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Even for a venue as grand as New York's Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards.
She's hanging with Elmo and Emeril Lagasse, Big Bird and Bobby Flay.
When the New York Yankees clinched their spot in the World Series last week, the casual TV viewer might have wondered if they were about to go swim the 200-meter butterfly with Michael Phelps.
The journalism industry may be in precarious shape, but you wouldn't have known it at the annual New Yorker Festival, where star worship of the magazine's most famous writers seemed to be in full force.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional series examining their use and potential risks.
If a truly great artist engages in a truly awful crime, should our feelings about the art mitigate our feelings about the crime?
The economy is really bad, Jay Leno told his "Tonight Show" audience in March.
A congressman flouts decorum and heckles a president in the House chamber. A tennis player profanely offers to shove a tennis ball down the throat of a line judge. A singer shakes up an awards show by boorishly dissing a young country star.
Some 150 years ago, a congressman from South Carolina, angered by a speech on slavery, entered the Senate chamber and beat a senator from Massachusetts into unconsciousness with a metal-topped wooden cane.
His brother Rahm is one of the most influential men in U.S. politics, the right-hand man to President Barack Obama. The other, Ari, is one of the very top power players in Hollywood.
At one point during her quarter-century as an alcoholic, Carol Colleran would down at least 10 beers each weeknight, more on weekends. Then she would show up the next morning at her job in hospital management, feeling fuzzy and lousy.
In hindsight, it seems so obvious. We look back at the creepy online ramblings of a tortured soul like George Sodini and realize we should have known all along of the horrors to come.
In six years as editor in chief of Us Weekly, Janice Min often found herself zealously watching young women in airport lounges. She wanted to be sure they were reading her magazine cover to cover.
"So tired today," Annemarie Dooling tweeted early Tuesday. "really really tired. ugh."
All Romeos and Juliets die at the end of the story. But before they do, there are lots of different ways to portray those doomed lovers.
When Rabbi Shmuley Boteach brought his children to play with Michael Jackson's kids at Neverland Ranch some eight years ago, the rabbi's youngsters naturally made a beeline for the fabulous rides — the Ferris wheel, the roller coaster, the bumper cars.
Ballet fans tend to choose favorites among dancers, debating their attributes ad nauseam. But during Nina Ananiashvili's 16 years with American Ballet Theatre, there was little debate. She was at the top of nearly everyone's list.
If you're a governor who's in the doghouse for marital infidelity, is it better to have loved and lost or never to have loved at all?
"Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died," the woman called out breathlessly upon boarding a Manhattan bus, moments after the news had broken. Not a word was spoken in response. But nearly every passenger reached for a BlackBerry, a cell phone, whatever device was at hand.
"The show must go on," Kate Gosselin of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" said on the episode where her split from her husband, Jon, was revealed. Usually, that line elicits admiration, as when an actor sprains his ankle but perseveres in the dance number anyway.
Stepping out in New York City to talk about culture, Desiree Rogers made one thing clear: This White House social secretary doesn't intend to stay closeted in her East Wing office for four years.
In Michigan, one of the states hit hardest by the recession, Wendy Higgins has reluctantly told a favorite niece she may not have enough money for her wedding present in August. Higgins' disability checks have stopped, and her husband was laid off in December. The couple fears they could even lose their home.
At the bustling Pi pizza restaurant in St. Louis, the staff has come up with a new mantra: "It's just pizza!"
Barack Obama has just named his pick for the Supreme Court and is still filling out the ranks of his administration. But it's another casting process, also being conducted in the strictest secrecy, that's really got them whispering in Washington.
Adam Lambert fans, take heart: At least your guy doesn't have to sing the hokey "No Boundaries," this year's much mocked "American Idol" ballad, ever, ever again. That dubious honor will go to winner Kris Allen. But there are other reasons Lambert lovers can dry their tears.
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