Opening for someone else's audience is a thankless job. Half the room is still finding its seat, texting a friend running late, waiting for the name printed bigger on the ticket to walk out. Allison Russell had about 40 minutes to change that Tuesday night at the Greek Theatre, opening for Sarah McLachlan with her three-piece Rainbow Coalition behind her.
A full list of jazz, blues or reggae to look forward to this fall in Tucson:
All the country, folk or bluegrass acts playing in Tucson this fall:
Duncan Sheik, the Grammy- and Tony Award-winning singer-songwriter and composer known for the hit "Barely Breathing" and the Broadway musical "Spring Awakening," died Thursday at a Manhattan hospital.
"Exit Party," by Emily St. John Mandel. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group/TNS)
Emily St. John Mandel’s brilliant new novel “Exit Party” begins five years in the future at a party in L.A.’s Echo Park neighborhood where a series of mysterious, hard-to-explain events set the story in motion. But before we begin to explore the novel, we need to address another inexplicable event: A few summers ago, this reporter briefly met Mandel at an event at the home of novelist ...
“Dreamland,” by author Olivie Blake. (Tor Books/TNS)
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Olivie Blake has a lot to say. Since the author began writing, she hasn’t stopped. Blake, the pen name of Alexene Farol Follmuth, made a name for herself in 2022 when “The Atlas Six” went viral on BookTok, but the author has been self-publishing for years. If you look at her complete body of work under both Blake and Follmuth (she uses the latter for her young adult fiction), ...
There’s no such thing as too many witch books. Known for her historical romances, Martin jumps into the dual-timeline trope to bring togethe…
Living in crisis mode isn’t the best thing around, but how do you keep going when what little solace you can find is taken from you? Picoult’s…
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