Bricks to Stone Celebration

WASHINGTON. May 22. KAZINFORM A rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, with annotations and drawings by author JK Rowling, has sold for a record price. After a bidding war between two buyers the book sold for £150,000, a ...

"Smoke 'em if you got 'em," goes the old saying. And in Mexico, Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM On Monday, PMI announced plans to buy out the 20% stake in its Philip Morris Mexico subsidiary from local partner and Carlos Slim Helu holding ...

My Name is Val and I'm a rock-star-memoir addict. It all started with Philip Norman's seminal biography of The Beatles, Shout They say it's the first book that gets you hooked, and I was. Hungry for more salacious minutiae and insider dish, I ...

The auction house Sotheby's is selling a first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which features comments and drawings from its author JK Rowling. The book, which goes under the hammer on Tuesday evening, is expected to fetch ...

It was around the year of my birth that Philip Morris began a campaign to seduce its female smokers. In an era largely untroubled by my pregnant mother's cigarettes, the Virginia Slims campaign was, in itself, unsurprising. What was surprising was ...

THEATER REVIEW A FAMILY FOR ALL OCCASIONSBank Street Theater, 155 Bank St.; 212-513-1080. Through May 26. Running time: 135 minutes, one intermission. The last time Philip Seymour Hoffman teamed up with playwright Bob Glaudini, they scored an ...

President Nixon's former aide Roger Stone has claimed the assassination of John F. Kennedy was masterminded by two presidential hopefuls, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon himself. Mr. Stone says that his upcoming book The Man who killed Kennedy - ...

DEBORAH STONE looks at a corner of the country where people are buying homes where they can work and play. Matthew and Phoebe Higginbottom with daughter Peggy Jean, 4, in their converted silversmiths WHEN THE high-speed rail link (HS2) gets its ...

Indio A double exposure of Sarah Weston, 28, from Venice, dancing to Allen Stone with an American flag scarf as a flag during the second weekend of the Coachella fest. PHOTOGRAPH BY: / The start of the double-exposure adventure began on Thursday, ...