Martha Stewart is back home after five months in a W.Va. federal prison. Obviously there is a vast reserve of media commentary, speculation, and explication on the meaning of it all. All I’m going to say is that Stewart’s one obvious flaw, an inability to relate to her employees and …

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of her monster Jagged Little Pill, which has sold 30 million copies worldwide, almost 15 million in the U.S., and generated four Grammys including album of the year, Alanis Morissette, now 30, is recording an acoustic version of the album with her original co-writer and …

The Michael Jackson trial continued yesterday with testimony from the 18 year-old sister of the alleged victim of sexual abuse, who said she and her two brothers were given alcohol by MJ in the wine cellar of his Neverland Valley Ranch, the entrance to which was hidden behind a jukebox …

All observers are having to accomodate the obvious reality of a change in the wind in the Middle East: free elections in Palestine and Iraq, the Egyptian president pledged to hold competitive elections soon, a popular uprising against Syria’s occupation of Lebanon forced Beirut’s puppet government to resign, and Syria …

275,000 images, from Civil War photographs, illuminated manuscripts, and Japanese prints, to New York City views, early American maps, and much more are now available free online. A treasury of images from the collections of The New York Public Library is accessible free of charge over the Internet starting today …

From the mysterious “spy on the sly”: My headlights beam back a purple blaze of two symbols adorned upon the black gates. This is the way to 3121. Up the long driveway to a royal white mansion. A valet graciously opens my door. I had not attended the Oscars but …

Usher, 26, is now part-owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Are you allowed to be part-owner of a major league sports franchise at 26? Of course the majority owner, Quicken Loan magnate Dan Gilbert, is only 42. I choose to see myself as a late bloomer, although it remains possible I …

Beginning at 8pm ET tonight (that’s like NOW), PBS is airing what looks to be a ripsnorting gala: On Stage at the Kennedy Center: The Mark Twain Prize salutes Lorne Michaels, creator of NBC’s Saturday Night Live and the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s seventh annual Mark Twain Prize for …

The U.S. and France have delivered the strongest international message yet that Syria is unwelcome in Lebanon. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier held a joint news conference in London on Tuesday, the text of which is here : FOREIGN MINISTER BARNIER – The Lebanese …

After opening statements in which prosecutor Tom Sneddon characterized Jackson as Jeffrey Dahmer and defense attorney Thomas Mesereau painted a portrait of St Francis of Assisi, the main action has centered around TV reporter Martin Bashir’s documentary Living With Michael Jackson, which aired on ABC in the U.S. three days …