Ellen Sterling

The sixth Vegas Uncork'd by Bon Appétit festival of food and wine in Las Vegas was a huge success, bringing the city's -- and the world's -- top chefs together with food lovers from several countries to taste fabulous food...

Imagine you're watching Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese's (left) towering 1980 film about boxer Jake LaMotta.

LaMotta, played by Robert DeNiro, is in the ring and fighting hard against Sugar Ray Robinson or Marcel Cerdan or, really, against any...

If you were asked to use one word to describe CinemaCon, the annual gathering of the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) in Las Vegas, that word would be "celebrate." And, this year, there's lots to celebrate and lots of people in...

Almost two years ago, I wrote about Tessa and Sascha Hartmann's dream of making the first full-length animated feature ever in Scotland. Finally completed, their movie, Sir Billi, made its international debut at the Sonoma International Film Festival...

"I love entertaining people. I love the live stuff. The stage was what I was made for."

The speaker is Mike Tyson. He's sitting in the corner of an L-shaped couch in a 12th floor suite in the MGM Grand, hosting...

It got attention in worldwide media when a throng of celebrities came to Las Vegas a few weeks ago to join in a celebration of Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday.

The celebrities included notables from film and TV (Sir...

Robert Davi (left) has one of those faces that people always seem to recognize -- one of those faces that cause people to walk up to him and point their index finger as they try to recall how they know him....

If the gang isn't all there in person -- and they are not -- they are well represented by photos and artifacts. So, Al Capone, (whose image is reflected in a certain wall, right) Bugs Moran, Bugsy Siegel, Moe Dalitz, Meyer Lansky,...

Not too many years ago, lots of people thought vinyl records were -- like rotary telephone dials and typewriters -- a thing of the past, replaced by digital recordings, CDs and MP3s, used mostly for obscure and alternative music. Then, in...

For so many of us, Thanksgiving is a special day. But, for Tiger Martina (left, executing a complicated dance move), Thanksgiving 2011 was a most special day, and an estimated 45 million people shared it with him both in person and...

If Chef Michel Richard were a drink, he'd be Champagne. Why? Because when he talks about his life and about food he absolutely sparkles, bubbling over with enthusiasm.

Richard is frequently in Las Vegas these days, commuting between there and...

It's probably a sure bet that there are few, if any, people who don't know at least one of Jimmy Webb's songs. Just consider his catalog which, among many others, includes "Up, Up and Away," "Didn't We," "Highwayman," "Wichita Lineman,"...

Octavia Spencer is one very happy, very proud woman. The source of her happiness and pride at the moment is The Help, the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's ubiquitous book -- 100+ weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and still very active on the paperback and e-book lists...

I've always believed that when we travel to new places our minds seek out the strange and weigh it against the familiar. To me, this is an automatic reflex. Subtleties come later. Naturally, this is what I began to do when I arrived in Adelaide.

When Americans think of Australia, we tend to think of Sydney or Melbourne, the Great Barrier Reef, the outback, kangaroos and koalas. Of course, there's a lot more to discover in this fascinating country and chance -- specifically the fact that I happen to have family there -- took me...

Yes, there were the requisite celebrity chefs. There were events large and small that ensured attendees would get up-close and personal with the culinary stars and their cuisine. And, going into Vegas Uncork'd by Bon Appétit that is what I expected -- food, wine, celebrities. Like everyone else there I...

A few of the chefs wore black jackets but the majority wore white. The crowd standing in the hot sun in front of the Bellagio Resort and Casino fountains waited patiently.

There were a few brief remarks by Adam Rapoport, editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit and publisher Pamela Drucker Mann,...

Rob O'Keefe (left) knows whereof he speaks when, speaking of Las Vegas in 2004 and 2005, he says, "We were trying to advertise our way into culinary credibility and we learned that advertising...

People who saw the movie in 1952 reported being very impressed. Reportedly they mostly talked about "the roller coaster," the Rockaway Playland ride that seemed to take the viewer along in the front car it as it climbed and swooped on...