New York -- Barbra Streisand, Sarah Ferguson and Pele all joined the scrum at Book Expo America in Manhattan this week, triggering paparazzi and the hopes of booksellers for a better year in 2010. </p> <p> The annual industry trade fair warmed to encouraging figures that book sales were up 8 percent over last year in the first quarter --... Full story »
Angileece Williams, 15, and a sophomore at St. Martin de Porres High School in Cleveland, is the Cleveland winner in an essay contest sponsored by Scenarios USA, a New York-based nonprofit organization that uses writing and filmmaking to get students to think about important issues. A Hollywood director was in Cleveland recently to make a movie based on her contest-winning essay, "Life's Poison." Full story »
Countering stereotypes of Bruckner's work as heavy, the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Most are treating the original version of his Symphony No. 8 this week to a performance characterized as much by roughness and turmoil as serenity. Full story »
With stiff competition from East Fourth Street restaurants just across Euclid Avenue, 1890 at the Arcade in the Hyatt Regency Cleveland is a guest amenity -- including some delicious dishes in the mix. Full story »
On the heels of the warmest April ever, May is well above normal -- and that shouldn't change over the weekend, according to meteorologists at the National Weather Service. Full story »
The long Memorial Day holiday is always one of the busiest times of the year, a time to remember and reflect, have fun with family and friends and kick off the summer. It begins today with a raft of events. Full story »
Actor Gary Coleman was said to be in critical condition at a Utah hospital Thursday after undergoing emergency surgery for a head injury. Plus, items on Mariah Carey, Megan Fox, "Spider-Man" and more in Friday's The Morning After. Full story »
An estimated 400 youngsters take lessons at the Cleveland Institute of Music or at one of its four branches every week. A healthy number of these pianists won local and national competitions and awards during the past year. Full story »
"Casino Jack and the United States of Money" is the new documentary from Alex Gibney, and like all his films -- particularly the Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side" and Eugene Jarecki's "The Trials of Henry Kissinger," which Gibney wrote -- it's built on solid reporting. Full story »
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