Elvis Costello and the Roots, "Wise Up Ghost" (Blue Note)   Enough with Velvet Elvis. This year's model of Elvis Costello features a collaboration with the Roots that inspires...

The FLDSMDFR lives!   It's not too much of a spoiler to tell you that, because without the FLDSMDFR, more precisely known as the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food...

Alan Jackson, "The Bluegrass Album" (ACR/EMI Nashville)   Veteran country star Alan Jackson ranks among the most tradition-based singers of his generation. Most of his influences...

Sometimes you have to travel 30,000 miles just to appreciate the guy who lives down the hall — or so goes "Baggage Claim," a movie about a Flight Attendant Barbie type who runs herself...

Bond is back, much as we remember him but also subtly different. To the latest Bond author, the dashing secret agent looks a bit like Daniel Day-Lewis.   British writer William Boyd, who has...

Stevie Wonder gave an electrifying performance at New York's Central Park in front of thousands of fans and several world leaders Saturday, singing his hits and calling for an end to poverty...

With a subject as specific as sex addiction, comparisons to 2011's "Shame" are inevitable. That dark drama was a deep-probe character study, intensely focused on a man consumed by his...

"Somewhere along the way I lost a step," says Vin Diesel, aka that gravelly voiced, visually impaired, planet-hopping outlaw and badass they call Riddick. "I went and got...

"The Woman Who Lost Her Soul" (Atlantic Monthly Press), by Bob Shacochis   It's hard to talk about "The Woman Who Lost Her Soul" without giving away too much of its...

"Reclusive." Is that an adjective, or is it actually part of J.D. Salinger's name? The word has been used so often to describe the famous writer, one could be forgiven for thinking it...