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If you squinted closely at your TV Saturday night, you could almost see the ghost of the old Miss America pageant struggling to get out of the 'American Idol' knockoff its new owners have stuffed it into.

Front Page: 'Mad Men,' '30 Rock' take TV honors -- 'Slumdog Millionaire' nabbed the PGA's highest honor Saturday night as the Mumbai-set drama continued to rack up the awards season accolades.

A R Rahman winning the Golden Globe for his music for Slumdog Millionaire is probably the most significant thing to have happened to the music industry in India in a long time. Not that there haven?t been any commercial or even creative successes ...

Geeta Basra has given just two films to Bollywood, ('Dil Diya Hai' and 'The Train), yet she has managed to get hold of a considerable fan following and now she has something new for her admirers. This time Geeta will be shaking her stuff not for some flick but for a music video.Here is what [...]

Three hot girls, four guys, and one mega-swanky yacht collide for a serious night of drugs and sexual deviancy. One debaucherous act goes too far though, turning this teen joy ride into a weekend of bloody bedlam.

Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden will star in GOD OF CARNAGE, the new play by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by Matthew Warchus, opening on Broadway at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45 Street) on Sunday March 22. Previews will begin on February 28. Tickets which had been available for American Express cardholders only in a pre-sale special are now available to the general public, order by clicking here. The Jacobs Box Office will be open for business starting February 9th, 2009. GOD OF CARNAGE will be produced by Robert Fox, David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, Stuart Thompson, Scott Rudin, and The Shubert Organization. The play comes to Broadway after a sold-out run in London's West End in 2008.The London critics raved about GOD OF CARNAGE: The Times called it 'tense, edgy and funny' and praised Reza's 'incisive observation, acerbic wit and shrewd humor.' The Daily Telegraph called it 'a crackling night' and The Daily Mail call

The 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa presents a special red carpet gala event in April featuring Santa Rose native Jim Jarrett performing the one-man play Vincent, by Leonard Nimoy. Tickets are now on sale for Starry, Starry, Night, set for Saturday, April 4. The elegant affair will feature gourmet food, specialty wines, a silent auction and a specially arranged art exhibit. Festivities are followed by Jarrett's critically acclaimed solo production presented in the G.K. Hardt Theatre. Proceeds benefit the 6th Street Playhouse educational programs and productions. Presented at the 6th Street Playhouse, located in historic Railroad Square, the gala will feature locally acclaimed artists and their works in a special setting reminiscent of a French artists' studio during the Impressionist period with original art works inspired by Van Gogh.

You just got schooled in hard bop, and the teacher is saxophonist Benny Golson.

The first part of the 18-track compilation features Mariah Carey's earliest singles, including her first hit, 'Vision of Love.'

On Jan. 25, the American Symphony Orchestra will give the U.S. premieres of composers from the former East Germany. It's music most Americans have never heard. Conductor Leon Botstein says that the music of Eisler, Fessay and Matthus often experiments within the tradition of Bach and Mozart.