Today is Monday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2002 with 29 to follow.

Today's birthdays include bassist Tom McGuinness of Manfred Mann, and also of McGuinness-Flint, who was born in 1941 (age 61); The Association's Ted Bluechel Jr. in 1942 (age 60); Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers in 1952 (age 50); Def Leppard bass

The weekly UPI Today in Music package for Nov. 30-Dec. 6.

Today is Thursday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2002 with 47 to follow.

Celebrities in the news.

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- An operatic adaptation of the 1995 film, "Dead Man Walking," with a libretto by Terrence McNally and music by Jake Heggie, is having its New York debut at City

NEW YORK, July 5 (UPI) -- Summer is the high season for artists' colonies across America that provide sanctuary to writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, composers, filmmakers, arc

LOS ANGELES, May 17 (UPI) -- When "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" screens at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, the audience will get something out of the ordinary -- a live performance of the film's music by composer Hans Zimmer and rocker Bryan Adams, who wrote and performed

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- One of the rarest categories of Americana are the "gift drawings" of the Shakers, a 19th-century religious sect that has less than a dozen living members today.