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At this years Grammy Awards, the best album of the year went to an unlikely candidate, the 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' soundtrack. This was a refreshing break from the traditional industry-promoted winners.

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 [...]

Spooky midcentury paintings of big-eyed children and the equally twisted tale of the artist behind them are at the centre of Tim Burton's new film, Big Eyes. The true yet [...]

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 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 It's an old story--parents split and fight for custody. But when both are women, and one says she is no longer gay, it gets complicated. Isabella prefers [...]

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 The growing threat that your good name will be unfairly besmirched online has given rise to a new industry: Internet reputation repair. Companies like ReputationHawk and Reputation [...]

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 [...]

***** CORRECTION: CORRECTION: In 'Worlds Away' ('Movies,' Arts Preview, September 4), Cate Blanchett said that 'The Pianist' took place in Berlin. The film's setting was Warsaw, though parts of the [...]

***** CORRECTION: CORRECTION: In 'Living Legend' ('Music,' Arts Preview, Sept. 4), we reported that John Legend went to Penn State, when in fact, he attended the University of Pennsylvania. NEWSWEEK [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Since he's the beatmaster du jour, Snoop, Gwen and Kanye couldn't resist dropping in on Pharrell's newest CD. Jazz horns, piano and even ballpark-style organ bounce atop [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Christina Aguilera shows up for dinner at an L.A. restaurant looking like Jean Harlow. Her platinum-blond hair is curled just so, her lipstick a perfect shade of [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Is there anything Jack White can't do? The White Stripes front-man is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor ('Cold Mountain'), pianist, theremin player, marimbist--in fact, he plays [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Mr. President, how do you sleep at night while the rest of us cry?' asks Pink on her new album, 'I'm Not Dead.' George W. Bush has [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Eddie Vedder writes songs on a manual typewriter, carries important papers in a 1940s suitcase, keeps his credit cards in a plastic Batman wallet and wears his [...]

Byline: George Wehrfritz (Rana Foroohar Michael Hirsh, Mark Hosenball and John Barry Michael Isikoff Holly Bailey Lorraine Ali Karen Springen) India: Let Your Money Free A U.S. delegation led by [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Did you ever think the rebel angel of country music would make it to Broadway? Believe it or not, the day has come: 'Ring of Fire,' a [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Madonna announced last week that she would play the seventh annual Coachella festival next month--and legions of underground-music fans went into mourning. 'MADONNA?????????????' wrote Jamesc2929 on Ezboard.com. [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali The name. The post-everything style. The no-bassist thing. This New York City (of course) rock trio is overloaded with hip cachet. 'Show Your Bones,' their third full [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali When the members of Pink Floyd reunited--after 22 years--to play last year's Live 8 benefit concert, the buzz around these rock senior citizens upstaged the appearances by [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali It wasn't enough for Kevin Federline to be the tabloids' most hated man. When he left his pregnant girlfriend for Britney almost two years ago, the rags [...]

Byline: David Gates,Lorraine Ali, Jac Chebatoris Baby, You Can Drive My Car Britney spears admitted she 'made a mistake' by driving down Malibu's Pacific Coast Highway last week with her [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Saigon is hip-hop's great new hope--and one of its most unlikely. He's unimpressed by bling, actually likes women and cringes at the idea of becoming a video [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali If I'd never known a Muslim woman, I'd probably pity any female born into Islam. In America we've come to see these women as timid creatures, covered [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali This year's Grammys were full of outsize superstar moments--Marc Anthony and J. Lo's soap-operatic duet, Usher's flashy dance number, that star-studded tribute to Southern rock. And then [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali It's one of the only girl bands to play the dude-infested Warped Tour two years in a row, so Go Betty Go deserves your undivided attention. This [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali They're named after Marlon Brando's roustabout gang in 'The Wild One,' and their new record, 'Howl,' takes its title from the indelible Allen Ginsberg poem. Their hair [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali When the youth group at southern California's Mission Viejo Masjid met recently, the scene looked like a public-service announcement for racial tolerance. The Sudanese imam sat next [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Some men tattoo their girlfriends' names on their arms. Others prefer a skull and crossbones. But rapper Kanye West always has to be different. The faded blue [...]

***** CORRECTION: Due to erroneous caption information supplied by the photo agency, Retna, we incorrectly stated that the photo of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' (Aug. 15) [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali At least half a dozen framed works of needlepoint cover the office and bathroom walls of Neil Diamond's Los Angeles studio. Some are portraits of the singer [...]

Singer Neil Diamonds makes his comeback at 64 by introducing his yet-to-be-titled new album in November 2005 produced by Rick Rubin, known to be his best work since 1975. His comeback is a new understanding of the music and songs and is a way of showing people in the business that he still exists and is doing something worthwhile after all these years.

Byline: Lorraine Ali At least half a dozen framed works of needlepoint cover the office and bathroom walls of Neil Diamond's Los Angeles studio. Some are portraits of the singer [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali It's 1:30 a.m. inside a small, humid club in Austin, Texas, on the last day of the South by Southwest music festival. The scraggly crowd of indie [...]

Byline: Michael Isikoff, Allan Sloan, Michael Hastings, Rana Foroohar, Karen Lowry Miller, Joe Cochrane, Lorraine Ali, Eve Conant Terror: Wrongful Arrests? Since 9/11, the U.S. Justice Department has used a [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali It's opening day of summer camp and the manicures have just begun. New Age music and the trickle of a plug-in rock fountain fill the trailer as [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Jack White won't hit the stage for another six hours, but he's already worked himself into a sweat just talking about his music. It doesn't help that [...]