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Clear skisz and bright sunshine. 35, still cold. By noon 46. By 3 p. M. , 50. Thats the high for the day. It will be a good looking high. By 6 a. M. , 45 coming down from the high. Temperatures on the cold side to start you off. But a very nice finish. So how long can we keep these sunny, mild afternoons, not so long. Details on the changes coming up in the 7day forecast. Year expecting a pretty accident morning commute today. Theres a couple issues for you to watch for if you head to work or ma...

[inaudible conversations] and welcome to booktvs live coverage of the 64th an usual book awards in new york city. These years awards are being hosted of morning joe. Coming up in a minute youll hear from maya. They sponsor the National Book awards. All evening booktv will be live tweeting and updating with the winners. If you would like to follow along booktv is our twitter handle and facebook. Com booktv is our facebook page. After these two awards are given out, there will be a break for dinne...

Adapted from a 2014 picture book by Christine Baldacchino, juliany taveras’ script is a lovely look at the perils of non-conformity and what happens when one child decides the boundaries placed around them aren’t worth worrying about.

FRIENDSHIP, Tenn. -- Residence in a local town are dealing with flooding, but not just from Thursday's storms.

In director Monty Cole’s staging, August Wilson’s 1950s-set drama swings for the fences with mixed results.

What propelled Nirvana out of the underground into stores monitored by SoundScan wasn’t Butch Vig’s glossy, radio-friendly production. It wasn’t even Samuel Bayer’s visually catchy “Smells Like Teen Spirit” MTV video, with the band, moshing fans and anarchy-symbol-wearing varsity cheerleaders disrupting a high school pep rally. It was Kurt Cobain’s ‘60s-pop-radio-bred compositional smarts, which sliced through the wall-of-filth guitars like a chainsaw aimed at a stack of Kleen...

SIGNATURE MOVE: Kurt Bloch is this long-running Seattle punk-pop outfit’s secret weapon—writing the songs, producing and playing flashy, melodic lead guitar. He and bandmates Kim Warnick and Deep Purple-esque hard rock. So he occasionally seasoned Fastbacks’ hooky bombast with Van Halen-esque widdly-widdlys and wang-bar divebombs. Gear-wise, he didn’t have a trademark guitar or amp. He tends to like Gibsons—Les Paul Jrs., SGs, Sg Juniors and various Les Pauls. A...