A response to Mary McNamara's Skin's review. ...

As people gather into the Main Galley of the Butler Art Center, President Paul Scanlon warmly welcomes both regular patrons and new visitors alike. The entrance display consists of authentic 40's era clothing and photos and blacked out windo...

Ensemble Espa and ntilde;ol is a Spanish dance company that was founded by Dame Libby Komaiko in 1976. Classes are held at the Ensemble Espa and ntilde;ol Center for Spanish D...

As the air becomes a cold crisp breeze, whispering through the colored hills of yellow, red, and orange, autumn brings with it the season of festivals. ...

Let's face it; the Droid versus iPhone debate is one of the greatest battles of our time. Sure, we have rivalries like the Steelers versus the Patriots, Microsoft versus Apple, BP versus all aquatic life...but at the end of the day, Motorola versus App...

Did you ever wonder where your hair color came from, or maybe where you get a certain physical trait? NBC's new series 'Who Do You Think You Are?' works with genealogy professionals and Ancestry.com, in hopes of discovering different people's ancestral ro...

Among the elaborate seals, bronze statues and marble hallways that adorn federal Washington, there is another symbol of the machinery of government that is often overlooked: the lowly ballpoint pen....

Thursday, April 15, is tax day. It's the due date for your parents to send the national government paperwork detailing how much income tax they owe. Throughout the year, your parents pay an estimated tax to the government, normally taken out of their payc...

Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle was the Star Wars of its day, and it continues to be a cult object in the opera world. Modern technology has upped the ante for productions of Ring. The four-opera series is practically begging for the full George Lu...

Last March, the Montgomery College, Md., men's team handily beat four other schools to win the first American College Cricket championship. There was only one problem: The school had no idea it had a cricket team....

The Pacific wastes no time shipping out to the Solomon Islands in August 1942, where we are made to understand that war is indeed hell, but it is also a lot of hunh? In terms of comprehension, it looks at first to be a death march, 10 unrelenting episodes...

Jauvon Gilliam, for seven years a timpanist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, really, really wanted to win the vacant timpani position with the National Symphony Orchestra when the opening was announced last year. So he rented a minivan, packed up his...

You know you're watching an intense war film when being machine-gunned is an act of mercy. That's the predicament for many Japanese soldiers in The Pacific, a 10-part World War II miniseries that begins Sunday on HBO at 9 p.m. Eastern time....

Dana Moore sells rain. He sells a lot of it, for about a buck per reusable storm. I don't know why people love buying rainstorms, he said, watching his product drizzle last week, but they do seem to like them a lot. -- Selling virtual goods for real money...

You could say daylight saving was created for you! Almost 50 years ago, Congress said that one benefit of daylight saving is more daylight outdoor playtime for the children. Come this Sunday, you'll have enough daylight (we hope!) to finish your homework ...

So this guy walks into a bar. He looks around, recognizes the bartender and - and whips out a cellphone, launches an app and taps a button labeled Check-in here. Then he gets a beer. That is a routine occurrence for people using and - make that,...

On Twitter the other day, I stumbled over a clever piece of art called Why You Should Buy Art! And I bought it. It was a print consisting of what looked like a sheet of lined paper torn from a spiral notebook on which the artist had handwritten 26 reasons...

There's a pesky ghost in a ruffled rainbow shirt and he just won't leave us alone. His name is Jimi Hendrix and since his death nearly 40 years ago, he's gone from rock paragon to boomer nostalgia mascot to video game avatar and - and he's sounded pretty gre...

A God gap impedes U.S. foreign policy. That's the conclusion of an independent two-year study by the well-connected Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The study, released Tuesday, recommends that President Barack Obama and his National Security Council ma...

With the departure of Desiree Rogers as White House social secretary comes further proof of President Obama's favorite maxim these days: Change is difficult....