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Ornette: Made in America: movie review'Ornette' is a maddening but fascinating, one-of-a-kind film about a jazz icon.- Potential problems for Navy SEAL author of 'No Easy Day'The Pentagon warned Navy SEAL author Matt Bissonnette it was considering legal action for breach of non-disclosure agreements in 'No Easy Day.'
Rescue dog: How owning a dog is like raising a childRescue dog Albie makes his parents recall raising toddlers as he hangs on Mom and Dad's attention and brings back unpleasant tasks.- Garfield: America's most obscure president may also have been one of its bestBiographer Candice Millard talks about the courageous, independent, largely forgotten US president 鈥 James Garfield 鈥 whose term was cut short by an assassin's bullet.
Summer bounty: Tomato fennel soupSaut茅 and simmer tomatoes from the garden, or the market, until they burst to make this tangy soup.聽
Tori Spelling baby: A boy 鈥 Finn Davey 鈥 joins her brood of fiveTori Spelling baby: The actress and Dean McDermott welcome a boy 鈥 Finn Davey 鈥 to their brood. It's the couple's fourth child, her fifth.
Top Picks: Teenagers going to Broadway, an Asian cuisine cookbook, and morePaul McCartney's concert event comes to PBS, a 'Downton Abbey' season 3 clip debuts online, and more top picks.- Verbal EnergyModulating our opposition to new prepositionsA 'new' preposition, borrowed from the world of math, is a reminder of how closely language allies with logic.
Hurricane Isaac: Tulane student鈥檚 dad in eye of the storm 鈥 in a wayHurricane Isaac puts a Tulane student's dad 鈥 up in Boston 鈥 in the eye of the storm only parents "get."
E-book price-fixing: three publishers agree to pay $69 million to consumersHachette Book Group, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster say they will pay consumers to settle claims they conspired to fix e-book prices.
'The Mindy Project': Is it worth watching this fall?'The Mindy Project' has unexpectedly dated references, but a strong cast should keep the show afloat.
Book reviews: too nice and maybe also too fake?Book reviews have gotten some negative press this summer.聽
Skinny Disney: Minnie Mouse, et al get an unhealthy Barneys lookMore skinny Disney characters: What's a mother of a little girl to do? Healthy body image takes another cut as Barneys thins and stretches Minnie Mouse and company.
Caramel cream cheese swirl browniesThese rich, moist brownies are made with salted carmel and have a marbled swirl of cream cheese baked into the batter.聽
'Bright Lights, No City' and 'My First Coup d'Etat'Two memoirs about Ghana 鈥 a country that is easy to love but confoundingly difficult to cultivate.- Reader recommendation: Road to ValorMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
Giuliana and Bill Rancic welcome baby sonThe Rancics' son Edward Duke was born via surrogate.
Tomorrow can waitThe best concerts are coming from artists who are 60 and up.
Is the end of late-night TV as we've known it near?Two staples of late-night TV 鈥 'The Tonight Show' and 'Nightline' 鈥 received bad news this month, suggesting that a recasting of the late-night order might not be far off.
Unplugging: One family puts away technologyNo Twitter, no cell phones 鈥 one family was without gadgets for six days and, says Dad, was better for it.
