These days, America isn't just polarized politically. It's becoming polarized cinematically.

Former band member of the Del Fuegos aims to make kids’ music cool.

I was on vacation last week, so I didn’t have the chance to write a proper tribute to Paul Newman on the event of his death.

The Tubes rock group and Ira Glass, host of public radio’s “This American Life,” will be featured this weekend at The Hemmens, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin.

Young and old and from far and wide, a wide range of people love the blues. The fans that camp in “Tent City” at the Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival dedicate a week of their life to their blues city.

The Iguanas’ first CD in five years, “If You Should Ever Fall on Hard Times,” is such an invigorating, refreshing blast of musical sunshine, it is incredible to learn some of its background.

Who wouldn’t want to attend a wedding with the likes of Anne Hathaway, Anna Deavere Smith and the normally reclusive Debra Winger on the guest list? But don’t go expecting  a rip-roaring time, because seeing ``Rachel Getting Married'' is the epitome of the wedding from hell.

Men on a mission create rousing "Body of Lies."

The stereotype of online gamers may be wrong. They are by and large not obese teenage boys. Instead, they're older and fitter than the general U.S. population and a surprising number are female, said Scott Caplan, University of Delaware associate professor of communication.

I don’t know how America did it, but it managed to narrow the impressive list of hopefuls on “America’s Got Talent” down to just one.

Comedy hypnotist and mentalist Robinn Lange will bring his national tour to his hometown of Warrenville for performances at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, and 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at Omega Restaurant and Banquets, 4S40 Route 59. The late show is for adults only.

Lange is the author of numerous books on the power of the mind.
 

There’s been so much acclaim for TV on the Radio that further endorsement feels at best like reiteration, and at worst, doctrinaire. But the Brooklyn fivesome has outdone itself with “Dear Science.”

Losing her job as a software developer was the best thing that ever happened to Teresa Storch, who then swapped a computer for a guitar.

Things have changed between Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. At least onscreen. For their first movie meeting, in the 1995 Western “The Quick and the Dead,” Crowe played a former gunman-turned-preacher-turned-gunman again, and DiCaprio played a young upstart gunslinger trying to make his reputation in a fast-draw contest.

A young cast stars in a musical version of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” at Steel Beam Children’s Theatre, 111 W. Main St., St. Charles.