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She says she and Kurt Cobain were 'a little lax' in the parenting department Full story »

I've already written about HBO's "The Pacific" in both a column review and a behind-the-scenes feature. So now it's time to start reviewing each episode. My take on part one coming up just as soon as I poison a billion coconuts... Full story »

Nick Jonas, Ronnie Spector lined up to sing their songs Full story »

Find out what Alan Sepinwall thinks of the new Fox comedy Full story »

Jay-Z never has been known to undersell anything. And he wasn’t about to start when he asked Alicia Keys to add her voice to his “Empire State of Mind.” “I feel like I have this record that’s going to be the anthem of New York,” Keys remembers him telling her. Jay-Z was right. The uplifting duet from his September... Full story »

"I don’t know why I didn’t see it coming,” Robert Pattinson says with a small smile. “I thought I’d be doing this tiny little film in New York, just hang out in New York.” It didn’t quite work out that way. Pattinson made the “tiny little film,” all right — a perfectly right-sized indie called “Remember Me” that opened... Full story »

An unwitting scholar named Verlaine seeks letters between the late philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller and a murdered mother superior — on behalf of his sketchy, ailing employer. He implores 23-year-old Evangeline, who has lived for 11 years in a convent for the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, for help. His request conscripts Evangeline into a bizarre adventure that will reveal her... Full story »

He’s been Bond, James Bond — and Remington Steele, and the subject of countless fervid female fantasies. And at 56, slim and elegant in a black suit, he could undoubtedly still kindle many more. His leading-man days are hardly behind him. But currently, Pierce Brosnan is, as he likes to put it, a “working actor,” happily taking on a... Full story »

Martha Gaines has a tough job: She runs the practice house at Wilton College, an all-girls’ school somewhere in Pennsylvania. The year is 1946. The practice house is where the students go to learn how to be a mother. (Cornell University sponsored such a house from 1919 to 1969.) Babies arrive from the local orphanage. Martha, 48 years old... Full story »

The White Stripes are inactive at the moment. But the fiery garage-blues duo will remind fans of its greatness this week with "Under Great White Northern Lights," a live set (available on CD or DVD) recorded on its 2007 Canadian tour. Here are listings and links for this album and other major releases scheduled for the next four months.... Full story »

March 20 will be Reagon and Garfunkel night at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. Art Garfunkel, of Simon and Garfunkel fame, will perform ‘60s classics and newer material at the venue’s Prudential Hall at 8 p.m. And singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon will perform with her band, BigLovely, at the smaller Victoria Theater at 7:30 p.m. Also performing... Full story »

A quick review of last night's "Caprica" coming up just as soon as I get a bigger gun... Full story »

Little Shiloh dressed in boy's garb. Watch the video and take our poll Full story »

Crisp haircuts, razor-sharp suits and highly polished leather shoes were de rigueur. It was common practice to open doors for women and chain-smoke cigarettes over glasses of Canadian Club. Such was the life -- and style -- of men in the early 1960s. While women today don't necessarily want the door held for them and smoking is out just... Full story »