The 12th annual Innovative-Arts Alive Classical Music Competition is about six weeks away, and that means the time now is just about right for young musicians to decide if they want to take part – and to start getting ready if they do. Students up to 19 years of age will vie for a total of $5,000 in cash prizes.

Shaw's Pygmallion legend finds itself in the funniest places, probably best known in "Guys and Dolls" and "My Fair lady." The doll or lady here is a tomboy FBI agent, reluctantly surrendering herself to a new persona, "Miss Congeniality," a beauty queen.

It's been 10 years, and just like really bad clockwork, Hannibal Lecter is back. He's had time to hone his macabre skills, which he, unfortunately by all counts, demonstrates in "Hannibal."

If you'd like a few chilling nights with a good work of fiction, Source book reviewer Richard Dey says, look no further than a Danish author's offering, "Prince: A Novel of Icebergs and Amber."

Harbour Night, a Caribbean street festival, will take place 7 p.m. to midnight Wednesday, Feb. 14 at Strand Street, on the waterfront in Frederiksted.
For this Harbour Night, Frederiksted welcomes 3500 cruise ship passengers and crew from Carnival Victory, three Dutch Navy ships and a large local turnout to celebrate Harbour Night Valentine's Day.

"The Wedding Planner" stars Jennifer Lopez as the planner, a secretly bereft soul named Mary who plans weddings for others, as opposed to her own. It's quite a lucrative business and only a true insider ( you, the audience), could see that she is bereft.

"Finding Forrester" brings together as unlikely a set of talents as you'd want to spend two and a half hours with. That's a lot of time. Some say perhaps too much.

Ang Lee has taken the martial arts movie out of the high kick genre, and into high art in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." This is the expressed opinion several movie critics, who rarely ever agree on anything.

The aftermath of the War Between the States was an ugly time for those in the rural South struggling to return to peaceful normalcy. Source book reviewer Bette Davis writes that "Nowhere Else on Earth," a novel by Josephine Humphreys, has a lyrical, mystical quality even as it focuses on such grim subject matter. Sponsored by Dockside Bookshop on St. Thomas

Blues guitarist Jimmy Thackery, who's performing Thursday on St. John, Friday on St. Thomas and Saturday on St. Croix, needs your help. Well, at least he's asking for it. No, actually he needs it.