JERUSALEM Israeli-born rocker Gene Simmons is calling a wounded Israeli soldier his "hero." Simmons, who founded the heavy metal band Kiss in the 1970s, sent a video message of...

WHEN it comes to great movie composers, they don't come much hipper than Bernard Herrmann. During his lifetime and in the 30 years since his death, Herrmann has regularly been rediscovered and championed by younger film and music aficionados.

THE identity of the first guitar hero created by the internet was a mystery until Virginia Heffernan tracked him down to Seoul

TOP Scots painter wields broad brush in attack on art colleges, conceptual work and galleries.

I REMEMBER the opening concert of my first Festival 15 years ago because it was so risky. It was a concert performance of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, a hell of a difficult piece and not an obvious blockbuster for an

BORING' brown paint will be ditched in favour of a welcome with attitude.

YOU can't always get what you want - not even a cigarette at Hampden Park. Keith Richards, the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist, may have fallen foul of Scotland's smoking ban after lighting up on stage in Glasgow.

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Thanks to medications that have turned what was once considered a death sentence into a manageable, chronic illness, I have been able to conceal my fight with a disease many erroneously consider to be the exclusive property of gay men,

Beautiful. Gorgeous - like that,' says the photographer. 'Can you give me another angle?' Williams shifts her shoulders and dips a few toes in the water. The photographer clicks away. 'Beautiful. You look gorgeous. Stay right there.' The two continue

Every summer, Nanci Olesen and her kids pack up their van and head out on a road trip. It's a family tradition. But Nancy has a sneaking suspicion, now that her oldest son, Henry, is fifteen, that the end of

New Orleans has been so focused on its physical recovery, that its mental health has been overlooked. Health officials have recently realized that anxiety, depression and suicide are skyrocketing. At the same time, only a fraction of mental health workers

Alaska has to recruit as many as 700 teachers from out of state every year. That means teachers used to lower 48 amenitiesâ€"like highways, video stores and The Gapâ€"have to adjust to their new lives in villages reachable only by

Interlochen Arts Academy is one of the largest performing art camps in the world. Every spring, the camp acquires about 200 brand new pianos from Kawai. Just keeping all those pianos in tune requires a staff of five full-time tuners--and

Those three words can make many kids feel nervous, especially those who are starting off in a new school. Amanda Perez knows the freshman jitters. She will be starting high school this fall. Amanda's mom Carol is dealing with a

It seems so harmless. You turn on your lap top and see that someone within range has an open wireless connection that you can use. They've practically handed you the keys, right? Not so fast, says our Solomon Squad. This

Only about half of the population has returned to New Orleans, after Katrina. Friends and family scattered and people have had to form new connections. Independent producer Eve Troeh shares the story of an unlikely friendship that grew out of

According to Bart Kosko, a professor at the University of Southern California, noise has a lot to offer. He says that noise isn't all bad, and that some is actually healthy. Kosko has written the first scientific history on the

If your car horn could reflect your mood at the moment, your frustration, your glee or your groove, what would it sound like? Barbara poses this question to sound artist Scanner, and he rises to the noisy challenge.