Model Joanna Krupa is leaving "Dancing With the Stars." ...more

November 17, 2009

Big hair, splashy colored costumes and Bee Gees music ruled the Circle Thursday night during the last semifinal round of Heartland Idol. ...more

November 1, 2008

Most everyone in the audience for the second semi-final round of Heartland Idol knew it was going to be a special night when Donnie Shaffer, the night's first singer, blew a fuse and knocked out the sound system. ...more

October 25, 2008

"Stayin' Alive" might be more true to its name than the Bee Gees ever could have guessed: At 103 beats per minute, the old disco song has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart. ...more

October 17, 2008

AM Top 40 at that. It was a great introduction to the world of pop music because the playlists were so broad. Almost any genre was game. ...more

September 26, 2008

Get ready to clap. The first of eight Heartland Idol competitions starts tonight at 6 at the downtown Circle. ...more

September 4, 2008

Heartland Idol organizer Dina Walker is expecting the fifth annual singing competition to be bigger and better. ...more

August 18, 2008

When the Hollywood writers union first went on strike, we hardly noticed because our favorite shows all had several weeks of episodes already "in the can," as they say in the entertainment industry. When those episodes ran out we watched reruns for a while, but that got old in a hurry. So, eventually, we shut the TV off after the evening news and made an amazing discovery … there is life without television. We read books, played cards, listened to classical music, and called our families out-of-state who were suddenly free to talk because now our calls were not interrupting new episodes of their favorite shows. It's not easy to admit it, but I realized I knew more about what was going on in the lives of characters on "House" and "Gray's Anatomy" than in the lives of my brother and niece. ...more

February 3, 2008

If you can sing "Another One Bites the Dust," you may prevent someone doing just that. But considering the occasion — you'll be doing CPR to the beat — you may prefer belting out "Staying Alive." That works, too. So says Charlotte Young, a basic care life support instructor who trains health professionals at St. Joseph's Hospital. ...more

October 18, 2007