Charli XCX may not be a household name, but if you're a fan of HBO's "Girls" then you would have heard her vocal and songwriting prowess already.   The British singer...

"Star Trek Into Darkness" is like fan-boy fiction on a $185 million budget. It's reverential, it's faithful, it's steeped in "Trek" mythology.   It's also...

"Paris: The Novel" (Doubleday), by Edward Rutherfurd   Paris has been both good and bad to the aristocratic de Cygne family over the centuries. While one generation was welcome at...

Michael Buble, "To Be Loved" (Reprise Records)   Canadian crooner Michael Buble projects a strange dichotomy in his eighth studio album, "To Be Loved." It combines old...

On paper it sounds unbearably precious and solipsistic — a cliche, even. Middle-class, college-educated white girl in her mid-20s wanders around New York City with no real home, job or purpose....

"Seduction: a Novel of Suspense" (Atria Books), by M.J. Rose   "Seduction," M.J. Rose's follow-up to her acclaimed "The Book of Lost Fragrances," seduces...

French TV station Mezzo is to broadcast the 17 January concert held at St John’s Co-Cathedral given by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Schola Cantorium of Oxford as part of the...

!!! (Chk Chk Chk), "Thr!!!er" (Warp Records)   Sometimes to appreciate a band you have to experience them live: hear the instruments in a raw form, immerse yourself in the energy...

There's a siege mentality about Michael Bay's movies, as though viewers are the enemy holed up in a bunker and he's the guy ordering heavy-metal music around-the-clock to wear down our...

"The Fever Tree" (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam), by Jennifer McVeigh   Jennifer McVeigh's first novel, "The Fever Tree," is a lovely one. It's lovely in the way of a...