entertainment - "book"

Little-known Australian actress to play the spirited character in beloved children's books

AP - 'Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times' (Hyperion Books, 272 pages. $25.95), by Amy Goodman and David Goodman: Whenever American leaders do a poor job of leading, it's easy for an author to fan citizens' frustration into outrage. But that indignation is pointless unless the author also provides meaningful ways to channel their emotions.

Last year the Arizona Diamondbacks turned some heads by squeaking out a NL West division title and sweeping the Cubs aside in the first round before running into the storybook Colorado Rockies . This year they're dropp...

New york (Billboard) - Mariah Carey scored her sixth No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart Wednesday, vaulting into rarefied territory in the record books.

Charles Barber worked for years in new york City shelters for mentally ill homeless people. He writes in his new book, Comfortably Numb, that Americans are over prescribed anti-depressants.

The music of the night was the challenging songbook of theater legend Andrew Lloyd Webber Tuesday night, but not every 'American Idol' competitor was up to the challenge.

Steven Kurtz spent a year on the road with Sticky Fingers, one of the nation's more successful Rolling Stones tribute bands. His new book is called Like A Rolling Stone: The Strange Life of a Tribute Band.

In an odd experiment in reverse publishing, a collection of Wikipedia articles in Germany is being produced in book form by a major publisher.

Actress Lindsay Lohan's kid sister, Ali, is following in the movie footsteps of her older sibling as she shoots her big-screen debut in a film based on R.L. Stine's pre-teen book series Mostly Ghostly.

My subject was weird science and an artist from Edmonton disowned by Canadians, John Geiger writes