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The CSI franchise has a new lead investigator: Special Agent Avery Ryan. Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette plays the head of the FBI...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. The black jazz critic, essayist and novelist Albert Murray...

It's been a downward spiral for Paula Deen since news of her deposition testimony as part of a racial discrimination suit went public la...

Wednesday night it was dinner with a small group of Republican lawmakers. Thursday it's lunch with 2012 Republican vice presidential nom...

Makers of R-rated comedies face an essential dilemma: finding brand new ways to gross out their snickering adolescent viewers. But as Neighb...

Farley Mowat, the Canadian author of the nature classic Never Cry Wolf, has died at age 92, Canadian media report. The Star quotes Mowat...