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BRITE IDEAS & GAY MEN'S CHORUS OF LOS ANGELES Proudly Presents 'And The Award Goes To!'at the Alex Theatre with Valarie Pettiford, Wilson Cruz & Hostess, Miss Coco Peru

While superheroes, sci-fi, and big Hollywood movies and TV shows were the bigger draw at new york Comic-Con 2009 at Manhattan's Jacob K. Javits Center, I was there for the...

Front Page: Rape victim's tale heads to bigscreen -- Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani rape victim who waged a legal battle against her attackers and the justice system that sanctioned the crime, will be the subject of a feature film to be produced by Jay Roach and Jennifer Perini.

THE Wiggles and a Kiwi tourism business are locked in a battle for the big red boat.

Patrick Swayze has written a letter to Congress asking for help in his battle with pancreatic cancer -- along with millions of other Americans -- in Sunday's Washington Post. "Our individual battles should also be national ones," writes the former 'Dirty Dancing' star, who currently headlines A&E's "The Beast." "With Congress about to decide how much money to include for medical research as part of the economic stimulus package, the time has come to take my personal fight to a larger stage. My message to our senators and representatives is simple: Vote for the maximum funding to let the National Institutes of Health fight cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. It's not only good for our nation's health; it's also good for our economic well-being. "When I was growing up in Texas, my family had a simple response for challenges like this: 'Stop talking about it, and do something about it,'" he continues. "That's how I feel about finding mo

La Jolla Playhouse extends its warmest welcome to Michael Benjamin Washington, who appeared in Playhouse productions of The Wiz and Memphis.In his one-man show, Washington portrays five different characters as they explore the new America with a newly-elected president. An invite-only reading of Letters to Barack: A New American Play is taking place on Monday, February 9, 2009 at 7:30 pm in the Seuss 1 rehearsal room at La Jolla Playhouse.

Authorities said a man, 66, was arrested after calling 911 on Saturday to complain that a fast food restaurant ran out of lemonade. After a drive-through employee failed to respond to the man's threat of contacting the police, the irate diner called 911, a...

Malignant Tumour by Christopher Bazalgette The manner of your going, from that moment, pressed your life within a memory-moulded broad black frame:a casual roadside phone box; an empty morning motorway;an undertaker's trolley lurking flatly on the carpet; the cool metallic smile of its gleam. The manner of your living framed your days with obligation: a woman's calling to support her man; your faintly puzzled welcome as the years turned that about; anniversaries and seasons plotted out by weekly worship in a time that had less room for doubt.And then the love that shaped my growing - countless scenes in which you're showing me the ways that I can look and laugh and see: we are walking, gloved and coated, and our words blow puffs of vapour as you pause beneath an oak tree, touch the buds and let us revel in their tight, secreted dream: a bursting out.The poem has shape: three stanzas, some rhyme, an increasingly regular metre. Its details - the sad and the happy (for example, trol

Music News: R&B singer was slated to perform at Grammys -- The last-minute absences of scheduled performers and nominees Chris Brown and Rihanna prompted some fast reshuffling at Sunday night's Grammy telecast, including a hastily put together ensemble performance by Justin Timberlake, Boyz II Men, Al Green and Keith Urban.

Legendary singer Al Green was a little ... occupied when he got word he'd be filling for Chris Brown at the Grammys Sunday night. 'I was in the shower when the phone rang,' the multi-Grammy winner tells the Daily News. 'They wanted me over there right away and I'm like, 'Hey, man! I'm in the shower!' '