[UPDATE – both Fats Domino and Irma Thomas were found to be alive and out of harm’s way last night] Fats Domino, 76, is missing. New Orleans’ legendary Fat Man had lived with his wife, Rosemary, and daughter in a three-story pink-roofed house in New Orleans’ 9th ward, which is …

Hey, animals are people too. Well, no, actually, but they can be friends, even best friends, and in a time of crisis they deserve our attention too. Thousands of animals were left behind when their humans evacuated. Best Friends Animal Society is doing its best to coordinate the efforts of …

Two days after Hurricane Katrina engulfed the Gulf Coast with wind, water and debris, the situation in many areas, including New Orleans, is chaotic and growing more grim all the time. (City of New Orleans) Today New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin said hundreds, and possibly thousands, in the city were …

Despite recent grim characterizations in popular culture such as ABC’s smash Desperate Housewives and Judith Warner’s popular book Perfect Madness, the latter of which posits modern motherhood as “an endless sea of child-enriching activities” leading into “a well of despair,” a new survey finds that an overwhelming majority of mothers …

Michael Jackson appears to have found aid and comfort in the Middle East. Jackson bugged out for Bahrain following his acquittal on child abuse and other charges in June, and sidestepped over to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on August 20 in the company of Shaikh Abdullah Ben Hamed …

Though New Orleans was spared from some of the worst that had been feared for it by Hurricane Katrina, the Big Easy still suffered greatly and other Gulf regions are even worse off. “The devastation down there is just enormous,” Mississippi governor Haley Barbour said this morning on NBC’s Today …

Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good, Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. (“When the Levee Breaks” Led Zeppelin) Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on the morning of August 29 – there …

I am optimistic that over time, world Islam can become a religion compatible with modernity, that separation of church and state can come to be the norm and that other religions will be respected. I don’t know how long it will take or how many terrorists and innocents will have …

Venerable audience measurement arbiter Nielsen Media Research says the national TV audience is getting more ethnic, Southern, Western, and a little older, according to its estimates for the 2005-06 viewing season. The total number of television households within the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) is now estimated at 110,200,000, according …

Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong continues to attack reports in the French media that he used a banned blood booster in his first tour victory in 1999. The French sports daily L’Equipe reported Tuesday that new exams on six urine samples Armstrong provided during the 1999 tour resulted …