Michael O'Connor

The nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards were finally announced. The nine nominated movies for the best picture of the year are:"The Artist","The Descendants","Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close","The Help", "HUGO", "Midnight in Paris","...

With the anniversary of 9/11 approaching, local firefighters are remembering the fallen with their culinary skills. For firefighters, cooking is a huge part of the job. "None of us are tiny, right?" joked Escondido Fire Captain Ken Slaven. "We haven't...

Here's a modest proposal: Next year, let's ignore the Oscars. I'm not talking about the winners or the show itself, but I sure could do without the obsessive buildup to the event that devours everything in its path. Let's let the Oscars sneak up on us...

Teenlink citics reveal who they think should take home the Oscar Best Picture: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire And the Oscar goes to: Slumdog Millionaire Despite my own personal campaign for Milk, I am...

Michael O'Connor "The Duchess" The costume design nominations spanned many locations and time periods, including San Francisco in the '70s, 18th century England, the Jazz Age in New Orleans, suburban America in the '50s and Australia before World War...

Georgiana Spencer, who became the Duchess of Devonshire at age 17, was an 18th century beauty revered and reviled for her wit, intellect and political activism, as much as for her fashion sense, gambling, drinking and partying. In " The Duchess," Keira...

"WHAT does it feel like to wear a corset?" asks Keira Knightley, looking amused. The actress rolls her molasses-brown eyes and starts to gasp as though she's choking on a fish bone. "Your ribs are crushed in and you can't get your breath. Oh, and if you...

The "Slumdog Millionaire" juggernaut continues as the drama dominated the British Academy Film Awards, winning seven Sunday evening. "Slumdog," which revolves around an impoverished Indian teenager, won outstanding film, director for Danny Boyle, adapted...

Spectators sat on 56 chairs positioned at various angles around the Getty Gallery at the Skirball Cultural Center. Four dancers began slowly walking through and around them, then picked up the pace until they were running and brushing almost dangerously...

While the Golden Globe awards might be gold, the world's biggest film and television stars will be dazzling in Platinum on this year's red carpet. All eyes will focus on the fashion as nominees and presenters are sure to sparkle in the latest Platinum...

Adapted from the first novel by eventual Nobel winner V.S. Naipaul, "The Mystic Masseur" is not only based on a book, it is also a love note to the impressive power of the printed word, a charming tale of how an obsessive devotion to literature was the...