Terri Lyne Carrington plays with equal parts power and passion. She's deeply rooted in the classic jazz tradition, yet experiments with new sounds and rhythms that make her music quite contemporary. And she travels with the best.

LIKE CHILD SOLDIERS : Everyone knows about the genocidal atrocities committed in Rwanda and Darfur, but folks seem to have forgotten about the ongoing (twenty-plus years now) war in northern Uganda. Peter Eichstaedt, Africa editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting , comes to Elliott Bay tonight to talk about the conflict, child soldiers, and the repeated efforts by ...

DANCEOn the Ice of LabradorInternationally acclaimed Canadian choreographer Sarah Chase's latest work takes a selection of apparently random true stories - about trombonists, aviators, deaths on railway tracks - to create a piece designed to bring fragments of identity and memory alive. Seven members of Montreal Danse combine movement and spoken word into a highly personal narrative. ''There's ...

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Diego (Nightmare) Sanchez celebrated his debut at lightweight Saturday with a unanimous decision over Joe (Daddy) Stevenson in the main event of UFC 95.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Once a competitor, always a competitor. Or so it seems for Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Hamilton, who says he was afraid his competitive nature would get the best of him while taping the new season of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice."

OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS BLITHE SPIRIT Angela Lansbury, Jayne Atkinson, Christine Ebersole, Simon Jones, Deborah Rush, and Rupert Everett star in Noël Coward's comedy from 1945. Michael Blakemore directs. In previews. Opens March 15. (Shubert, 225 W. 44th St. 212-239-6200.) LA DIDONE The U.S. première of the Wooster Group's production of . . .

The stars of EastEnders past and present are reunited to bid their farewells to ‘an icon for ordinary folk'

Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes are taking their daughter Suri – and a member from the Church of Scientology – on a budget camping holiday.

A screenplay tragic rapper TUPAC SHAKUR wrote during a 1995 prison stint is to hit cinemas in 2010. The prolific star penned Live 2 Tell as a starring vehicle for ...

How to polish a tarnished trophy: Sportsmail's guide to saving the FA Cup

"WIENER TAKES ALL" What: Enter the cutthroat world of dachshund racin

PANAMA CITY BEACH — Roy P. Gates said several times he was not a hero, but the men gathered at East Gate Christian Fellowship Tuesday evening were not buying it. Gates, a former paratrooper, served in World War II in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion,

Good morning! If rain beats snow, you're in luck. It could rain today, tonight and Wednesday. It's 50-50.

Around 200 people came to a night of music and comedy last Saturday organised by East Dulwich Stop the War in aid of the people of Gaza. Comic poet John Hegley compered the night, which raised £1,500 for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Prizes were donated by small businesses and generous individuals.

Baath party hardliners led by Iraq's executed president Saddam Hussein's number two on Tuesday spurned repeated calls for national reconciliation from the "traitors" of the new government.

Piers Morgan: After horror in Pakistan, Sir Garry has restored my faith in the game

International Health and Wellness Company Youngevity® announced today its unprecedented growth during times when many companies are experiencing layoffs and cutbacks.

With a brand new location for the proposed Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Museum, over a fenced-in sump in TR Park, interest was up in the community.

Judge sentences William Franklin Myers to prison

Wednesday, March 11... By Lizzy Encarnacao Though high school history class have may suggested otherwise, history's often much more interesting years after it happens. Proving that hindsight is 20-20, author JAMES MANN uses new interviews and newly released documents to analyze President Ronald Reagan's role in the Cold War. Tonight, Mann lectures on the significance of Reagan's actions (and ...

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- In the 1967 movie "Bonnie and Clyde," the Depression-era outlaws were portrayed by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty as a tall, glamorous couple who robbed banks and traveled in style.

African-American history celebrations during February brought back memories of the events that took place on Oct. 27, 1986. On that day, 81 outstanding Americans became recipients of the first Ellis Island Congressional Medals of Honor as representatives of our nation's multi-heritage and ancestry groups.

DMN Newswire--2009-3-6--The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, held each winter on the North Shore of Oahu, is recognized across the globe as the premier surfing event. Professional surfers, fans, and media gather for the awesome winter swells that travel to the Hawaiian islands.

Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp welcomes for the first time ever the legendary Steven Tyler as its headliner.

Roger Daltrey has criticized the public for donating money to animal charities and not young cancer patients.

OLNEY (Special) — The Olney Jamboree will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Olney Civic Center. All musicians are welcome to participate in the show. Admission is $2 per person, and a snack bar will be available for guests, featuring homemade sandwiches and desserts.

The Detroit News was flooded with Wonderlove from readers who entered our Stevie Wonder Contest to win passes to today's screening of Wonder's first-ever live DVD, "Live at Last," at the Emagine Theater in Canton Township or copies of the DVD itself.

I thought Purim had come early when I flicked on the Internet and found, on the English-language website (ynetnews.com) of the popular Yediot Aharonot newspaper, a ruling by Maimonides that Jewish law forbids Arabs from serving in the Knesset.

World motorsport chief Max Mosley says he will never recover his dignity despite winning a privacy case over an allegedly Nazi-themed sadomasochistic orgy.

A night of theatre and fabulousness with the inimitable Amanda Palmer

Randall Kline, the Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ—the leading non-profit jazz organization on the West Coast and the presenter of the San Francisco Jazz Festival today announced the addition of The Roots on Saturday, May 30 at 8:00pm at Davies Symphony Hall to the artist line-up for the 10TH Anniversary SFJAZZ Spring Season.

BBC bosses reckon their DJs are too old for listeners and look to rising young stars

ASHEVILLE – Luna Negra Dance Theater is not yet a household name, but Amy Dowling, a dance faculty member at Western Carolina University, was "truly delighted" to see this emerging company's name on the schedule for the Diana Wortham Theatre's dance series this year.

The members of the Freehold High School football team are beginning to understand how permanent the state championship they won last fall will be in their lives. It is now state tournament time in basketball and soon the focus will be on the start of the baseball season. Yet the Central Jersey Group II state championship that the Colonials won will not go away.

TINA Turner has been forced to postpone two concerts this week, including one in Sheffield, because she has flu.

The pre-West End tour of a new production of Samuel Beckett's 1953 classic Waiting for Godot begins performances at Malvern Theatres March 5, where it runs through March 14, before continuing to Milton Keynes, Bath, Norwich, Edinburgh and Newcastle.

Team Canada was disappointed in its two-and-out finish at the WBC, but the rest of the country had its eyes on different sports.

Being There Blu-ray Warner Home Entertainment 1979 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 130 min. / Street Date February 3, 2009 / 28.99 Starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Ruth Attaway, Dave Clennon.

Dennis Brown is a hero. A hero to his wife Mishelle, a hero to his children Owen, Benjamin, Jenna and Mackenzie and a hero to his comrades at the Lincoln and Welland Regiment.

Former Carolina Hurricane Trevor Letowski is tended to by a team trainer as he lies unconscious on the ice after a collision during an NHL game in 2006. Pro sports can make you rich. They can make you famous.[...]

LOS ANGELES , March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- SHOWTIME is taking its Primetime Emmy(R) campaign to a whole new platform as it launches the 2009 Emmy(R) season.