TAMPA - Stefan Sanderling is spreading his musical wings. The Florida Orchestra's chief conductor has signed on as music director of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1929 as part of the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and cultural center on 750 acres in southwestern New York. For nine weeks each summer, the institution holds an acclaimed festival of the arts ...more

November 5, 2007

Amun Ra can perform a neat trick, though any other Egyptian fruit bat probably could pull this off. ...more

October 27, 2007

The NASA official who presided over Columbia's doomed re-entry - and who will make the final call about whether Discovery should launch Tuesday - said that he is confident this will be a safe flight despite lingering questions about wing imperfections. ...more

October 22, 2007