by Vera H-C Chan The holiday respite didn’t make November any less busy. In between preparations for Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Black Friday—when pundits put the burden of rescuing the economy on consumer shoulders—the Web was busy tracking breaking news, overseas diplomacy, domestic policies, and doomsday scenarios.

GaGa works it, moves it crazy, loses footing in Canada. On Friday in Montreal Lady GaGa was preparing to sing the single “Teeth” off her new album with lyrics that say, “I just need a little guidance.” She may also just need a little tread on the bottom of her shoes because before she went in to the first verse, she lost her footing and took a hard spill onstage.

AP – Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit “M.T.A.” and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at age 88, her family said Monday.

‘New Moon,’ followed closely by ‘The Blind Side,’ helps propel Hollywood to a new record for the five-day Thanksgiving period. (Nov

Sure, I could write a holiday gift guide telling you to buy a TV, a laptop, or a Blu-ray player… but how boring would that be

by Mike Krumboltz Chelsea Clinton recently announced her engagement to longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky. The news inspired an avalanche of Web searches on Ms.

“I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I’m very sorry I can’t be there,” he says in a statement days after his controversial car crash

AP – From television’s favorite psychiatrist to the owner of a French Riviera nightclub: Kelsey Grammer is set to star on Broadway in “La Cage aux Folles” (lah-KAJ’-oh-fahl) next spring.

AP – Vladimir Nabokov’s final, fragmentary novel went on sale Monday in two versions in Russia, more than 30 years after he asked that it be burned upon his death.

“This year my sisters did all of the baking, and I just sort of enjoyed it — I ate all their baking!” she tells “Extra”