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"Invisible" (Bantam), by Carla Buckley Family bonds unravel and a horrible secret tears sisters apart in Carla Buckley's enthralling new drama, "Invisible.

"Good Junk" (Minotaur Books), by Ed Kovacs New Orleans private detective Cliff St.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - What was TV like in 2012? As with every year, it was a mix of the ridiculous and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

ZURICH - There's scarcely a ship or a sailor to be seen in the wildly revisionist, weirdly anti-colonialist new production of Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" at the Zurich Opera. But, fortunately, there is Bryn Terfel.

Various Artists, "The Music Of Nashville: Original Soundtrack" (Big Machine) Among the characteristics the network TV drama "Nashville" gets right about its namesake city is the music.

TORONTO - It won't be long before it becomes difficult to separate actor Richard Armitage from the character Thorin Oakenshield. Armitage himself is already there. The British actor is a familiar face in the U.K.

WASHINGTON - A holiday concert attended Sunday by President Barack Obama and his family included some non-traditional entertainment this year: a performance by South Korean rapper and Internet sensation PSY.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - James Bond is in a box-office photo finish with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny over what looks to be the last slow weekend of the holidays.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The French-language drama "Amour" was chosen as the year's best film Sunday by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, whose prizes are among a flurry of year-end honours that help sort out the Academy Awards race.

CHARLESTON, S.C. - The new season of the Spoleto Festival USA will feature one of its largest and most varied program lineups in recent years, with performances ranging from Greek tragedy to Shakespearean comedy to modern graphic novels.