Sunday news and reviews
Before you cuddle up with that book of yours, check out these book reviews...
Books
A look at the intense and sometimes brutal parenting of a Chinese mother, whose children both rebel and blossom.
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- Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune
Once known as Black Mecca, Harlem has fallen on hard times and faces the problems of many other urban neighborhoods.
- Joseph P. Williams Jr., Special to the Star Tribune
Leavitt's 'Pictures of You' puts focus on damaged lives
When two cars collide on a foggy road, lives are changed forever.
- Andrea Hoag, Star Tribune
The not-so-positive power of the princess
A feminist critique in the guise of a chat with a friend, Orenstein's book inspires parents to rethink girlie-girl culture.
- Christy DeSmith, Star Tribune
Tales explore great divide of understanding
McElroy's stories are dense and deliberative and refuse to pander.
- Kevin Canield, Star Tribune
Beauty school to a coffee shop
Sunny Tedder trades in the bordeom of Nowheresville, America, to run a coffee shop in Afghanistan.
- Andrea Hoag, Star Tribune
Music
Piano man Ben Folds tinkers with his career on NBC's "The Sing-Off" and a new album with author Nick Hornby.
- CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Star Tribune
The Great White Way hits the replay button
From "Fela!" to "American Idiot," more Broadway musicals are marching to the beat of time-tested popular music.
- JON BREAM, Star Tribune
Stage
'Babe: The Sheep-Pig' gets loving treatment from Children's Theatre Company
Clad in a pink checked shirt with salmon-colored high-water pants held up by matching suspenders (and generous padding), Dean Holt can be described only as adorable as the eponymous porcine hero in the Children's Theatre Company's production of "Babe: The Sheep-Pig."
- Dominic P. Papatola, Pioneer Press
Reed Sigmund, whose signature style is bold and manic, plays a stoic farmer in the Children's Theatre production of "Babe."
- Rohan Preston, Star Tribune