John Fogerty, "Wrote a Song for Everyone" (Vanguard)   For certain Boomers, listening to the songs on John Fogerty's "Wrote a Song For Everyone" will be like...

If you want to see Greta Gerwig's new film, "Frances Ha," you're going to have to do it the old- fashioned way — by going to the movie theater.   Gerwig said she...

"The Ophelia Cut" (Atria Books), by John Lescroart   A young woman makes a bad decision and her father ends up a murder suspect in "The Ophelia Cut," John Lescroart's...

Marshall Chapman, "Blaze of Glory" (TallGirl Records)   An opening duet cooks to a Bo Diddley beat. Next comes a searing Rolling Stones-style rocker, and then Marshall Chapman does...

Humanity's home planet hardly merits the name-check in "After Earth," M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi survival tale whose shipwreck action could (with the exception of a scene where our...

"Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic" (Simon & Schuster), by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong   Jennifer Keishin...

Talib Kweli, "Prisoner of Conscious" (Javotti Media/Caroline Distribution)   Throughout his career, whether in his early collaborative work with fellow Brooklynite Mos Def in Black...

Professor Henry Frendo's latest two books, Europe and Empire (2012) and Party Politics in a Fortress Colony (3rd ed., 2013) were launched in London by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the...

For the first time there is an ‘alternative handbook’ that gives us a holistic view of the mysterious Prehistoric Temples of Malta and Gozo.  The handbook offers a different view and...

She & Him, "Volume 3" (Merge Records)   Is there any limit to Zooey Deschanel's creativity?   With her comical hit show, "New Girl," it's hard to...