Iona Jones, chief executive of S4C, quits

Welsh language channel had been warned that it faced a potential 24% cut to its annual grant S4C, the Welsh-language channel supported by taxpayers, tonight lost its chief executive after Iona Jones abruptly left her post following a meeting with the channel's governing body. The channel has been warned by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport that it faces a potential 24% cut to its annual ...

City Swelters, as Theater Fests Turn Up the Heat TNC and FringeNYC offer mixed bag of nuts

BY TRAV S.D. About Last Month With thermometers breaking all over the city, your correspondent has been cooling his jets in the theatre. Swimming pools? Margaritas? Bah, theyre for children.

How not to pitch a crime novel

A major crime-writing festival, a roomful of industry names to impress, and two minutes to do it in. Gulp Crime, once the Cinderella of literary fiction, is continuing to grow in popularity, as was clear last week in Harrogate, at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing festival . The festival is a haven for the star writers in crime fiction and this year was no exception. Val McDermid, Ian ...

The Maid

Highly Recommended She's more or less family. The Movie In a palatial Chilean estate owned by a large upper-class family, the windows are covered with bars to protect the haves from the have-nots. The home is also surrounded by a gate to further isolate and protect the copious clan. The frequent imagery is fitting considering that--for the last 23 years--the estate has served as a prison for ...

Ali Is "Under Pressure" to Get Engaged: Former Bachelorette

"I'm sure she'll be glad when it's over," DeAnna Pappas tells UsGet more Us! Follow us on Twitter, F[...]