A jailed lawyer who defrauded Holocaust survivors out of tens of millions of pounds will ask the Supreme Court tomorrow to block an attempt by British police to seize his multimillion-pound assets. In a landmark case, the convicted fraudster Israel Perry is claiming the serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has no powers to confiscate his luxury homes and valuable art collection in the UK and elsewhere in the world. Soca has frozen two...

Death is no whitewash Why does the public forget about all the horribly bad things a person — especially a famous person — has done in their life when they die? We wonder what has happened to our society as a whole, grumble that our youth are drug addicts with no respect. Yet, we continue to immortalize those who show you can do...

1Jay BedecarreMarch 28, 2012 at 8:13 AM So funny that buried in the story under “Noted Venues” is Sleep Train Pavilion. the Pavilion came about in 1975 as the result of the Concord Jazz Festival (aka Concord Summer Festival) that began in 1969 and also spawned Concord Records, now one of the major record labels in...

This spring, HBO Latino, Home Box Office’s dedicated Spanish-language premium channel, will present an incredible lineup of programs certain to appeal to today’s multigenerational and bilingual Hispanic households. two new and exciting original series from HBO Latin America, Destino Deporteand Mujer de Fases, will make their U.S. television premieres on the channel along with three new...

According to Chelle Rose’s press materials, the origins of her new “Appalachian rock and roll” album were a bit unique. In the fall of 2010, a decade after her last album, Rose was listening to a live interview with Ray Wylie Hubbard on Twisted South Radio. The show’s host, Zeke Loftin, asked Hubbard what he’d been listening to lately. “I’ve been listening to this songwriter...

Anyone surprised Oprah got the first interview with Bobbi Kristina Brown following the death of her mother, singing icon Whitney Houston? This Sunday (March 11, 2012) at 9 p.m. EST, OWN will air a much anticipated episode of “Oprah’s next Chapter,” during which Oprah sits down with Houston’s brother, Gary Houston, her sister-in-law and confidante Patricia Houston,...