RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Gilberto Gil, one of Brazil's leading luminaries, is a founding father of the Tropicalism movement, whose everything-plus-the-kitchen sink ethos is largely responsible for the harmonic and rhythmic complexity of Brazilian m...

By most calendar keepers, this reviewer is a latecomer to the progressive rock phenomenon known as Porcupine Tree...

Yesterday wrote about their favourite music of 2006. Today, , I offer you my favourite songs of 2006. The list goes to #55 and there are mp3s for the top 35. I decided no artist would appear more than once...

GUNMEN on a motorcycle shot dead a Christian minister in Palu, the capital of religiously-divided Central Sulawesi province, residents said today. Reverend Irianto Kongkoli, 40, was shot in the head and died on the spot, they said...

*Veteran gossip columnist Janet Charlton reported Monday that creative differences between Whitney Houston and her producer/mentor Clive Davis are threatening to hold up the scheduled June release of her anticipated comebac...

negotiate lower drug prices for Medicare patients, Ohio The card is free and, beginning in April, an additional 105,000 people will be eligible to use one when income requirements are raised for those under 60 years old...

Kelsey and I were walking around the Upper East Side of Manhattan this afternoon, and went into the 15 minutes before closing time. We only had time to see one exhibit ( ) , but it was a fantastic quick date for both of us...