The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication ...

3 Dec 2008

James Lipton doesn’t often hear actors bring up the idea of getting “excited” in the biblical sense as they work, but then he doesn’t often have 19-year-olds on “Inside the Actors Studio.” The studious host interviewed Daniel Radcliffe ...

3 Dec 2008

Las Vegas — The world's best pound-for-pound boxer Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao arrived here on Monday night on board his Navigator followed by the custom-painted Pacman bus carrying supporters, media and friends, and immediately proceeded to the ...

3 Dec 2008

Bob Beardsley is a former Dubuque Senior High School volleyball coach. In the early days of Dubuque's emerging prep volleyball dynasty, Bob Beardsley was a pioneer. The Dubuque Senior coach helped revolutionize the concept of attacking from the ...

2 Dec 2008

EL PASO -- The nation's economic recession has prompted the move of more manufacturing jobs from El Paso. Siemens Energy & Automation, a part of German-based Siemens AG, plans to close its East Side manufacturing plant, lay off about 150 workers, and ...

2 Dec 2008

One of the many famous anecdotes arising from the life of Charles Dickens, the most important English novelist in the 19th century, came when the poet Theodore Watts-Duncan reported that a young cockney street vendor, having just heard of the author ...

1 Dec 2008