New exodus

Ireland's economic woes bring about new wave of emigration

Lea Salonga: One Fine Feline

Lea Salonga as Grizabella in the upcoming and much-awaited Broadway musical, Cats. Remark the cat Who hesitates toward you in the light of the door Which opens on her like a grin. You see the border of her coat is torn Is torn and stained with sand, And you see the corner of her eye Twists like a crooked pin. From T.S. Eliot's poem "Rhapsody on a Windy Night".

Coping with debt, divorce and death

Debt, divorce and death: never mind the personal trauma, the financial costs of these can put enormous strain on families The figures make for grim reading. Average household debt (including credit cards and overdrafts, but excluding mortgages) now stands at £8,716. This rises to £18,159 if the average is based on households with some form of unsecured loan. In 2008, 136,026 divorces were ...

HUFFPOST HILL - JULY 21ST, 2010

What's Your Reaction? While much of the blogosphere kicked back in Vegas for Netroots Nation, those of us still in D.C. were treated to a show worthy of the Strip, courtesy of the newly minted Tea Party Caucus.

Victor Hochhauser: 'My great stroke of luck came when Stalin died'

The impresario, now 87, talks to Nicholas Wroe At a time of arts funding cuts, the subsidy-heavy activities of opera and ballet always come under particular scrutiny. But the arrival of the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera at Covent Garden this weekend not only comes at no cost to the taxpayer, it might even generate a little income for the Royal Opera House. "The new Nureyev", 21-year-old Ivan Vasiliev ...