When is fashion appropriate?
I lectured my little sister the other day as though I was her mother. She was complaining about not having new shoes for school. She said, "I can't wait to go shopping I'm finna look so fly for school."
I lectured my little sister the other day as though I was her mother. She was complaining about not having new shoes for school. She said, "I can't wait to go shopping I'm finna look so fly for school."
LOS ANGELES --The world's largest recording company said Wednesday it would slash wholesale CD prices in a bid to revive lagging music sales, which have dropped 31 percent industry-wide in the last three years.
Over the course of a year, 10 Drepung Gomang Monks from southern India will cram into a small van together, where they will span about 20 states and several cities. With just enough money for food and essentials, the monks plan to spread their message of peace and compassion around the country, while also hoping to generate funds for their monastery.
LOS ANGELES -- The glory of being a famous cute kid can fade faster than the pages of an old Tiger Beat magazine. What often remains is nostalgia, taunting and the occasional pummeling in a celebrity boxing tournament. Some are bitter. Some have made peace with their pasts and found new successes. Others still seem a little dazed from the long-extinguished limelight.
NEW YORK -- If you see some celebrity interviews on "60 Minutes," the correspondents are probably holding their noses. Morley Safer, Steve Kroft and Lesley Stahl didn't hide their distaste Wednesday for the hottest trend in their line of work.
LONDON -- Experts described as "an absolutely incredible" find a collection of drawings and watercolors by Beatrix Potter, the creator of Peter Rabbit, with an estimated worth of nearly $400,000, Wednesday. The 23 illustrations by Potter came to light when they were valued by Clive Farahar, an expert who appeared on the popular television program, Antiques Roadshow.
TORONTO -- A humdrum lineup at last spring's Cannes Film Festival had movie fans wondering if Hollywood had turned its back on such glitzy events. Not to worry. North America's premiere showcase, the Toronto International Film Festival, opens Thursday with an impressive roster of celebrity-driven movies, foreign films, independent features and documentaries.
LOS ANGELES -- Filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd is a supporter of President Bush, a self-described political conservative and a defender of the war on Iraq. None of that, he contends, disqualified him from making a film about the Bush administration's actions in the days immediately following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
At the age of 12, Otis Murphy began playing the saxophone. At the time, he didn't yet know it would become his life. Now 30, Murphy is a lecturer in saxophone at the IU School of Music, making him one of the youngest faculty members in the history of the institution.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Performing Arts Summer Series, which over the years has invited the Bloomington community out to its parks to experience the talent of its local artists.
I walk up the narrow staircase of the small building on Kirkwood to interview a man I've never met before. Reaching the top of the staircase, I step into a dimly-lit corner room that reminds me of an old Victorian house. Blue curtains hang from the many windows, and cushions lay on the hardwood floor. As I look about the relaxing atmosphere I don't even notice the woman standing behind me. Surprising me with an enthusiastic hello, she introduces me to Marcus Sims.
EL PASO, Texas -- Long before the reality TV craze, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa fought battles with an American camera crew in tow in 1914. He hoped his $25,000 deal with the Mutual Film Co. of New York would get him good publicity in the United States and money to buy arms and supplies. The battlefield footage became the first U.S. newsreel. But like most reality shows, all was not as it seemed. Certain battles and executions were staged for the cameras.
NEW YORK -- From Peter Allen to Jerome Kern, from Boy George to Leonard Bernstein, the sound of music on Broadway this fall will be the most eclectic in years. Five new musicals and two revivals are expected to arrive before 2004, starring such performers as Hugh Jackman, Donna Murphy, Kristin Chenoweth, Joel Grey and, yes, Jackie Mason.
MIAMI -- The chorus of Bacilos' hit song "Mi Primer Millon" makes it clear: "I only want to hit it on the radio, so I can have my first million." The multinational rockers could have their first Latin Grammy when the awards show is broadcast live Wednesday on CBS at 9 p.m. EDT.
An Islamic school in Bloomington is ahead of a former pop star's dream to open religious schools in American Muslim communities. Cat Stevens, who converted to Islam in 1977 and now calls himself Yusuf Islam, urged Muslim communities Sunday to open religious-based schools. Stevens opened one of the first Islamic schools in London in 1983.
At the start of Sara Paretsky's new novel, "Blacklist," private eye V.I. Warshawski recalls her feelings right after terrorists attacked the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. "I'd been numbed and fearful as everyone else in America," Paretsky writes. "I only had half a mind for my work ... You need to be able to concentrate in front of a computer for long hours, and concentration wasn't something I was good at."
An Islamic school in Bloomington is ahead of a former pop star's dream to open religious schools in American Muslim communities. Cat Stevens, who converted to Islam in 1977 and now calls himself Yusuf Islam, urged Muslim communities Sunday to open religious-based schools. Stevens opened one of the first Islamic schools in London in 1983.
LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood's blacklist ended 40 years ago, but its notoriety simply will not die.
VENICE, Italy -- Oscar-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci is worried that his sexually-explicit new film "The Dreamers" might be cut in the United States out of concern it is too graphic for American audiences.
PARIS -- The board of French media group Vivendi Universal will meet today to weigh bids by General Electric Co.'s NBC unit and an investor group led by former Seagram Co. chief Edgar Bronfman Jr. for its hotly contested entertainment assets, officials familiar with the talks said.