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As mothers celebrate their special day, these women share their tales of joy and heartbreak, the miracle of birth and the challenges of life. Story
A Mother's Day for me
Mother's Day used to make me cringe. I didn't want to think about it.
The sin of falling in love
More often than not, when priests break their vows of celibacy it's with adult women, not young boys. But it's still complicated, and sometimes devastating.
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MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO, COOKIE: THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL MIXTAPE (MAVERICK) On her first new album in two years, bassist and singer Meshell Ndegeocello offers stirring ruminations on life, love, politics and sex. Ndegeocello's music is candid; many of her songs are id-invoking sexual journeys, accented by undulating bass lines and psychedelic grooves. Ndegeocello sounds free, leading listeners inward on her organic, improvisational tunes.
Mane event anchors TBPAC schedule
TAMPA -- The Lion King is set to roar at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, whose 2002-03 schedule is released today. As previously announced, TBPAC's season is anchored by the ballyhooed Disney musical, whose U.S. tour began last month in Denver, where the entire run was sold out in advance of opening night.
ABC lays a (dinosaur) egg
Weak plot and weaker characters doom Dinotopia at a time when the network needs to show it can do something right.
Baryshnikov's gospel: Art and dance can heal
Mikhail Baryshnikov is a risk taker. For the past 12 years, his White Oak Dance Project has given new life to the works of often forgotten modernist masters and encouraged young choreographers to explore new territory.
Space is artist's final frontier
Ibram Lassaw, the subject of an exhibition at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art in Tarpon Springs, explores and rearranges space.
