Prologue

Yep, folks, the DSDs are heavy upon us now. I woke this morning, sat down to do a blog entry and??? Whoa, the tap was dry. No milk in the teet. We???ve squeezed all we can out of Cooney and......

Wow, I threaten you guys with having to read about my vacation, and I get flooded with ideas to stave off that possibility. I don???t know whether to laugh or be hurt. But, I???ve decided you are not going......

The new Nicholas Sparks movie, "Safe Haven," takes place in Southport, in the novelist's adopted home state of North Carolina. Southport is near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. So you know a murderous stalker will eventually arrive, in honor of Robert...

This Sunday, March 3, NBC Sports Network begins daily coverage of Paris-Nice 2013, an eight-day cycling competition that is the first major European stage race of the year. Paris-Nice 2013 marks the second year in the row that NBC Sports Network is...

The 99th edition of cycling’s Tour de France starts Saturday, June 30, in Liège, Belgium. The race is made up of one prologue and 20 stages covering a total distance of 3,479 km. The route includes nine flat stages, four medium mountain stages, five...

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles announced Friday they were closing an investigation into “allegations of federal criminal conduct” by members and associates of a racing team owned by cyclist Lance Armstrong....

"Gimme the Loot," Adam Leon's tale of two teenage graffiti artists in the Bronx, won the grand jury prize for narrative feature at the South by Southwest film festival, organizers announced Tuesday. "Beware of Mr. Baker" -- Jay Bulger's examination of how...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney tells it his way in the memoir "In My Time" to be released next week....

This year's Sarasota Film Festival will be star-studded and action packed, with a performance by Harry Connick, Jr. and his orchestra, and appearances by Oscar winner Geena Davis and screen legend and Oscar nominee Christopher Plummer. Their opening night...

The idea that Roland Emmerich -- the disaster-flick auteur behind "Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012" -- was taking on William Shakespeare for his next movie project struck many as strange, incongruous and just plain wrong. What...

Andrey Boreyko -- the chief conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland and as of this fall the music director of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra -- may not have the most glamorous, high-powered publicity buildup in the world. But......

Friday night, REDCAT was packed. A red-blooded audience filled every seat. Red-blooded musicians occupied every inch of the black-box stage. There was excitement in the air. Many concert presenters would consider a mainly young audience giving eager and...