“I Think I Love My Wife” — Chris Rock says his latest film is a more accurate reflection of who he is. It’s more realistic, more introspective, more subdued.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Napa Valley and Friday Night Live will host monthly concert series for local high school students beginning Friday night at Club 1515, the Teen Center at the Boys & Girls Club

With no shortage of material to draw from, the Capitol Steps return to town last week, fresh jokes and all.

After weeks of competitive rounds, one Napa Valley teenager has won the title of Idol NV 2007.

“Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter” was one of the first games to really show off the graphical power of the Xbox 360, and the game itself was amazing to boot.

ICHIHARA, Japan  — Kazumi Shimomura’s kitchen table is cluttered with tools not usually associated with cooking: A pair of tweezers, a razor knife and a digital camera.

 The Vienna Boys Choir, one of the oldest choirs in the world, has been a symbol of Austria for nearly 500 years.

It’s a dream pairing — Pat Metheny, the baby boomer guitar god whose musical palette embraces everything from Ornette Coleman to contemporary jazz, and pianist Brad Mehldau, the brooding Gen X prince of the piano.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A heavy metal rock festival hoping to hold an open-air concert in an area known as the Dutch Bible Belt received a permit on one condition: no cursing.

“Vineland the Musical,” described by promoters as “the tale of life in Chile at the turn of the century, its politics, its people ... a life with parallels today,” comes to Copia Sunday for one performance.

NEW YORK — Lonelygirl15, OK Go and other YouTube sensations will get an opportunity to walk down a virtual red carpet.

For this latest cultural planning update, I’m writing from Washington, D.C., where for the second year in a row I am attending the Arts Advocacy conference, sponsored by Americans for the Arts.

Lila Downs, daughter of an Scottish-American father and a Mixteca Indian mother, grew up in two worlds: Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca and Minneapolis, Minn.

Audience favorites — including one of the jazz world’s top vocalists — will return to wine country to headline an abbreviated Robert Mondavi Summer Musical Festival this year.

“Jock McDonald: A Series of Series” opens Saturday at the di Rosa Preserve’s Gatehouse Gallery.

Big laughs come to the Napa Valley Opera House when Bay Area comedian Mark Pitta hosts the Best of the San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition, Saturday at 8 p.m.