PJ Harvey, rock poet, turns journalist with eye on decay
LOS ANGELES — With a guitar in hand rather than a notebook, rocker PJ Harvey has taken on the role of a journalist on a...
Vinyl: When Rock and Roll ruled the world
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
FOR MANY YEARS, rock was the dominant musical genre. We worshipped at the altar of Elvis, The Beatles, Bowie, Kurt Cobain. We...
Mountain men
Television
Sherpa
April 24, 9 p.m.
Discovery Channel
WHAT WAS SUPPOSED to be a simple documentary focusing on Sherpas -- a Tibetan ethnic group whose members are regarded...
Night at the museum: will.i.am bigs up the Louvre
PARIS -- He is after all rap’s renaissance man.
The singer will.i.am revealed to the world, on Tuesday, the results of his most unlikely collaboration...
Daredevil ratchets up the bloody intensity in Season 2
The Binge — Jessica Zafra
DAREDEVIL, the vigilante of Hell’s Kitchen, New York, is not the biggest badass in this season of the Netflix series...
Meat Loaf back with album, tour
NEW YORK — Hard rock chart-topper Meat Loaf has announced a release date for a new album and an extensive tour of Canada, returning...
Harper Lee created the Greatest American Hero
By Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg View
SOME YEARS AGO, I added To Kill a Mockingbird to the syllabus of my course on Ethics in Literature....
Last Motorhead recordings to become live album
NEW YORK — Motorhead’s last live recordings before the death of the hard-charging metal band’s frontman Lemmy are being turned into a live album.
Clean...
Food photography pioneer reveals how we eat (and it’s not always pretty)
By Richard Vines
Book
Real Food
By Martin Parr,
with an introduction
by Fergus Henderson Phaidon
EVERYONE is a food photographer these days.
So where does that leave Martin Parr, who has...
Now out on DVD
By Angela Dawson
SISTERS
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have been bringing their goofy brand of girl-power humor to audiences since their days at Saturday Night Live...
Kanye goes Gospel with Easter prayer track
NEW YORK -- Rap superstar Kanye West is showing his religious side by releasing a prayer in the form of a Gospel track to...
Lucifer and Damien: Evil needs a hug
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
WE KNOW that evil is at large in the world -- you only have to read the news to be reminded of...