Knight-Ridder Tribune

John Waters loves Christmas--loves it. This is, after all, a guy who once wrote: "If you don't have yourself a merry little Christmas, you might as well kill yourself." In...

Vanessa Carlton "Harmonium" The Wayans Brothers used Carlton as a musical punchline in "White Girls," mocking her 2002 hit "A Thousand Miles" as the antithesis of soul. There's fodder for...

It's a natural question, after you push "play" and start listening to Big & Rich's trippy debut, "Horse of a Different Color." Yeah, there's banjo in the mix. Sure, there's...

Some recent heist films worth seeing: "The Score" (2001) The loot: A 17th Century French scepter The scheme: Marlon Brando is Max, the crime boss who pairs Nick Wells (Robert...

Baby, it's cold outside. Ah, but wrap your hands around a mug of something warm, and the chill just melts away. Whether you're cuddling on the couch or cozying up...

It wasn't so long ago that Apple Computer encouraged us all to "Rip. Mix. Burn." Now the Beastie Boys, David Byrne and other artists have issued "The Wired CD," a...

A year after then-candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger was accused of sexually harassing women, Maria Shriver reveals it was a "flat-out tough, painful" period in which she protected their four children by...

Hockey players and long snappers, they get all the ladies. Russian hockey star Sergei Federov was already primed for the dating hall of fame when he snagged tennis star Anna...

The pile of holiday party invitations is staring back at you. Good news: You're really popular. Bad news: You've actually got to show up at a couple of these things....

It stares us in the face, this last untamed frontier of beauty: The ubiquitous brow. We obsess over wrinkles, freak out about fat. Our eyebrows, meanwhile, fall victim to our...