Robert Rodriguez is more than in touch with his inner child, he's involved in a lucrative partnership with the little fellow. Following the disarmingly clever and successful ""Spy Kids"" (2001) with a sequel, ""Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams.""

Luo Yu pushed open the door to a small room strewn with bamboo. Ying Ying, slumped in a corner with her legs splayed out on the floor, wasn't moving. But when a worker carried water to her she leaned over to drink, and something tiny, with tightly closed eyes and skin speckled with short white hairs, wriggled from under her forearm.

Moscow is in the throes of an ice skating boom. It all started two years ago when the city flooded a corner of Red Square and opened it to skaters.

The Lobanov-Rostovskys once ranked among the most exalted of Russian nobility, producing an array of statesmen, diplomats, military leaders and men of letters over the years.

In Russia, the number of countertenors, or male singers who can sing as high as female altos and even sopranos, can literally be counted on one hand. St. Petersburger Oleg Bezinskikh is one of them.

Cinematographer Tilman Buttner had just a narrow window of daylight to do something no one has ever done before -- shoot a feature-length film in one continuous take.

Anyone who has read the stories of Bruno Schulz, the collection called ""The Street of Crocodiles,"" or ""Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass,"" will know this writer as one of the strangest literary figures of the century

In the first insider book about the Bush White House, a former speech writer depicts a president who is impatient, quick to anger and sometimes lacking in curiosity, but whose shortcomings are outweighed by his decency and tenacity.

With all the aura and tradition surrounding the Brotchen, the mere English word ""roll"" just doesn't suffice. So I'll be calling this recipe ""Zupfbrotchen,"" the bread rolls you ""pluck""away from each other. You can just call them delicious.

""The Moth"" at the Fomenko Studio is an emblematic production for the current season, which is not yet half finished.

The first days of the new year brought with them the opportunity, in both St. Petersburg and Moscow, to see and hear three operas of uncommon interest and great rarity.

The entrance to the newly renovated St. Michel restaurant -- and its sister cafe, Le Gateau -- aims to create the feel of a Parisian brasserie, with an assortment of cakes and pastries under a glass counter and small tables perfect for sipping coffee.

Building No. 13 on Myasnitskaya Ulitsa has been a clubbing world address to watch since 1999. As of December it has been inhabited by a club with a name that invokes the dark side: Poison.

The Pentagon's dope wizards and gene splicers are working on the creation of the ""Extended Performance War Fighter,"" the Daily Telegraph and Christian Science Monitor report.

Robert Rodriguez is more than in touch with his inner child, he's involved in a lucrative partnership with the little fellow. Following the disarmingly clever and successful ""Spy Kids"" (2001) with a sequel, ""Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams.""

Luo Yu pushed open the door to a small room strewn with bamboo. Ying Ying, slumped in a corner with her legs splayed out on the floor, wasn't moving. But when a worker carried water to her she leaned over to drink, and something tiny, with tightly closed eyes and skin speckled with short white hairs, wriggled from under her forearm.