The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with "This Is the End," an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy in which a bunch of young...

"Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns" (Simon & Schuster), by Lauren Weisberger   Who said fashion is all about the next new thing? Author Lauren Weisberger revisits her...

Hezekiah Walker, "Azusa: The Next Generation" (RCA/Verity Records)   It seems like a celebration of faithful endurance on Hezekiah Walker's 14th album, "Azusa: The Next...

It has been a black eye to Hollywood that throughout this, the unending and increasingly repetitive age of the superhero blockbuster, the comics' most iconic son has eluded its grasp like a bird...

"The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future" (Oxford University Press), by Michael Levi   In recent years, the seemingly dry subjects of oil and...

Alison Moyet, "The Minutes" (Cooking Vinyl/Metropolis Records)   Alison Moyet is not trying to impress you. True to her punk roots, the English artist didn't make "The...

In Pixar's "Monsters University," a prequel to 2001 "Monsters, Inc.," our expert "scarers" to be — the wisecracking pipsqueak Mike Wazowski and the burly James...

"Work With Me: The 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women in Business" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Barbara Annis and John Gray   Unless you live and work at a monastery, chances are you...

Three years after his death, Ronnie James Dio remains one of heavy metal's most popular and enduring vocalists, and the stream of posthumous album releases shows no signs of...

Everything's relative. And so, given that the film currently ruling the box office is about Americans encouraged by their own government to indulge their homicidal urges one night a year —...