Gather forty strangers in one house and give them ten days to three weeks to learn music, dance routines, scenes, and monologues for a show open to the public. Is ...

We've been Touched by an Angel and even walked the Highway to Heaven. Yes, folks, divine intervention has found its way into prime time television ...

What I call the "Matrix phenomenon" is something I wanted to believe in and tried to understand. For a split second, this phenomenon allowed me to believe in ...

Let's not talk about sex Though the clergy sex abuse scandal garners its own chapter in this nearly 400-page tome, the crisis Peter Steinfels describes is not limited to priest pedophiles, hush ...

Ever wonder where Halloween traditions came from? Are they evil? Pagan? Holy? Fire FestivalsThe ancient Celts celebrated seasonal feasts to honor the gods of nature. Halloween's pagan origin was a fire festival known as ...

I am huge fan of reality television, but I never watched many network reality shows until I moved and my finances decided for me (to hold off on getting cable). My archaic rabbit ears only receive ...

I love reading books by my contemporaries. I picked up The Quality of Life Report and The Devil Wears Prada more out of curiosity about their young authors than ...

Rush Limbaugh died last week. In a way. The Rush I knew?my principled companion for three hours a day?is in some very serious legal trouble, under investigation for illegally purchasing painkillers. I never expected perfection from Rush? ...

As many of us had hoped, director Peter Jackson and his commendable crew offer moments of great terror in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King . Fantasy finds ...

"In the year 2000," writes Tom Wolfe , novelist and Grand Poobah of non-fiction, "in the era of hooking up, ?first base' meant deep kissing (tonsil hockey), groping, and fondling; ?second ...