Film
‘American Hustle’ a portrait of swank 1970s fashion
Set in New York and New Jersey in 1978, the film tells the story of a pair of con artists (Bale and Adams) forced to work for a cocky FBI…
Arts & Entertainment
Music
The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store
Top Songs 1. “Timber (feat. Ke$ha)”, Pitbull 2. “Say Something”, Christina Aguilera, A Great Big World 3. “The Monster (feat. Rihanna)”, Eminem 4. “Counting Stars”, OneRepublic 5. “Let Her Go”,…
Performing Arts
Hearing is believing
KDUR will air a recording of the Dec. 13 production of “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” at 5 and 9 p.m. t. The play was staged over…
Arts and Entertainment
Vegas casinos draw tourists with holiday exhibits
In an attempt to lure tourists, Las Vegas casinos are staging increasingly elaborate holiday events. The Bellagio has again transformed its conservatory into a faux winter wonderland featuring a 42-foot-tall…
Film
’Fast & Furious 7’ delayed until April 2015
Universal Pictures has delayed the release of “Fast & Furious 7” for almost a year following the death of Paul Walker, shown here with Vin Diesel, right, in a scene…
Arts and Entertainment
Lawrence beats Cyrus, Netflix for top entertainer
Jennifer Lawrence poses for the photographers during the Nov. 13 premiere of the movie “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” at Callao Cinema in Madrid, Spain.Abraham Caro Marin/Associated Press Jennifer Lawrence…
Books
U.S. Best-selling books for Dec. 24
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin has broad appeal for readers, appearing on the Wall Street Journal and…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Happenings for Dec. 26-29
Souper Thursday with Diabolical Sound Platoon, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792, www.skabrewing.com. Trivia Night, 5:30 p.m., Durango Discovery Museum, 1333 Camino del Rio, 259-9234, www.durangodiscovery.org. Jack…
Arts and Entertainment
Winter solstice inspires more holiday revelry
Gypsy band to play at Second Avenue fest
Arts and Entertainment
AP critics pick the year’s best video games
1. “BioShock Infinite” (Irrational Games, for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC): The latest adventure from provocateur Ken Levine asks tough questions about the bloody path of American history. And…
Film
‘Nebraska’ adds to an already crowded awards field
From left, Dennis McCoig as Uncle Verne, June Squibb as Kate Grant and Bruce Dern as Woody Grant in a scene from the film “Nebraska.” Squibb was nominated for a…
Visual Arts
Rarely seen Vincent Van Gogh moves to National Gallery
“Green Wheat Fields, Auvers” by Vincent Van Gogh has been hidden away at a Virginia estate for decades and will have a new home at the National Gallery of Art.National…
Film
Gift Guide: Streaming players project video to TV
An Apple TV device, left, is shown alongside Google’s Chromecast, center, and the Roku 2. Streaming video devices project video from Netflix, YouTube and other services onto the big-screen TV.…
Film
The AP’s top 10 movies of the year
1. “12 Years a Slave” – Steve McQueen’s masterful adaptation of Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir is simply a powerhouse. McQueen, I suspect, will never make a comedy; his three movies…
Film
2013 brought surprises, good and bad, to viewers
What a fine surprise was “The Returned,” a French-language zombie series aired by Sundance Channel. And Tatiana Maslany was startling in BBC America’s eerie “Orphan Black,” a miniseries in which…
Music
AP music writers’ top 10 albums of the year
The Grammys got it right; Sara Bareilles’ third release, “The Blessed Unrest,” is one of the year’s best thanks to its mix of upbeat and classic-sounding piano tunes, all anchored…
Performing Arts
The AP picks its Top 10 theater of 2013
1. “The Glass Menagerie”: There’s magic from start to finish in this new production of Tennessee William’s great play about regret starring a superb Cherry Jones and a revelatory Zachary…
Books
Lawsuits, mergers, and, yes, books, in 2013
It was a blockbuster year for the legal profession. A federal judge ruled that Apple had conspired with five publishers to fix e-book prices, while another federal judge allowed Google…
Music
Timberlake, Beyonce have year’s top iTunes albums
Justin Timberlake’s comeback album, “The 20/20 Experience,” is 2013’s best-selling album on the U.S. iTunes Store.RCA/Associated Press Apple announced Tuesday that the diva’s self-titled album is behind only Justin Timberlake’s…
Film
Dench eyes Oscar for ‘Philomena’
Judi Denc and Steve Coogan co-star in “Philomena,” which explores the benefits and costs of faith through the true story of Philomena Lee.Alex Bailey/The Weinstein Co./Associated Press After the nuns…
Books
U.S. Best-selling books for Dec. 17
Fiction 1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Co.) 2. Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (Penguin Press HC) 3. Sycamore Row by John Grisham (Doubleday) 4. The Valley…
Film
‘The Spectacular Now’ is a refreshingly ‘real’ look at teenage life
Sutter Keely (Miles Teller), a high school senior and effortless charmer, unexpectedly falls in love with good girl Aimee Finecky (Shailene Woodley) in “The Spectacular Now.”A24 Films Nobody gets bitten…
Books
Books are great gifts for kids
The Snatchabook is an entertaining picture book by Helen Docherty and Thomas Docherty. It has darling illustrations that will appeal to children. The rhyming narrative trips off the tongue and…
Visual Arts
Detroit mulls options to maintain its art
The bankrupt city is expected to learn this week the value of roughly 2,800 pieces at the Detroit Institute of Arts when New York auction house Christie’s delivers its final…
Music
Influential country singer Ray Price dead at 87
Associated Press DALLAS – Good friends like Willie Nelson and Merle haggard got more credit for their contrary ways and trend-setting ideas, but it was Ray Price who set the…
Film
James Cameron talks of ‘Avatar’ sequels
The director announced Monday he will be filming the sequels in New Zealand, where he shot the triple-Academy Award-winning original. In an interview with The Associated Press, he also talked…