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Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash’s daughter but a longtime New Yorker, looks South in her new CD All roads lead South on the new Rosanne Cash CD. Nearly every song name-drops a place below the Mason-Dixon line, from Nashville to Mobile to Mississippi to, most often, Memphis, a city that serves as a central character in no fewer than three of ...

“The Housemaid’s Daughter” “The Housemaid’s Daughter” by Barbara Mutch (St. Martin’s) Quiet, grievous loss pervades “The Housemaid’s Daughter.” The novel is about a black woman and her white mistress in South Africa, each dedicated to the other and both cruelly undone when apartheid is enacted and becomes their new reality. Barbara Mutch’s first novel, a saga spanning five decades, is ...

NBC/Trae Patton/NBC Shakira and Usher had success on the show, but neither won the top title in Season 4. Now, they’ll return for another shot in Season 6. On the heels of “The Voice” Season 5 finale, details of next season have already begun and it doesn’t include CeeLo Green or Christina Aguilera. Although Green and Aguilera reunited with Blake ...

Helen Warner/Helen Warner Ciaran Hinds (l.) and Michael McElhatton in ‘The Night Alive’ Conor McPherson’s moody new drama, “The Night Alive,” focuses on two down-and-out Dubliners who meet by chance. Sweet, right? Not really. McPherson is a playwright who embraces life’s dark streaks and mysteries. He has gone there before many times, including in his ghostly dramas “The Weir” and ...

Warner Bros. Pictures Warner Bros. says the second “The Hobbit” movie, set to be released on Friday, actually constitutes a remake. Powerhouse movie exec Harvey Weinstein and his brother sued Warner Brothers Wednesday for $ 75 million over the studio’s decision to divide their “The Hobbit” film into three installments and refuse to pay the Weinsteins their share of revenue ...

Discovery Sarah Atwell is a normal 17-year-old girl — except she has neurofibromatosis, a debilitating uncurable condition that causes tumors to grow on her face. The story of a teenager from Canada who endured cruel teasing due to her disfigurement is about to be revealed. Sarah Atwell, a 17-year-old from Nova Scotia, has suffered from neurofibromatosis since she was eight ...

Discovery Sarah Atwell is a normal 17-year-old girl — except she has neurofibromatosis, a debilitating uncurable condition that causes tumors to grow on her face. The story of a teenager from Canada who endured cruel teasing due to her disfigurement is about to be revealed. Sarah Atwell, a 17-year-old from Nova Scotia, has suffered from neurofibromatosis since she was eight ...

Mark DeLong Michael Connelly, famed for his Harry Bosch LAPD procedurals, switches to his other ongoing series, centering on lawyer Mickey Haller. Michael Connelly jumped genres in 2005. Best known, in fact revered, for his police procedurals starring LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, Connelly started writing legal thrillers right in John Grisham’s backyard. “The Lincoln Lawyer” was a fabulous one-off, establishing ...

The Girl on Fire is back — in style. Katniss Everdeen returns to the screen in “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” and after emerging from the trilogy’s first film victorious, she’s decked out in dark, glamorous garb. The winner of a brutal death match against other youths chosen by lottery, she’s now rich, her family is safe, and she’s moved ...

William Hurt as physicist Richard Feynman in “The Challenger Disaster,” watching footage of shuttle’s destruction “The Challenger Disaster” spins an engrossing tale of how one stubborn scientist and a couple of stealth allies uncovered the truth about the 1986 space shuttle explosion despite high-level efforts to keep it buried. It’s not just a good story, it’s a good story well ...