CULTURE

Television audiences who thought the ladies of

Singer Kelly Clarkson says she's perfectly happy about her fluctuating weight. So why did Self magazine, in which she made the remarks, retouch its cover photo of the

As a writer, Valerie Martin found she quickly became tough-skinned, with rejection par for the course as she set out to build a career.

Reunited jam band Phish will release

Police on Tuesday conducted a new raid of a Las Vegas medical facility in their ongoing probe into the death of Michael Jackson, this time searching a pharmacy for documents and computer records.

The 16-year-old Disney starlet Miley Cyrus performed her hit new song

The final results of Michael Jackson's death have been completed but remain sealed while police continue their investigation.

The CW is again diving into text-message shorthand for its latest provocative ad campaign.

Eclectic rocker Neil Young, who has made no secret of his disdain for the Grammys in the past, is receiving a humanitarian award from the group that hands out the music industry's top honors.

Director Hayao Miyazaki is considered a master of animation in his native Japan, and when Disney releases his latest movie

After performing in more than 30 countries, ballroom dance company

One-time Broadway impresario Garth Drabinsky was sentenced to seven years in jail on Wednesday and business partner Myron Gottlieb got six for their roles in a half-billion-dollar fraud in the 1990s at their theatre production company, Livent, Canadian media reported.

London's theatres are booming despite the recession as audiences are boosted by the trend for cash-strapped Britons to holiday at home.

Shakespeare, 18 years on death row in a Pakistani jail, and a famously alcoholic writer are just a few of the serious dramas that balance the zany comedy shows at this year's 63rd Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Focus Features will finance, produce and distribute the next film from the writer-director team behind the 2006 drama

With the airlines adding high 'fuel surcharges' to the cost of expensive peak-season plane tickets, and an exchange rate situation that has gone from sad

Flip through any travel magazine for safari inspiration and you'll likely start to give up hope that you can ever afford it.

We travelers are blessed with endless sources of literary inspiration for our myriad wanderings. Certain characters jump off the page and seem to almost lead us along by hand-pausing now and again to whisper sage advice in our ears.

During the second-quarter earnings call of CKX, parent company of

A Russian woman frustrated at failing to obtain French nationality hurled a ceramic cup at the Mona Lisa but did not damage Leonardo da Vinci's famed portrait, a spokesman for the Louvre Museum said on Tuesday.

Vienna's Schoenbrunn Palace is planned to provide the stage for a high-profile tribute to the

The author is unknown, but I read a story recently about Charles Plumb. Plumb was a US Navy Academy graduate and jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air-missile.

The veteran Italian filmmaker, who turns 90 on Saturday, is developing a remake of his original 1968 sci-fi movie, which immortalized Jane Fonda as a sex symbol.

London is a wonderful place to visit whether you grew up in Europe or elsewhere. As soon as you enter the confines of the city, you realize that it is strikingly different from the rest of Europe.

The trip sounded like a dream; dragons and dolphins, clear blue skies stretching to a horizon broken only by an occasional uninhabited island. For four days we were to float upon the azure seas at God's mercy, with a reliance on an ancient engine and a toothless captain.

Is the cruise industry trying to resuscitate its image? The old adage that cruise goers are either, newlywed, nearly dead or over fed is no longer accurate with the creation of the mega liner.

Italian fashion house Gianfranco Ferre's young label will dress the Rome-based S.S. Lazio soccer team for official off-field events during the 2009/2010 season, the designer said in a statement.

U.S. presidential couple Barack and Michelle Obama, Brad Pitt and French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy all made the cut for an annual list of the world's best dressed -- and gave a few tips on where to find bargains.

A judge on Wednesday postponed the sentencing of R&B singer Chris Brown to make sure his punishment for assaulting former girlfriend Rihanna would include physical labor such as road cleanup.