Holly McClellan Martinez News-Gazette   Martinez Opera Contra Costa plans to provide some culture and class this weekend in its performance of one of the world's most beloved operas, Gioachino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville."

  Half of all U.S. films made prior to 1950 – and 80 percent of early movies made in the 1910s and '20s – no longer exist; victims of the passage of time, poor storage, obsolescence and apathy.   Forever lost with those cinematic creations were revealing and salient ethnographic chronicles of over one hundred years of American life, in all its wildly diverse splendor.

Harry Styles is reportedly dating TV star Emily Atack.

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Another day that ends with a “y” is another day for Real Housewives of New Jersey rumors. According to a source, Caroline Manzo is threatening to quit if Teresa Giudice isn’t fired by Bravo. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard a rumor involving Teresa like this, but Caroline has since denied this on Facebook, saying there [...]

An Israeli military court on Sunday convicted a Palestinian protest leader of urging youths to throw rocks at Israeli soldiers, ruling in a case that sparked international criticism of Israeli practices in the West Bank.