Buddy Guy knows that blues music isn't the taste of today's youth, but the Chicago guitar legend wants to show directors at radio stations and aspiring musicians that the classic...

Far from the renegade, boundary-pushing, sexually explicit sensation that its makers have been suggesting, "The Canyons" is a lame, one-dimensional and ultimately dreary look at peripheral...

"Unseen" (Delacorte Press), by Karin Slaughter   Karin Slaughter's latest novel, "Unseen," continues the tale of detective Will Trent, who has experienced more...

Vince Gill & Paul Franklin, "Bakersfield" (MCA Nashville)   For those dismayed by contemporary country music's lack of steel guitar and shuffle rhythms,...

Time flies when you're not wondering about the welfare of the Smurfs, those diminutive, animated blue-skinned forest-dwellers. Turns out they've been just fine since their 2011 big-screen...

"The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies" (Simon & Schuster), by Jonathan Alter   After sailing through two presidential elections by comfortable margins, President Barack...

After the tremendous success of the Maltese version of Yasmina Reza’s comedy Le dieu du carnage at St James Cavalier in Valletta last November, Faraxa Publishing is proud to announce the...

Once again Carmel Scicluna is keeping the appointment with his readers, this time with the publication of a collection of 86 original poems. The title is ironical and has nothing to do with jasmine...

There is much to say for a second reading.   The first time I read this book was in pre-publication times from a PDF file and I had written a short blurb for it, which appears on the...

For all the negative publicity that's surrounded Justin Bieber in recent months — the alleged drinking, smoking, spitting, fighting with a paparazzo and more — he entered the stage at...