
By Dean Clancy
Budget voters are first chapter in victory over eternal budget deficits
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Gossip, "A Joyful Noise" (Columbia)
From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry.

He already has a Super Bowl ring, and now football star Donald Driver can add the "Dancing With the Stars" mirrorball trophy to his awards collection.
Holy cow. The most rapturous audience reception at the Cannes Film Festival has gone to "Holy Motors," a disorienting, whirling dream of a movie by French director Leos Carax.
Lady Gaga is as confused as anyone about whether she'll be allowed to perform in Indonesia.
Charles MacLean is out of his element in Cannes, a town consumed by cinema and celebrity. His element is Scotch whisky _ "uisge beatha," he says, giving it its Gaelic name. The water of life.
Vampires, Transformers, singing high-schoolers: They can all be tough to outrun.

From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry.

Lifetime network has set a premiere date for its new reality series about Bristol Palin's home life in Alaska.
A new Bob Woodward book is scheduled for September, upholding an election-year tradition.
After moving across an ocean to rural England, Lisa Marie Presley found herself as close as she's ever been to her father, at least musically.
Here's a listing of the 2011 inductees to the National Recording Registry in chronological order:
Fifty-five years after its publication, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is finally burning on the big screen.
Lifetime network has set a premiere date for its new reality series about Bristol Palin's home life in Alaska.

A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.