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Family history buffs to descend on Salt Lake City in late April for 4 genealogy conferences. Even after almost 30 years of research, Jan Alpert still gets goose bumps when she discovers a new branch on her family tree.

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) spreads its wings westwards this year to bring to the Scottish capital the flamboyant and exciting cultures of the Americas and Australasia.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO's costly World War Two miniseries "The Pacific" got off to a slow start on Sunday evening, delivering 3.1 million viewers.

Critics of Justice Dept. lawyers who had terror detainee clients draw attention, condemnation. A conservative group's bashing of several Obama administration lawyers as the "al-Qaida Seven" has struck a nerve in the U.S. legal community, prompting even some fellow Republicans to denounce the group's attack.

Philadelphia-based firm Kieran Timberlake chosen to design new US embassy in London. It will be a fortress, but there's not a fence in sight.

vNew York's Metropolitan Opera will stage seven new productions this year, including the first two parts of a new "Ring" cycle, and raise ticket prices by six to 11 percent.

vNew York's Metropolitan Opera will stage seven new productions this year, including the first two parts of a new "Ring" cycle, and raise ticket prices by six to 11 percent.

Metropolitan Opera raising prices across the board next season for first increase in 5 years. The Metropolitan Opera is instituting an across-the-board ticket price increase for the first time in five years next season, when another traditional Franco Zeffirelli production will be jettisoned for a minimalist staging.

With ``Shutter Island,'' Martin Scorsese proves susceptible to the chic of filming a Dennis Lehane bestseller. Clint Eastwood turned ``Mystic River'' into lugubrious opera; Ben Affleck pumped ``Gone Baby Gone'' full of pulp. Surprisingly, Scorsese divines Hitchcock in the competing genres of Lehane's book, which trotted out psychological suspense, grisly melodrama, wartime horror, and some risibly punning names while spinning a yarn about two federal marshals on the hunt for an escaped mental patient. It's an inspired extraction though not a terribly satisfying one. This is a long, heavy film, in which Scorsese's aerobic moviemaking turns mannered and uncharacteristically passive. The movie's big moments hinge on long explanations, meant to clear everything up. But all the telling seems to neutralize Scorsese's kinetic power. When Boston Detective Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) arrives at the movie's title destination and begins poking around the island's mental hospital, the script

Nico Muhly commissioned by Met and ENO to write Internet-themed opera. Talk about modern opera.

An explosion in smartphones, laptops, USB sticks and other portable devices has brought new security challenges, reports Greg Masters.. h1An explosion in smartphones, laptops, USB sticks and other portable devices has brought new security challenges, reports Greg Masters./h1 pThe rise of the smartphone has done more than bring convenience to the hundreds of millions of consumers who use them. It has forced a realignment in the way IT administrators go about protecting enterprise networks. Where once their commandments about user policies were unquestioned and strictly adhered to, the so-called consumerization of the mobile device has, in many cases, obliterated their power to dictate the rules. /p pEmployees have been bringing technology into the enterprise for quite a while now, says John Dasher, senior director of data protection at McAfee. ?The day is long gone where employees use office-specified tools,? he says. The time has come where executives can tell the IT department that th

McCollum scores 19, Lehigh takes advantage of Lafayette's poor shooting for 75-57 victory. CJ McCollum scored 23 points to lead Lehigh to a 75-57 victory over Lafayette on Saturday night.

Laura Linney to star in comedy series about cancer for Showtime, aiming for a fall premiere. Showtime says it will be looking for laughs from cancer, of all things, in a new series starring Laura Linney.

Showtime says it will be looking for laughs from cancer, of all things, in a new series starring Laura Linney.

No. 1 Alabama places 6 on AP All-America team, including Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram. Alabama will bring a lineup powered by a record number of AP All-Americans to the national championship game.

CAPITAL CULTURE: Slinging sweets, sawing gingerbread: White House Christmas no job for sissies. Christmas at the White House isn't for sissies.

Dougher scores 18 points on career-high six 3 pointers in Stony Brook's 71-52 win over Lehigh. Bryan Dougher scored 18 points on a career-high six 3-pointers and Stony Brook defeated Lehigh 71-52 on Monday night.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Bidders for a naval logbook detailing the first contact with a surviving mutineer from the HMS Bounty on his Pitcairn Island hideaway, drove the price up to 40 times its estimated value at an auction this week.

It's too late to book your Thanksgiving dinner at Plimoth Plantation, but you can add a taste of the first feast to your holiday table with the museum's Indian pudding. Indian pudding was the natural result of combining English pudding techniques with Native American ``flour,'' or cornmeal, said Kathleen Wall, Colonial foodways culinarian at Plimoth Plantation. ``It was the corn that made it Indian,'' she said. A foodways culinarian, Wall said, studies food, recipes, manners, archeology, art, animals - anything related to the procurement, preservation, preparation, and presentation of food - to get a picture of a society or culture. At Plimoth , Colonial foodways covers 1620-1692. A parallel program focuses on Wampanoag foodways. On Nov. 13, National Indian Pudding Day, Wall led a group of visitors on a tour of the 1627 village that included demonstrations of the evolution of New World puddings - from hasty puddings to puddings in guts to the spicy, sweet, yet decidedly unattractive de

Md. man killed, 6 hurt in Pa. speakeasy shooting where multiple shooters fired up to 30 shots. A fistfight at a crowded speakeasy touched off a shooting that killed a man, and six people were wounded in an ensuing gunfight, authorities said Monday.