DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Wade,” and I went into a convenience store near our home that we frequent regularly. A new employee — a pretty, much younger girl — stared at Wade with an expression of recognition and surprise [...]

By Katie Kindelan British makeup artist Lisa Eldridge calls celebs like Cameron Diaz and Katy Perry her clients and has styled fashion shows and magazine covers for 20 years. But the story of how she became a global star [...]

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Tate art collection says it has removed more than 30 prints by the artist Graham Ovenden from its online collection following his conviction for child sex offenses. The 70-year-old artist was found guilty Tuesday [...]

Of all of the creepy and crawly things that you can think of, tarantulas probably are near the top of the list when it comes to scariness. Well, get ready to add another terrifying arachnid to your list, because a new type of tarantula has been [...]

MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent Russian graffiti artist who hid his identity under the alias Pasha P183 and has been compared to Britain’s Banksy for his bold style and anonymity has died. He was 29. The Teatralnoye Delo theatrical production [...]

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former Major League Baseball catcher Mike Piazza will be taking center stage with the Miami City Ballet. The Miami Beach-based dance company has tapped Piazza to play the role of a gangster in the May 3 production [...]

PARIS (AP) — France’s Louvre museum is getting a new director — the man who is leading the restoration of its most famous Greek sculpture and has his hands in some of the institutions latest efforts to expand its reach. Jean-Luc Martinez, [...]

By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – San Francisco Symphony musicians who went on strike nearly three weeks ago, forcing the cancellation of an East Coast tour, have reached a tentative labor deal with management of [...]

As per usual, Google put out various, elaborate April Fools Day jokes, which only reminded everyone how much time and money the tech company has to spend on projects that aren’t core products like, ahem, Google Reader. For those too busy [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The sound of silence from the San Francisco Symphony appeared to be coming to an end as a tentative agreement was reached Sunday to end a 2½-week strike. The symphony announced in a statement that its negotiators and [...]

By Steve Keating ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Tiger Woods’s renewed success has him back on top of the world rankings but questions thrown at him after Monday’s triumph at Bay Hill were about something he has not done for a [...]

Mar 26 (Reuters) – Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $3,787,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $2,859,920 3. Matt Kuchar $2,154,500 4. Steve Stricker $1,820,000 5. Phil Mickelson $1,650,260 6. [...]

Mar 26 (Reuters) – Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $3,787,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $2,859,920 3. Matt Kuchar $2,154,500 4. Steve Stricker $1,820,000 5. Phil Mickelson $1,650,260 6. [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — A tenor from New Orleans has won the prestigious Beverly Sills Award that signals a star in the works. Bryan Hymel (EE’-mehl) accepted the $50,000 prize Monday at the Metropolitan Opera. The 33-year-old Hymel made his [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not the kind of performance that will win her another Academy Award, but Tilda Swinton certainly has them buzzing at the Museum of Modern Art. But keep it down, please. She’s trying to sleep. The “Moonrise [...]

By Rosalyn Oshmyansky It’s nap time for Tilda Swinton. The Academy Award-winning actress and recent Davide Bowie music video star is performing art on an unexpected display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The display is called [...]

‘Spring Breakers’ Sex, Drugs in New Film

NEW YORK (AP) — Before visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art can stroll past the Picassos, Renoirs, Rembrandts and other priceless works, they must first deal with the ticket line, the posted $25 adult admission and the meaning of the [...]

BOSTON (AP) — Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis, whose New York Times column championed liberal causes for three decades, died Monday. He was 85. Lewis worked for 32 years as a columnist for the Times, taking up causes such as free speech, [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Before visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art can stroll past the Picassos, Renoirs, Rembrandts and other priceless works, they must first deal with the ticket line, the posted $25 adult admission and the meaning of the [...]

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. From the publication of his first novel, “Things Fall Apart”, over 50 years [...]

By Steve Keating ORLANDO, Florida, March 20 (Reuters) – Rory McIlroy’s decision to skip the Arnold Palmer Invitational surprised the tournament host, who expressed his disappointment on Wednesday that the world number one was not [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years spanning the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 99. Stevens died Wednesday night at her Manhattan home, said her son, Nicolas [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Of all the unlikely venues for an opera, you’d have to go some to top The Box, a nightclub in a seedy Lower East Side neighborhood where black tie is optional, cameras are prohibited and dancers perform seminude every [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public 7 days a week starting July 1. The museum is now closed on Mondays, except on holidays that fall on a Monday. Also on July 1, the museum’s opening [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Local officials aiming to transform Rio de Janeiro from a cultural backwater into an art hotspot are bolstering their campaign with this week’s opening of a museum built around one of the world’s premier collections [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – A post mortem found “no obvious natural causes” for the death of British artist David Hockney‘s assistant, who died after falling ill at the painter’s home, police said on Wednesday. [...]

LONDON (AP) — When did the modern era begin? With the Renaissance? With Elvis Presley? For a generation of music-loving Britons, it started on July 6, 1972, when David Bowie performed the song “Starman” on the TV show “Top [...]

BERLIN (AP) — Michael Rhodes, an American opera singer and highly sought-after vocal coach who trained stars including German tenor Jonas Kaufmann, has died at the age of 89. Anne Foegen-Rhodes said her husband died Sunday in the west German [...]

By Tony Jimenez LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) – Former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri must take a lot of credit for Frank Lampard reaching the 200-goal milestone for the club, according to former Stamford Bridge great John Hollins. Italian [...]