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Saturday Sessions

Pinegrove performs "Angelina"

The New Jersey-based group - founded by lead singer Evan Stevens Hall and drummer Zach Levine - have played together since age seven, following in the musical footsteps of their dads. Their widely-praised new album is titled "Cardinal."

• Watch: Pinegrove performs "Cadmium"
• Watch: Pinegrove performs "Aphasia"
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Broadway Duets

Barbra Streisand and Hugh Jackman sing "Any Moment Now"

In this behind-the-scenes look at her new album, "Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway," Streisand discusses her collaboration with Jackman, recording a song written by Marvin Hamlisch and Carolyn Leigh for the musical "Smile"

• Watch: Barbra Streisand and Alec Baldwin duet: "The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened"
• Watch: Barbra Streisand records with Anthony Newley
• Watch: Barbra Streisand performs "Fifty Percent"

Movies

Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant's "imperfect" harmony in new movie

Award-winning actors share how they trained for "Florence Foster Jenkins," their new film about a tone-deaf diva, and reflect on their real-life political involvement

• Read: Streep and Grant on love in "Florence Foster Jenkins"
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• Watch: New documentary profiles 1936 U.S. Olympic rowers

Movie Reviews

“Hell or High Water”: A new classic Western

Critic David Edelstein says it’s the best movie he’s seen all year - and all last year, too

• Read: Jeff Bridges on why he's so good at western movies
• Read: David ​Edelstein on "amazing" documentary "Weiner"
• Read: A bloody valentine to "De Palma"
• Read: "Neither Heaven Nor Earth," a supernatural war film

Coming Attractions

New "Rogue One" trailer debuts

Dramatic footage revealed for upcoming standalone "Star Wars" film

• Read: Watch the trailer for Mel Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge"
• Read: Marvel debuts "Doctor Strange" trailer at Comic-Con
• Read: Beatles touring doc headed to theaters
• Read: Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks reunite in "Ithaca"
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Books

Dispensing with words

Don't have time to read any more? Residents in a town in southern France don't have that problem. Thanks to the startup website short-editions.com, 10,000 short story authors have been matched with a community of 150,000 regular readers with time to kill while waiting on line

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• Read: Mo Willems on the art that enlivens his best-selling children's books
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Music Festivals

Scenes from Lollapalooza 2016

One of North America's most popular music festivals marked its 25th anniversary, at Chicago's Grant Park

A Long, Strange Trip

​The Dead rise again: Dead & Company on tour

Three of the Grateful Dead's surviving players, joined by John Mayer, Oteil Burbidge and Jeff Chimenti, still have a long way to go on that "long, strange trip"

• Watch: Bob Weir and John Mayer on Dead & Company
• Watch: The Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann
• Watch: John Mayer on being a deadhead
• Watch: The Grateful Dead's musical heritage
• Watch: Why John Mayer wanted to play with the Dead

In Memoriam

​"Big Lebowski" actor David Huddleston dead at 85

Character actor also appeared in Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" and the musical version of "The Producers"

• Read: Celebrities pay tribute to "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin
• Photos: Notable deaths in 2016

A Music Legend

Prince dead at 57

The "Purple Rain" legend died at his Paisley Park estate

• Photos: Prince 1958-2016
• Photos: Fan tributes to Prince
• Watch: Stevie Wonder performs "Purple Rain" tribute for Prince
• Watch: Prince talks war and music in 2004 interview

Celebrity Babies

Baby bumps

See the celebs seeing stars over their impending parenthood

• Read: Holly Madison expecting a boy
• Read: T.I. and Tiny Harris welcome baby girl
• Read: Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes expecting again: report
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An Actor's Life

​The casting director: The actor's lifeline

Veterans of Broadway, films and TV discuss the importance of auditions, and of being in the room where it happens

• Read: ​What's my line? Actors on memorization
• Watch: The "Broadway babies" of "Shuffle Along"

A Visit To The Set

"Criminal Minds" stars on longevity of "creepy" series

Shemar Moore and Joe Mantegna dish on solving crimes and the show's 11th season

• Read: ​"Scorpion" cast members dish on show's return
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