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There’s no shortage of seasonal films that claim to extol “the true meaning of Christmas,” and this year, the holiday comes early with Dallas Jenkins’ “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” based on the 1972 novel ...Read more

Sometime in the last handful of years, so sneakily that few of us seemed to be paying attention, Hugh Grant suddenly turned into a brilliant character actor. Though he’d appeared in a variety of roles throughout a career...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It's dusk inside an empty Hollywood Bowl as David Gilmour peers out from the stage and delivers his song "Dark and Velvet Nights" to no one in particular. A strutting psych-blues jam with visions of "great ...Read more

With the nail firmly in Halloween’s coffin, it is time for a parade of holiday season fare.

In theaters this week, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” wants to get on your merry ol’ to-do list ahead of buying the ...Read more

ATLANTA — “Juror #2″ is a film packed with moral ambiguity, placing a seemingly ordinary man into a super sticky situation that quickly turns into a catch-22.

It’s the type of gray area 94-year-old director Clint ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Kate DiCamillo was walking down a south Minneapolis street when she realized she had to write “The Hotel Balzaar.”

It was in the early days of the pandemic, when we still hoped it was a short-term ...Read more

Obi Kaufmann has spent a lot of time thinking about California’s fires.

“There’s no way I can pull this punch: To live in California, you are going to live with fire,” says Kaufmann during an hour-long phone ...Read more

For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson was the last face millions of viewers saw before they closed their eyes and went to sleep. Carson, the critic David Thomson once noted, was “an ...Read more

Maylis de Kerangal’s new story collection, “Canoes,” is a moving, surprising exploration of grief and friendship across seven short stories and one novella, set in France, Canada and the United States.

Beautifully ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s the old chew toys that really get you.

Lying on its side, encircled in stone, there’s Peaches’ green rubber porcupine, collecting desert dust for decades.

Beneath a cast-iron cactus, oxidized by ...Read more

Minneapolis author Louise Erdrich found novel inspiration while writing her latest novel, “The Mighty Red,” in the form of an injured crow, rescued by her daughter Pallas.

“Today” host Jenna Bush Hager chose ...Read more

CHICAGO — If there are ghosts, the ghost of writer Bill Zehme might be found within the Chicago tavern/restaurant Twin Anchors, where he spent many living days and nights and where his face still stares from photos on ...Read more

In Michael Connelly's new crime thriller, "The Waiting," Los Angeles police detective Renée Ballard's cold-case team takes on the decades-old case of the Pillowcase Rapist after a random DNA hit delivers a fresh clue.

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Some complain to show their exceptional talents of discernment and flex the implied intellectual superiority. Complaining can also be the refuge of those unwilling to solve a problem. But for those willing to take action...Read more

NEW YORK — Elon Musk is pointing the finger at Jennifer Lopez for not sounding the alarm against ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s currently locked up at Brooklyn MDC on federal sex trafficking and ...Read more

(UPI) A rare U.S. dime missing its mint mark was auctioned for $506,250, nearly 30 times the amount it sold for 46 years earlier.

GreatCollections, which handled the auction of the "1975 No S Proof Dime," said the coin ...Read more

Beyoncé commemorated Election Day Tuesday by dropping a “Baywatch”-inspired music video for “Bodyguard,” which doubled as a reminder to get out and vote.

The sultry video, entitled “Beywatch,” sees the 43-...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs may have been jailed on his birthday, but he didn’t celebrate alone.

Six of his seven children phoned him Monday, gathering around a cake and singing their dad the birthday song, a ...Read more