One of the impoverished child stars from "Slumdog Millionaire" will move from his shanty home in one of Mumbai's more wretched slums into a new apartment this week, his mother said Sunday.

Fans began to celebrate Sunday after winning coveted tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service at Los Angeles' Staples Center.

What makes this year's performances of "Unto these Hills" different from the more than 4,000 prior performances is that members of North Carolina's Eastern Band of Cherokees now play most of the lead roles.

Art houses all over the Triangle are taking hits in this economy (the Varsity in Chapel Hill officially closed two Fridays ago, while other theaters have had to play mainstream movies to make money), raising questions about the repertory scene.

Strange as it seems, there's something about impending disaster that can really liven up your day.

The mantra is freshness at Jamil Kadoura's restaurant, Mediterranean Deli, or "Med Deli" as the locals call it in Chapel Hill.

The second-most-talked-about dish at last month's Farm to Fork picnic was the DIG teenagers' lemon balm sorbet.

Colonial Williamsburg is hosting a "Foodways of the 18th Century" conference Nov. 8-10.

The idea of starting a new summer music festival in the Triangle -- or anywhere else, in this economy -- and anchoring it with a popular European chamber orchestra, then inviting high-caliber international and local guest performers seems a little far-fetched.

Music review:Wilco mastermind Jeff Tweedy seems perpetually harried. His public mien is that of a bleary-eyed everyman who happens to possess songwriting gifts that may or may not be a curse.

Michel Legrand and Norman Gimbel's "I Will Wait for You," the first song on singer and pianist Daniela Schachter's self-produced "Purple Butterfly," clearly establishes her jazz integrity.

Michel Medina Gonzalez shakes violently in his chair inside a patient room at Orlando Health, where he was fitted earlier this month with a brain implant to control his symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Book review:If Pat Conroy and Anne Rivers Siddons are the king and queen of Lowcountry Lit, then Dottie Frank is surely one of the slightly less serious, slightly more lighthearted, members of the royal family.

Book review:Little boys like to play at adventure and dream of danger in faraway places. But what 11-year-old Norman Ollestad endured atop a California mountain in 1979 was a nightmare.

Creators:Dusk falls on Durham Central Park, where a dozen folding chairs dot a lush, green field.