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The handbag Donna Karan was showing off Friday lacked her signature logo, or any designer's logo.

A week of drag shows, colorful marches and social and cultural events in Havana culminates Friday with celebrations of the International Day Against Homophobia.

Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes and Wallace Stevens have been among the poets whose work recently became available in electronic format.

The televised extravaganza, with an audience of 125 million worldwide, is now in its 58th year.

The Cannes Film Festival is all about old-school charm and glamour, but it knows the importance of nurturing its younger talent.

Millions of fans actually watched the season-two finale of the ABC drama "Scandal" the old-fashioned way: on a TV screen, as it was fed from the network to their local affiliates.

Fire at Vuhlehirska TPP was caused by a violation of the rules of the coal handling system operation by the duty shift, which led to the accumulation of coal dust in the turbine house and its subsequent ignition, energy and coal industry minister Eduard Stavytsky said during Hour of Questions to the Government in Parliament, ForUm correspondent ... (more)

Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist and rock icon Pete Townshend attended the revival production of his seminal rock opera TOMMY at the Stratford Festival in Canada last night and joined the cast onstage for the curtain call.

The actress who plays the cat-loving accountant on the NBC hit says the tears were flowing after the "boss" filmed the final episode.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has a new process to select artists who receive one of the nation's top arts prizes, the Kennedy Center Honors, after an outside group last year said Latinos have been largely excluded.

The 34-year-old Nelsons, a native of Latvia, said in a statement that he is "deeply honored and touched" by the appointment and plans to make his first appearance in Boston as the orchestra's 15th music director in June.

Growing up in Pine Bluff, she played football in seventh grade - until someone realized she was a girl - and while in junior high, conducted the town's high school band.

John Fogerty is planning a special event for the day his new album hits stores. On May 28th, the former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman will take the stage at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles to mark the arrival of Wrote A Song For Everyone .

Silver Star holder, two-war vet LAFAYETTE - Services for decorated Col. Ray Stroup, US Army retired, will be Friday.

Actor Tom Hanks recently hit the Broadway stage while on steroids for his critically-acclaimed play Lucky Guy, in a bid to help him perform with a nasty cold.

It is as grungy as a musical can get. "American Idiot" satisfies both musical theater afficionados and hardcore Green Day fans.

In February, Lee won the Oscar many expected to go to Spielberg for his Civil War epic "Lincoln." But it was the Taiwan-born Lee, who had previously won the award for "Brokeback Mountain," who won for his 3-D shipwreck saga "Life of Pi." At Cannes, though, Spielberg is something like Lee's boss.

The slow, lingering demise of "Smash" has felt more like a punch to the gut to the folks on Broadway.

Symphoria, the Central New York symphony orchestra formed in 2012 by world-class musicians from the former Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, will announce its 201314 season on May 15 at 11am in the lobby of the .

This undated file photo provided by Sotheby’s Auction House shows a 1953 painting entitled "Onement VI" by Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman.