Beyonce and Jay-Z’s offspring doesn’t even have a name yet, but it was the indisputable breakout star of Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, upstaging everyone, even Katy Perry’s win for video of the year.Perry, who had the most nominations coming into the show with 10, came away with three moonman tro

Performance Aug. 29, 2011

SARASOTA, Florida (AP) ―At the height of what he calls his addiction, Ryan Van Cleave would stand in the grocery store checkout line with his milk and bread and baby food for his little girls and for a split second think he was living inside a video game.It sounds crazy, but it’s true: Something wou

Culture Aug. 29, 2011

GARY, Indiana (AP) ― He is about half the age of other students in the room. Yet 13-year-old Noah Egler is completely in his element, wearing powder blue medical scrubs and answering questions with an enthusiasm that draws smiles from those around him.They are amused by his presence, but also inspir

People Aug. 29, 2011

LONDON (AP) ― Fake rhino horns, anyone? That’s all thieves who broke into a British museum have to show after a misguided robbery early Saturday.The thieves were seeking valuable rhino horns that can be sold in illicit markets for their purported aphrodisiac and medicinal use, but they left with wor

Performance Aug. 28, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Steve Jobs has been Apple’s most recognizable personality, but much of its cachet comes from its clean, inviting designs. For that, Apple can credit its head designer, Jonathan Ive.Ive, a self-effacing 44-year-old Brit, helped Jobs bring Apple back from the brink of financial ru

Arts & Design Aug. 28, 2011

Japanese artist Takashi Kuribayashi explores bordersThe surreal experience could best be explained as a moment experiencing a bugs’ eye view. Everything was mystically white at beyond museum in Cheongdam-dong, southern Seoul. Stepping in under the large, thin and uneven sheet of Japanese traditional

Performance Aug. 28, 2011

RAPALLO, Italy ― Every spring, as the rainy season wanes, tourists pour in to the Italian Riviera, like a succession of rogue waves breaking over a sea wall.They come for the magnificent landscapes, breathtaking vistas and impossibly blue Mediterranean. They come to see the postcard-pretty town of P

Travel Aug. 26, 2011

For Les Halos de Jupiter’s Philippe Cambie, “Grenache is the king of all grapes and the natural leader of all Rhone varietals.” The southern Rhone rising-star enologist makes wines for a number of famed estates, but Les Halos de Jupiter is his own project.His Vacqueyras is a blend of 83 percent Gren

Food Aug. 26, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) ― Non-Korean-speaking theatergoers attending Lincoln Center’s production of “Hero: The Musical” might find themselves occasionally skipping some of the English supertitles projected high above the stage to devote more visual attention to the exorbitant onstage attractions in this lavis

Performance Aug. 25, 2011

TOKYO ― “It was like I was being advised to retire,” internationally famed fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto said when asked how he felt after being informed he would receive France’s highest cultural decoration.The remark fits Yamamoto’s image of a “rebel designer,” a nickname earned after a sensatio

Arts & Design Aug. 24, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) ― Even a fatwa is grist for comedy when you’re David Letterman.Back from two weeks’ vacation and making his first TV appearance since a threat against his life was posted on a jihadist website, the “Late Show” host played it for laughs during Monday’s monologue.U.S. President Barack Ob

Television Aug. 23, 2011