There was nothing desperate about this finale. ABC's "Desperate Housewives" concluded its rocky, racy and macabre eight-season run with a tidy, affectionate send-off.

The superhero team that conquered the U.S. box office will be suiting up for a return engagement.

Trends and fads are generational. The hippie movement died with Watergate. Disco ruled, until it became a bad word. MTV once dictated popular culture; now it airs "Jersey Shore." But geeks and nerds? They're forever -- and their ranks are growing.

The most reliable predictor of box-office success these days may not be a marquee name or a masked superhero. It's the PG-13 rating.

The years, gray hairs and wrinkles fade away from Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer, and the cobwebs are brushed off "Dark Shadows" in Tim Burton's campy and dark take on the late 1960s vampire soap opera.

A personal ad leads to a double blind date for four middle-aged singles in the new production by the Daytona Playhouse.

Violinist and vocalist Mazz Swift, who performs under the name MazzMuse, combines elements of rock, classical, folk, electronica, jazz and pop -- all honed by her Juilliard training.

Wilco main man Jeff Tweedy said the band's latest album, "The Whole Love," sports "two strong threads of material."

Five thousand pounds of crawfish will be making its way to Main Street this weekend. The edible crustaceans will be the star of the Eighth Annual Crawfish, Seafood & More! Festival on Saturday and Sunday.

A generation (or two) before "True Blood," "Vampire Diaries" and even "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," little children ran home from school to watch a soap opera -- a vampire soap opera, whose theme music still echoes in the minds of those damaged, gothic-minded tykes. It was an age without TiVo, Hulu or even VHS, so they had to be home by 4 p.m., lest they miss the latest weird goings-on in the accursed village of Collinsport.