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'The Sad Passions' paints haunting tale of loss and art
Veronica Gonzalez Peña follows the lives of a middle-class Mexican family that has been shaped by absence, loss, sickness and dead dreams.Spectral girls and shadow fathers haunt the center and fringes of Veronica Gonzalez Peña's second novel, "The Sad Passions," but this isn't magical realism. These aren't spirits...
latimes.com (33 minutes ago)
Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir by Greg Bellow – review
Saul Bellow's Heart … If you've ever read anything about the great man's private life you might suppose the title of his son's memoir is intended ironically, or that it's one of those deliberately incongruous couplings, like The Pope's Rhinoceros, meant to arouse a slightly incredulous fascination. Even if you know...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Colum McCann: a life in writing
A Dublin accent is just made to say "arse": in Colum McCann's gentle brogue the word becomes a beautiful thing. This, in a sense, is what his fiction does too – few contemporary writers are better at extracting the sublime from the base. McCann had six novels to his name by the time he turned 40, but it was 2009's...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
The hottest French TV of 2013: The Returned
It's four years since a coach taking local teenagers on a school trip plunged down a French mountain, killing several students. But, just as final plans for a much-debated memorial are being passed round the weekly bereavement support group, the children start to come home, acting as if nothing has happened,...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Sam Mendes seeks black rapper with 'attitude' for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory role
Sam Mendes has stipulated that the schoolgirls who play one of the characters in his West End musical 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' must be 'non-white'.
telegraph.co.uk (7 hours ago)
What Is Up With Rob Lowe's Face? The Actor On His Crazy 'Candelabra' Role
Rob Lowe thought the script for "Behind the Candelabra" was great and he jumped at the chance to work with stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, who play Liberace and his lover Scott Thorson in the glitzy, perceptive movie, directed by Steven Soderbergh. But Lowe's character in the HBO film, plastic surgeon Dr....
huffingtonpost.com (7 hours ago)
Mark Wahlberg and his co-stars in 'Broken City' get caught up in corruption
Interview With Mark WahlbergWhat attracted you to “Broken City”Wahlberg: You immediately become engrossed in the story, all the layers and the characters. You’re trying to figure out who’s going to do what and...
examiner.com (8 hours ago)
The Hangover Part III, Something In The Air, Epic 3D: this week's new films
Here we go again, ostensibly for the last time, and if this doesn't capture the magic of the first Hangover it's at least less offensive than the second, which isn't much of a recommendation. An intervention over Alan's mental health and the hunt for Mr Chow is what sets in motion the WTF escapades and male bonding...
guardian.co.uk (8 hours ago)
Jewell Cardwell: Teen plays eye-opening role at Akron Children’s Hospital
Former patient Robyn “Robbi” O’Neill’s artwork is front and center at Akron Children’s Hospital’s Vision Center. The opportunity to paint the space was eagerly embraced by the 18-year-old former Lake High School student who finished her final classes online in the spring with Lincoln Academy and plans to attend the...
ohio.com (10 hours ago)
Lisa Parkin: 4 Social Media Tips Businesses Can Learn from Celebrities
Although most lists of "things we can learn from celebrities" include more don't's than do's, there is definitely one thing they can teach us: the art of social media. Celebrities, much like big businesses, have huge name recognition and fan loyalty. Also like the corporate world, they have new projects, products...
huffingtonpost.com (12 hours ago)
Why Everybody Loves Matthew Barney
"There is a space between the physical and the metaphysical," Matthew Barney said, his tall frame leaning forward as his voice lowered. "The stage. The performance." Jori Klein/The New York Public Library On Tuesday night, Barney attracted a full crowd for his conversation with Paul Holdengräber at the New York...
huffingtonpost.com (12 hours ago)
Anne Theriault: 118 Books You Must Bring With You to a Desert Island
The funny thing is that you're very rarely enough of anything for anyone. When I write about radical-lady-type-stuff, I'm always too feminist for some people, and not feminist enough for others. When I get worked about something, I'm always too outspoken for some, and not outspoken enough for others. When I wrote a...
huffingtonpost.com (12 hours ago)
The 13 Best TV Episodes To Celebrate Summer
Does peeing on a jellyfish sting really work to soothe the burn? And if you're drinking in the sun all day, can you really call it heatstroke? These are the questions that some of our favorite TV characters have left us with after they've taken vacations. As the weather heats up and you're dreaming of your own sunny...
huffingtonpost.com (12 hours ago)
Gulf Stream billionaire sues town in federal court over right to paint characters on his home
Defiant Gulf Stream millionaire Marty O’Boyle has turned his beef with the town into a federal case.
palmbeachpost.com (17 hours ago)
GIVE HIM A THUMBS UP
Mr. JUCO is a man of few words, so having only 140 characters to get his message across is plenty.
gjsentinel.com (17 hours ago)
Ashton Kutcher: Twitter Got [Bleeped] Up by the Media
Seems like Ashton Kutcher needs way more than 140 characters to express his fired-up sentiments about Twitter these days. The celeb social-media pioneer-who was one of the first...
eonline.com (17 hours ago)
Another Oscar In Her Future?
CANNES, France — Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant." The gritty drama, which premieres Friday at the Cannes Film Festival and is competing for the...
huffingtonpost.com (17 hours ago)
How a former president learnt that a panda is no teddy bear
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing was ridiculed four years ago for writing a novel about a passionate affair between two characters apparently...
thetimes.co.uk (17 hours ago)
Flipsyde's Jinho 'The Piper' Ferreira in 'Cops and Robbers'
Oakland hip-hop artist turned playwright Jinho Ferreira plays 16 characters in his one-man show, 'Cops and Robbers,' which examines the aftermath of an officer-involved shooting in Oakland.
mercurynews.com (19 hours ago)
You Just Couldn't Make Up Your Mind, Could You?: Guy Dressed Up As All The Avengers At Once
Because it's the Friday before a holiday weekend and I've already started drinking (technically last night) this is a shot of some dude dressed up as all the Avengers at once. Can you name the corresponding costume pieces to each Avenger? In case you're a dirty cheater, they are: Captain America's shirt and shield...
geekologie.com (19 hours ago)
Nuclear plant "Star Trek" spoof has customers in uproar
Southern California Edison managers dressed as “Star Trek” characters shot a spoof video at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
palmbeachpost.com (19 hours ago)
LoveSexTravelMusik by Rodge Glass – review
The narratives that make up this collection of "Stories for the EasyJet generation" are as fleeting as the jobs, relationships and occasional epiphanies they describe. Their characters are longing for change or having change thrust upon them. Lost in their own lives, they exude a kind of contemporary ennui: an iPod...
guardian.co.uk (20 hours ago)
Sherlock Holmes: The Best-Kept Secret – review
Sherlock Holmes is depressed. Still suffering physically and mentally from his encounter with Moriarty on the Reichenbach Falls, he is refusing to take on any new cases and, to the chagrin of the ever-devoted Watson, is selling the secrets of his most famous successes to a grubby Fleet Street hack. Then his brother...
guardian.co.uk (21 hours ago)
Arts & Crafts: Twist-Tie Link, Mario, Doctor Who And More
Remember DeviantARTist justjake54's twist-tie Ninja Turtles? Well now he's made a bunch of other characters. What will this guy think of next? Fingers crossed for anything but twist-tie pornography. "I'd watch it." No -- we'd watch it together. We're a team, remember? "What the f*** are you talking about?" Come give...
geekologie.com (22 hours ago)
How 'Hangover' Director Fired Back At Critics
"The Hangover Part III" isn't like "The Hangover" or "The Hangover Part II" because it doesn't actually include any hangovers. While the first two films in the $1 billion franchise retraced the events of one crazy night in the lives of the Wolfpack (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis), "The Hangover Part...
huffingtonpost.com (22 hours ago)
Psychedelic Furs Frontman Does Art
Have you been wondering what the illustrious Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs has been up to lately? Fans probably know that the New Wave sextet reunited for some aughties touring, bringing the "Pretty in Pink" gang back together again after their 1990 split. But we're interested in Butler off the stage and on...
huffingtonpost.com (22 hours ago)
Gay Mormon Characters Step Out
By Kellie Kotraba Religion News Service (RNS) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.” Pitt lived in New York with a good reputation and a bad marriage to a woman addicted to...
huffingtonpost.com (22 hours ago)
Khaled Hosseini sets 'And the Mountains Echoed' against Afghan history
A father's decision to give his 3-year-old daughter to a wealthy family in Kabul begins an almost 60-year Afghan history lesson as recounted by the characters in Khaled Hosseini's newest novel.Although Khaled Hosseini has lived in the United States since he was 15, he remains engaged in the struggles of his native...
latimes.com (1 day ago)
Oz volume one by L. Frank Baum - review
When I got these books I was surprised to find three books (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz) instead of one as I had always thought there was only one book about Oz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Actually there are fifteen books altogether. My favourite book of the three was Ozma of...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
3-D Coffee Art Reaches New Heights
Baristas across the globe may have to bow in awe of the new 3-D designs of Japanese foam artist Kazuki Yamamoto. Yamamoto’s work, which has previously depicted everything from anime characters to Pinocchio, has reached new heights – literally – over the past few months....
abcnews.com (1 day ago)
