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When he isn't on tour, or in the recording studio making sublimely weird music, Wayne Coyne, the singer, guitarist and guiding force of the Flaming Lips, often can be found...

More than a million homes have been lost to foreclosure in the last two years. And according to data from Mortgage Bankers Association, banks are in the process of foreclosing...

A deadly U.S. military raid on a house near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan became a new source of tension Thursday, with the Americans calling it a successful counterterrorism strike and...

The banjo is rising. And you really shouldn't be surprised. The banjo has never been content with the backwoods stereotypes placed upon it, and now the instrument has re-emerged as...

In what would be the first active deployment of its warships beyond the Pacific, China appears ready to send naval vessels to help in the fight against hijackers in the...

The scattered empty seats these days at some of Broadway's best-reviewed plays, including "August: Osage County," "Boeing-Boeing" and "Equus," are part of an overall nationwide decline in audiences for non-musical...

Lawrence Fane, a sculptor known for using steel, bronze, concrete, wood and other materials to create Expressionistic forms, died Nov. 28 in New York. He was 75. The cause was...

George Brecht, a core member of Fluxus, the loosely affiliated international group of playful conceptual artists that emerged in the early 1960s, died Dec. 5 in Cologne, Germany. He was...

No one paid Patrick Stump much mind during an evening shopping excursion at Academy Records in New York's East Village early last month. Flipping through racks of albums, he worked...

Robert Chandler, a former CBS executive who played a crucial role in creating the highly rated and critically acclaimed weekly newsmagazine "60 Minutes," died Thursday at his home in Pittsfield,...