T HAT WHIRLING dervish who conducts the Cabrillo Festival orchestra can rarely be faulted for weak performances. But sometimes Marin Alsop comes up with program choices that one can only assume looked better on paper...

Shanghai may have become China's business heart, but Beijing remains its political and cultural capital -- and home to a burgeoning modern music scene eager to reach audiences outside the People's Republic...

SOMETIMES, I play a game with my friends in which we list the famous people we would most like to look like...

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Film editor Damian Tully-Pointon takes a look back at this year's big screen wonders and blunders. The best... Little Miss Sunshine Evermore proof that good things come in small packages, or in this case, small budgets...

Smith's catchy rap opened each episode of his hit `90s sitcom, in which he starred as a street-smart teen from Philly who moves in with wealthy relatives. A whole generation knows it by heart that, and the "Saved by the Bell" song...

Britney Spears appeared to have spiralled out of control before her entry to rehab. The Toxic singer reportedly fell for rocker Jason at her Alcoholic Anonymous meetings, and Jason has revealed they are "growing close"...