Arts & Entertainment

AP music writers’ top 10 albums of the year

The Grammys got it right; Sara Bareilles’ third release, “The Blessed Unrest,” is one of the year’s best thanks to…

The AP picks its Top 10 theater of 2013

1. “The Glass Menagerie”: There’s magic from start to finish in this new production of Tennessee William’s great play about…

Lawsuits, mergers, and, yes, books, in 2013

It was a blockbuster year for the legal profession. A federal judge ruled that Apple had conspired with five publishers…

U.S. Best-selling books for Dec. 17

Fiction 1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Co.) 2. Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (Penguin Press HC)…

Louis L’Amour re-imagined

L’Amour’s graphic novel brings to life his father’s work

‘The Spectacular Now’ is a refreshingly ‘real’ look at teenage life

Sutter Keely (Miles Teller), a high school senior and effortless charmer, unexpectedly falls in love with good girl Aimee Finecky…

Books are great gifts for kids

The Snatchabook is an entertaining picture book by Helen Docherty and Thomas Docherty. It has darling illustrations that will appeal…

Bob Dylan’s guitar from Newport to be auctioned in N.Y.

The Fender Stratocaster a young Bob Dylan played at the historic 1965 Newport Folk Festival could bring as much as…

Bryan Cranston narrates ‘Big History’ exploration

Cranstondu1-i-syn But there’s another reason Cranston is a fine choice for this new docuseries, which pledges to reveal “one grand…

Original Sly Stallone likes Karl’s ‘natural humility’

Sylvester Stallone, who played Rocky Balboa in the 1976 film “Rocky,” poses with Margo Seibert, who will be playing the…

Window display

Day – and years – of the dead

to unveil ‘Death Collection’

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art gains recognition in Hockney exhibit

‘Dallas 1963’ twisted by anger

This book cover image released by Twelve shows "Dallas 1963," by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis. (AP Photo/Twelve)du1-i-syn “Dallas…

U.S. Best-selling books for Oct. 29

Fiction 1. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf) 2. The Circle by Dave Eggers (Knopf) 3. The Signature of All…

‘Bling Ring’: Steal how the other half lives

A group of teens live the high life by ripping off the stars in “The Bling Ring.”Courtesy of A24 Films…

Hillerman revives Dad’s characters for 1st novel

Leaphorn and Chee return in ‘Spider Woman’s Daughter’

A cappella group highlights FLC opening

Musical offerings are varied and spirited

’Bad Grandpa’ sinks ‘Gravity’ to top box office

Johnny Knoxville, left, as Irving Zisman and Jackson Nicoll as Billy in “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa,” the top film at…

Lou Reed, iconic punk poet, dead at 71

FILE – In a June 13, 1986 file photo, Lou Reed performs in 1985 at a benefit in Chicago, for…

Pagosa players dodge plague in ‘One Flea Spare’

A poor sailor, Bunce (David Menich), and a streetwise 12-year-old, Morse (Melissa Cheffers), turn the tables on the wealthy William…

The gone aren’t forgotten at Studio &

Few do Dia de los Muertos like Studio &, and the Main Avenue arts collective will begin its memorial tribute…

Yamashita heads west with images from the East

Yamashita has been one of National Geographic’s top photographers for more than 30 years, specializing in Asia but traveling to…

The MET strips away Russian satire in ‘The Nose’

Frank Colardo plays the unmistakable title role in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Shostakovich’s “The Nose.”Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera “The rogue.…