Knight-Ridder Tribune

Serving champagne is an easy way to put some sparkle in any party, but choosing which brand and style of bubbly can be a bit complicated. Does it have to...

Kevin Spacey wasn't Dodd Darin's first choice to play his father, the late singer Bobby Darin, in the new biopic "Beyond the Sea," opening Wednesday. Spacey also wasn't the first...

There's a hint of fall in the airwaves. TV in January will look a lot like September, as the networks debut 11 series and offer the season premieres of six...

End-of-the-year movies are hitting theaters, which means it's time for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to start looking for ball gowns, toting up party invitations...

MF Doom travels the independent hip-hop circuit under many pseudonyms, but can be spotted in a crowd easily because of his menacing metal mask. "MM..Food?" is one of several offerings...

In the old days, cashmere was like good pearls or a sturdy overcoat. It was an expensive investment and still in the wardrobe 20 years later. But today, it's available...

Cashmere fibers are pruned from the under hair of a cashmere goat's belly. According to the Cashmere and Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute Web site, the fibers come mostly from Mongolia,...

Cam'ron Purple Haze Cam'ron is rap's most amiable thug, working in what one might call the Philip Glass style of minimalist repetition. When he came on the scene, it seemed...

Surely by now you are equipped with something sharper than a credit card to scrape off your windshield. But people often drive unprepared in the winter weather. As a result,...

Charities that depend on vehicle donations to support their programs have a two-part message for people considering donating a car to a worthy cause: "please" and "hurry." On Jan. 1,...