Crime (genre)

The sniff test: How to pick a perfume for someone

2012-12-16 00:00:00

Is it possible to pick a perfume for someone? Should you even attempt such a personal gift? If the recipient likes fragrance or is interested in scent, the answer is a resounding yes. And we've got some tips and guidelines for shopping. For starters,...

Santa Barbara Festival sets film, tribute lineup

2013-01-08 10:00:00

The Santa Barbara Film Festival will present 13 world premieres and 32 American premieres in its 28th annual gathering, with tributes set for actors Ann Dowd (“Compliance”), Elle Fanning (“Ginger & Rosa”), Ezra Miller ("The Perks...

‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction

2012-12-13 07:02:31

Hotel makeovers from around the world

2012-12-23 00:00:00

As we approach the end of the year, we tend to think about making changes. Think you can't change? These hotels did. Many of them started as one thing and wound up another. They may inspire you to the point of prayer, drink (water or something harder),...

'Skyfall': Javier Bardem on the difference between Silva, Chigurh

2012-12-20 08:00:00

"Look upon your work!" In "Skyfall," Javier Bardem as the vengeance-driven villain known as Silva demands this of spy chief M (Judi Dench) and James Bond (Daniel Craig) in a devilish baritone as he twists a dental mouthpiece dripping with saliva out...

American Cinematheque gets into the holiday spirit

2012-12-20 06:00:00

The American Cinematheque's Egyptian and Aero theaters are getting into the holiday spirit with two festive programs: "Christmas With Charlie Chaplin" and "Holiday Spirit on the Big Screen." Chaplin and Paulette Goddard star in his last silent film, the...

Review: 'The Cutting Season' by Attica Locke reaches from the present to the past

2012-09-23 00:00:00

-------------------- The Cutting Season A Novel Attica Locke Harper/Dennis Lehane Books: 374 pp., $25.99 -------------------- How much do I admire Attica Locke's second novel, "The Cutting Season"? To answer that, I need to go back to her 2009 debut,...

Fire hits Tyler Perry's Atlanta studio for second time this year

2012-08-27 11:40:00

Fire hit Tyler Perry's studio in southwest Atlanta on Monday, the second time a blaze has erupted at the entertainment complex this year. A representative for the filmmaker described the new fire as "small," and said it was put out with a fire...

'How to Catch a Monster': Ryan Gosling to make directorial debut

2012-08-29 11:51:00

Hey girl, it turns out that Ryan Gosling really may be able to do it all. The Oscar-nominated actor who has broken up street fights and saved pedestrians from oncoming traffic is now set to direct his first feature film, "How to Catch a Monster." The...

National Endowment for the Arts announces new Big Read grants

2012-07-10 21:37:27

Review: 'The Twenty-Year Death' by Ariel S. Winter is 3-in-1 noir

2012-07-29 00:00:00

-------------------- The Twenty-Year Death A Novel Ariel S. Winter Hard Case Crime: 672 pp., $25.99 -------------------- Noir is, first and foremost, style. It's like kabuki, or, more to the point, the blues — a folk art defined by its...

Review: 'Vengeance' by Benjamin Black has little at stake

2012-08-05 00:00:00

-------------------- Vengeance A Novel Benjamin Black Henry Holt: 307 pp., $26 -------------------- I've always been a little suspicious of Benjamin Black. Or, more precisely, of the "nudge, nudge, wink, wink" aspect of his identity. Black, after...

Fans of crime novels, TV shows or movies can book themselves into the 225-room Back Bay Hotel to sleep in the old Boston Police Department headquarters (1925 to '97). The hotel opened in 2004.

2012-12-17 13:33:29

Twenty Year Death Ariel Winter Hard Case, $25.99 Three interlocking crime novels, each set in a different decade and in the style of a different author (Georges Simenon, Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler), tell a single, chilling story.

2012-11-29 13:31:45

, this recent Italian import is as difficult to describe as it is to comprehend without attentive viewing (these are good things, mind you).

2012-08-10 16:42:41