The Udyanotsav of Rashtrapati Bhawan - 2012, the annual opening of the Mughal Gardens of Rashtrapati Bhawan, including the musical garden, the spiritual garden, the herbal garden, bonsai garden and...

Jennifer Lopez, who is dating her back-up dancer Casper Smart, wants to make him a star and is paying for his acting lessons.

The 42-year-old singer and actress is head over heels with 24-year-old...

Ricky Martin, who is in New York these days getting ready for his return to the Broadway stage, will play a Spanish teacher in a popular television series "Glee".

Martin will play David Martinez, a...

Actor George Clooney has been challenged for a wrestling match by Muppet character Miss Piggy at the British Academy of Film and Telivision Arts (BAFTA) Awards 2012.

The outspoken puppet star of the...

Romanian President Traian Basescu Monday named Catalin Predoiu as the country's acting prime minister after Emil Boc stepped down from the post while announcing his cabinet's resignation.

The...

Russia has successfully completed the first stage of clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, an official said Monday.

The State Research Centre for Virology and Biotechnology, Vektor, completed the first...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Giants are returning from their Super Bowl win to a celebration the likes that only New York can throw: a ticker-tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway, where...

NEW YORK (AP) -- As Jay-Z transitioned from hit song to hit song at a Carnegie Hall concert Monday night, so did the lighting, changing from red to white to...

After a successful first year, which included a free Get Fit Jam for kids last year, Taylor kept getting asked one question: What about the adults?Taylor listened and has come up with an activity...

Madonna’s 2012 world tour is coming to five Canadian cities in August and September, QMI Agency has learned. The Material Girl will perform at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Aug. 30; at...

During the event, Mumbai takes to the streets to celebrate India's performing, literary and visual arts. The festival is named for the statue of King Edward VIII on a black horse -- kalaghoda --...

Andy Lewis makes his living performing an extreme and obscure form of tightrope walking known as slacklining. He has appeared on Japanese game shows, MTV and the Italian version of Guinness World...

The rapid about-face in the fortunes of chamber group Accordo reminds me of the final scene in the film "It's a Wonderful Life." Just as Jimmy Stewart's character, George Bailey,...

The Denver City Council on Monday voted to extend a 20-year-old tax subsidy - first passed to fix up a blighted shopping center - for another five years to pay for nearby drainage and street work.The...

Garth Brooks will be partying with friends in low places today -- the country superstar turns 50. Since his debut in 1989, Oklahoma-born Troyal Garth Brooks has won a haul of trophies including two...

Sony gave fans around the world a sneak peek at a slightly edgy Spidey in the rebooted webslinger franchise during simultaneous events at 13 cities on Monday. Cast and filmmakers assembled via...

Britney Spears has teamed up with Hasbro to create a new music-themed game called "Twister Dance," the toy and game giant said. "Dancing has been such an important part of my life...

David Miliband has rejected calls for him to boost Labour's prospects by returning to frontline politics, saying he wanted to avoid a "daily soap...

, Sutton Foster stars in the project as Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl who marries a man on a whim and moves to his sleepy coastal town where she winds up working alongside her new mother-in-law at...

Inside the once-bustling movie theater on North Avenue, moss thrives on shattered marble walls. Broken tiles hang from the ceiling. Rainwater pours through the roof. But this derelict structure is...

BUSINESS JOURNAL PHOTO | Marcus R. Donner Terry Jones, president of the Intiman Theatre Board of Trustees, and Intiman Artistic Director Andrew Russell in the costume shop at the...

Yes, it's true that Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to himself as "a barefoot boy" in 1945 when he returned home victorious to Abilene, Kan., after World War II. And it was in that image that the...

"American Boy" ) and John Legend ("You Are" and "Fall in Love"). But Estelle Fanta Swaray, to use her full name, really made headlines in Europe in 2008 when she...

Most actors perform in movies, TV or theatres. But not all. For some actors, the stage is an exam room at a medical school. At the University of Maryland School of Nursing, it's an interactive...

Contemporary Art Museum and by St. Louis at large, those feelings were put to rest by the more than 350 people who turned out for his $500-a-plate farewell dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel on...

Join the Cult of Hockey’s live chat at 5 p.m. for tonight’s game between the Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple Leafs. Please come join the...

Andrew Rannells, centre, performs with the cast of The Book of Mormon in New York. The hit Broadway production makes its Canadian debut in Toronto in spring 2013. (Joan...

Courtney Love has threatened to sue an author who unlawfully obtained copies of confidential court documents, filed by the Hole star's daughter Francis Bean Cobain in 2009. Cobain, then 17,...

"He said, 'you won Best of Show,'" Napoli said. "I said, 'quit kidding me.'" Napoli thought the artist was pulling her leg because she won the top prize, worth...

the Slade . It was 1979 and he had just bought an old ruin of a four-storey house in Peckham for 25,000. After college, we started renovating the house, biking there each day from our squat in...

Olympic memorabilia featuring the 2012 Olympic mascots 'Wenlock' (Orange) and 'Mandeville' (Blue) at the Toy Fair in London last month. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty...

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry spent 126 days outside Texas during his unsuccessful run for president, and the state paid more than $32,000 for the lieutenant governor or Senate pro tem to...

"The River," ABC's deadly serious and profoundly silly new spook show, is a horror hybrid, an escapee from Dr Moreau's island of television beasts.


The overarching story, about a ragtag...

Oh, the lament of a thriving television show executive. You're responsible for a billion-dollar franchise that draws 20 million viewers a week. Yet you see much smaller shows suck up all the...

This looks to be a banner year for Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" at Carnegie Hall. Carnegie recently announced that its 2012-13 season will open on Oct. 3 with Riccardo Muti conducting the Chicago...

SEATTLE - What is it with the Russians and "Don Quixote"? In a note accompanying the DVD of the production Alexei Ratmansky choreographed two years ago for the Dutch National Ballet, he speculated...

There was no shortage of raised eyebrows when Carlton A. Brown sought investors for the ground-floor retail space of the Kalahari Condominium on West 116th street in Harlem. The restaurant that Mr...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - "This is the last time you'll be rooting for each other," said Tom Sherak, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as he opened that annual exercise...