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Next week, ABC's All My Children will be replaced after four decades on the air by The Chew, a lifestyle show whose hosts include three chefs and which stars the [...]

Issues concerning the career and life of singer-songwriter Ike Turner, the one time partner of Tina Turner, are discussed. Turner, 69, is releasing his first album in 20 years ' Here and Now' a mixture of blues, funk and rock.

This article discusses the legal battle between Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins over the custody of their daughter Isabella. Isabella is the biological daughter of Miller, who was joined in a civil union with Jenkins in Vermont for several years. The two separated when Isabella was seventeen months old, and Miller has since joined the Baptist church and renounced her homosexuality. She lives with Isabella in Virginia, a state that does not recognize same-sex unions or marriage.

This article describes the process of surrogate motherhood, where women, sometimes called gestational carriers, are impregnated on behalf of parents unable to bear children. It describes the process of in vitro fertilization and the emotional lives of surrogate mothers. The ethics of the practice, its popularity among military wives, and profiles of several gestational carriers are also presented.

The article examines idiosyncratic behavior in children, the author asking if out of the ordinary behavior is evidence of a nonconformist nature or a serious developmental problem. The incidence of autism in U.S. children is discussed. The article details ways in which developmental disorders in children are diagnosed.

The article focuses on the issue of gender identity in the U.S. Reportedly, transgender people are becoming more visible and raise questions such as, does gender come in just two categories?, what makes us male or female? and what is gender? The author discusses political and religious reactions as well as government policies regarding transgender people.

The article presents obituaries for the thirty two victims of the mass murder at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia in April 2007.

The article presents a profile of rapper and music mogul Jay-Z, who runs Def Jam Records. Jay-Z has maintained credibility among his audience and succeeded in the business world by remaining relatively low key and personable. He is reentering rapping with the album "Kingdom Come," despite the fact that he "retired" in 2003.

Looks at women and infidelity. Past United States laws that used to punish women who cheated; Fact that today women have more opportunity to cheat; Use of technology to facilitate their affairs including the Internet and cellular phones; Paradoxes in American culture surrounding sex; Unfaithful wives in popular culture; Fact that most women find boyfriends at the workplace; Unmet expectations about love, marriage and sex; Why online romances have a special appeal for married women. INSET: Wayward Wives 101.

States that there is a growing number of high school students in the United States who have decided to remain virgins until marriage. Idea that they are part of a counterculture at odds with mainstream media which uses sex to boost ratings and market products; Topic of public policy versus personal choice; Profiles of several teens and their views about the abstinence movement, their sexuality, and efforts to remain chaste.

Focuses on the late Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. Release of his diaries, 'Journals'; Why the book is controversial among Cobain's friends; How his friend Eric Erlandson moved to safeguard Cobain's valuables, including his notebooks, after Cobain's suicide.

Focuses on the cable music station MTV. How 2001 is the station's twentieth anniversary year; Plans for promotional specials; Comments of past and present MTV personalities, including Tabitha Soren, Carson Daly and Kurt Loder, regarding the station's programming; Side ventures, including MTV2 and MTV2.com, perceived to offer edgier programming than MTV.

Reports on the rise in popularity of Christian culture in the United States as of summer 2001. Economic aspects of the Christian entertainment industry; Discussion of Christian pop music acts, including Pillar; Popularity of other forms of Christian entertainment, including novels; Transformation of the Christian entertainment industry; Role of churches in the industry's events.

Byline: Lorraine Ali Twenty years after their breakout album, the band stars in a great rock doc. In a new documentary by filmmaker Cameron Crowe, we're taken back to the [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali The singer's metamorphosis is complete, with a new sound, a new role as Winnie Mandela, a new body, and a new love for life. After a few [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali The 35-year-old formerly known as William James Adams Jr. is now more ubiquitous than UGG boots and Red Bull combined. His next stop: the Super Bowl. You've [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Ke$ha's music has been called 'repulsive, obnoxious, and ridiculously catchy.' She'll take that as a compliment, thank you very much. It's the morning before the MTV Video [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali It's not every day that the NPR crowd falls for a heavy-metal band, but then Acrassicauda isn't your average group of headbangers. The foursome, whose name means [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali In 2007, Forbes named Abu Dhabi the wealthiest city in the world, and like nouveaux riches everywhere, it has gone on a bit of a spending spree. [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Yusuf Islam ditched music, fame and his name: Cat Stevens. Now he's emerging from his moon shadow. The man formerly known as Cat Stevens is standing on [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Arts and culture in the Bush era Before Green Day released 'American Idiot' in September 2004, two months ahead of President Bush's reelection, most music fans assumed [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Jett Williams never met her father, Hank. Then she came across his lost recordings, and she heard him laugh at last. According to Hank Williams, Mother's Best [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Marsalis and Nelson are an odd musical couple, but they make the sweetest blues you've ever heard. Wynton wears crisp suits, reads sheet music and is the [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali When I was growing up, our former neighbors, whom we'll call the Sloans, were the only couple on the block without kids. It wasn't that they couldn't [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Parents should think twice before pushing their children toward the altar. According to 'Marriage: The Good, the Bad and the Greedy,' a paper published by the American [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali And Raina Kelley; With Jeneen Interlandi And Daniel Stone Thousands of largely invisible American women have given birth to other people's babies. Many are married to men [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Justin Fatica yells, threatens and humiliates teens into finding Jesus. You got a problem with that? Justin Fatica has a cross to bear, and last year he [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali My Uncle Brahim is trapped inside his Baghdad home--waiting to flee a country that six months ago he swore he'd never leave. With him are his wife, [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali By age 14, Somalia-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali had survived genital mutilation at the hands of her grandmother, a fractured skull from her Qur'an teacher and brutal [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali In person, Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr. is a soft-spoken man who prays before each meal--a mix of Christian, Buddhist and Muslim rituals--and speaks lovingly of writing children's [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali No flashbulbs go off when Jay-Z enters the small downstairs lobby of Soho House, an exclusive hangout looking down on Manhattan's trendy meatpacking district. In fact, no [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Seersucker slacks, saddle shoes, a crisp white jacket--why has Andre (Andre 3000) Benjamin, the eccentric half of the rap duo OutKast, worn this to drop into their [...]