Entertainment

LOS ANGELES — Before the two best-actor Oscars, the hit movies and other distinguished projects that catapulted him into Hollywood's elite ranks, Tom Hanks was an un-pretty woman...

PASADENA, Calif. — Actress Rachel Hunter doesn't believe that ambition should chart your course...

The set was kind of funny at first. There were two drum sets next to each other, eight guitars on a rack in the back, a keyboard, and a few more guitars sprinkled on the stage for good measure. It almost looked like the front window at a music store...

If an album has a song called “Lasers ’N Lesbians,” what’s not to love? That’s pretty much all that can be or needs to be said about Double Panther, the latest album to come out from Diego’s Umbrella, a gypsy-rock band from San Francisco...

The list of flaws plaguing the new ABC sitcom, "Romantically Challenged," begins with its premise and builds from there...

  Two years ago, Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog — a quirky, loveable indie-soul band that released its so-so sixth album Shame, Shame on April 6 — packed Denver’s Hi-Dive, a tiny bar on South Broadway that holds about 200 people when the fire department isn’t looking. ...

  Citizen Cope has never been an artist that has enjoyed much radio play or even a big push from his record companies, even though he has spent his entire career up to now on major labels...

  For years now, the Curious Theatre Company has impressed me. Always serious but never pretentious, Curious pushes envelopes while never forgetting that the first rule of theater is — and no, it’s not that you do not talk about theater — that theater must ...

In a recent Entertainment Weekly interview, Steve Carell recalls costar Tina Fey telling him: “I just want to go and do a movie and hang off the end of a car.” This, of course, is the problem with being associated with successful, classy, verbally driven ...

You have to let go of the living,” says the funeral director played by Liam Neeson to Anna, the dead schoolteacher in the red slip, played by Christina Ricci, in the new thriller After.Life. He sounds like the stage manager in a particularly grim production of Our ...

 Grown organically from a decade of electronic music, this week’s Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts will build cultural bridges between audiences, performers and continents with more ambition than ever before...

NEW YORK — The plan was to rock the mike, not cause an identity crisis...