Brian Sivesind is proud of his take on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which he recently directed at local theater The Empty Space. He was talking it up enthusiastically last Wednesday in between sips of a Starbuck's double tall latte. There was only one problem: Hardly anybody came to the play. That's frequently been the case ever since Sivesind, a 30-year-old...

The film "Matchstick Men" can be described in many different ways. At times, it's a mildly goofy comedy about Roy (Nicolas Cage), a con artist with a large assortment of nervous ticks and obsessive behaviors, who routinely goes through massive cleaning sprees, multiple lock checks and repetitive food purchases, all while scamming people out of their money with the help of...

Whether they danced around the stage, sent melodies across the auditorium or carefully carried themselves in formal attire, 16 contestants stepped into the spotlight for a chance to win at the 2003 Delano Harvest Holidays Scholarship Queen Pageant. Melissa Adriano, who was crowned queen of the pageant on Sept. 20, played on both a saxophone and flute for the talent portion...

People embraced each other as tears of joy and pain mirrored the sunset. They were part of a crowd gathered in the warm and breezy evening for the second annual Light the Night Walk held at the Marketplace. "It's important to be here today and at events like this," said Chad Hathaway, founder and chair of the event. "It definitely affects the people, but children the most....