Brad Paisley draws on his serious side Denver Post | Paisley celebrates diversity. (Ed Rode, Associated Press file) | As much as he enjoys singing about the double lives of computer geeks ("Online") and amorous country boys ("Ticks"), Brad Paisley says there's too much going on in the world to be too lighthearted on his new album, "American Saturday...
Thrift stores are thriving The Roanoke Times | Discount retailers, particularly thrift and consignment stores, are thriving right now. | With widespread job loss and tightened credit and consumer spending, Americans are looking for a break. | A surge in thrift and consignment sales and shopping activity is part of the reason that these kinds o...
Former Beatles, Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein dies Canada Dot Com Former Beatles, Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein dies | LOS ANGELES - Infamous record label owner Allen Klein, who played a key role in the demise of the Beatles and also nabbed control of some of the Rolling Stones' best-known songs, died in New Y...
Amsterdam exhibit shows digital images of every Rembrandt work USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Cynthia Boll, AP Photo Printer Rene Robben company prepares digital reproductions for an exhibit of images of all known Rembrandt works. Pieces are being reproduced in their true size...
ROAD WARRIOR: Street-smart author digs up interesting facts about names Review Journal | Ever wonder about the meaning of the street names in the Las Vegas Valley? | You're not the only one. | Mark Hall-Patton, museum administrator for Clark County, has spent the last 10 years researching and compiling a history of valley street names....
Review: 'The Story Sisters' by Alice Hoffman Chicago Sun-Times | Evil forces, healing animals, and talismans haunt the pages of The Story Sisters, a powerful new novel by Alice Hoffman. It's a disturbing, engrossing tale of three close sisters and their tragic lives. | If it were just one more story of a family'...
Hollywood gets hitched to booming Bollywood The Observer | To half the world's population, Akshay Kumar is more famous than Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Bruce Willis put together. Now the actor's fame is about to spread to the west. Kambakk...
Interview: Rebecca Miller The Observer | Rebecca Miller is so clever, and privileged, and talkative and engaging and clear-skinned and glossy-eyed and vaguely expensive looking, not in a designer sense but in a lucky-en...
Literary listings Chicago Sun-Times | JULY 7 | • Elliott J. Gorn signs Dillingers Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One, 6 p.m. at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton. | • E.E. Knight signs Winter Duty, 7 p.m. at Borders, 1500 16th St., Oa...
Spin Control: CD reviews and samples Chicago Sun-Times Pop | Moby, "Wait for Me" (Mute) » | Sometimes, phenomenal pop success can leave an artist crippled with creative paralysis, striving in vain to match or top that commercial peak; witness Michael Jackson after "Thriller." Moby's sixth studio al...
Buffalo Grove writer didn't love 'Beth Cooper' Chicago Sun-Times | He didn't love Beth Cooper. At least, he won't cop to her name. | "Everything is autobiographical, but this was based on a dream," says Buffalo Grove native, novelist and screenwriter Larry Doyle. "I was giving my graduation speech and I was procla...
Anne Frank, All-American Girl The New York Times | ONE measure of the enormity of the crimes committed by Hitler's Germany can be found in how long it took American popular culture to conceptualize them. Although the Holocaust was acknowledged in a handful of Hollywood films from the late 1940s and early '50s, like Orson Welles's "Stranger" (1946), Fred Zinnemann's "Search" (1948) and Edward Dmyt...
Quincy Jones remembers "the biggest entertainer on the planet": Michael Jackson Seattle Times | Note: Music producer Quincy Jones, who once lived in Seattle and graduated from Garfield High School, first worked with Michael Jackson in 1978 on the set of "The Wiz." He went on to collaborate with him on groundbreaking recordings, including "Thriller" and "Off the Wall." He wrote a remembrance of Jackson for the Los Angeles Times, excerpted he...
