Connecticut's Gold Coast, a bastion of suburban perfection including Martha Stewart and the Stepford Wives, is about to become home to Jerry Springer's bawdy TV show, which features wife swappers, strippers and skinheads. ...more

March 16, 2009

Timing is everything in comedy. The marks have to be hit just right or the jokes fall flat. Case in point: Jobsite Theatre's production of Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" often misses the beat. It's just not that funny. Jobsite and director Kari Goetz can't take all the blame, though. Martin killed a lot of laughs trying too hard to be a smart guy. ...more

January 11, 2009

It figures that the man who managed to turn the baseball world upside down would still be globetrotting Wednesday when he received the news. ...more

November 13, 2008

On a windswept meadow on a warm Sunday morning blessed, in countless ways, with unlimited visibility, a bright-eyed fellow born not long after the dawning of the previous century played the expectant witness as his hired artist worked at a troublesome knot. ...more

May 21, 2008

Pop quiz: What comes to mind when you think about Yogi Berra, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Toni Morrison? Brilliant minds, inspiring souls, trailblazers - all are likely responses. ...more

May 4, 2008

In the eyes of his mother, Nadine, 5-year-old Matt Lambert is an amazing child. ...more

February 16, 2008

Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but later fell from grace when he became a recluse and fugitive known for his hate-filled rants, died Thursday of kidney failure in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was 64. ...more

January 19, 2008

The presents are wrapped. The kids are wound up. The decorations are everywhere. And you are wiped out. ...more

December 24, 2007

Elvis Presley is still the King. Presley, who earned an estimated $49 million in the past 12 months, has reclaimed the No. 1 spot on Forbes.com's list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities. He last topped the list in 2005. ...more

October 31, 2007

Karina Van Houten of Port Richey takes Charley Reese to task for anti-Jewish, anti-Israel attitude. ...more

October 24, 2007