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Review: Willie Nelson's San Diego concert defined, not defied, the passing of time. He turns 91 on April 29
SAN DIEGO — Willie Nelson was a young whippersnapper of 28 when he wrote "Funny How Time Slips Away" in 1961. He was 82 when he co-wrote and recorded "Still Not Dead" in 2017. On May 28, he will release "The Border," his...Read more
Sound Advice: Tune in for more info on CD players, party speaker
Q. It was cool to learn what TEAC stands for. Thanks, I never knew that! I saw that the TEAC PD-301-X CD Player/FM Tuner just has FM radio? No AM radio on the unit?
—J.L., Minneapolis
A. That is correct, no AM radio,...Read more
TV review: Bon Jovi documentary goes down in a blaze of boredom
By all accounts, Jon Bon Jovi has led a charmed life with supportive parents, early success and a fantastic head of hair. That's an enviable history, but it makes for a fairly tedious documentary.
Despite the lack of ...Read more
Delta Burke looks back on 'Designing Women' exit, and using crystal meth to lose weight
LOS ANGELES — “Designing Women” alum Delta Burke says her “ugly” experience on the hit CBS sitcom drove her away from Los Angeles, and her long-time struggle with her weight led her to use crystal meth to keep ...Read more
'Fallout' review: Walton Goggins as a swaggering, post-apocalyptic cowboy
If fears about “the bomb” permeated life in the mid-20th century, the video game “Fallout” takes that premise to its worst conclusion. In a post-nuclear wasteland, some survivors have been recreating their 1950s-...Read more
'The Synanon Fix' shows how the California dream went awry for a rehab group turned cult
LOS ANGELES — In the late 1950s, Charles "Chuck" Dederich started a drug rehabilitation program out of a storefront in Santa Monica. A recovering alcoholic who'd gotten sober through Alcoholics Anonymous, Dederich ...Read more
Review: 'Stereophonic,' about a band under pressure, is a Broadway show not to be missed
NEW YORK — Just before the end of playwright David Adjmi’s masterful “Stereophonic,” a three-hour dissection of ego, insecurity and the messy, messed-up gorgeousness of the creative process, I decided I’d had ...Read more
Review: 'The Heart of Rock and Roll' on Broadway is a funny, warm-hearted Huey Lewis jukebox show
NEW YORK — Back in the 1980s, Huey Lewis and the News were sometimes compared to the Cars and even Elvis Costello, but their string of catchy hit singles also had the distinctive everyman air of flowing out of a bunch of...Read more
Review: Three novels for the price of one, 'Choice' hinges on big decisions
Early on in Neel Mukherjee's new novel, Ayush, an editorial director at a London publishing house, sits in an acquisitions meeting and tells his colleagues about the book he is championing. He compares it to David Mitchell...Read more
Review: New book looks at the 'Native Nations' that called this land home before colonists arrived
The past isn't even past, to paraphrase William Faulkner. In that spirit, a cadre of contemporary scholars and writers have recast, with heroic urgency, the history of North American peoples prior to European encounter and...Read more
Pennsylvania's school funding is unconstitutional. A professor explains why the system is still difficult to change
As depicted by the creative solutions and struggles of the staff of the TV show "Abbott Elementary" each week, the entire country is now aware that Philadelphia’s public schools are underfunded.
But many don’t know ...Read more
How did a white woman come to write the newest definitive text on Philadelphia's Black history?
For the past two months, author Amy Jane Cohen has been lecturing about Philadelphia’s Black history to predominately white audiences at libraries, bookstores, and exclusive private clubs in the city and the burbs.
“...Read more
Review: What can shipwrecks tell us? New book says: Pretty much everything
David Gibbins' "A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks" is also a history of the world in 270 pages, which is why, as you might imagine, the book is jam-packed with information — and why, as Gibbins explains, it is ...Read more
Review: Of course you love your pooch but 'Dogland' wonders if she loves you back
"Dogland" is exactly the kind of book I doggedly seek.
It doesn't even matter what the book is about; I always have an appetite for nonfiction that is smart, funny and has an attitude toward its subject that suggests both...Read more
Review: How did this novel's heroine end up with her ex's new love's ex? It's kind of a 'Funny Story'
We never get romantic comedies in movie theaters anymore, but at least there's a place we can find plenty of 'em: libraries and book stores.
Emily Henry's "Funny Story" checks both the "romantic" and "comedy" boxes with ...Read more
The most infamous serial killers all seem to have something in common -- they're from the Midwest
What is it about the Midwest that breeds so many serial killers?
What is in the soil that grows the sort of grisly murderers who launch a million headlines? Adam Rapp has wondered for a long time. He was born in Chicago ...Read more
Percival Everett's new book 'James' revisits 'Huckleberry Finn.' He won't tell you how to read it
CHICAGO -- I’ve had difficult interviews before. I’ve interviewed Lou Reed, who may be the most notoriously difficult interview subject of the past half century. (It went badly.) I once walked out of an interview with ...Read more
In the Last Moments of Mercury Retrograde
When you sense yourself veering off course, pause. Orient yourself. Do not ask too many questions. Questions send your mind into search mode. Instead of questioning, simply observe your surroundings and affirm your ...Read more
Megan Thee Stallion, Roc Nation sued by personal cameraman, who makes a provocative allegation
Megan Thee Stallion is being sued by a personal cameraman who alleges the “Hot Girl Summer” singer, her management company and several other related entities engaged in hostile work environment harassment and various ...Read more
Outside Lands announces massive lineup for 2024 music festival
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hip-hop star Tyler, the Creator, alt-rock act the Killers, country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson and pop star Post Malone sit atop the bill for the 2024 Outside Lands festival.
Malone, who ...Read more
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