At the beginning of Annie Liontas’ darkly comic debut novel, Stavros Stavros Mavrakis — irascible father, diner owner, Cretan immigrant — dreams of a goat that portends his looming death. When a real ...

Annie Liontas talks about her debut novel, in which a Greek immigrant patriarch of a dysfunctional family has a premonition that he has only 10 days to live. Stavros Stavros Mavrakis has had a dream.

Stavros Stavros Mavrakis had a rough night. He was “in bed, cold, with no woman but plenty of woman troubles” and “dreaming of home,” Crete. The island missed him. It “was going through a tough time ...

Directed by Leslie Small and Tim Story, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain is more of a Comedy Central special than a theatrical film. This isn’t to say Kevin Hart doesn’t deliver the goods, but the film is ...

In the timeline of the standard stand-up comic’s career, Kevin Hart has surged past “young, angry and hungry,” seems to be avoiding Dave Chappelle/Andy Kaufman burnout and is settling just shy of fat, ...

Bryson Tiller comes through on the late-night tip with "Let Me Explain," a smooth new track that features the 23-year-old singer from Louisville, Kentucky attempting to reconcile things with his girl.

If you don’t know who Kevin Hart is, you probably will soon. The stand-up comedian’s new movie “Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain” was overshadowed at the weekend box office by the success of “Despicable Me ...

First of all, let me explain this: Kevin Hart is not merely amusing, he is a big talent in a diminutive package. If his physique matched his comedic skills, he’d be as big as Shaquille O’Neal. Maybe ...

Once you get past an incredibly self-indulgent intro — an uncomfortably long mash-up of comedy sketch and road-trip-with-entourage doc that seems simultaneously apologetic and arrogant — you can enjoy ...