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Dude, where's my car song? While you were electronically adjusting your side-view mirrors or being guided by GPS or reading the external temperature gauge or something, a curious thing happened in rock: The car-song trend sputtered and lurched and finally went kaput. According to the diagnostics,...

In the ongoing quest to broaden opera's appeal, contemporary opera is one arrow in a sparely filled quiver. New operas are based on world events, current movies, popular books. Their music is written by funky living composers. And yet, earnest, thoughtful and filled with worthy music though they be,...

The season of political conventions ended Thursday in St. Paul, Minn., just as the spring 2009 fashion season was getting underway in New York. The convergence of politics and fashion brings together the substantive and the superficial, with neither industry having a monopoly on frivolousness and...

Think your furtive late-night Googling is private? As global research manager for the online intelligence firm Hitwise, Bill Tancer creeps into our computers to study the psychology of our searches. His first book, "Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters," has just hit...

Dear Carolyn: My daughter is getting married next summer. Her father had an affair and then left me when she was 3. He is still married to the woman he had the affair with. I also remarried, when my daughter was 5. My husband and daughter get along great. She also has had a continuous relationshi...

Hollywood loves a romantic lead, even if landing that hunky man means defiling the crypts of the undead. On screens big and small, vampires are increasingly becoming less demonic and more sympathetic, less evil and more nuanced -- and have become the most eligible bachelors around.

NASHVILLE -- Starting in 2005, life took a hairpin turn for Patty Loveless.

From the beginning, it was impossible to separate hip-hop from its gear. Rappers' affection for Adidas sneakers, Kangol hats, Timberland boots and oversize Tommy Hilfiger anything was as important to the music as the beats. The paraphernalia reflected a determination to grab hold of a piece...

In 2005, Washington Post staffer Carol Guzy traveled to New Orleans the week after Hurricane Katrina to document the storm's aftermath. Last week, when Hurricane Gustav threatened the region, she returned. The award-winning photographer singled out this photo, of Elizabeth Lewis Smith, 78 -- who ...

TV TRIVIA: BACK TO SCHOOL 1. What hit cable comedy series takes place on the campus of fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University?