an Oscar-winner.   When Jennifer Lawrence returned to the set of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" after winning the best-actress Academy Award for...

Mitch Albom's best-selling memoir, "Tuesdays with Morrie," gave him the literary chops to try his hand at fiction, so it's fitting that he returns to the book's central theme...

Kellie Pickler, "The Woman I Am" (Black River Entertainment)   Kellie Picker, on her new album "The Woman I Am," merges the tradition-minded sound of her previous album...

Veteran TV comedy writer Janis Hirsch is used to her words entertaining millions of viewers. But the letter she scrawled in early 1964 as a hospitalized teenager was intended to comfort an audience of...

Nelson Mandela's family is no stranger to the public eye —its successes and trials have been aired for decades in films, books and the news media.   Granddaughter Zoleka...

Horizons have just published Anton Grasso’s latest release.  Ġenn fl-Aqwa Tiegħu (Total Madness) is a collection of 28 new stories from this prolific author.  It is the 27th volume of...

Six months before he died, John Lennon set sail from Newport, R.I., on an ocean adventure to Bermuda that awakened his desire to make musicagain and is now being chronicled in an electronic...

Commercials director Fredrik Bond makes a promising feature debut with "Charlie Countryman" a fanciful crime-drama / romance that gratifyingly eschews strict genre...