A new musical 'Unchain My Heart' based on US musician Ray Charles is set to open on Broadway in...

Joaquin Phoenix is set to make a comeback to acting to play iconic American writer and poet Edgar Allen...

Astronomers have confirmed that two extremely dense stars in an intimate dance are spinning around each other in just 5.4 minutes at about 500 kilometers a second, making them the fastest known stellar partners in the...

British model/actress Kelly Brook is set to star in Australian soap opera Neighbours after she allegedly decided to move Down Under with her rugby player boyfriend Danny...

You can't judge a book by its cover, but what about its size? Guardian art critic Adrian Searle gets to grips with The History of the Saatchi Gallery – all 35kg of it – to find out whether it's a...

His voice has resonated on hit song after hit song. One of those, “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” is considered by many the greatest country song of all time. Recorded in 1980, it became...

Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Zoe Kazan, and Anthony Mackie in A Behanding in Spokane. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features Controversial playwright Martin McDonagh is used to creating...

Installation view of Jenny Holzer's work at Baltic, Gateshead featuring Monument (2008), left, and For Chicago (2007). You ride the lift up the high glass tower of Baltic to the viewing box at the...

V&A has, at the moment, a quite captivating show on medieval sacred art. I know, I know, I had thought the likelihood of my writing that sentence was up there with the chances of one beginning...

John Ruskin. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images The secret at the heart of the short-lived, notoriously unconsummated marriage of John Ruskin, the great artist, architect, poet and political...

In 1972 he was sorting mail in a Sussex post office. Twelve months later he was partying with Led Zeppelin. Here, the hugely influential music critic Nick Kent looks back on a year in which he...

After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt called in the world's top architects for his acclaimed Make It Right project. The plan was to build green homes to replace those destroyed in New...

In Your Dreams, 1955. A portrait of Jean Rayner, 14, from west London, who ‘had attitude by the truckload’. Photograph: Ken Russell/ TopFoto Before he became Britain's most controversial film...

1 / 7 There comes a point in every performer’s life when he glances in the dressing room mirror and spends valuable show-preparation time wondering whether he’s accidentally grown himself a...

There were no dancing girls during An Evening with David Sedaris. Nor was there any strobe lighting. Musical accompaniment did not feature, and back-projected images were entirely absent. ...

FROM Emily Brontë's original novel to Kate Bush's chart-topping single, and all the film versions in between, if there's one thing Wuthering Heights stands for, it's passion. So in many ways, dance...

Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons was leafing through a couple of morning newspapers in her St. Louis hotel room last week, with the radio tuned to NPR and the TV blaring CNN. The day's...

CORPUS CHRISTI — A 13-year-old daughter provides a convenient cover story for a 52-year-old Steve Earle fan at a Taylor Swift concert. Just trying to be Dad of the Year, is all. Parents...

Pilobolus Dance Theatre long ago ceased to be a phenomenon and evolved into a brand. Yet it's a brand that, by dint of constant reinvention and sheer delight in its collective methodology, remains...

Provo » It is shaping up to be the most heated starting quarterback battle at BYU in the past 20 years -- maybe ever. And it begins now. The Cougars open their 2010 spring camp on Monday...

Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, left, makes a point to team captain John Terry. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images Breaking news: Didier Drogba is the...

C HIETI, Italy— Defending champion Michele Scarponi won the fourth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico on Saturday and took the overall lead. Scarponi broke away from a small group of riders on a...

A memorial plaque at the Canadian military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, honours Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang, killed by a roadside bomb in...

Kate Garraway, Katy Brand and Debra Stephenson are set for the final of the celebrity competition Let's Dance later in aid of Sports Relief.There had been doubt over GMTV's Garraway taking part in...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives. Sony shook up...

PARENTS and pupils are staging a protest over plans to swap their school building with an over- subscribed Catholic primary amid fears the move will lead to...

Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 12:59 a.m. The phenomenon that is Manny Pacquiao grew with a series of wins against some of the biggest names around. Now he has a fight to win against a guy who has...

The case for the Huskies: UW has kind of a mid-major profile. They've beaten a couple quality teams (Texas A&M, California) but lost twice to teams that are .500 or worse (UCLA,...

/ -- Stanford Who's Who welcomes Alfredo Gordillo to the ranks of premier professionals for his exceptional work in the Graphic Arts Industry. As President of South Side Silc he has consistently...

• Family: Beckler is survived by wife Lynda Forbes, a musician and composer, of Stockton; son Jonathan R. Beckler of Stockton and daughter Bonnie S. Beckler of San Jose, both children from his...