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Byline: Lorraine Ali It's unlikely that the Peruvian singer Yma Sumac, '80s sensations Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam or Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar, ever planned to [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali, Malcolm Jones, Mark Starr You Can't Get There From Here By Gayle Forman It's clear from Forman's travelogue that globalization isn't just about Starbucks' spreading from Boulder [...]

***** CORRECTION: Headline: Newsweek Statement On Qur'an Story From Editor Mark Whitaker: DATELINE: NEW YORK May 16 NEW YORK, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- 'Based on what we know now, we [...]

Byline: Mark Starr, Lorraine Ali, Malcolm M. Jones All Those Mornings at the Post By Shirley Povich Povich spent three quarters of a century chronicling sports for The Washington Post [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali The biggest coup in rock since Nirvana crept past Poison on the charts more than a decade ago is probably the mainstream success of System of a [...]

Singer Mariah Carey describes her eighth album 'The Emancipation of Mimi'. In the album, Mariah Carey sings more club-savvy numbers with rap artists like Snoop Dogg, Nelly and Twista.

Byline: Lorraine Ali, Bret Begun Beck 'Guero' Far more vibrant than the mostly acoustic 'Sea Change' and far less affected than the awkwardly experimental 'Midnight Vultures,' 'Guero' is Beck at [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali (With Ramin Setoodeh and Jac Chebatoris) In Farah Pajuheshfar's house, candles are always burning for Michael Jackson. The 46-year-old Las Vegas hairdresser keeps at least three votives [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali and Ramin Setoodeh Fox's hit series '24' kicks off its fourth season with a disturbing story line: a seemingly normal, suburban American Muslim family is actually a [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali On Ludacris's fourth CD, 'Red Light District,' the Atlanta rapper leaves the 24/7 party behind for more experimental, emotional terrain. He still tangles with 'manicured and pedicured' [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali and Lisa Miller (With Vanessa Juarez, Holly Peterson, Karen Springen, Claire Sulmers, William Lee Adams And Raina Kelley) When groups of married mothers get together, especially if [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali A decade ago the hives started playing in punk bars near their tiny, woodsy hometown of Fagersta, Sweden. It would be fair to say that not everybody [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Train wreck? Car crash? Trailer Park in a Tornado? Any of these would have been a more appropriate name than Velvet Revolver. This supergroup, comprising some of [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Unlike 50 cent or Eminem, the British rapper called The Streets would rather rhyme about lazing on his girl's sofa than drinking magnums of Cristal or killing [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali There are at least half a dozen sequined gowns stuffed into the small closet on Loretta Lynn's big purple tour bus. 'I like this one a whole [...]

The Prince who became a Jehovah's Witness is back with new music after a long absence in the circuit of close to a decade. He was inducted in to the Rock and Roll hall of Fame and his performance with Beyonce at the Grammy's is a proof of his ability to produce music, which is as appealing as it was when he started playing.

Byline: Lorraine Ali A technician is sound-checking the trademark purple guitar, and the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is growing impatient. The 5-foot-2 singer adjusts [...]

Byline: Dan Ephron, Allan Sloan, Jen Jin-Liu and Melinda Liu, Clint Witchalls, Adam Bryant, Tara Pepper, Lorraine Ali, Jeff Giles Middle East The Rise of Nasrallah Israel sometimes has a [...]

Byline: Marc Peyser, Lorraine Ali The L Word, 10 p.m., Sundays, Showtime Showtime's latest oversexed drama is about lesbians--the jock, the rocker, the couple, the closet case--in every shape imaginable, [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Everyone is someone at Beverly Hills's Four Seasons Hotel. But here comes this tall, thin, gawky guy who looks like a computer techie, and none of these [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali and Jennifer Ordonez Ask any kid who watches BET, MTV or just TV, and you'll hear that Missy Elliott is at the top of her game. Over [...]

TURKEY Savagery in Istanbul Who bombed the synagogues in Istanbul? Despite initial claims of responsibility from an obscure Turkish Islamic fundamentalist group known as the Islamic Great Eastern Raiders' Front, [...]

Publisher correction: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 The Kid Rock interview ('Does the Kid Know How to Rock?' Nov. 24) erroneously referred to the 'Dodge 'Like a Rock' jingle.' The slogan [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Tom Jones has a new CD, 'Reloaded,' an upcoming cameo on the Cartoon Network--and was featured in Scorsese's blues series. He talked to NEWSWEEK's Lorraine Ali about [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali At a recent New York music conference, where hundreds of bands played dozens of clubs, one of those standard-issue angry, tattooed singers screamed, then threw down his [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Britney Spears rips open a bag of extra-cheesy Doritos, dips one into a bowl of tuna salad, crunches loudly then wipes off the excess orange dust on [...]

Byline: Jennifer Ordonez and Jac Chebatoris, Lorraine Ali Courting Trouble We all have bad nights--read the police report in any small-town paper--but when you're Courtney Love, you make headlines, even [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali The music industry can sue every middle-schooler from Poughkeepsie to Palo Alto, but record labels will not cure their woes if they continue to churn out cut-rate [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Pink examines her face in the rearview mirror and tries to wipe off a layer or two of the makeup from a recent photo shoot. 'God, I [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Ibrahim Ferrer didn't become famous until he was in his 70s--even though he made his debut much earlier. 'My mother was pregnant with me at a dance,' [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali There are plenty of things to fear when pregnant: excessive weight gain, natural childbirth and--worst of all--frumpy maternity clothes. Tentlike floral blouses, creased stirrup pants and Keds [...]

Byline: Lorraine Ali Jess is having one of those dreams that make her kick the covers off the bed. She's embroiled in a crucial soccer match, her teammate, U.K. football [...]