Arts & Entertainment

Court: No class-action status in Google book case

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it was too early for authors to be considered as a group…

There are no losers, but winners? Yes

Two new leads are tapped for Broadway’s ‘Annie’

Taylor Richardson and Sadie Sink, both natural redheads, will share the role of the stage’s most famous redhead beginning July…

Photographer who shot ’62 Marilyn Monroe portraits dies

Stern died Wednesday at his Manhattan home, said Shannah Laumeister, 43, a filmmaker who said the two were secretly married…

Mormon church-owned Utah NBC affiliate to air SNL

The decision is part of the station’s plan to make the lineup stronger and improve its relationship with NBC, said…

Fire benefit show braves the flames

Durango singer Dave Mensch to host concert Saturday in South Fork

Santa Fe ready for a Wilde opera season

Susan Graham will star this summer in the title role in the Santa Fe Opera’s production of “The Grand Duchess…

Keillor plans 26-city ‘Radio Romance Tour’

Radio show host Garrison Keillor speaks in 2009 in his Prairie Home Productions office in St. Paul, Minn. Keillor kicks…

Is an R-rating a scarlet letter at the multiplex?

A recent study by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) found that, last year, Hollywood produced 177 R-rated films…

Comedy is not pretty at the box office

Once a staple of summer and one of the most bankable genres in movies, comedies have lost their edge at…

Would you pay $50 to see a flick? Some fans did

In a small-scale marketing experiment, for $50 some fans got to see Brad Pitt’s hotly anticipated zombie thriller “World War…

Sequel to ‘World War Z’ in works

The infected scale the Israeli walls in a scene from “World War Z.” Paramount Pictures will likely develop a sequel…

U.S. Best-selling Books for June 25

Fiction 1. Inferno by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 2. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Hardcover) 3. Bad Monkey…

Carrey denounces ‘Kick-Ass 2’

says his film is too violent

‘Dirty Deeds’ make for high drama

season is underway at the Strater

Affordable housing

Cortez man writes his second mystery book

lawyer takes readers to the courtroom

Long-lost Bennett-Brubeck recording discovered

Dave Brubeck and Tony Bennett perform in 1962 in Washington. A tape of the live session, which recently was found,…

‘Anything Goes’ at Utah Shakespeare Festival

Corey Jones will star as King John in the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2013 production of “King John.”Karl Hugh/Utah Shakespeare Festival…

If I only had a brain

Artists pitch in for The Scarecrow Show at Animas Valley Farms

Algonquin Books a small press with a big publishing imprint

Maria’s Bookshop will look to bridge the gaps between writers, readers and publishers Monday night at the Rochester Hotel’s garden.…

Tony Soprano more than a memorable TV character

The passage of time since “The Sopranos” ended in 2007 brought that all of that into sharp relief even before…

James Gandolfini, 51, dies of cardiac arrest

James Gandolfini, shown in 2007 as Tony Soprano in a scene from one of the last episodes of the HBO…

Finally! Black Sabbath scores first No. 1 album

Until today. For the first time, Black Sabbath has claimed the No. 1 spot on Billboard‘s album chart with “13,”…