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Avery(asterisk)Sunshine may be a new voice to some, but the 38-year-old Atlanta artist hopes more fans will be saying her name after her debut performance Saturday at the Essence...

There's a limit, it turns out, to how much Johnny Depp and a bucket of makeup can accomplish.   In "The Lone Ranger," Gore Verbinski's flamboyant re-imagination of the...

"Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations" (Simon & Schuster), by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner   "I'm tired of remembering," actress Ava Gardner laments during one of...

Robert Plant knows his fans want Led Zeppelin and he's happy to comply. On his own terms.   Plant is on the road this summer with a new band, The Sensational Space Shifters, and he's...

Sting will hold 10 concerts in New York City this fall to benefit The Public Theater arts organization.   The singer announced Tuesday that he will perform at the 260-seat Anspacher Theater...

Staggeringly implausible, cartoonishly comical, Roland Emmerich's "White House Down" is refreshingly dumb.   Refreshing because carefree action absurdity, once the province of...

"Sisterland" (Random House), by Curtis Sittenfeld   To characterize Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel, "Sisterland," as an ideal beach read isn't meant as an insult....

Though his party boy character Vincent Chase on all eight seasons of "Entourage" savored life in the limelight, Adrian Grenier says he's quite content to be on the other side of the...

"Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey" (PublicAffairs), by Peter Carlson   Among the tens of thousands of books written about the American...