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For proof of dance's mainstream popularity on the Internet, look no further than YouTube. That site's most-viewed video, an absurdly silly stand-up comedy routine called "Evolution of Dance" (youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg), still...

If you're looking for a two-word motto for hip-hop in 2007, you could do worse than: "Keep grinding." That's what Bun B, one-half of hip-hop duo UGK, said in an...

Brooke Desnoes was 10 or 11 when her parents sought to enroll her in the Alabama Ballet School. "Can you frog?" asked Sonia Arova, the star ballerina turned teacher. What...

Sometimes when Asma Haidara, a 12-year-old Somali immigrant, wants to shop at Target or ride the Minneapolis light-rail system, she puts her Girl Scout sash over her everyday clothes, which...

The political mood darkened again in Kenya on Tuesday, with opposition leaders cooling to the idea of negotiations with the government after President Mwai Kibaki unilaterally made major Cabinet appointments,...

Knowing how to roast a chicken is unquestionably a valuable skill, and so is roasting vegetables. So why not combine them? The resulting dish is a crisp, nicely browned bird...

Sia SOME PEOPLE HAVE REAL PROBLEMS RATING: 2 1/2 EXCLAMATION POINTS Sia's songs can be extroverted, even feisty, such as "The Girl You Lost to Cocaine," a soul stomp in...

Rivers Cuomo ALONE: THE HOME RECORDINGS OF RIVERS CUOMO RATING: 3 EXCLAMATION POINTS The title of "Alone: The Home Recordings" is both an excuse and a boast from Weezer's main...

Schubert died at 31. How much music did his early death deprive us of? Not a lot. Rossini died at 76, but give or take a few interesting items at...

"The Awakening," J. Seward Johnson Jr.'s 15-foot-high sculpture of a giant struggling to emerge from the earth, is soon to leave a site near the National Mall that millions of...