The University of Portland will host "Expanding Your Horizons," a career awareness conference for girls in grades six through 12, on Saturday, March 18.

Although the Cascade Festival of African Films has officially wrapped up its annual run, the…

PassinArt: A Theatre Co. is presenting Don Appell's comedy, Lullaby, in the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center.
The show has evening performances at 8 p.m. Friday, March 10,and Saturday, March 11, in the center, 5340N.

"ROUND MIDNIGHT"ALAN BROADBENTArtistry Music* * * * *Alan Broadbent is one of those…

Forget the suspense over best movie or actor or actress — the real question on Oscar night was whether Three 6 Mafia could actually perform a cuss-free, non-graphic version of "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp."

NEW YORK—Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of Black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major Black director with The Learning Tree and the hit Shaft, died Tuesday. He was 93.

LOS ANGELES—The ensemble drama Crash pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture over the cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain, which had been the front-runner.

Applications are being accepted for all five sessions of the 2006 Grace Institute Summer Art Camp. Each session will investigate a different aspect of the theme, "Greek Myths and Folk Tales."

SANTA ANA, Calif.—The inmates had to heat the letter to draw out the message, written in invisible ink. When they did, their orders were clear.

NEW ORLEANS—The slimy mildew clinging to classroom walls for years, the termite-eaten floors, the paint peeling from school ceilings — Hurricane Katrina washed all that way.