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The back-to-school season got off to a strong start as discounts and high temperatures in July drove shoppers to air-conditioned malls. But merchants worry that momentum won't continue through the remainder of the second-biggest shopping period of the year as the weather gets cold and the deals dry up.
El Bulli, one of the world's most acclaimed and award-winning eateries, served its last supper Saturday.
Harry Belafonte says Hollywood has yet to explore the breadth of black experience and that the industry will "never ever yield to the needs of people of color."
The late fashion designer Alexander McQueen left most of his considerable fortune to charities but also left money to his siblings, household staff and for the upkeep of his dogs, according to documents made public Tuesday.
A few evenings every month, some of Israel's wealthiest and most powerful people can be found in a living room in this seaside city, waiting to have a few minutes with a rabbi they see as an advisor, guru or miracle worker.
Monaco's Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene promised each other love and fidelity in an extravagant religious wedding Saturday attended by international celebrities and royalty, bringing new allure to the tiny principality known for its luxurious casinos and as stomping ground for the rich and famous.
The house that John Galliano built is now that of Bill Gaytten.
Though the flamboyant former Dior designer John Galliano was the one on the stand, it was the multi-billion-dollar luxury industry that seemed to be on trial Wednesday in Paris as the disgraced designer blamed the sector's skyrocketing pressures for his unraveling.
Christina Osborne has a system for winning at Royal Ascot, the five-day horse racing event that is one of the highlights of England's glittering if brief summer social season.
Prince Philip — the colorful and outspoken husband of Queen Elizabeth II — attended a special church service and reception to celebrate his 90th birthday Sunday.
With three triple-star Michelin restaurants and more than 20 other temples of haute gastronomy scattered around the globe, celebrity chef Alain Ducasse is used to catering to the rich and famous.
While many continue to be critical about the worth of an American college degree, some prominent British scholars plan to create their own university based on the U.S. liberal arts college model.
Most everyone wants a pied a terre in London, a fine city that showcases the arts and music and at times fine food. But only a select few can get a small renovated apartment in Kensington Palace to call home when they are in town.
Paul McCartney and his girlfriend Nancy Shevell are engaged, his publicist said Friday, nearly four years after they were first spotted together.
Three white plainclothes Pittsburgh police officers who had been suspended with pay for more than 15 months will be reinstated now that a city investigation has failed to "prove or disprove" allegations that they wrongly beat a black teen.
A who's who of Hollywood and fashion elite hit the red carpet to celebrate the annual Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala Benefit.
Seconds after Kate Middleton emerged from her car outside Westminster Abbey in a ball gown with lace sleeves, designers around the U.S., glued to their TV sets, were sketching her look, setting in motion a mad rush for mass-produced versions that are expected to be in stores as early as late June.
It was a Who's Who of royalty, power and fame: David and Victoria Beckham, Elton John, royalty from across the world, prime ministers from across the realm and the cream of British nobility were among the nearly 2,000 guests inside Westminster Abbey for Friday's royal wedding.
Poor Kate Middleton. She's not just marrying a future king. She's marrying all of us.
Shunning an immediate overseas honeymoon and opting instead for a quiet weekend at a secret British location, Prince William and Kate Middleton made it clear Saturday they want to carve out some space for themselves.
Bruce Norris' play "Clybourne Park," which examines race relations and the effects of modern gentrification, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for drama on Monday.
If you're airline passenger — the one who doesn't shut off your electronic device, who gets up to use the lavatory when the seatbelt sign is on, or the one who incessantly complains about food, fees or anything else you can think of — be glad you're not flying Hong Kong Airlines.
Jennifer Egan's inventive novel about the passage of time, "A Visit from the Goon Squad," won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, honored for its "big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed."
The celebrated silk-and-lace bridal gown worn by Queen Victoria offers some clues about what Kate Middleton will wear when she walks down the aisle on April 29, even if much has changed since Victoria's low-key wedding in 1840.
France has the beret, while America has the humble baseball cap.
I'm actually quite clueless as to whether this little bird on top of the feeder is the kid?!
Some random photos from the last six days. A flower in my back yard, Orson the cat, and a Me109 and Fw190 from the Flying Heritage Collection in Everett. This is said to be the first time since 1945 that the two planes have flown together.
Back by popular demand the geckos of Jewel's Hawaii Lanai! Foto Friday is a feature of Newsvine Photography
Flowers are wilting daily; outside, We water, fertilize & have tested the soil. Was it due to the hot dome? Fires.
Chow Chows are predisposed to a condition called Entropia; where the eyelid rolls in and the lashes brush against the eyeball. Biscuit though is the first Chow I've had that actually needed surgery for it.
A showdown over traditional throat singing divides China and Mongolia - The Washington PostFor nearly two decades, Odsuren Baatar, a master of Mongolian throat singing, has been visiting China to teach his craft — making the human voice soar, quiver and drone, its pitches in eerie unison like a bagpipe... ...China had quietly submitted to the United Nations Educa …
Art show banned over Jesus penis poster An art show featuring a poster of Jesus Christ with a wooden penis glued to his face was closed after Philippines president Benigno Aquino intervened amid threats, vandalism and claims of blasphemy.
Standing still, bracing for the swell of radiating waves The clouds do not hear me They do not deliver the water my body craves My limbs carve slowly and deeply into the splitting soil While my skin and leaves Crackle and boil I watch her as she tries to give me a taste of water …
Muse I know that I have been diffident or Headstrong and insistent in the worst of times Intolerant of change which is the currency of life But I have been faithful to you In the time you have allowed me near I can recall every evening of laughter and moon The crushing blow of un …
Jane White, Actress and Singer Who Rebelled Against Racial Straitjacketing, Dies at 88 Jane White, an actress who made her reputation in the 1960s and ’70s in Shakespearean and classical Greek drama in New York but who felt hampered by the racial attitudes of casting directors toward light-skinned black performers like herself, died on July 24 at her home …
Philip Levine Is to Be U.S. Poet Laureate - NYTimes.comThe Library of Congress will announce on Wednesday that Philip Levine, best known for his big-hearted, Whitmanesque poems about working-class Detroit, is to be the next poet laureate, succeeding W. S.
Jerusalem's Public ArtWhen you think of Jerusalem, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Holiness? Conflict? The nexus of multiple cultures, religions, and peoples? While these might be the most common answers, don’t be fooled; even one of the most antiquated cities in the world c …
Life of the Semicolon Heading for a Full StopFor centuries, the semicolon has carved out a tenuous - but precious - place for itself between the comma and the colon. But now - under the various pressures of texting, email, journalese, 'plain English' and PowerPoint - the career of the semicolon appears rapidly to be approa …
White Men Can't Write... or Rewrite, ratherWho has the right to rewrite history? We're getting into Orwell's territory here. Or maybe Bradbury's. Do we sanitize all of our novels until we have nothing left to read at all? Now I'm not necessarily comparing Auburn University professor Alan Gribben t …
Woody Guthrie. Bob Dylan. What could be better? Really. Dylan's live version is simple, compelling, and sung with a quiet conviction. Just the message I need these days. It's OUR land. All of us.
I like what Vlad's dog and Malamute Man and Holly Kl are doing with their "paintings." So ... I want to join in as well. My approach is to take a photo to the "edge" and try to evoke the question ...
Edgar Allan Poe House in Baltimore Faces Closing - NYTimes.comBALTIMORE — Even now, 162 years after his death here, Edgar Allan Poe still seems to be suffering from the kind of bad luck that haunted his life. For the second year in a row city leaders have chosen not to subsidize a museum in the tiny house where the impoveri …
Nicholson Baker's Dirty Mind: The Mad Scientist of Smut Nicholson Baker does not look like a dirty-book writer. His color is good. His gaze is direct, with none of the sidelong furtiveness of the compulsive masturbator.
Missed Connections THERE has always been something erotically charged about elevators.
As requested Vlad, here is your Sunday funnies. Sam loved to go for walks at the park in Newark, DE off of Route 7. We tortured this dog (as depicted) and he always knew when we were going and just went nuts. It was his park (so he thought). I apol …
The man who stole the Mona LisaA hundred years ago, on 21 August 1911, an Italian painter and decorator slipped from the cupboard in the Louvre where he had been hiding all night, stepped up to the Mona Lisa, freed her from her frame and left the building apparently unseen.
AlgebraThis is a poem focused on ascertaining the line of a graph in slope intercept form from two sets of coordinates. Hope you Enjoy.
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