Carla Bruni, an Italian-born supermodel turned singer, has been making headlines around the world for her relationship with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, which started late last year. Though her 2002 album of folky pop songs made her a music star in France, Ms. Bruni is better known in musical circles in the U.S. for her […]

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Norah Jones. Dark ‘n’ moody singer of dark ‘n’ moody, jazz-ish songs. Before she was 26, had sold a bazillion copies - 30 million, to be precise - of her albums Come Away With Me and Feels Like Home, and won a mantelpiece-filling eight Grammys. Raised in Texas, the long-lost daughter of celebrated Indian musician […]

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So farewell Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack. You may have managed to get some good famous faces to muck around with the housemates, but unfortunately not too many people noticed in the outside world - today’s papers appear to have ignored last night’s final.
The show was watched by just 644,000 on E4, a big fall from […]

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Federal prosecutors contend that a celebrity pathologist used public resources while working as Allegheny County medical examiner and coroner to further his multimillion-dollar private practice.
Cyril Wecht has denied wrongdoing, and his attorneys have alleged the charges against Wecht are politically motivated. The two sides were expected to make their opening arguments in […]

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EL DORADO, Kansas (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama, who is famous as the most viable black presidential candidate in U.S. history, said on Tuesday rival Hillary Clinton’s celebrity gave her an advantage in the crucial, multi-state nominating contests next week.
Obama campaigned in Kansas in the town where his maternal grandfather was born, reaching out to […]

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This gospel comes with laughs
Posted By Swartz, John
Posted 1 hour ago
Ha! That’s about all that needs saying about “The Gospel According to Life.”

However, I get paid to write.

The revue performed by the Garage Door Players at the Ossawippi is pretty funny stuff, though some of the hardest laughing I did was at my own expense.

Rob […]

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LEFT: ‘The Distance Between Us’ by Darby. RIGHT: Portrait of Khary Darby.
Khary Darby is an artist living and working in Stony Hill. Here, he discusses his work with Jonathan Greenland.
That painting is a favourite of mine: It was shown in an Annual National Exhibition, and subsequently acquired by the National Gallery - which was quite […]

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It feels unseemly to criticize Ringo Starr, whose new album, “Liverpool 8″ (Capitol), was released earlier this month. An amiable presence, he readily shows his vulnerability, a rare trait in an artist who’s been a celebrity for almost 45 years. As recently as 2006, during the recording of the “Love” remix album, he spoke of […]

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IT LOOKED like a rare chance to rub shoulders with showbizglitterati, an invitation to a famous singer’s birthday in centralJakarta.
Dewi Persik sings in the Arab-influenced dangdut-style, witheye-popping gyrations making the most of her pneumatic figure. Sheturned 22 last month and, courtesy of a friend who worked with her,I was invited to celebrate at the local […]

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As a teenager, I was introduced to the movement of neo-soul, and one of the many new faces in that movement was Jill Scott. This Philly girl’s face and voice blasted into the neo-soul scene in July of 2000 with her debut album “Who is Jill Scott: Words and Sounds Vol. 1″ Her velvety and […]

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