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Twisty, turny novels are all the rage these days. Unreliable narrators continue to show strong in publishing as well.
“Caterpillar Summer,” a debut novel by Gillian McDunn, is a perfect summer read, in large part because of the setting. The reader is transported to a small island in North Carolina and a lovely house built high near the dunes and the beach.
Topping our arts-and-entertainment expert’s chart this week: Katie Flynn Quartet at Krannert Uncorked.
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Twisty, turny novels are all the rage these days. Unreliable narrators continue to show strong in publishing as well.
“Caterpillar Summer,” a debut novel by Gillian McDunn, is a perfect summer read, in large part because of the setting. The reader is transported to a small island in North Carolina and a lovely house built high near the dunes and the beach.
Topping our arts-and-entertainment expert’s chart this week: Katie Flynn Quartet at Krannert Uncorked.
Can you identify the screenshot of this home from a movie or TV show?
TOKYO (AP) — A man screaming "You die!" burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire Thursday, killing 33 people in an attack that shocked the country and brought an outpouring of grief from anime fans.
Bands, comedians, trivia, DJs and more. Here’s your guide to a night on the town.
This good, old-fashioned monster flick is the antidote for the roster of familiar, uninspired fare of this summer movie season, which has been one to endure, not enjoy.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
LOS ANGELES — “Spider-Man: Far From Home” is celebrating another weekend at No. 1, but non-franchise fare continues to struggle at the box office. Fresh studio-released counterprograming such as the horror movie “Crawl” and the action-comedy “Stuber” barely made a dent in the web-slinger’s e…
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Topping our arts-and-entertainment expert’s chart this week: Sinfonia da Camera’s Summer Piano Institute concerts.
Chances are, even if you have read a lot about World War II, you may not have encountered the name Marie-Madeleine Fourcade.
Solve the WCIA versus DirecTV/AT&T dispute in fewer than “60 minutes.” It’s so “Elementary,” you don’t need Holmes and Watson. You needn’t suffer the “Bull” from DirecTV. Buy an antenna. In case you’ve forgotten, broadcast TV is free.
Rarely does nonfiction win big awards in young readers’ literature. But the nonfiction work “A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919” by Claire Hartfield (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) is the worthy Coretta Scott King 2019 literature winner.
The Disney company has garnered a lot of press in recent years for generating film profits in ways that are clever but not necessarily creative.
Can you identify the screenshot of this home from a movie or TV show?
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unloaded via Twitter on Republican former House Speaker Paul Ryan after Ryan's comments critical of Trump appeared in excerpts from a new book.
CHICAGO (AP) — Singer R. Kelly, already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors, was arrested in Chicago on sweeping federal indictments that accuse him and members of his entourage of recruiting women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity with the performer and …
This is a such a rote exercise, I could have balanced my checkbook while watching it and still not have missed a thing.
Starting at 7 p.m. Saturday and going until midnight, there are three bands making Walnut Street and University Avenue a lively intersection.
Bands, comedians, trivia, DJs and more. Here’s your guide to a night on the town.
“O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. (And repeat.)” — the national anthem of Canada