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BRANSON, Mo -- The show must go on.  For Branson, that means keeping alive a rich history even without the stars of its past. Stephen Critchfield and Bob Huels have lived and worked in the Music City for more than 20 years and call this era the end of a...

BRANSON, Mo. -- His name and talent have helped draw big crowds to Branson.  Now, Tony Orlando says it's time to retire.  The Welk Theater has announced 2013 will be Orlando's last. "I think that gives Branson a lot credibility that he moved his...

Gorgeous and a tiny bit bubble-headed, full of ancient ruins and marvelous faces and time-lapse landscapes of crazed LA freeways in action, "Samsara" takes its title from a Sanskrit word that translates, roughly, to "the ever-turning wheel of life."...

-------------------- America, You Sexy Bitch A Love Letter to Freedom Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black Da Capo Press: 309 pp., $26 -------------------- The 2008 presidential campaign had many unexpected consequences: It spawned the tea party...

Robert Schimmel, a critically acclaimed comedian who made audiences squirm and then laugh with X-rated explorations of sexuality and vulnerability usually drawn from his own life, has died. He was 60. Schimmel died Friday at a Phoenix hospice from...