In the galaxy of big-screen superheros — a rather glum lot — Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is the snappy one.   He's the sarcastic, motor-mouthed, preening,...

"Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal" (W.W. Norton & Co.), by Mary Roach   We love food. We savor it, digest it, absorb the best and pass the rest.   That...

"Life on a Rock," Kenny Chesney (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville)   Kenny Chesney opens his new album "Life On A Rock" with the hit "Pirate Flag," a rowdy...

The flowing Iowa cornfields of "At Any Price" have nothing on the amber waves of Zac Efron's hair.   In "At Any Price," Ramin Bahrani plants a sweeping Midwest tale...

"The Woman Upstairs" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Claire Messud   Nora Eldridge is "the woman upstairs" in the title of Claire Messud's new novel — "the quiet...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Mosquito" (Interscope Records)   From the opening seconds of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' fourth album, you'll wonder how you have lived without the dulcet tones...

The final event of the Teatru Manoel BOV Performing Arts Festival is the Lieder Recital performed by Maltese soprano Gillian Zammit and pianist Lucia Micallef on Tuesday 7 May at 8pm.   The...

This book by Simon Marsden and Duncan McLaren is a haunting evocation of the ruined country estates of the Russian aristocracy of the 18th and 19th centuries.  Revolution, civil war, invasion,...

Welcome To The Punch is the second feature from Shifty writer-director Eran Creevy and producers Rory Aitken and Ben Pugh.  The film focuses on the relationship between detective Max Lewinsky and...

This holiday season, Andy Brewster (Seth Rogen) is about to embark on the mother of all road trips . . . when he is guilted into bringing his mom, Joyce (Barbra Streisand), along for the ride on a...