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Dylan meditates on 66 songs he holds dear in an eclectic collection of essays that breathes new life into groundbreaking hits while relishing obscurities and oddities

LOS ANGELES — Arctic Monkeys blasted out of the U.K. in 2006 with "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not," a scrappy modern-classic debut that framed the young quartet as a kind of transatlantic counterpart to the new wave of American garage-revival acts.

The octogenarian’s keyboard skills were to the fore as he and a superb band showcased his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways

I should start by apologizing to Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen for messing with the great song they wrote, “My Kind of Town (Chicago Is),” but I bet Frank Sinatra would have sung my version for the quizmaster.

You're not alone if you saw the news of Angela Lansbury's death Tuesday, at 96, and thought about turning on an episode of "Murder, She Wrote," the beloved mystery series she starred in from 1984 to 1996 as a writer and amateur detective on the coast of Maine. Or, for…

When the singer ripped up a picture of the pope on US TV, it capsized her career. Thirty years on, a new documentary showcases her brave defiance

On 40th anniversary of Princess Grace of Monaco's death in a crash aged 52, director Rovert Dornhelm shares how the film star, who owned a cottage near Cork and had Irish roots, longed to be ordinary

Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films, has died

Silva was also seen on such television series as “Wagon Train” and “The F.B.I.” and in such film as Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy,” Jerry Lewis’ “Cinderfella” and “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.”

J.R. Ewing, the scoundrel oil baron of the prime time melodrama “Dallas,” was known to often enjoy a neat order of bourbon and branch as his tipple of choice. John Wayne fancied Wild Turkey, another bourbon whiskey. For Ol’ Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, it was Jack Daniels. Mila Kunis likes…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 1966, Gov. Pat Brown made a politically tone-deaf mistake with Cesar Chavez's farmworkers union. This year, Gov. Gavin Newsom repeated the goof. Brown redeemed himself. Newsom probably won't.