Alec Baldwin says he is passionate about green energy and is hoping next week's U.N. climate summit brings home to Americans that the United States has fallen behind other countries in promoting...

"Dirty Work" (Little, Brown and Co.), by Gabriel Weston   At the start of Gabriel Weston's "Dirty Work," Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist, has choked...

Sergio Mendes, "Magic" (Okeh)   Sergio Mendes continues his mission of spreading the joy of Brazilian music to a global audience on new album "Magic."   That...

It comes as something of a shock to be talking with Adam Driver and hear so little cursing. Nothing is thrown. No explicit sexual act is performed.   Lena Dunham's "Girls," has...

"The Eye of Heaven" (Putnam), by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake   Russell Blake, a new co-author with Clive Cussler, brings the required adventure into the mix in "The Eye of...

Chances are you haven't heard these Johnny Mathis albums — but that will change.   The 78-year-old singer is dropping a 13-CD box set of unsuccessful commercial albums released...

Michael Sheen can mold himself into just about any kind of role. He's played British Prime Minister Tony Blair, interviewer David Frost and a vampire in the...

"Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century" (NewSouth Books), edited by Erika DeSimone and Fidel Louis   George Moses Horton wasn't...

Bart and Lisa Simpson, Chief Wiggum and son Ralph, bartender Moe and Apu from Kwik-E-Mart celebrated 25 years of "The Simpsons" in Hollywood on Friday.   Those characters are...

Co-directors Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City” graphic novels back to the screen in 3D in Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame...