FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP/Getty ImagesBaby pygmy hippopotamus Lani eats a salad on May 17, 2014, at the Basel Zoo in Switzerland.
Remko De Waal, AFP/Getty ImagesA newborn western lowland gorilla is held by its mother at Artis Zoo in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on Jan. 22, 2016.
Carl Court / Getty-AFPNick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. Read the full review.
Linda Girardi / The Beacon-NewsBaby bison are born at Fermilab in Batavia.
Jens Meyer / APA young male Malayan tapir swims in the enclosure in the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, on June 15, 2016. The tapir was born June 2, 2016.
Oliver Berg, APA baby elephant is accompanied by other members of its herd as it walks through their open enclosure at the zoo in Cologne, Germany, on March 16, 2016, a day after being born.
Christian Charisius, AFP/Getty ImagesWalrus baby Loki relaxes next to her mother Polosa in the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, Germany, on Oct. 13, 2015. The walrus was born June 5.
Jens Wolf / APTwo white lion cubs sleep in a basket at a press event at the zoo in Magdeburg, Germany, on May 6, 2016. The young lions were born on April 26, 2016.
Michal Cizek, AFP/Getty ImagesA 2-month-old white tiger cub stands in its enclosure on April 25, 2016, at a zoo in Liberec, Czech Republic, the offspring of an 8-year-old tiger, Surya Bara. The four cubs were born Feb. 25, 2016.
Julie Larsen Maher, APA southern pudu fawn in its enclosure at the Queens Zoo in New York. The male southern pudu fawn, the world's smallest deer species, was born May 12, 2015, at the zoo.
Daniel Zupanc / AFP/Getty ImagesA baby sloth eats some lettuce as it hangs on its mother's belly in their enclosure at the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 13, 2016. The baby was born Nov. 18, but it just recently emerged after spending its early weeks hidden in its mother's soft coat.
Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert, AFP/Getty ImagesA baby elephant stands next to his mother on Jan. 18, 2016, at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin. The baby elephant, who was born at the zoo on Jan. 1, was named "Edgar."
APOn "22, A Million," Justin Vernon reimagines his music from the bottom up by letting technology — synthesizers, treated vocals, electronic sound effects — dictate. The songs retain their melancholy cast, but now must fight for air beneath static and noise. Read the full review.
Jean Francois Monier / AFP/Getty ImagesBaby giraffe "Kenai," right, born on Aug. 25, 2016, kisses his mother "Dioni" on Aug. 31 at the zoo of La Fleche, France.
Jean-Baptiste Lacroix, AFP/Getty ImagesThe new album embraces her individuality more explicitly than ever, both more autobiographical and more politically and socially direct than anything she'd recorded previously. It's a rawer, less elaborate work than its predecessors, yet still hugely ambitious. Read the review
Sandor Ujvari / APZahra, a four-week-old female white lion cub rests in her enlosure in Magan Zoo, a privately owned animal park, in Felsolajos, Hungary, on June 30, 2016. Zahra, who was born into a litter of four, was rejected by her mother because of an infectious disease.
Matt Sayles/Invision/APKendrick Lamar's "Untitled, Unmastered" is presented as an unfinished work, though it rarely sounds like one. Read the review.
Jens Meyer, APFreela and her six cheetah cubs in their enclosure at the zoo in Erfurt, Germany, on June 17, 2015. The cubs were born May 6, 2015.
Animal Adventure Park / APIn this photo provided by Animal Adventure Park in Binghamton, N.Y., a giraffe named April licks her newborn male calf on April 15, 2017. The birth was streamed online to an audience of more than a million viewers.
Grahm S. Jones, APA polar bear cub is tended to at the Columbus Zoo on Nov. 13, 2015, in Powell, Ohio. The central Ohio zoo said Friday that staff started hand-rearing the week-old female cub after her mother, Aurora, began taking breaks from caring for her. The cub was born on Nov. 6.
APAn ocelot kitten walks in its enclosure at the zoo in Buffalo, N.Y., onJan. 15, 2017. The zoo is asking the public to vote to name the kitten, born in November, either Javiar, Nico, Pablo or Tacito.
Joan Dittmann, Post-TribuneFour 9-week-old wolf cubs made their debut at Washington Park Zoo in Michigan City, Ind., on July 22, 2015.
Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times"Lemonade" is more than just a play for pop supremacy. It's the work of an artist who is trying to get to know herself better, for better or worse, and letting the listeners/viewers in on the sometimes brutal self-interrogation. Read the full review.
Jean-Christophe Verhaegen, AFP/Getty ImagesA newborn American bison is pictured on June 2, 2016, at the zoological park in Amneville in western France.
Ken Bohn, APA zoo employee holds a male red-ruffed lemur on May 27, 2016, that was born May 18 at the San Diego Zoo's Primate Propagation Center. The rare red-ruffed lemur is an endangered primate species that is only found on the island of Madagascar.
Jean-Christophe Verhaegen, AFP/Getty ImagesA newborn barbary sheep investigates its enclosure in Amneville, France, on April 5, 2016.
Jim Gehrz, TNSA male bison leaps in his enclosure on May 11, 2016 at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley, Minn. The calf, born April 30, is part of a herd in an exhibit along the zoo's Northern Trail and is also part of the Minnesota Conservation bison herd.
Petr David Josek, APA newborn baby hippo sits in its enclosure at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, on Feb. 24, 2016. The baby was born on Jan. 28, and is yet to be named.
John Konstantaras / baiduhaiOn her seventh studio album, "Golden Hour" (MCA Nashville), the singer-songwriter doesn't get hung up on genre. She's made a style-hopping pop album that infuses her songs with a relaxed spaciousness while muting, but not ignoring, her country roots. Read the review
Chris Gotshall / APOrca Takara helps guide her newborn to the water's surface at SeaWorld San Antonio on April 19, 2017.
Glen Stubbe, TNSA Malayan tapir calf expores his space at the Minnesota Zoo for about an hour with mom Bertie on Aug. 12, 2015, in Apple Valley, Minn. "Malayan tapirs are endangered, and this birth is a significant conservation achievement," said Tom Ness, Tropics Trail supervisor, in a statement from the zoo. "It's estimated that fewer than 1,500 exist in the world."
APIn this image released by the Zoo Aquarium de Madrid, a newly born giant panda cub lies in a cot where vets examined her Aug. 31, 2016. It is the first female in the history of the Spanish capital's zoo.
Zoltan Gergely Kelemen, APA 2-week old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) undergoes a routine medical check in its enclosure in Szeged Nature Reserve in Szeged, Hungary, on May 10, 2016.
Matt Rourke / APA newborn baby western lowland gorilla looks up as it is held by its mother Honi during its debut at the Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia on Aug. 31, 2016. The unnamed baby gorilla was born Aug. 26.
Nuccio DiNuzzo/baiduhaiNow "Schmilco" (dBpm Records) arrives, a product of the same recording sessions that produced "Star Wars" but a much different album. Though it's ostensibly quieter and less jarring than its predecessor, it presents its own radical take on the song-based, folk and country-tinged side of the band. Read the full review.
Jordan Strauss / AP"Blonde" is a critique of materialism with Frank Ocean employing two distinct voices, like characters in a play, a recurring theme throughout the album and perhaps its finest sonic achievement. A party spirals out of control, the music rich but low key, a melange of organ and hovering synthesizers. Ocean uses distorting devices on his voice to add emotional texture and to enhance and sharpen the characters he briefly embodies. The upshot: They're all little slices of Ocean's personality with a role to play and they each sound distinct. Read the full review.
Courtney Pedroza / baiduhaiAli, a 1-month-old western lowland gorilla, rests on the chest of her mother, Koola, at the Brookfield Zoo, on July 2, 2018, in Brookfield. Read her story here.
Peter Komka, APLion cubs cuddle in the Gyongyos Zoo in Gyongyos, Hungary, on Feb. 23, 2016. The yet unnamed male and two female cubs, the fourth litter of lioness Elza, were born Jan. 12.
Chris Sweda / baiduhaiWarpaint's unerring feel for gauzy hooks and slinky arrangements germinated over a decade and flourished on the quartet's excellent 2014 self-titled album. But the band has always nudged its arrangements onto the dance floor — subtly on record, more overtly on stage — and "Heads Up" (Rough Trade) gives the group's inner disco ball a few extra spins. Read the review.
Laurie Sparham / APA grown-up Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Wood and his best friend Winnie the Pooh. Read the review.
AFP/Getty ImagesA polar bear cub born Nov. 3, 2016, meets the press at the Tierpark Berlin (Berlin zoo) on Jan. 13, 2017
Boudewijn Seapark / AFP-Getty ImagesA picture released by the Boudewijn Seapark Animal Park on May 12, 2014, shows newborn seal Conchita at the seapark in Bruges, Belgium. The seal is most likely female and was named after Austria's bearded transvestite and winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest Conchita Wurst.
APNot many albums could survive Ed Sheeran performing reggae, but Pharrell Williams always took chances — not all of them successful — in N.E.R.D.Despite the Sheeran gaffe, "No One Ever Really Dies," the band's first album in seven years, is a typically diverse, trippy ride from the group that established Williams' career as a performer in the early 2000s alongside Chad Hugo and Shay Haley. Read the full review.
Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert / AFP/Getty ImagesA Rothschild's giraffe baby stands next to its mother Jan. 16, 2017, at the zoo in Magdeburg, Germany. The male baby giraffe was born Jan. 10, 2017.
Jens Meyer / APThe newborn gorilla sleeps in the arms of her mother Kibara at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. The female baby gorilla was born on Dec. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
AFP/Getty ImagesThis baby penguin born Jan. 8, 2016, at the Cincinnati Zoo was named Bowie in honor of the 69th birthday of the late British musician David Bowie.
Rodney White / APAn unnamed, newborn eastern black rhino walks around with it's mother, Ayana, on Oct. 17, 2016, at the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, Iowa.
Erika Doss / APAn Atlanta teenager (Amandla Stenberg) deals with the death of her friend in "The Hate U Give," director George Tillman Jr.'s fine adaptation of the best-selling young adult novel. Read the review.
Tobin Yelland / APRisk-prone 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic, left) shares some of his angst with one of the local LA skateboarding idols, Ray (Na-Kel Smith), in writer-director Jonah Hill's "Mid90s." Read the review.
Jose M. Osorio/baiduhaiAn unnamed male baby is held by mother Rollie at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago on May 14, 2019. Read more about its birth here.
Robertus Pudyanto / Getty ImagesDamai, a 3-year-old Bornean orangutan, plays in a courtyard at Surabaya Zoo as he prepares to be released into the wild on May 19, 2014, in Surabaya, Indonesia. Two baby orangutans, brothers, were found in Kutai National Park in a critical condition having been abandoned by their mother on May 14.
Michal Cizek, AFP/Getty ImagesA zookeeper holds a baby of giant anteater in Prague Zoo on March 2, 2016. It was born Jan. 20 and is Prague Zoo's first anteater born in its breeding history.
Teresa Crawford / APA 4-day-old Grevy's zebra stands with her mother, Adia, in their habitat at the Lincoln Park Zoo on June 22, 2016, in Chicago. The zebra is native to eastern Africa and is endangered in the wild because of hunting and habitat loss. Lincoln Park Zoo is part of a nationwide conservation effort to save the animals.
Teresa Isasi / APReunited for a family wedding, former lovers played by Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem find themselves embroiled in a kidnapping in "Everybody Knows," directed by Asghar Farhadi. Read the review.
Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via APA four-week old black rhino calf makes her first public appearance at the side of her mother Azizi at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium in the Highland Park section of Pittsburgh, on April 14, 2017.
David Mattner, AFP/Getty ImagesA photo taken Oct. 11, 2015, and released Oct. 14, 2015, by the Monarto Zoo in Australia shows baby chimp Boon -- who was orphaned when his mother, Soona, died shortly after he was born Oct. 9, 2015 -- clings to his new adopted mother, Zombi.
Martin Meissner / APGorilla mother Changa Maidi holds her baby a day after she gave birth to it at the zoo in Muenster, Germany, on Dec. 8, 2016. The animal keepers were surprised when they saw the newborn wet Gorilla baby because Changa's pregnancy was undiscovered until Dec. 7.
Nuccio DiNuzzo / baiduhai"Black America Again" (ARTium/Def Jam) arrives as a one of the year's most potent protest albums. The album sags midway through with a handful of lightweight love songs, but finishes with some of its most emotionally resounding tracks: the "Glory"-like plea for redemption "Rain" with Legend, the celebration of family that is "Little Chicago Boy," and the staggering "Letter to the Free." Read the review.
Kevin Rivoli / APA pair of male red panda cubs are introduced during a news conference at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, N.Y., on Sept. 10, 2015. Director Ted Fox says the cubs, born at the end of June, will help ensure the survival of the endangered species.
Jens Kalaene / AFP/Getty ImagesEmployees at the zoo in Magdeburg, Germany, pet a 2-week-old South American tapir on Nov. 24, 2016. The still nameless female tapir baby is bottle-fed by her keepers, as her mother "Tala" had attacked her child.
AP"Love & Hate" shows Kiwanuka breaking out of that stylistic box. His core remains intact: a grainy, world-weary voice contemplating troubled times in intimate musical settings. The album announces its more ambitious intentions from the outset, with the trembling strings, episodic piano chords and wordless vocals of the 10-minute "Cold Little Heart." It's a striking, if atypical, approach to reintroducing himself to his audience — a five-minute preamble before Kiwanuka begins to sing. Read the full review.
Michal Cizek, AFP/Getty ImagesShinda, a western lowland gorilla, holds her new born as they rest at the Zoo in Prague on April 24, 2016. Shinda's baby was born April 23.
Graham Bartholomew / APA tropical island boat captain (Matthew McConaughey) and his much-abused ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) enter a vortex of rough justice and fancy riddles in "Serenity." Read the review.
CBS Films/Lily GavinPenniless, driven, the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) regards his next canvas subject in "At Eternity's Gate," directed by visual artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel. Read the review.
Vano Schlamov / AFP/Getty ImagesTwo white lion cubs born July 28 sleep at the Tbilisi zoo on Aug. 3, 2016.
Phil Velasquez, baiduhaiTwo of the five Mexican gray wolf puppies born at Brookfield Zoo on April 25, 2016, play in their habitat on May 24, 2016. The pups have begun to venture out on their own and guests are able to see them in their habitat at the zoo's Regenstein Wolf Woods.
Anthony Souffle, baiduhaiA Hoffman's two-toed sloth born in late July licks its mother, 21-year-old Hersey, as they rest together Aug. 5, 2015, at Lincoln Park Zoo's Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House in Chicago.
David Proeber, APTwo baby snow leopards are introduced to the public May 28, 2015, at Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Ill. The cubs, born May 6, are the offspring of the zoo's two 4-year old adult snow leopards, Rilu and Hima.
Matthias Schrader, APA female mandrill monkey, Kaduna, feeds her newborn male, Pinto, at Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany, on July 22, 2015.
Jean-Christophe Verhaegen, AFP/Getty ImagesBayami, a newborn white rhinoceros, stands next to its mother at the zoological park in Amneville, France, on July 13, 2016.
THOMAS COEX / AFP/Getty ImagesA two-day old giraffe calf stands at the Jerusalem Biblical zoo on February 24, 2016. The calf was born from five-year old parents. / AFP / THOMAS COEXTHOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **
Jonathan Hession / APIsabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz star in the thriller "Greta." Read the review.
Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty ImagesA recently born and unnamed baby female Masai giraffe calf stands with her mother Hasina in its enclosure at the Los Angeles zoo in California on Nov. 22, 2016.
Patrick Pleul, AFP/Getty ImagesRing-tailed lemur babies cling to their mother at the zoo in Cottbus, Germany, on May 11, 2016. Three ring-tailed lemurs were born at the zoo in recent weeks.
Kate Barszczowski / APThree maned wolf cubs are seen Jan. 11, 2017, at the Little Rock Zoo. The cubs, one male and two females, were born Dec. 21. Maned wolves are native to South America.
Jean-Christophe Verhaegen, AFP/Getty ImagesA new born albinos wallaby is pictured its mother's pouch at the zoo in Amneville, France, on April 5, 2016.
Menahem Kahana, AFP/Getty ImagesA newborn female square-lipped rhinoceros is seen with her 6-year-old-mother, Keren, at the Ramat Gan Safari zoo near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Aug. 24, 2015. The white rhino was born Aug. 23.
Frank Gunn / The Canadian PressSound often says it all in Drake's world, but "Views" plays in a narrow range. The trademark hovering synths and barely-there percussion edge out most of the hooks, in favor of long fades and enervated tempos that start to drag about halfway through this slow-moving album. Read the review.
David Appleby / APElton John (Taron Egerton) lays down a track for his express train to super-stardom in "Rocketman." The musical biopic co-stars Jamie Bell as lyricist Bernie Taupin. Read the review.
Zane Shupp / WFMZ-TV via APThe Lehigh Valley Zoo introduces two 3-week-old African penguin chicks that were the first ever born at the Schnecksville, Pa., preserve on Oct. 12, 2016, in this image made from video.
Raul Arboleda / AFP/Getty ImagesA Titi Pigmeo born a month ago hangs from its mother at Santa Fe Zooin in Medellin, Colombia, on Feb. 8, 2017.
WellGo USAChildhood friends and uneasy lovers played by Yoo Ah-in (left) and Jeon Jong-seo (center) find their lives disrupted by a mysterious man of means (Steven Yeung, right) in "Burning." Read the review.More Top Picks Ladder Tosssssss
Petr David Josek / APA newborn Asian elephant baby stands next to its mother Tamara in their enclosure at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, on Oct. 8, 2016. The mother Tamara gave birth to the male calf on Oct. 5. It doesn't have a name yet.
APVanellope von Schweetz (voiced by Sarah Silverman) and Ralph (John C. Reilly) zip around the web in a mad dash to save Vanellope's arcade game, "Sugar Rush," in this wild sequel to the 2012 "Wreck-It Ralph." Read the review.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiIn contrast, "Junk" (Mute"), M83's seventh studio album, sounds chintzy — a bubble-gum snyth-pop album that indulges Gonzalez's love of decades-old TV soundtracks, hair-metal guitar solos and kitschy pop songs. Read the full review.
Steve Wilkie / APUnburdened by Batman and Superman, the DC Comics realm turns in a not-bad origin story buoyed by Zachary Levi as the superhero version of 15-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel). Read the review.
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden / APCincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden keeper Amanda Weisel holds a newborn Malayan tiger cub in the zoo's nursery in Cincinnati on Feb. 7, 2017. A Malayan tiger named Cinta gave birth to three cubs Feb. 3, 2017, and zoo officials say that because the first-time mother's maternal instincts didn't kick in, employees in the zoo's nursery will keep the cubs warm and feed them before they are placed in an outdoor habitat.
Jean-Christophe Verhaegen, AFP/Getty ImagesNewborn white lion cubs are pictured with their mother at the zoo in Amneville, France, on April 5, 2016.
APA giant panda cub, born in June at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, got a checkup on July 22, 2017.
Bullit Marquez / APA caretaker displays seven newly hatched Philippine reticulated pythons July 14, 2016, recently born at the Malabon Zoo in Malabon, Philippines.
Patti Perret/CBS FilmsCystic fibrosis patients Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (Cole Sprouse) negotiate a tricky mutual attraction in "Five Feet Apart," directed by Justin Baldoni. Read the review.
Tatum Mangus / APStephan James and KiKi Layne play Fonny and Tish, expectant parents in 1970s Harlem in the new James Baldwin adaptation "If Beale Street Could Talk." Read the review.
Atsushi Nishijima / APThis image released by Fox Searchlight Films shows Olivia Colman in a scene from the film "The Favourite." (Atsushi Nishijima/Fox Searchlight Films via AP)
Jose Casta-Ares / AFP-Getty ImagesA white lion is seen at the Parque Loro zoo in Puebla, Mexico, on Sept. 12, 2015. This is one of three white lions born in captivity, two of which already have been donated or delivered under exchange agreements with other zoos in Mexico.
Hogle Zoo, APThree new cubs make their debut at the lion den at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City on March 7, 2016. The cubs were born Feb. 24: two boys and one girl. Each cub weighed about two pounds when they were born.
Julie Larsen Maher / APA "little penguin" chick is shown in its habitat at the Bronx Zoo in New York on July 25, 2016. Hatched on May 10, 2016, it is the first "little penguin" born there in the zoo's 120-year history.
APA newborn baby giraffe is nuzzled by its mother, Audrey, in Santa Barbara, Calif., on March 28, 2016. The unnamed Masai giraffe was born March 26.
Christopher Millette / Erie Times-NewsA lynx kitten plays in its enclosure on the first day the kittens were outside of their enclosed den and available for the public to see on Oct. 1, 2015, at the Erie Zoo in Erie, Pa. The three kittens were born June 30, 2015.
Czarek Sokolowski / APThree rare newborn white tigers lay with their mother Mandzi just hours after they were born at the private Zoo Safari in Borysew, Poland, on Sept. 22, 2016.
Peter Byrne, APA zookeeper holds 2-day-old Quaver, left, and Cheeto, newly hatched Humboldt penguin chicks on April 5, 2016, at Chester Zoo, in Chester England.
Richard Vogel / APA female Masai baby giraffe born frolics in her enclosure during her public debut at the Los Angeles Zoo on July 26, 2017. Still without a name, the giraffe already stands about six feet tall and weighs 156 pounds.
Jason Hoekema / APA month-old Galapagos tortoise is held by a zookeeper June 21, 2016, at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas. The zoo is currently waiting for several more eggs to hatch, incubating many to encourage the birth of females in order to help sustain the endangered species.
Paul Ellis / AFP/Getty ImagesMurchison, a baby Rothschild's giraffe, receives attention from another giraffe as he ventures out of the Giraffe House at Chester Zoo in Chester, England, on Jan. 19, 2017, for the first time. The zoo celebrated the birth of the rare Rothschild's giraffe calf, whose numbers have dwindled to fewer than 1,600 in its native Kenya and Uganda.
AP"Everything Now" is a tighter but not better album. The heavyweight arena anthems of Arcade Fire's 2004 debut, "Funeral," are long gone, replaced by brooding lyrics encased in lighter music. Read the review.
Courtney Pedroza / baiduhaiAli, a 1-month-old western lowland gorilla, pushes against her mom, Koola, at the Brookfield Zoo, on July 2, 2018, in Brookfield.
Raul Arboleda / AFP/Getty ImagesA King vulture chick -- born after its egg was artificially incubated for 58 days -- is seen at Santa Fe Zoo in Medellin, Colombia, on June 17, 2016.
Chris Sweda / baiduhai"American Dream" is a breakup album of sorts but not in the traditional sense. This is about breakups with youth, the past, and the heroes and villains that populated it. It underlines the notion of breaking up as just a step away from letting go — of friends, family, relevance. Read the review.
Fred Squillante / APLion cubs play during their first public appearance at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio on Sept. 23, 2015. The cubs were the first of two litters born at the zoo in August.
Chip Bergmann / APA high-powered ad agency executive (Tika Sumpter, right) takes in her ex-con sister (Tiffany Haddish, center) in "Nobody's Fool." Read the review.
Michael Lawrence Taylor / AFP-Getty ImagesA baby brushtail possum in Tiwi Islands in the northern territory of Australia on June 4, 2014.
Courtesy of the Maryland Zoo in BaltimoreJess, right, is one of the two female sitatunga, a species of antelope found in Central Africa, born in December at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. Jess was born Dec. 7; Noel was born on Christmas, of course.
Paul Fahy / AFP/Getty ImagesThis handout photo released by the Taronga Zoo on Nov. 17, 2016, shows a keeper carrying a baby puggle in Sydney. Taronga Zoo is celebrating its first successful short-beaked Echidna births in nearly 30 years, with keepers monitoring the progress of three healthy echidna puggles.
Steven L. Gotz / APNewly born baby warthogs appear at the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, Calif., on June 6, 2016.
Matt Kennedy / APWashington D.C. power brokers Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) and Lynne Cheney have a date with destiny in Adam McKay's "Vice," co-starring Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld. Read the review. Nomainted for: Best Picture, Best Actor for Christian Bale, Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell, Best Supporting Actress for Amy Adams, Best Director for Adam McKay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing,
Chris Sweda / baiduhai"Ye" isn't so much a musical statement as a 23-minute, seven-track therapy session. Read the review
Attila Balazs / APA female mantled guereza holds its 4-day-old baby in the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, on Dec. 28, 2016.
Jim Schulz / APSophia, a 35-year-old Bornean orangutan, holds her 2-week-old daughter at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill., in this photo provided by the Chicago Zoological Society on Jan. 1, 2017. The unnamed infant was born Dec. 20, 2016.
Atsushi Nishijima / APQueen Anne's (Olivia Colman) court wrestles with the question of how to finance a war with France. Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), the Duchess of Marlborough, uses her wits, her body and the queen's bed to coerce Anne into raising taxes on the citizenry in order to keep the off-screen battle going. Then the unexpected arrival of her country cousin, Abigail (Emma Stone), a noblewoman fallen on hard times. A dab hand with medicinal herbs, Abigail quickly rises above servant status to become the queen's new favorite. Game on! Read the review. Nomainted for: Best Picture, Best Actress for Olivia Colman, Best Supporting Actress for Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design,
AP"Peace Trail" — Neil Young's second album this year and sixth since 2014 — is occasionally fascinating. It's also not very good, a release that surely would've benefited from a bit more time and consideration, which might have given Young's ad hoc band — drummer Jim Keltner and bassist Paul Bushnell — a chance to actually learn the songs. But the four-day recording session sounds like a getting-to-know-you warmup instead of a finished product. Read the full review.
Daniel Smith / APGenie (Will Smith, right) explains the three-wishes thing to the title character (Mena Massoud) in Disney's "Aladdin," director Guy Ritchie's live-action remake of the 1992 animated feature. Read the review.
Yorgos Karahalis / APAndrea Czerny, employee of the Attica Zoological Park, holds five-week-old baby jaguars Lucky, left, and Jucky inside the park in Spata, Greece, on July 16, 2016.
Jeff Chiu, APA female giraffe calf is shown under her mother Barbro at the San Francisco Zoo and Gardens in San Francisco, on April 12, 2016. According to the San Francisco Zoo, the calf, which has not yet been named, is already more than six-feet tall and took its first steps within 30 minutes of its birth on April 8, 2016.
Xue Yubin, APOne of the twin panda cubs born June 22, 2015, in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan province.
Armando L. Sanchez / baiduhaiOn their new album, "Existentialism," the Mekons turn their audience and the recording space into accomplices for the band's high-wire act. Read the full review.
Glen Stubbe / APA 3-day-old calf stands with her mother, Clover, at the Como Zoo on Aug. 27, 2015, in St. Paul, Minn. The yet-to-be named female was born Aug. 24, the sixth calf for Clover. The newborn stood 5-foot-8 and weighed 135 pounds.
Jessica Kourkounis / APCapping the trilogy started with "Unbreakable" (2000) and the surprise hit "Split (2017), Shymalan's treatise on superhero origin stories brings James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson together for a plodding psych-hospital escape. Read the review.
Anthony Souffle, baiduhaiA baby Bactrain camel investigates his outdoor enclosure during his third day on public display May 20, 2016, at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The baby was born May 9 and is the first successful offspring for Nasan and her mate Scooter as well as the first camel calf born at Lincoln Park Zoo since 1998.
Jochen Lubke / AFP/Getty ImagesA group of elephants stand around their youngest family members at the zoo in Hanover, Germany, on Dec. 28, 2016.
Antonio Perez / baiduhaiWestern lowland gorilla Kamba, 11, cuddles her 1-day-old baby Zachary at Brookfield Zoo's Tropic World on Sept. 24, 2015.
APThe real stars of "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" are sound designers Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van Der Ryn. Their aural creature designs actually sound like something new — part machine, part prehistoric whatzit. Read the review.
APBaby lemurs huddle together at the Philadelphia Zoo in this photo released March 24, 2016. The babies were born in February to 9-year-old Kiaka and 10-year-old Huey, weighing in at a combined one-third of a pound. The lemurs are critically endangered in their native home of Madagascar, but the species has thrived in captivity.
Pedro Pardo, AFP/Getty ImagesA jaguar cub is held by an employee at the Reino Animal zoo in Teotihuacan, Mexico, on June 16, 2016. Three jaguars were born in captivity May 23.
Jeremy Enlow, APA male western lowland gorilla born Dec. 5, 2015, at the zoo in Fort Worth, Texas, gazes upward at his mother. The yet-to-be-named ape born to first-time parents Gracie and Elmo is the first birth of a western lowland gorilla at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Daniel McFadden / APIn "First Man," Ryan Gosling reteams with "La La Land" director Damien Chazelle to relay the story of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. Read the review.
Michael Probst / APA 6-day-old gorilla baby lies in the arms of its mother Shira at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sept. 21, 2016.
Boglarka Bodnar / APTwo Siberian tiger cubs snarl on an examination table during a routine medical check in Veszprem Zoo in Veszprem, Hungary, on June 15, 2016. The cubs were born at the zoo two weeks earlier.
Ross Gilmore / Redferns via Getty ImagesOn "Here" (Merge), the band's first album in six years and 10th overall, the front line of Norman Blake, Gerard Love and Raymond McGinley once again trades songs (four each) and lead vocals, over sturdily constructed pop-rock arrangements. But the band has taken some subtle evolutionary turns to where it's now a faint shadow of its "Bandwagonesque" incarnation. Read the review.
Chris Walker, baiduhaiTwo pups from a litter born in late May emerge June 30, 2015, from their den at Brookfield Zoo. The birth of the pups from the zoo's only two Mexican gray wolves is the first for this subspecies at Brookfield and may help support conservation efforts by increasing the genetic diversity. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first listed the Mexican gray wolves on the endangered species list in 1976.
Czarek Sokolowski / APTwo rare, 4-day-old white lion cubs are pictured at the private Zoo Safari in Borysew, Poland, on Sept. 22, 2016. All together, four cubs were born Sept. 18, 2016, to 5-year-old Azira.
APWhen Aretha Franklin recorded her bestselling gospel album in early 1972, director Sydney Pollack's camera crew shot many hours of footage, unseen publicly until now. "Amazing Grace" is now in theaters. Read the review.
Sebastien Bozon / AFP/Getty ImagesA picture taken on December 12, 2016 at the A dwarf crocodile named Oscar swims in its exhibit at the Mulhouse zoo in eastern France on Dec. 12, 2016.
NBCKanye West's "The Life of Pablo" (GOOD/Def Jam) sounds like a work in progress rather than a finished album. It's a mess, more a series of marketing opportunities in which West changed the album title and the track listing multiple times, to the point where the very thing that made West tolerable despite a penchant for tripping over his own ego — the music itself — became anti-climactic. Read the review.
APSix miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham). Read the review.
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Baby pygmy hippopotamus Lani eats a salad on May 17, 2014, at the Basel Zoo in Switzerland.
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When is a giant anteater not so giant? When it is a baby, like the one recently born and now on exhibit at Brookfield Zoo.
The zoo on Tuesday announced the Nov. 15 birth of a female pup to Tulum, a female, and Lupito, a male, second-time parents. The animals, which do, indeed, eat ants (and other insects), are in decline in the wild and considered a vulnerable species in their native territory of Honduras, Brazil and northern Argentina.
Zoos typically wait to announce births until a newborn’s health seems assured. The yet-unnamed female can be seen riding her mother’s back, typical behavior, in the South America section of the zoo’s Tropic World exhibit Thursdays, Fridays and Saturday, with the sire on exhibit the other days.
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