The Women News

BRING YOUR SHARP wit, love of gossip, and ready laughter to Butterfield 8's production of "The Women." You'll utilize all three and more as a very talented group of actresses turns the world of high society upside down in Clare Boothe Luce's satirical comedy running through July 11 at Concord's Cue Productions Live.

Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo have signed up for indie movie The Kids Are All Right , says Variety .

The only other times I've gotten that feeling of pure unease is when I've ridden rollercoasters or after I read Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest .

The Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 shortlist is star-studded -- and finding place are 'The Enchantress of Florence' by Salman Rushdie, 'Sea of Poppies' by Amitav Ghosh, 'Unaccustomed Earth' by Jhumpa Lahiri, 'Past Continuous' by Neel Mukherjee and 'Escape' by Manjula Padmanabhan.

January 15, 1900 The first Canadian chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire is formed in Fredericton, under the leadership of Katherine Robb Black.

Actress Meg Ryan attends a photocall for 'The Women' at the Hotel de Rome on November 26, 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

Details: 8 p.m. June 19, Herbst Theatre, S.F.; $20-$60; 866-920-5299, www.sfjazz.org . 2 King of the County BBQ Challenge & Music Festival: This one's for unabashed bib-wearing meat lovers of the world, featuring cuisine from Back Forty Texas BBQ, Kinder's Meats and Bulldog BBQ, as well as an amateur barbecue competition.

A group of young women zipped about the conference room at the C.W. Mount Community Center, pouring tea for a room packed with supporters of the Tipton County Foundation's Women's Fund endowment.

She's the wife of Will Smith, the world's most popular movie star and a man whose net worth is about $220 million, but that's no automatic ticket to ride for Jada Pinkett Smith.

Jada Pinkett-Smith joins TNT's schedule of programs featuring strong, unapologetic professional women, including "The Closer," starring Kyra Sedgwick and "Saving Grace," starring Holly Hunter, with "Hawthorne," premiering at 9 p.m. on June 16.

Actress Meg Ryan attends a photocall for 'The Women' at the Hotel de Rome on November 26, 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

BUTTERFIELD 8 IN Concord presents "The Women," by Clare Boothe Luce from June 18 through July 11.

Stephen Dillane, Andrew West and Mark Padmore rehearse One Evening at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

Annette Bening will kick off UCLA Livea s 2009-10 season by playing the title role in Medea .

With an all-star cast of actresses. Talks of "The Women" going into production began nearly 10 years ago, and now, after its release, it's no wonder it took so long to get off the ground.

Jude Johnstone has been a successful songwriter for over 20 years and will discuss her creative process when writing songs in the one-hour program public radio show, "Art of the Song," airing the week of June 2, 2009.

A year after directing an all-star cast in THE WOMEN , George Cukor directed another tremendous cast in SUSAN AND GOD.

Which hard-working, spiritual singer has a solo album out next week with one song in praise of the work ethic and two others about religion? The answer isn't difficult, as his picture adorns this page, but it's still a little surprising.

CONFINED within four walls of a rehab center room for the last few weeks, I have found myself overdosing on television.

TV writer from the realm of public broadcasting turned successful writer-producer for CBS primetime.