Cy the Cynic says that people who walk along gazing at the stars are at the mercy of the mud puddles in the road. Whatever today's declarer was thinking about, it wasn't making 3NT.

Sometimes when the Belgian conceptual artist Koen Vanmechelen is being philosophical, he ponders a profound question of our time:

LAS VEGAS -- Darvin Moon, self-employed logger and newly minted poker millionaire from Western Maryland's panhandle, opened the door of his luxe, 1,100-square-foot suite at the Rio Hotel & Casino on Thursday, and in skipped the bellhop with the luggage and the chirpy questions.

ANGEL TIME By Anne Rice Knopf. 272 pp. $25.95 "There were omens from the beginning," Anne Rice's "Angel Time" begins. It's a nice first sentence for a mystical thriller: forebodings of doom, promises of supernatural happenings to come. The first-person narrator is the melodramatically named Toby...

Over the coming days, as art lovers take in the hundreds of images mounted around town at FotoWeek D.C., most of them will probably look a fair amount like photos always have. The technology used to produce them, however, will almost certainly be new. They will have been shot and printed digitally.

-- Only with the public option -- Bo Obama's chew toy

Between "Donnie Darko," "Southland Tales" and now "The Box," Newport News native Richard Kelly is becoming the cinematic poet laureate of suburban Virginia, in all its drab monotony and sneaking sense that something's going on behind those neat lawns and identical doors.

Peace, love, puppies -- and an eight-hour party. That was Thursday night's 16th annual Knock Out Abuse gala, where Washington's upper-crust ladies -- and 700 friends -- spent a lot of money in the name of domestic-abuse prevention. This year's event had a '60s theme: "protesters" at the...

Here it is Saturday, and you still have no idea what to do with your weekend. We're here to help.

In many ways, Salamone Rossi's life bridged two worlds. A Jewish composer who lived in Mantua at the turn of the 18th century, he wrote music for the synagogue that was comfortably in the idiom of high Renaissance church music and secular pieces that were unmistakably Baroque. (The great...

Rob Lowe stars in "Too Late to Say Goodbye" (Lifetime Movie Network at 8 p.m.) as a husband whose affair comes under scrutiny after his wife is found dead in an apparent suicide.