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Pharoah Sanders, a saxophonist and composer who was celebrated for music that was at once visceral and spiritual, purposeful and ecstatic, died on Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 81.His death was...

Louise Fletcher, the imposing, steely-eyed actress who won an Academy Award for her role as the tyrannical Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died on Friday at her home...

When the author returned to the draft of “The Furrows” after five years away from it, she had a new experience of grief — her mother’s death — to contend with.“When my...

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 beta will open today for XBox and PC gamers. Infinity Ward has also added some new maps and game modes for players. The second weekend...

In 1665, Johannes Vermeer dabbed the last drop of paint onto a canvas in his Dutch studio, completing his masterpiece “Girl With a Pearl Earring.”On an April day 357 years later, Janine...

When Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman first let loose their swords, voodoo and pirates epic "The Secret of Monkey Island", it was sold on floppy disks and released for long-forgotten home PCs...

In the recent years the tales of vampires have become common with many of them just showing the blood suckers as unredeemable beasts. It’s until years ago that we moved from the...

THE DOOR OF NO RETURN, by Kwame AlexanderBehind the seemingly straightforward details of history in Kwame Alexander’s new novel-in-verse, “The Door of No Return” — the first book in a trilogy following...

A child’s kidnapping ignites a protracted bid for redemption in this down-and-dirty thriller.

“A Jazzman’s Blues,” Tyler Perry’s melodrama about ill-fated teenagers who fall in love in rural Georgia, marks the writer-director-studio head’s return to his first screenplay, w‌hich he wrote in 1995. In the...