ATHENS – Cabinet ministers from Greece and the U.K. discussed Greece’s bid to get the Parthenon Sculptures returned from London but gave no sign the world’s thorniest cultural heritage issue was any closer to resolution Tuesday. Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said he told U.K. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Europe Leo Docherty … Read more
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful “Memphis sound,” has died at age 92. Stewart died peacefully and surrounded by his family on Monday, the Stax Museum of American … Read more
LONDON – David Tennant remembers seeing in the news the image of Alexander Litvinenko lying in a hospital bed. It’s a photograph the actor has re-created — with support from makeup artists, prosthetic professionals and the art department— for his title role in “Litvinenko.” The four-episode miniseries written by George Kay follows the investigation into … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – Country music icon Shania Twain is kicking off the second leg of her “Queen of Me” tour in San Antonio. The “Any Man of Mine” singer will stop at the AT&T Center on Oct. 12. Tickets for the general public go on sale at 10 a.m. on Dec. 16 at ATTCenter.com, Ticketmaster.com … Read more