Knight-Ridder Tribune

November seems like only yesterday when the Connecticut and Tennessee women's basketball teams had encountered difficult times, and most everyone was enthralled with the idea that parity finally had arrived...

Who's in it: Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall, Hayden Panettiere What it's about: A high school physics whiz named Casey (Trachtenberg) becomes a skating sensation when she teases out...

More people are having a ball at work. They're sitting on exercise balls instead of regular desk chairs, according to the American Council on Exercise. People buy a ball believing...

The battle over Terri Schiavo appeared to be entering its final stages Wednesday as a U.S. appeals court refused twice to order her feeding tube restored, and a Florida judge...

Phil Keoghan fends off a reporter's final futile attempts to probe deeper beneath his bland exterior. "You see, I don't separate the personal and the professional," said the host of...

In the film "Sideways," Paul Giamatti plays Miles, a screenwriter and wannabe novelist wounded by divorce, beaten down by rejection and flat broke. In other words, Rex Pickett. "My life...

Who's in it: Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall, Hayden Panettiere What it's about: A high school physics whiz named Casey (Trachtenberg) becomes a skating sensation when she teases out...

Last year, it was Franz Ferdinand. In previous years, it was the Darkness and the Polyphonic Spree. These are just some of the acts that earned enough music-biz buzz at...

When devious teenager Patty Pryor won a big college scholarship in an essay contest in last week's episode of NBC's "American Dreams," viewers could be forgiven for a certain amount...

Irish audiences have been doing it for years. And now, American fans have caught on--singing full throttle to songs by indefatigable Irish indie rockers The Frames. Orbiting on the fringes...