Today is Monday, June 28, the 180th day of 2004 with 186 to follow.

Today is Thursday, June 17, the 169th day of 2004 with 197 to follow.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Roger Daltrey, veteran vocalist of The Who, has recreated the 1869 journey of explorer John Wesley Powell for The History Channel.

Today is Saturday, June 28, the 179th day of 2003 with 186 to follow.

Today is Tuesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2003 with 197 to follow.

The music of New Orleans constitutes its own idyllic world. It's a wild country with its own rules and standards, completely set apart from the burnished marketplace of corporate pop, nourishing itself at the wellspring of human joy.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- If you really want to stick it to someone you disapprove of -- say, President George W. Bush -- then call him a fundamentalist. That will do it. It will put him

Ruth Poe, a member of early Grand Ole Opry act, the Poe Sisters, born near Big Creek, Miss., 1945. John Wesley Ryles born in Bastrop, La., 1950.

I'm a sucker for femme fatale erotic thrillers about gorgeous but devious women who murder their conniving and/or boring husbands for the insurance money. In "Second To Die," Erika Eleniak is fascinated by insurance policies, especially as interpreted by