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The last time Willie Nelson was in the Bay Area, he pulled his white van through a huge crowd at Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park, hopped onstage with his beat-up guitar and sang a perfect set of hits to a crowd as diverse as San Francisco used to be.

Lionsgate announced today that it has acquired the feature film rights to internationally acclaimed author Dr. Reza Aslan's provocative New York Times bestseller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.

Lionsgate announced today that it has acquired the feature film rights to internationally acclaimed author Dr. Reza Aslan 's provocative New York Times bestseller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.

Were Paul Blake the kind of person who took "no" for an answer, Broadway would never have seen White Christmas , and it would never know what Beautiful is.

What was the best book of 2013? Depends on the metrics you use. If you're going with fancy literary prizes, then it's probably Eleanor Catton 's novel " The Luminaries ," which won the Man Booker Prize , or James McBride 's novel " The Good Lord Bird ," which won the National Book Award for fiction .

Only Fools and Horses star David Jason and schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai have both won prizes at the Specsavers National Book Awards.

Not even Harry Styles or George Clooney can compete with Kate Middleton and her husband Prince William, at least in the UK.

Just because it's the end of the year, doesn't mean there is a lack of comedy shows.

The MSNBC host will write a monthly column for the D.C. newspaper, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt announced on Wednesday.

In a memo to WaPo staff this morning, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt made the announcement.

EXCLUSIVE : Spike TV has put in development Basket Case , a drama with a comedic bent based on the best-selling novel by author and journalist Carl Hiaasen, with Rob Reiner on board to direct and executive produce.

The actor is expected to be back for the latest Lee Child adaptation, which will be based on his novel Never Go Back The Jack Reacher sequel's source material is called Never Go Back... but don't tell that to Tom Cruise.

A drama teacher has lent his voice to the first Harry Potter character created since J.K. Rowling's final book was published.

Apple and its eponymous logo lost some luster in 2013. Experts questioned the company's ability to innovate .

Zombies now populate videogames, commercials , even spinoffs of classic books like Pride and Prejudice .

The sequel to this year's hit World War Z has found its director. Juan Antonio Bayona, who directed the acclaimed true story The Impossible in 2012, has been hired by Paramount, Skydance and Brad Pitt's Plan B to direct.

Reading is an intimate experience. When you pick up a book and put your eyes to paper or pixels, there is nothing between you and the author's mind.

Louis Zamperini spent time in an agonizing prison camp being tortured by the Japanese as a WWII POW.

If you're preparing to send out hundreds of holiday greetings in a single email blast, you probably missed the dust-up between the philatelists and the marketing department over the U.S. Postal Service's new Harry Potter stamps.

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