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Monday, 12 January 2015
Disgraced designer John Galliano returns to catwalk
LONDON (AP) " Designer John Galliano, who left fashion in disgrace in 2011 after making anti-Semitic comments in a Paris bar, has returned with a debut show for fashion house Maison Martin Margiela.Galliano, who took the creative...
'Unquiet Dead' is outstanding debut by Ausma Zehanat Khan
"The Unquiet Dead" (Minotaur Books), by Ausma Zehanat KhanWar atrocities reverberate for generations, affecting those who fought on the battlefield and the civilian victims who were collateral damage.Ausma Zehanat Khan's gripping...
Lineup announced for 2015 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest
NEW ORLEANS (AP) " Elton John, The Who, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga will headline this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.The festival annually draws hundreds of thousands to New Orleans for two weekends of jazz, blues,...
Review: 'First Bad Man' is Miranda July's debut novel
"The First Bad Man" (Scribner), by Miranda JulyThe first sentence of Miranda July's debut novel, "The First Bad Man," suggests the almost surreal self-absorption of its problematic narrator: "I drove to the doctor's office as if...
Charlie Hebdo: High stakes when satire meets globalization
LONDON (AP) " These are dark days for those who want to believe that the pen is mightier than the sword.The attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has caused grief and soul-searching around the world, and exposed the...
Elizabeth Gilbert book on creativity coming in September
NEW YORK (AP) " Elizabeth Gilbert wants everyone to be in touch with their creativity.The author of the million-selling memoir "Eat Pray Love" is working on "Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear," coming from Riverhead Books on...
Review: Album celebrates music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Various artists, "Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'" (Nonesuch)Fans of the Coen brothers' amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene " and of banjo-playing, guitar-plucking...
Celeb birthdays for the week of Jan. 18-24
Jan. 18: Singer-songwriter Bobby Goldsboro is 74. Comedian-singer Brett Hudson of the Hudson Brothers is 62. Actor-director Kevin Costner is 60. Country singer Mark Collie is 59. Actress Jane Horrocks ("Absolutely Fabulous") is 51....
Targets aplenty for Golden Globe hosts
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler welcomed Hollywood's "despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats" to the 72nd annual Golden Globes to celebrate "all the movies that North Korea was okay with".The hosts, in their third time presiding...
Grantley's nice and nasty twin roles
The Melbourne gangland wars occupied the Australian news for more than a decade, and inspired four series of Underbelly .Now there's a new spin-off: Fat Tony & Co which chronologically occupies the same period as the first Underbelly...
A farmer wants to take a wife on the new 'Bachelor' season
NEW YORK (AP) " Chris Soules, a farmer from Arlington, Iowa (population: 429), wants to take a wife on the 19th season of ABC's "The Bachelor."Soules competed on the last season of "The Bachelorette," where he made it to the final...
Russian opera diva Obraztsova dies at 75
MOSCOW (AP) " Russia's famed mezzo-soprano Elena Obraztsova, who has performed worldwide, has died at the age of 75.Obraztsova's cultural foundation said in a statement that she died Monday of cardiac arrest at a clinic in Germany,...
Review: 'The Girl on the Train' has realistic plot
"The Girl on the Train" (Riverhead Books), by Paula HawkinsHow many times have you been on a train and wondered about the people who live near the tracks and leave their curtains open so that passersby can watch them?That voyeuristic...
TV game show 'Jeopardy!' to highlight 'Aladdin' on Thursday
NEW YORK (AP) " The actor who plays Aladdin on Broadway has gotten yet another cool wish " a spot on "'Jeopardy!'"Adam Jacobs, who plays the title role in the new Disney blockbuster, will help represent the show Thursday when it...
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