I managed to tear myself away from Guitar Hero 3 just long enough to produce this week's edition of Spotlight.Well, the truth is I couldn't beat ...

  I've discovered that Slash is a better guitar player than I, but I'm better than Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine.At least, that's how ...

  The adage "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" is so simple it doesn't seem to merit much thought.At least, I didn't think it did. The idea ...

  This week's rumor comes from a question posed in a reader e-mail that asked whether the Oceangraphy and Meteorology Building on the Texas A&M Univ ...

  Like Alan Jackson and Brad Paisley, Josh Turner manages to create traditional-leaning country music without sounding out of date. Also like Jackson an ...

  Logging, dam-building and civil wars threaten the survival of the lovable panda and charismatic gorilla.But not every endangered species munches ...

  NEW YORK -- In the video to the song Nantes, Zach Condon slowly drifts down a staircase while singing in a youthful but sad baritone, "It's been a lon ...

  Levon Helm's new CD sounds like a time capsule.Forget for a minute that Levon Helm was told he would never sing again.Instead, close your ...

  The Georgia rap duo Playaz Circle must realize that a Lil Wayne cameo can be the ultimate gift and curse. The New Orleans rapper lends the plaintive s ...

  The Backstreet Boys haven't changed; we have.We grew up. And while it's true that they're chronologically older than they were a decade ago when ...

  So perhaps American Gangster, Ridley Scott's much-anticipated mobster epic, doesn't have a single original idea in its head, with its unshakable shade ...

  Oklahoma is known for producing alt-country acts such as Cross Canadian Ragweed and Stoney LaRue, but our neighbors to the north have a vibrant rock s ...

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  NEW YORK -- Larry David steals a glance at his wristwatch. It's about 11:50. He needs to check out of the hotel by noon. He pleasantly explains he's o ...