Category: 5. Entertainment

Jennifer Lawrence recently said on “The Graham Norton Show” that she “was at peace” with not returning to Hollywood during her two-year acting break a few years ago. After scoring her fourth Oscar nomination with 2015’s “Joy,”…

At the age of 86, Mavis Staples is still pressing ahead with exciting new music – indeed, one of the most star-studded and resonant albums of her career is coming up. As she prepares to release it, she’ll be answering your questions.

That new…

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s challenge celebrates allusions to characters and plots from classic novels found in music and television. In the five multiple-choice…

In many ways the entirety of geek culture – certainly as far as the movies are concerned – is built on giving the people what they want. The Flash exhumed Michael Keaton’s Batman, but left him drifting through the end-of-days haze of a…

AGE OF REVELATION rages on in Jed MacKay and Netho Diaz’s X-MEN: BOOK OF REVELATION (2025) #1, where the Game of Power commences! X years later, after the assassination of one of his prized Choristers, Revelation welcomes a new mutant to his…

He is one of the most prolific writers in publishing, averaging more than a novel a year. But even Michael Connelly, the author of the bestselling Lincoln Lawyer series, feared he might fall behind when writing about AI.

Connelly’s eighth novel…

Norman Greenbaum, singer, guitarist, songwriter

Spirit in the Sky started as an old blues riff I’d been playing since my college days in Boston, but I didn’t know what to do with it. After I moved to LA, a guy I knew came up with a way of…

By this point in October there is no escaping the shorter days, lower light and autumn drizzle, but this concert by London Symphony Orchestra – the first in a short series of LSO programmes this season and next curated by the composer and…

In March, we launched Concerts Near You to help listeners find concerts from their favorite artists. Since then, more than 3 million people have used it to discover nearby events. But…