Murray Wood: Going to seed, in a good way
Murray Wood says seed sales are taking off this spring. Food prices are likely convincing some to grow their own vegetab...
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Malik B, founding member of The Roots, has died at 47
LOS ANGELES - Malik B, a rapper and founding member of The Roots, has died. He was 47. The group announced the death of the Philadelphia-born emcee in a social media post Wednesday. The cause of death...
Jul 30, 2020
McConaughey writing book based on life-changing adventures
NEW YORK - Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey didn't want to write an ordinary celebrity book. "This is not a traditional memoir, or an advice book, but rather a playbook based on adventures in my life,...
Jul 30, 2020
Tracy Morgan, wife to divorce after 5 years of marriage
LOS ANGELES - Tracy Morgan and his wife of five years are ending their marriage The actor-comedian's representative said in an emailed statement Wednesday that Morgan and Megan Wollover have filed for...
Jul 30, 2020
Writer David Hare turns his COVID-19 into a theatre piece
LOS ANGELES - Oscar-nominated writer David Hare says he's turned his COVID-19 illness into a stage monologue about enduring "this quite extraordinary disease." "Beat the Devil" will open in London as ...
Jul 30, 2020
Glenda Jackson film to launch PBS' 'Masterpiece' anniversary
LOS ANGELES - Acclaimed actor Glenda Jackson will launch the 50th season of PBS' "Masterpiece" drama showcase next year. The film "Elizabeth is Missing," with Jackson as a woman in search of a vanishe...
Jul 30, 2020
Blake Bailey's 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April
NEW YORK - In the Fall 2012, as the willing subject of one of the most anticipated literary biographies in recent memory, Philip Roth joked that he had surrendered power over his own life to author Bl...
Jul 30, 2020
Randy Rainbow memoir to be released in late 2021
NEW YORK - Randy Rainbow's first book is very much about Randy Rainbow. St. Martin's Press announced Wednesday that Rainbow's memoir "Playing With Myself" is scheduled for release late in 2021. The Em...
Jul 29, 2020
Review: 'Red Penguins' is the wild and crazy story of Russian hockey in 1990s
Steven Warshaw walked up to Gabe Polsky and introduced himself. The pair had just attended a 2015 screening of Polsky's documentary, "Red Army," which chronicles the rise of the Soviet Union's famed h...
Jul 29, 2020
Comedian says he'd return to testify in Orleans assault case
NEW ORLEANS - Comedian Andy Dick told a New Orleans news outlet Wednesday that he's willing to return to the city and testify against a man accused of knocking him unconscious last year. Dick spoke to...
Jul 29, 2020
Burns outlines 8 projects; PBS launches documentary service
NEW YORK - What do Ernest Hemingway, Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci have in common? All are getting the Ken Burns treatment in the next few years. The PBS documentarian said Tue...
Jul 29, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: We are feeling the pinch of rising prices, even beyond the gas pumps
Costs have already gone up with airlines. Parcel and delivery services could also increase, and even ride sharing may ja...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 14
On Tuesday's show, Evan talks about the Prime Minister's transition from minority to majority government, explores a pro...