By Channing Gray Mixed Magic Theater is taking its Moby Dick: Then and Now to the Kennedy Center. At a morning press conference today at the theater's Pawtucket headquarters, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy will announce that the troupe will be giving one performance of the show in the nation's capital Nov.

Hollywood's Universal Pictures reportedly has hired "Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov to head its new big-screen adaptation of "Moby Dick." Variety.com said Adam Cooper and Bill Collage are writing a script for the film based on Herman Melville's classic whale novel.

or maybe trying to find your way home from Barack Obama's acceptance speech - here's what the Rocky's Celebrity and Parties team found happening around the town late Thursday: * On the lookout: Maybe one of the funniest sights of the convention was Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West, music exec and Denver native Big Jon Platt, Mary J.

By Michael Janairo, Albany Times Union, N.Y. Apr. 22--April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, but it's also National Poetry Month. In recognition, we bring you these haiku.

By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM RICHMOND, Va. - It was reportedly scrawled in red ink on the arm of the Virginia Tech gunman after his shooting rampage that left him and 32 others dead. It was written on an overnight postage Seung-Hui Cho sent between the two shootings.