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Saturday Sessions

Amos Lee performs "Vaporize"

The soulful singer-songwriter from Philadelphia got his big break a dozen years ago, when he was invited to open for Norah Jones. Since then, Lee has released five successful albums. His sixth, "Spirit," is out next Friday

• Watch: Amos Lee performs "Walls"
• Watch: Amos Lee performs "Till You Come Back Through"
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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

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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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Movie Reviews

"Neither Heaven Nor Earth," a supernatural war film

New French thriller follows a company of soldiers in Afghanistan confronting a mysterious unseen threat

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• Read: David ​Edelstein on "amazing" documentary "Weiner"
• Read: A bloody valentine to "De Palma"

TV

The couple behind "Fixer Upper"

Chip and Joanna Gaines are the rising stars of HGTV's hit home renovation show, "Fixer Upper," and they've turned, Waco, Texas into the Renovation Capital of the World

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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
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• 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"

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• 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

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• 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

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