May 20, 2008

The fast-growing buyout firm that owns Bill Blass, Athlete’s Foot and Maggie Moo’s appeared to be on the verge of financial collapse on Monday.

Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker and company will be traveling to Los Angeles to face the Lakers in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals on Wednesday.

Filmmakers find the Northern Louisiana town of Shreveport has a lot to like.

Claudius Conrad is investigating music’s power to both stimulate and soothe.

An independent review of potential match fixing in professional tennis recommended that 45 matches played in the last five years be investigated.

Senate leaders reached a deal on housing legislation that might meet Bush administration approval.

The process of purging John McCain’s campaign of conflicts of interest has focused more attention on his advisers’ backgrounds.

Even film executives seem a bit shocked by the rush of women toward the box office for “Sex and the City.”

Thousands of Chinese have streamed into the quake region or donated money in an unscripted response.

If you want to hear the players of the Met Orchestra in music that howls, roars and drags you through one or two dark nights of the soul, Valery Gergiev is your man.

Less than two weeks after the collapse of a billion-dollar deal to develop the railyards on Manhattan’s Far West Side, a new developer has agreed to salvage the plan.

Marie Brenner has written a book that explores the difficult algebra of familial love and the possibility of its renewal in the face of impending loss.