Oh dear, you can take the lad out of Wigan Casino... "Sort of," said our unfazed waiter, "but it is more a velvety-smooth sauce. ...

I saw it first by night. A metropolis unveiled in viewfinder snapshots through the smudged windows of an elevated train. Gothic towers crowded close, proud detail etched on gray stone. A beaming stadium full of red-capped baseball fans, its front side left open as if to console the devoted others it couldn't quite hold. A neon neighborhood of revelers, trying their luck with the cards and with ...

SGG Promotion’s Sammy Gello-ani phrased it so succinctly when he said that Cebu is the “show-window” of Philippine boxing to the world.

Oliver Burkeman asks whether the idea of cities at sea in the face of global warming holds water?

July 18 - David Myles, Fredericton, Lighthouse on the River. - Bob Lanois, Rothesay, Shadow Lawn Inn. - The Irish Descendants with Mary Jane Lemond, Sackville, United Church.

(CP) - A look at some concerts scheduled in the days ahead (check local organizers for details):

Tourism is a major industry in Cebu. That’s a fact, and it’s what has made the island world famous. Last month, I was invited to attend this year’s Tourism Congress, a highlight in the annual Cebu Business Month under the aegis of Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Who says the sun always shines in Los Angeles? In "The Cleaner," a new series on A&E beginning Tuesday at 10 p.m., the streets are wet, the neighborhoods downscale, and the prevailing atmosphere more reminiscent of the cold junkie dawns of a William Burroughs novel than the glossy, bright-eyed metropolis usually depicted in television shows set in Los Angeles not named "The Shield." The subject ...

Online Gambling Paper, GA - Jul 13, 2008The majority of teenagers gambling online usually choose to play poker, in respect to other forms of Internet gambling, such as casino games and sports ...

Charles Ayres is really making a name for himself in Japan — so much so, he’s had to revamp his old name, adopting the more regal-sounding Charlemagne. “I feel like my parents were trying to curse me with a boring life,” says the 30-year-old American. “Charles sounds so stodgy.

New York Times, United States - Jul 11, 2008After all, this wasn’ta metropolis with a well-established avant-garde tradition like Paris or Berlin, but dowdy old Lisbon, a small Catholic city that is ...