Celebrity Invention: Hedy Lamarr's Secret Communications System

Some celebrities aren't just pretty faces. A few of them are also touched with that Yankee prowess…

Corporate Art in Tight Times

Even the financial crisis hasn't prevented companies as diverse as Bayer and the Dallas Cowboys from building on their collections

Lemper transports crowd to Weimar cabaret

Weill's "Tango Ballade" was remarkable, with Lemper instantly taking the intimate crowd back to, as she noted, another time and place. Throughout the performance, pianist Vana Gierig and bandoneon player Tito Castro accompanied Lemper with uncommon precision, meshing with her as she re-invented sections of songs and riffed about politics between the lyrics. "Yo Soy Maria" raised the energy level ...

Mix Position: Neptune Festival will include free concerts by Marshall Tucker Band, Edgar Winter and Tonic

The Neptune Festival's Boardwalk Weekend Sept. 24-26 will include lots of free concerts along the Virginia Beach oceanfront. The lineup announced today includes Southern rockers Marshall Tucker , blues man Edgar Winter and modern rock act Tonic .

Long Road to Recovery in Black Church

*Five minutes past 9:30 a.m. on a Sunday this month, which is to say five minutes past the time the worship service was supposed to start, Shantell Henley pushed open the front door of her pastor’s house in the Lower Ninth Ward. She entered the living room to find a gospel song playing on the [...]