Home alone, and back again, for sleeping beauty
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A sleeping teen-ager flew home to  Bulgaria and then back to Malta after aircrew apparently failed  to notice she was still on the plane.
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B.B. King returned to his hometown of Indianola for the aptly titled "B.B. King Homecoming Festival."
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Rhett Butler, the fictional Southern charmer who walked out of Scarlett O'Hara's life in "Gone With the Wind," returns to Georgia next weekend Â on a book tour of sorts.
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After a 12-year slumber, ethereal jester NiGHTS returns to the Nintendo Wii in NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams,  a nightmare adventure doomed by frustrating controls. The last time this franchise made an appearance, Sega was still in the console business.
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A few years ago, my life was roadworthy but lonely.
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Watch Strangers to relish the independent update on a revered classic.
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In 'The Science of Sleep,' a dreamer retreats into a fantasyland. Things go swimmingly until he wakes up.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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The revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical has the disoriented quality of someone suffering from jet lag after a sleepless trans-Pacific flight.
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The Disney hit âHigh School Musicalâ is bound for London.
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Hand-drawn animation, out of fashion in the computer age, experienced a rescue worthy of a fairy tale on Thursday, when Walt Disney animators announced they would bring back the art form to the big screen.
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Sprawled on the floor of South Station in Boston at 3 a.m. on a February night, Stephane Lasme could only yawn and rub the exhaustion from his eyes. This much was clear: It had been one long journey.
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"On Kingdom Mountain" (Houghton Mifflin, 276 pages, $24) by Howard Frank Mosher: Jane Hubbell Kinneson, the owner and lone resident of Kingdom Mountain, communes daily with "my dear people," a family of wooden figures she has carved from native basswood.
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By VICTORIA KENNEDY  1 RUN A HOT BATH   Light a couple of candles, lie back and have a nice long soak.
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Bear with me a moment and take part in a bit of holiday whimsy. Close your eyes and think about Christmases past. What do you see?
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I recently moved from a small apartment in Oakland to a new house in Sacramento. The cat and I are adjusting quite well, thank you, though for about one month, I was without a kitchen. Or a water heater. Or downstairs flooring. It may not have been the best-laid renovation plan.
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Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez returned Wednesday for the first time in a quarter century to the streets of his birthplace and inspiration for the fictional town immortalized in his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude."