Knight-Ridder Tribune

Malcolm John Rebennack-better known as Dr. John-went home last year. Back to colorful New Orleans, Cajun cooking and mysterious voodoo customs. He documented his trip with music, a blues-funk-jazz hybrid...

Suzy Amis garners reviews other actresses can only dream of. In 1986, when she made her stage debut as a teenage temptress in "Fresh Horses," cranky New York magazine critic...

A new study and more conservative federal guidelines may ease concern over the safety of chorionic villus sampling, the earliest prenatal test to detect fetal birth defects. After the test...

A balding man needed to know if a hair transplant would reduce his risk of heart trouble. A vasectomy patient demanded his doctor reverse the procedure, hoping it would eliminate...

For those who want a bird that is truly a pet, the cockatiel is a splendid choice. This member of the parrot family resembles the cockatoo but is an independent,...

Scenes from the air: Mys-Kinzhalny prison camp is just a clump of wooden buildings in the snow-covered pines. Only the guard tower-still standing 40 years after the camp was abandoned-betrays...

A well-stocked pantry and freezer help meal preparation proceed more smoothly. Here is a recipe that is especially easy because it can be made four or five days ahead of...

Many African-American women in the post-Anita Hill generation have decided to speak for themselves. No longer, says Fasaha M. Traylor, do they want others to presume to know what they...

Short and scrawny, a kid who thought stickball was the greatest sport in the world, Riddick Bowe entered a gym for the first time on Jan. 17, 1981. On the...

When Lindsay Van Vynckt's Catholic parish invited girls to become altar servers a year ago, she signed up immediately. Over the last year the 10-year-old girl has practically become a...