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If you were one of the millions of Americans who vowed to live a healthier lifestyle in 2013, you may be edging toward the window of despair. But you probably...

Known as "The Grandfather of the British Blues," John Mayall introduced the blues to Great Britain and was responsible for the re-introduction of the blues to American audiences.

So I didn't win the Hatchet Job of the Year award tonight for the meanest book review. So what? Doesn't bother me at all. It's a stupid prize, anyhow, given by the Omnivore Web site in England, and you know ...

Honey Boo Boo's mom will not be competing on the current season of "Dancing With the Stars." According to the New York Daily News, an...

PASADENA, Calif. -- John Kerr, the stage and film actor whose credits include the movie "South Pacific," the thriller "The Pit and the Pendulum" and...

After weeks of speculation as to who was behind the vicious acid attack on Bolshoi director Sergei Filin, multiple sources are pointing fingers at the...

If life were fair, Eric Michael Gillett would be a Broadway or Metropolitan Opera superstar choosing between the kinds of roles formerly offered to Alfred Drake, Robert Preston, John Raitt, or, more recently, Michael Cra...

Almost every interview I have done as an author has presented me with some variation of this question: 'What is it like, being a writer from another culture?'. It's a tricky question and there are no straightforward answ...

LOS ANGELES -- The man who was arrested after attempting to upstage Adele at Sunday's Grammy Awards has a new message for the singer: "help...

Love GIRLS? Hate GIRLS? Then you'll definitely want to follow @TonightOnGIRLS, comedian Sam Grittner's amazing parody that perfectly captures everything you love/hate about Lena Dunham's...

NEW YORK -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson is heading from modern to classic - the "Modern Family" star is going to star this summer in William...

Supernatural events figure occasionally in "La casa de los espiritus/ The House of the Spirits," Caridad Svich's play about four generations of a Latin American family coping with social and political turmoil. So it's ...

FX has given "The Bridge" the green light. The Mexico-set series will center on two detectives (played by Demián Bichir and Diane Kruger) working together...

NBC's "Dracula" has found its Van Helsing in Thomas Kretschmann, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The "Wanted" alum will play opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers' titular...

Monday, Ava DuVernay released a new short film, The Door, commissioned by the fashion house Miu Miu for premiere during New York's Fashion Week, and, as has come to be expected from her, it is a thing of beauty.

There's this guy shuffling around on the stage of the Lansburgh Theatre -- just a guy. Small-time. Beige suit, kind of rumpled. Talks in slang about horse races and crap games. A loser, but with spirit, riffing his way t...

Yesterday, the Roman Catholic Church and its followers around the world were surprised to learn of Pope Benedict XVI's plan to resign at the end...

When people incorporate art and technology, the first question is, how do you get the technology to work? This has been true since the days when early electronic composers manually cut and spliced audiotape to the length...

The celebrated guitar duo of Sérgio and Odair Assad, Brazilian-born brothers, has won multiple Latin Grammys and performed and recorded with Yo-Yo Ma, Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg and Gidon Kremer. The Assads' versatility w...

The makers of a popular carbonated alcoholic drink guzzled on college campuses are going to be changing the look of its Four Loko cans to settle the government's charges of...

Photographer Wendi Kali shot almost 100 people in 35 cities as part of her new "Butch/Femme Photo Project," which she's deemed an exploration of lesbian...

The AARP launched a new book blog on its Web site today. Bethanne Patrick, an Arlington-based writer, has been hired to file a new column every week. Her objective, she said by e-mail, is to "give readers a regular peek ...