My father bought my first guitar at Sears. It was an electric guitar with a tiny amp and speaker built into the guitar case. I'd told him I had to have one. A week before I had sat in our living room, mesmerized, watching the Beatles' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Listening to them play their guitars and singing, I felt like an electric current was going through me.

Editors Note: Not everyone has a special someone in his or her life to celebrate Valentine’s Day with. Not everyone has a 2005 Infiniti G35 coupe to drive either. Now our “Two for the Road” ladies have the car, and they’re just waiting for a special someone. Based on this review, it might be a very long wait.

Here it is, gift-wrapped ahead of time for your convenience: The dramatic conclusion to Saturday’s 5A Division I baseball state championship, as imagined by Eddie Pickens.

WSho knew Thomas Paine was a baseball writer?

AUGUSTA, Ga. - More than 8,500 James Brown fans filled an arena bearing his name Saturday in a final, joyful farewell to the singer that seemed as fitting for a civil rights leader as for "The Godfather of Soul."

As holds true for most professionals, the work week is crazy busy for Jim Bodmer.

LONDON - Britney Spears, casting off the remnants of her sweet-as-pie image along with most of her clothes, says she's relieved she didn't settle down with fellow pop star Justin Timberlake.

PASADENA, Calif. - Jamie Foxx and Mary J. Blige took best album honors Saturday at the 21st Anniversary Soul Train Music Awards.

If any piece of classic American literature should be depicted on film with wildly decadent and boldly inventive style, it's "The Great Gatsby." After all, who was the character of Jay Gatsby himself if not a spinner of grandiose tales and a peddler of lavish dreams?

Aerosmith is set to rock the foundation of Cricket Wireless Pavilion on Monday, and while the rest of the band will spend the next day recovering from the concert, drummer Joey Kramer will be moonlighting in Tempe.

I just can’t seem to forget about the responses to Tuesday’s column. It bothered me all week.

It makes perfect sense, Sarah Hinze believes. If we have souls when we dwell on earth, and our souls go on to heaven after death, then what about our souls before our conception and birth? Where did our souls come from?

SYDNEY, Australia - Heath Ledger's family remembered the actor as "the most amazing old soul in a young man's body." In a separate tribute, his sister said she could hardly breathe as she tried to write about "my little brother."

Will Turpin is quite possibly the most laid back guy in rock ‘n' roll, ironic considering it's an industry based on a lot of noise and hype. On his new EP, called "The Lighthouse," the humble musician has cleared his throat and finally discovered his voice.

Winter doesn’t forgive. Of all the seasons, winter is the most temperamental. It is at once beautiful and dangerous, enticing you to come out and worship landscapes kissed by snow and ice. One false move, one random act of nature and the story of your life may end in an icy tomb.

NEW YORK - Wilson Pickett, the soul pioneer best known for the fiery hits "Mustang Sally" and "In The Midnight Hour," died of a heart attack Thursday in a Reston, Va., hospital, according to his management company. He was 64.

LONDON - Edwin Starr, the soul singer who produced No. 1 Motown hits such as "War," died of an apparent heart attack Wednesday, his manager said. He was 61.

Jim Belushi is living large. Not only is he the star of the ABC sitcom "According to Jim," but the actor, who will turn 50 in June, also has a burgeoning music career.

"how you climb up the mountain is just as important as how you get down the mountain. and so it is with life, which for many of us becomes one big gigantic test followed by one big gigantic lesson. in the end, it all comes down to one word, grace. it’s how you accept winning and losing, good luck and bad luck, the darkness and the light."

The Rodeo-Chediski fire burned a hole in Arizona's heart. A year after the biggest wildland fire in state history battered Mogollon Rim area towns and scattered refugees, the people of the Rim have not only survived, but thrived.

The Rodeo-Chediski fire burned a hole in Arizona's heart. A year after the biggest wildland fire in state history battered Mogollon Rim area towns and scattered refugees, the people of the Rim have not only survived, but thrived.