Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.

PHILADELPHIA The Wilma Theater opens its 2009-2010 Season with Coming Home, the latest work by internationally acclaimed playwright Athol Fugard the second most frequently produced playwright at the Wilma, following Tom Stoppard. The Wilmas production of Coming Home, directed by the Wilmas co-Artistic Director Blanka Zizka , is only the plays third...

Donovan McNabb was sitting in the auditorium at the NovaCare Complex the other day for his weekly chitchat with the media. If you're looking for truth and revelation, that's not really the setting for it. The auditorium is where candor usually goes to die a painful, predictable death.

The evening before my lunch-time appointment with Sheriff Braudis in Aspen, I was completing another assignment in Colorado at Telluride, 250 miles to the south. I'd badly underestimated the time it would take to collect a rental car and drive through the mountain passes to Aspen, with the result that I would have to be up well before five the following morning – a predicament I was lamenting ...

The following individuals or companies specialize in one-on-one acting coaching. Private coaching is also available from the majority of those listed in the "Acting Schools and Classes" category.

Adams Chapel AME Church, West Main Street, Rock Hill: Pastor's appreciation service for the Rev. Jacques Days, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 6-12:

Former NFL coach Sam Wyche on Jonathan Crompton. (GoVolsXtra audio) Former UT running back Gerald Riggs Jr. (GoVolsXtra audio) Monte Kiffin talks to the media about UCLA (GoVolsXtra audio) Austin Ward and Dave Hooker interview offensive coordinator Jim Chaney (GoVolsXtra audio) Lane Kiffin talks about Monte Kiffin, facing off against UCLA offensive coordinator Norm Chow (GoVolsXtra audio ...

Patti SaponeThe composer, publisher and pianist Nat Adderley, Jr. is pictured at his home in West Orange. Growing up in a major jazz family, the pianist, composer, and arranger Nat Adderley Jr. was destined to be a musician. His father...