For those hungry college students working off of a budget this holiday season, Diego’s, “an atypical Mexican gourmet restaurant,” is most certainly the find of the season. Located at 11 Bowen’s Wharf, right on Newport’s historic sea front, Diego’s offers both patio and indoor dining options.

Robert Downey Jr. as the Master of Deduction. Peter Jackson directing a movie with no hobbits. Meryl Streep without an accent. Robert De Niro as the father of Drew Barrymore. Yes, the holiday movie season is upon us, and the films poised to descend on the multiplexes and the arthouses before the end of the year just might make it to an Oscar ballot – or might vanish, forgotten, into the cold night.

ST. LOUIS – When Sheila Effan found a Kindle electronic reader among her gifts last Christmas, one of her first thoughts was whether she would miss the smell and feel of real paper. She got her answer five months later.

That’s when a friend lent her a paperback.

“One-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight” echoes through the dance studio as girls rehearse the same movements over and over again. To non-experienced eyes such as mine, I thought the first go through was good. How I missed one dancer step on two and not three and one girl spin before the other girls are beyond her, and obviously beyond me.

WASHINGTON – As the Senate health-care debate stretched through the weekend, President Barack Obama planned to travel to Capitol Hill Saturday afternoon to meet with Democratic lawmakers at a rare weekend caucus gathering.

The move came as Democratic leaders are pushing the Senate to complete work on its bill before Christmas, a deadline seen as critical if Congress is to send the president health-care legislation by the end of January.