WASHINGTON -- Already in distinctive company as an American president, George W. Bush seeks to join an even more select group: president and top-selling author. Since The New York Times began its...

Book Review: Trapped on the Wheel by John Glavin He later rose to even greater prominence when he formed Gnarls Barkley with Cee-lo Green. Now, Danger Mouse has teamed up with James Mercer; lead...

Comatose back in 2006. Back then, they were considered lucky, but I reckon they’ve now earned the respect of hard rock lovers and broken some crucial barriers as...

In the latter days of The Move, the band's alpha males — founder Roy Wood and newcomer Jeff Lynne — expressed a desire to go beyond the typical three-minute pop song. Wishing to continue...

Marshall Chapman is one of those artists who has released a number of critically acclaimed albums but has not had the break-out commercial success they and she deserved. Now over thirty years into...

Fluwid stand out above other metal bands. They are not the ultimate warriors of the gods of metal. However, something about them is intriguing. I've kept them on my mp3 player for a while now,...

is Corb Lund's sixth studio album on a major label. Backed by his impressively spot-on band, “The Hurtin' Albertans,” this album marks another step in Lund's career: an introduction to an...

Ever since she was a student at the Royal College of Art in London, Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh has been interested in fixing things easily. "And making people's lives better," she says. About seven...

MILFORD, MA, September 07, 2010 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Debra F. Fobelle, Director, Performer and Teacher for Life Is Art!, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication,...

A south Wales theatre group plans a public campaign to save itself from closure after being refused an appeal against the loss of £250,000 funding.Gwent Theatre says unless there's a sudden...

“Fête Nocturne” (“Party at Night”), a Corneille canvas from 1950, shows his way with color and his sense of vitality. His death was announced by...

Tarnished Earth is a dramatic street gallery of photographs telling the story of the destruction of Canada's boreal forest - a continuous belt of coniferous trees separating the tundra to the north...

The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue, which is Donald Fagen, left, of Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs, right, and Michael McDonald, of the Doobie Brothers, played at the State Fair Grandstand on Monday. They...

It's the time of year where fantasy football drafts are happening around the clock. With that fantasy spirit in mind we figured it was high time someone drafted Hollywood directors, those bastions of...

cast in costume! In the first official photos of this season's contestants in costume, Palin wears a black dress with strategic lace. Patridge, meanwhile, wears a tiny red two-piece that shows off...

Puppy playLet two of Jamaica’s funniest theatrical exports, Oliver Samuels and Dahlia Harris, show you an easy way to stress out a marriage. In “Puppy Love,” a husband in a...

anxiety - a study published in Archives of General Psychiatry reports it had a promising effect on mood. Psilocybin is the active ingredient in an illegal Class A drug in the UK called magic...

A North Vancouver video game developer has died in a head-on collision in which three people were killed, police in Washington state say. Brian Wood, 33, who developed the...

Scandal-plagued socialite Paris Hilton has been voted the worst celebrity role model in a new online poll. Three summer drug arrests, in South Africa, France and Las Vegas, have dented the heiress'...

Labor Day is the official end to summer and the unofficial kickoff to campaign season. In the race for governor, jobs are the top issue. People want the next Governor of Illinois to create them and...

— Patients with early-stage schizophrenia who receive a combination of medication and a psychosocial intervention appear less likely to discontinue treatment or relapse -- and may have improved...

— In the first human study of its kind to be published in more than 35 years, researchers found psilocybin, an hallucinogen which occurs naturally in "magic mushrooms," can safely...

Returning fall shows: Where we left off "I just wanted to begin the season showing the emotional devastation of that," creator and executive...

Judge declares mistrial in Travolta extortion case Ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne and his attorney, Pleasant Bridgewater, were accused of seeking $25 million from the family in exchange for not...

The Juilliard-trained actor (who, ironically, is originally from Houston) has spent the summer swiping scenes on AMC's paranoid thriller as American Policy Institute wonk Miles Fiedler. Whether he's...

Redundant workers today staged a noisy protest in front of bemused guests and a handful of staff at the exclusive Westin Auckland Hotel this morning. About 100 hotel workers face losing their jobs...

French actress/singer Vanessa Paradis has confirmed she and longtime partner Johnny Depp are in talks to play Simone De Beauvoir and her lover Nelson Algren in a racy new movie. The Joe Le Taxi...

Wrestling celebrity and reality TV star Hulk Hogan has been hospitalized with severe back pain. The colourful former fighter spent much of Labour Day in a Florida hospital after he checked in with...

Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland has joined the Christmas list - he's recording an album of traditional festive tunes. The rocker admits he was inspired to record an album of tinsel tunes...

Tiny Kushner is a calculatedly droll name for an evening of mini-dramas by Tony Kushner. Brevity is not a virtue we tend to associate with the author of the epic Angels in America. But Tony Taccone...

More Arts News Librado Romero, a photographer for The New York Times, has spent a lot of time there over the past year, watching constantly changing weather and light playing over one of the...

The stories in Patricia Engel’s striking debut collection are like snapshots from someone’s photo album: glimpses of relatives, friends, lovers and acquaintances, sometimes posing,...

Paul Haggis’s 2005 film, “Crash,” which imagined Los Angeles as a place animated exclusively by conflicting prejudices. Here the prejudices are more compellingly formalized into...

LONDON — When the Tate Modern opened here 10 years ago it was the first new national museum built in Britain in 100 years and the first museum in London devoted solely to modern art. A hulking...

TELLURIDE, Colo. — “If what we hear from down on the plains is true, and film culture is dying,” said the Australian...

Labor Day behind them, publishers are starting to roll out their heavyweight titles, the books sufficiently serious or flashy or important to draw attention in the crowded months leading up to the...

P.S. 1 in Long Island City, Queens, on Sunday afternoon. But as it turned out, the mood couldn’t have been less like its subject: Ms....

Electric Zoo , sold out with 25,000 people each day. In a musical zone that diligently parses itself into subgenres, the festival’s 67 acts added up to both a dance marathon and a...

Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” in 2006, has been reviewed and otherwise written about often enough that you may feel you know it, even if you haven’t read the book or seen the...

Lukens Destine, right, of the Haitian band Djarara, played in the street near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn during J’ouvert, a marching music event held each year in the early morning hours of Labor...

Tatsuya Shimono (like Mr. Ozawa a winner of the Besançon conducting competition in France), confining his own participation to a single added movement, the opening...

Georg Friedrich Haas and has included his works in his group’s programs for the last several years. And as the musical force behind the Moving Sounds Festival, which opened on Thursday, he...

RCMP members were exercising their horses on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, in preparation for the RCMP Musical Ride in Regina. The show is part of the RCMP "Depot" Division's 125th anniversary celebration...

Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- French unions are striking nationwide as lawmakers begin debating President Nicolas Sarkozy’s bill to raise the retirement...

The British author Colin Cotterill at his home studio along an isolated beach in Chumpon, Thailand. Halfway down one of these beaches is where Colin Cotterill, an itinerant Englishman and crime...

She is famous for her grand sculptures. But Rachel Whiteread's smaller works – from her doll's house furniture to a cast of Peter Sellers's nose – delight Adrian...

Patients with early-stage schizophrenia who receive a combination of medication and a psychosocial intervention appear less likely to discontinue treatment or relapse -- and may have improved...

In the first human study of its kind to be published in more than 35 years, researchers found psilocybin, an hallucinogen which occurs naturally in "magic mushrooms," can safely improve the moods of...

BERLIN -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel set the stage on Monday for perhaps the biggest fight of her time in office with proposals to postpone the date when Europe's biggest economy abandons...