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After four visits to Helsinki, this must be love

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:38:27 -0400

HELSINKI, Finland - During my life, I've had mad love affairs with cities - London, Paris, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Hong Kong. The symptoms are the usual ones associated...

Russell Brand returns to host the Video Music Awards

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:23:43 -0400

NEW YORK - MTV says Russell Brand will host the Video Music Awards for the second year in a row. The live event will be held in New York on Sept. 13. It will be staged...

Latest 'Harry Potter' showcases more grown-up Daniel Radcliffe

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:56:56 -0400

Fans of the "Harry Potter" movies, based on J.K. Rowling's bestselling series, have seen the young wizard tackle a basilisk, Dementors, evil spells and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. ...

King Sunny Ade brings good juju to Hub

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:28:24 -0400

These days, Boston music fans can go out almost any night of the week to hear a band playing music from the Caribbean, Africa, South America or the Middle East. Two or...

DAUGHTRY

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:11:05 -0400

Get ready for a cyclone of cheese - massive, powerful, cliched. For his band's second disc, "American Idol" loser-made-good Chris Daughtry has enlisted an army...

How to get your teen off the sofa this summer

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:43:54 -0400

NEW YORK - What's that lump on the sofa? Uh-oh. It's a teenager with no summer plans - unless you count playing Wii and texting. Time to help that kid get...

'Miami' leech party: Shallow subjects sink Bravo's new reality show

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:35:28 -0400

Miami is about to suffer a public relations migraine. Bravo's newest unscripted series "Miami Social" (tonight at 10) spotlights a group of seven shallow...

Drake Bell not joshing about commitment to music career

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:44 -0400

Drake Bell knows it might be hard to take a Nickelodeon star seriously. That's OK. He's still setting his musical sights high - like Beatles- and Beach...

College prep: High school grads get ready to take the next step

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:27:18 -0400

In April of last year, Wakefield resident Katrina Knox was swimming in college admissions material, wading through applications and preparing to take her SATs. As a high school...

10 top-selling CDs

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:58:02 -0400

The 10 top-selling albums in the nation, according to Billboard magazine and SoundScan Inc. Each album is followed by its previous week's ranking.

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Leaving no 'Stone' unturned, let's revisit the Potter films

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:23:28 -0400

A lot has happened to Harry Potter since he first entered Hogwarts on the big screen in 2001. As the sixth movie based on J.K. Rowling's bestsellers, "Harry Potter...

Jonas Brothers get closer

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:17:40 -0400

Let the high-pitched hysteria begin. Last year, the Jonas Brothers' Look Me In the Eyes and Burning Up tours blasted eardrums and sent tweens and teens swooning....

Hub orchestra makes classical accessible to all

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:08:08 -0400

If Shakespeare is credited with bringing theater to the masses, then Boston Landmarks Orchestra artistic director Charles Ansbacher wants to be this city's classical...

'Shh!' isn't quiet about censorship

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:56:07 -0400

The rear black box space at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre has become the go-to venue for new and energetic plays from scrappy young companies. It's the kind of...

Natalie Portman joins the cast of 'Thor'

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:41:26 -0400

LOS ANGELES - "Star Wars" co-star Natalie Portman is storming back into action films with a role in the comic-book adaptation "Thor." The 28-year-old...

Have the Harry Potter films shed the books' shadow?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:16:44 -0400

The previous Harry Potter movie was a big deal, yes, but it came out less than two weeks before the seventh and final chapter of J.K. Rowling's phenomenally popular series...

Mezrich makes no friends at Facebook with sexy, smart 'Accidental Billionaires'

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:02:16 -0400

As the saying goes: The rich are different from you and me. So are Harvard students. Case in point: Ben Mezrich. The 40-year-old Boston author who wrote two books...

Luxury, Click Five pitch posh pop at Paradise

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:58:12 -0400

Rock 'n' roll is such a fragmented entity these days, a huge field populated by many subgenres. But lately, power pop's made a comeback, of sorts. Folks...

'Rent' due in Hub

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:33:09 -0400

It's been 13 years since the rent check was first due, and they're still not gonna pay. The heart of "Rent," Jonathan Larson's now-legendary...

Man of few 'Words'

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:29:56 -0400

Tonight at 9 on HBO. What a squandered opportunity. HBO's "Teddy: In His Own Words" looks at the life of Edward M. Kennedy, with the...

Barenaked Lady Kevin Hearn wears Thin Buckle well

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:29:21 -0400

Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies is known for good-natured folk-rock and humorous onstage yakking. When BNL keyboardist Kevin Hearn and his offshoot band Thin Buckle take...

'Bruno' sashays to box-office fame with $30.4M

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:17:49 -0400

LOS ANGELES - Gay Austrian fashion devotee Bruno has landed the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, though it's uncertain how much staying power he has. Sacha Baron...

Top 10 box office films

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:16:17 -0400

1. "Bruno," $30.4 million. 2. "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs," $28.5 million. 3. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," $24.2 million. 4....

LFO sighting

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:11:22 -0400

They're baaaack. On the heels of New Kids on the Block's 2008 return, another Boston boy band has thrown its hat into the reunion ring. The members of...

'Tiger's' heart-rending journey

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:14:42 -0400

Aisling Juanjuan Shen recalls being beaten by her father at the age of 8 because she forgot to feed their ducklings, and running out of the house to the edge of a nearby river,...