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Liberty Media offers $1 billion for Barnes & Noble

NEW YORK (Reuters) - John Malone's Liberty Media Corp has proposed to buy Barnes & Noble Inc for $1.02 billion, nine months after the largest U.S. bookstore chain put itself up for sale.

Amazon says e-books now outselling paper books

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday that it now sells more digital e-books than paper books and that its recently introduced lower-priced Kindle e-reader is outselling other versions of the device.

James Frey, 'A Million Little Pieces' author, earns apology from Oprah

James Frey, the "A Million Little Pieces" author who found himself on Oprah Winfrey's bad...

Charts and graphs become art at Stevenson University

Graphic artist Nigel Holmes infuses artistry into informational charts and data.

Accentuating the positive, Ben Vereen comes to Baltimore

Veteran actor, singer, dancer featured in benefit for senior center.

Peering into the troubled mind of Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann heard so much music in his head, he felt compelled to compose.

Savoring the rare beauty of 'Iphigenie'

If opera had somehow become so unfashionable, so unthinkable that no one dared create another one after 1779, we'd still be well off, for that would mean we'd still have an incredible work from that year — Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Iphigenie en Tauride" ("Iphigenia in Tauris").

Kwame Kwei-Armah has bold plans for Center Stage">Incoming artistic director
Kwame Kwei-Armah has bold plans for Center Stage

British playwright and actor wants more original shows, a new façade and even theater in the park.

Placido Domingo wraps up tenure with National Opera

Placido Domingo, as usual, is in full multitask mode as he wraps up his 15-year tenure as general director of Washington National Opera.

Kinetic racers take to the streets of Baltimore

Saturday is the day Fifi looks forward to every year.

A storied Stradivarius in Annapolis

Tchaikovsky's enormously popular Violin Concerto had a rough start. After the 1881 premiere, one reviewer famously said it made him wonder "if there can be music that stinks to the ear."

at Arena Stage">Theater review: 'Ruined'
at Arena Stage

"Ruined" is set during a period called the Great African War that began in 1998.

Preview: Transmodern Festival

The past few years, Baltimore's music scene has been recognized as one of the best in the country.

BMA picks local architectural firm for $24M renovation

Ziger/Snead to lead work on museum.

Drama Queens: George Hamilton to star in 'La Cage aux Folles' at Hippodrome

The much-admired revival of the musical "La Cage aux Folles" heading to Baltimore's Hippodrome next season will star movie/TV veteran George Hamilton.

Belvedere Square loses local tenants, gains chains

The owners of Daedalus Books & Music had great expectations when they opened their first stand-alone retail store at the then-recently reinvigorated Belvedere Square in 2006.

Why we're still intrigued by the duchess from Baltimore

Love her or hate her, the world may have Wallis Simpson to thank for this week's royal wedding.

Last Supper was not Jesus' last supper, researcher says

The Last Supper was probably the next-to-last supper of Jesus' life, a British researcher has concluded after using ancient calendars and astrological data to rethink the chronology of what Christians know as Holy Week.

'Crime and Punishment' stripped down, but not to its essence

The novel "Crime and Punishment" is a gripping, modern psychodrama, a masterpiece of tension and suspense.

Susan Reimer: Living with Lou: A writer embraces his terminal disease

Writer Dudley Clendinen is a gifted raconteur, weaving his stories in a soft Southern accent and with a courtly manner. It is easy to imagine him captivating dinner guests until long after the candles have burned down.

Beverly Cleary's 'exceptionally happy career'

— Ramona Quimby is everywhere. She's outside the front door of Beverly Cleary's retirement community apartment, on a poster that proclaims: "Libraries are forever!" She's on a sideboard in the living room, in the form of a life-size bust, hair wild and face cut into the shape of a grin.

'West Side Story' rumbles into Baltimore

Production hits most of the notes, needs more jets of inspiration.

Philadelphia's French arts connection

City's International Festival of the Arts celebrates Paris.

After 17 seasons, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival folds

Despite a $1 million endowment in 2007, the professional theater company had struggled financially.

Circus vs. Cirque du Soleil

With both Cirque du Soleil and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey hitting Baltimore this month, which should you attend?

Figaro Project presents three new one-act operas

Trio of works by local composers set to debut this weekend.

A big stage for a small orchestra

Marin Alsop and the BSO put young pupils in spotlight as part of their OrchKids program.