<div id="subtitle">Bess Hawes, musician-folklorist who performed with Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, dies at 88</div><div><p>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 ...

<div><p> This summer, as a consequence of the credit crunch, rising air fares and a strong euro, more than half of all Britons chose to spend their holidays in this country. Predictably this was also the summer that proved to be one of the dullest and wettest on record. August may have been, according to ...

<div><p>Film</p><p><em class="bold">Philip French</em></p><p>Soon after the birth of cinema moviemakers became crusaders for and proponents of human rights. The American pioneer Edwin S Porter followed his milestone western The Great Train Robbery (1903) with ...

<div><p>Economic recession rivals suburbia and rain as one of the major fomenters of great music - so while your house price slides and your food bills climb, console yourself with the thought that at least there are going to be some really great records made during this credit crunch. It's just you won't ...