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David Cook "David Cook" RATING: 3 EXCLAMATION POINTS Like most "American Idol" champ debuts, "David Cook" won't go down as the rocker's best album. It's uneven, sort of rushed and...

In Switzerland earlier this fall, physicists and engineers gathered underneath a mountain and flicked a switch to turn on the Large Hadron Collider. The belief was that by running tiny...

David Archuleta "David Archuleta" RATING: 3 EXCLAMATION POINTS There isn't much that a modern recording studio can't fix on the "American Idol" runner-up's first album, but when you think about...

Once considered the indie movie queen, Catherine Keener has become a ubiquitous presence in films ranging from "Capote" to "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" to "Into the Wild." With "Synecdoche, NY," opening...

Are the days of deep-discounting new music releases coming back? It wasn't that long ago that music fans could count on low, low prices -- sometimes as low as $6.99...

Probably better known as Madonna's soon-to-be-ex-husband than as a director of the high-style, comic-book-type thrillers "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch," Guy Ritchie recently took the Toronto Film...

Pink "Funhouse" RATING: 3 EXCLAMATION POINTS Pink seemingly did the impossible when she turned her divorce from Carey Hart into the chart-topping romp "So What," transforming her pain into good-time...

Getting to Ben Roethlisberger is only half the job. Bringing him down often is the more difficult assignment. Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo showed his troops clip after clip of...

The best fashion self-help books can truly help you look better, become savvy shoppers and achieve an individual style. Three new books have been penned by people who've inarguably got...

Lee Ann Womack "Call Me Crazy'' RATING: 3 EXCLAMATION POINTS Though Lee Ann Womack's last album, "There's More Where That Came From," was a critical smash, as the Texas singer...