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It's something brand-new at Ross Valley Players. The Ross Valley Players' opens up its Barn Theatre to five solo performers for a weeklong series of solo performance pieces. It's a chance to bring audiences work that's fresh, new and intriguing. The Ross Valley Players is proud to present five solo acts, based on true life experiences and celebrated personalities that are provocative, emotional and funny.

ET is on the set of "CSI: Miami," where we talk to the stars of the show about the return of Khandi Alexander and give you a look into Monday night's episode! "What a great gift to us," David Caruso says of Khandi's return to the show. In the upcoming episode, Dr. Alexx Woods (Khandi) returns when a murderer endangers the lives of Calleigh (Emily Procter) and Ryan (Jonathan Togo).

Starting pointe work marks a milestone in a dancer's life. How do you know when you're ready for pointe shoes?

The producers behind "American Idol" and the best-selling "Now That's What I Call Music!" albums say they will work together on a television series.

Simple and Effective ways to get around the Work at Home Loneliness and become more productive as a result.Content Producer: KimPublished: Jan 31, 2009

I had my doubts about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button before I made it to the cinema. F Scott Fitzgerald's 1921 story on which the film is loosely based is a trite, slight collision of feckless storytelling and careless writing. Fitzgerald, a writer properly remembered for the fineness of his prose, seems not to have made it all the way into work on the day he wrote this little yarn. Rather, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' seems to have come from his accounting department, the part of his brain that willfully generated stories to sell to magazines for the money he perpetually lacked. Reading 'The Curious Case' now is to watch a writer of famously unhurried prose in a great rush. Like a man scattering birdseed in a park, Fitzgerald distributes adverbs with mindless strokes. In the story's brief first section alone, his characters are stilted cutouts whom their author attempts to enliven with ceaseless qualification. They cry 'hysterically' and 'hoarsely', look 'placidly' and '

Gender inequality found in the real world breathes fire into a dragon-fiction series. 'Eon: Dragoneye Reborn,' the first half of Australian Alison Goodman's planned two-volume, Asian-influenced dragon-based series, is wonderful, with its whirlwind of gender exploration, imperial ambition, dragon lore and dissection of nature versus nurture. While there are many set pieces familiar from previous fantasy series, Goodman has freshened up creaking plot devices to produce a slow-building work that over and over again challenges reader expectations.