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Food And Lagniappe

Midnight noodle is much more than just a meal.

Ready, Willing And Able

Adonis Rose and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Swing Back onto the Scene.

Dual Consciousness

The Pogues plus Lost Bayou ramblers equal Poguetry.

Christmas Gumbo

The ultimate new Orleans holiday playlist.

Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes Talks Back

Mississippi’s Jimmy “Duck” Holmes is the keeper of the Bentonia blues tradition flame. He follows such earlier practitioners of the country-blues style as Skip James,

10 Great Things This Month

The Line Up

William Kent Krueger

This year marks the arrival of Kent Krueger’s highly-anticipated standalone novel, This Tender Land, a coming-of-age tale about a band of four children and a horrific crime that sets them on a journey down the Mississippi à la Huckleberry Finn.

When The Nights Were Deadly Wide World Of Mystery

Today “late-night television” means only one thing: hour-long comedy/ talk shows that are virtually identical in format.

What About Murder?

Reference Books Reviewed

V.M. Burns

It’s been said that the act of writing, at its most fundamental level, is a form of wish fulfillment.

Small Press

Reviewing the Independents

One Night Gone

I have always been fascinated by beach towns in the off-season.

Getting Away From It All

I lie to myself about why I travel. I say I want to (as the cliché would have it) “get away from it all.”

Elly Griffiths

Elly Griffiths is a true woman of mystery. Born Domenica de Rosa—the name under which she began writing fiction—it was only after switching genres that she adopted the alternate identity that has become familiar to readers the world over.

C.B. Strike

The PI Series based on Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike Novels Bring the Luster Back to TV ’Tecs

Alias Robert Galbraith

Under a pseudonym, J.K. Rowling puts her own distinctive spin on the private eye genre in her Cormoran Strike novels.

Kim Kardashian West

Reality TV altered reality.

Sibling Rivalry, Affection Rule New season of 'The Crown'

Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter, aka Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret in Netflix’s “The Crown,” are perched royally atop folding chairs as they hold court in a hotel suite serving as an interview room.

Date Nights

Our columnist makes an argument for appointment TV

A Woman Of Her Word

Jennifer Beals makes a long-promised—and promising— return in the Showtime sequel, The L Word: Generation Q

Guy Talk

Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield bring the funny –and a real friendship– to The Neighborhood.

Whatever Lola Wants...

Simone Missick lights up the night as Judge Lola Carmichael on all rise.

Change The Rapper

A HIT ALBUM. A WORLD TOUR. AND A FUNDAMENTAL NEED TO PUT OTHER PEOPLE FIRST. RAPPER CHANCELLOR BENNETT REVEALS HOW HE IS ASPIRING TO A DIFFERENT KIND OF PRODUCTIVITY.

‘Midway' Turns The WW II Battle Into A Cartoon

The first thing director Roland Emmerich should do after his latest movie “Midway” hits theaters is apologize.

Steve Cavanagh

Beyond Reasonable Self-Doubt

What About Murder?

Reference Books Reviewed

Ruth Ware

I believe at bottom we’re all unreliable narrators—whether by accident or choice,” Ruth Ware said.

Fiddling With Fate

When I set book one of my Chloe Ellefson series at a living history museum where I’d once worked, an author-friend gave me this advice: Never write about real places.

Alex Segura

“I like to keep readers on their toes. I like to pull the rug out from under them …”

Where Streams Come True

Disney CEO Bob Iger is going out on one last huge bet.