AP - The Verve, "Forth" (On Your Own)

AP - "The Good Thief" (The Dial Press. 326 pages. $25), by Hannah Tinti: Hannah Tinti treats readers of her first novel much like a runaway train does its passengers: She takes off on her fantastical tale knowing they'll have no choice but to hang on to see how things end.

AP - The Lost Trailers, "Holler Back" (BNA)

AP - Solange, "Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams" (Geffen Records)

AP - "Supreme Courtship" (Twelve. 285 pages. $24), by Christopher Buckley: Opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court have footnotes, so it's fitting that a novel about that institution would have them, too. But who'd expect them to be so amusing?

Reuters - "Traitor" is the cinematic equivalent of an airport novel that can be purchased before a long flight, read en route and discarded upon landing.

AP - Is there anything Christopher Plummer can't do?

Reuters - Glen Campbell covering Green Day and Foo Fighters?

Reuters - It might wear its derivative, "Legally Blonde"-meets-"Mean Girls" trappings like a rhinestone thong, but strip away the second-hand attire, and "The House Bunny" still manages to stand on its own two skyscraper heels thanks to the comic force of nature that is Anna Faris.

AP - "The First Breeze of Summer," a powerful drama written in 1975 by Leslie Lee, is nearly as relevant today as it was three decades ago.