FUTURE SOUNDS: September 2004

SANTA CLARITA - The city's annual Cowboy Festival takes place this weekend at Melody Ranch, the picturesque film set for the retired show "Deadwood." Only problem is you can't take pictures - no cameras are allowed at the ranch...

This is dancing? Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey save wear and tear on their feet. " /> This is dancing? Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey save wear and tear on their feet...

Country singer Dierks Bentley , classic shock-rocker Alice Cooper and a star from Disney's "High School Musical" are among the acts newly announced in the 2007 Iowa State Fair's lineup of Grandstand entertainment...

NEW YORK -- A federal bankruptcy judge approved a Delta Air Lines plan yesterday to exit bankruptcy after the nation's third-largest airline spent nearly 20 months in a wrenching reorganization that cut 6,000 jobs and slashed $3 billion in costs...

PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Pirates were getting so thin on pitching, first baseman Adam LaRoche was next in line to take the mound. LaRoche himself made certain that wouldn't happen...

What Roger Ebert couldn't say Wednesday night at the opening of his Overlooked Film Festival, his smile said for him. A tracheostomy has left the 64-year-old film critic unable to speak...

'We've given ourselves a chance,' he began, offering no warning that he was about to wander off-message from the regulation manager-speak he does so well. 'But at quarter-to-five next week it can all change round...

LOS ANGELES - Music legend Phil Spector listened glumly in court Wednesday as a prosecutor portrayed him as a killer whose long history of victimizing women culminated in the death of a beautiful actress at his suburban castle...

The scandal, which unfolded three years ago after hundreds of babies fell ill in an eastern Chinese province, became the defining symbol of a broad problem in China's economy...

RIALTO - Swarms of fashionable Southlanders clad in oversized sunglasses and form-fitting designer jeans descended on this modest Inland Empire city Wednesday...

I'm an Orlando native who has watched Central Florida grow since the days Gatorland was considered a main attraction...