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As an artist, Thomas Kinkade, who died yesterday at 54 of natural causes, devoted himself to creating pastoral images that evoked a simpler, more innocent quality of life, but as a business man, he was more complex....

When Sally Pofcher took the CEO job at Paper Source four years ago, she found too much of a good thing. The Chicago-based independent stationery and crafting store reflected the quirky tastes of its founder Sue Lindstrom, an artist obsessed with paper...

It’s really hard to escape the notion that Josh Groban’s music is the stuff on the car radio when you borrow your mom’s sedan. And there was nothing musically in the singer’s 2-hour show on Saturday at Amway Center to dispel that...

It is now late Tuesday night and we are back from a full day in Kansas City, and the darn song is still in my head. You know the one: I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come They got a crazy...

Debbie Friedman, a self-taught Jewish folk singer and composer who transformed synagogue music and worship by infusing traditional prayers with a contemporary sensibility, died Sunday at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo. She was 59. The cause was...

A more than decade-old tradition that began at Jim and Jimmie's bar will be held Ace's Lounge on Jan. 30. This is the third year the Ground Hog Day celebration will be held at Ace's, located in Cambria City, which was originally started to celebrate an...

In case you haven’t already found yourself gagging over the pre-holiday hype, Valentine’s Day is Monday. I just toss this tidbit out for the poor souls reading this who might take flak from their loved ones, should they overlook the big day....

For its new album, Plain White T's looked to the circus for inspiration. The French-Canadian circus, no less. Before he started writing "The Wonders of the Younger," lead singer Tom Higgenson had gone to see "O" by Cirque du Soleil, a show that...

The double-CD/book of photographs includes recordings from the early 20th century that celebrate all things Mom. Mom. Mother. Mama. Madre. Mommy. What would we do without her? Who would love us? Who would bake our snickerdoodles, bail us out of......

I'm all for any holiday that helps stimulate the economy. For some cynics, though, Valentine's Day is more than a dumb Hallmark holiday. They argue… The divorce rate goes up around Valentine’s Day New Jersey lawyer Cary Cheifetz agreed,...

For book and art lovers, it's possible to spend as much time in the Museum of Contemporary Art store as the MCA itself. Located in the southwest corner of the MCA, the book section occupies the second floor of the store and it's full of things you won't...

Rabid "Glee" fans out there have been snapping up any product related to the hit Fox show, but there hasn't been much, mostly CDs and digital downloads of the cast's cover versions of classic pop and rock songs. That's about......