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The Christmas shopping season got off to a bumpy start at the renowned Beverly Center shopping mall in Los Angeles when an enthralling performance by an aerial troupe ended in shock and horror for the throng of shoppers.
Dogs across the country can expect some bone-shaped presents under the Christmas tree this year.
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” won the Pulitzer Prize, but it’s likely the voters read it while holding a hand over their eyes and peering through a gap in two fingers. While it is a novel that explores the unwavering bond between a father and son, there are chilling and gruesome aspects that make a beautifully written tale somewhat cringeworthy.
NEW YORK - Director Tim Burton has become a household name thanks to his highly stylized and hugely popular movies such as “Batman” and “Beetlejuice.” While fans may say his films are works of art, few would expect to see Burton’s imagery displayed alongside Monet’s “Water Lilies” and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” However, from now until April, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is doing just that, with a major career retrospective of Burton’s art and movies.
Of all the adjectives one might use to describe Newsweek's current Sarah Palin cover, "unflattering" probably isn't one of them.
The White House is enlisting "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker, Forest Whitaker and others from Hollywood and beyond to help push President Barack Obama's arts initiatives.
The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities are expected to receive their highest levels of funding in 16 years from a bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law by this weekend.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Saturday doled out presidential M&Ms and dried fruit mixes to more than 2,000 trick-or-treaters, marking their Halloween at a White House event partly aimed at honoring military families.
How low can beer makers go? Having conquered the beer-belly set, some of the nation's biggest brewers are trying to win over the six-pack-ab crowd with ultra-low-calorie suds.
- Boston Celtics forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis had surgery on Tuesday to repair his broken right thumb after fighting with a childhood friend while riding in an SUV less than two days before the season opener.
There are still 10 couples left on “Dancing With the Stars,” but Tom Bergeron promised at the beginning that we are, indeed, halfway through the season with Monday’s Argentine tango and paso doble performances.
The spotlight is on Dallas as it opens its $354 million performing arts center, unveiling a new opera house and theater designed by architectural stars with the idea of making the arts more accessible.
Pamina Brassey was so nervous before the photo shoot that she made sure she had a little bit of wine on hand, just in case she needed it.
Sony launches its new handheld game gadget today. The smartly-designed PSPgo is a great gaming machine, but will its price and digital-only format drive consumers away?
Those beautiful, wacky and sometimes scary nighttime scenarios have powerful magic: They can help you conquer fears, resolve issues and show off your wild side. So tuck in, dream on — and write down your nocturnal adventures.
This remake makes you long for the complex characters of “High School Musical.”
White House officials told agencies across the government Tuesday they should take care to avoid even the appearance that politics played a part in the award of federal grants.
A message to anyone near a live microphone at this Sunday's Emmys: Don't say or do something you'll be embarrassed by later.
Greed, hubris, vast fortunes erased at a stroke — the financial crisis is dramatic gold dust for writers.
If you can’t get free admission to a museum, a park, or some sort of walking tour, music performance or a national park on Saturday, Sept. 26, then you’re just not trying.
As the baseball season grinds toward the World Series and another football season rears its helmeted head, a man's thoughts turn to fashion.
Sure, the West Wing gets the glory. But the East Room gets the action.
Donny Osmond, Aaron Carter, and Mya seem to have the right experience, but this show can be anybody's game. Well, not you, Tom Delay.
Since the economic downturn began, fashion designers have brought us plenty of hard-edged looks: rock-star leather, gladiator shoes, '80s-style shoulder pads.
Ladies, start your crunches: Bare bellies are back at New York Fashion Week.
Molly Tuttle Bluegrass musician, highschool student, up and coming star.What a great bluegrass story; that and, the kid is really good!
Museums-For Poe, this has been the year to die forRICHMOND, Va. — Edgar Allan Poe took good care of his corpses.
A theory on Jane Austen's deathA British medical researcher believes she has answered the longstanding question of what killed Jane Austen — and it isn't the contemporary wave of Austen-horror mashup books.
Orlando performing-arts center: Wrong building, wrong place, wrong timeThe plunging tourist tax has delayed construction of the Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center. That, in turn, is causing private donations to dry up.
Can Women Writers Survive the Creative Writing Workshop?Of one hundred thirty-seven authors in the most recent Norton Anthology of American Literature, less than one-third are women-and this in a publication which we imagine strives for diversity.
Book Review: Barbara Ehrenreich's "Bright-Sided"Happy talk is killing us. Faux cheerfulness is blinding us. Optimism is making us delusional.
A review of Al Gore's new book, "Our Choice"Global warming is an "unimaginable catastrophe that would unfold on this planet if we don't start making dramatic changes immediately" (p. 12). Our Choice describes Al Gore's plan for averting this impending disaster.
Origami artist creates art works worth thousandsA French origami sculptor has developed his skills to such an extent that he can transform a metre of paper into a work of art worth thousands of pounds.
Van Gogh's letters provide an extraordinary map of the artist's interior worldMichelangelo wrote some wonderful sonnets; Constable's correspondence has a fascinating tough-tenderness; most visualisers have, with varying degrees of success, tried to match words to their images. But Van Gogh's letters are the best written by any artist.
Eight rooms, nine lives: Wellcome Collection, London NW1"The question of who or what the Me is is not a simple one at all," Mark Twain once remarked as he contemplated his own individuality. And you can see his point. The factors that produce a person's identity are elusive, a vague mixture of nature, nurture and random events.
A vivid, fresh take on hip-hop - CharlotteObserver.comGreat write up on hip hop inspired art exhibit.
Getting everyone together and arranging them into groups for portraits at weddings can be rather like herding cats. No sooner have you got the last straggler to come and join in, one of the first arrivals wanders off.
Up high on the hill I am standing so proud but what's this I hear now below me, so loud? Some young whipper-snapper's chain-sawing my trunk Would be only so fitting to land on this punk.
Little Dancer points to sensational discovery of Degas sculpture hoardThey are either one of the most extraordinary art finds of the past 100 years or one of the most exquisite frauds to be attempted.
The Last drop It is cold and damp. The lights are dim and rare echoes bounce off lonely hangar walls. Yet it was so lively not long ago, full of warm voices and soft laughter, all now distant echoes in gossamer memories.
Ruben Blades returns to salsa after brief political breakRubén Blades has a very specific reason for calling his current tour "Todos Vuelven," or "Everybody Returns." After suspending his music and film career for five years to serve as a cabinet minister in Panama, his homeland, Mr.
Celebrating Miles Davis in sight and soundExamining music in a museum space is no simple task; exhibitions about musicians tend to downplay the music itself. But "We Want Miles," an ambitious show about the life and music of the jazz great Miles Davis, at Cité de la Musique through Jan. 17, is a remarkable exception.
David Brooks: The other educationI turned on WMMR in Philadelphia and became mesmerized by a concert the radio station was broadcasting. The concert was by a group I'd never heard of — Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Thus began a part of my second education.
Intimate Ella Fitzgerald, rediscoveredVerve has just released "Twelve Nights in Hollywood," a four-CD boxed set of Ella Fitzgerald singing 76 songs at the Crescendo, a small jazz club in Los Angeles, in 1961 and '62 — and none of it has ever been released until now.
Photo Gallery: The Art of Sükran Moral Sükran Moral is one of Turkey's most controversial female contemporary artists. Here, SPIEGEL ONLINE presents a sampling of her work.
Fred Branfman on "The Making of an Elder Culture"Could the demographics and economics of a giant aging baby-boom generation unleash long-repressed pools of youthful idealism to produce a new "elder culture"? Could boomer seniors finally realize the failed hopes of their youth for a socially just, environmentally sane, nonma …
The problem with criticism of "Precious""I wanna say I am somebody. I wanna say it on subway, TV, movie, LOUD. I see the pink faces in suits look over top of my head. I watch myself disappear in their eyes... I talk loud but still I don't exist." — Precious
Healthy Horizons: Psychiatric Center Gets A FaceliftAlbuquerque artist James Houston produced a 93 foot long mural at the UNM psychiatric center, which, according to staff, helps to calm down the patients and creates a more inviting environment.
The BricoleurRicky Swallow miraculously makes wood look like crumpled paper or scales on a fish, just as he makes plaster look like a backpack.
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