By PATRICIA SHERIDAN, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

At 71, music legend Dionne Warwick is still on the move. To celebrate her golden anniversary in the business, she has embarked on a tour that will take her to six continents.

HIGH POINT, N.C. - Greece's economy may be struggling, but one of its iconic motifs is unlocking a treasure trove of design possibilities.

She became an icon on the campy but highly successful television series "Xena: Warrior Princess" (1995-2001). At 43, Lucy Lawless remains fit for battle -- or, in the case of her current series, "Spartacus: Vengeance," nudity. Among the New Zealander's other assets is her voice. She once considered opera as a career path.

ST. BARTS, French West Indies - After a few glasses of cold dry rose, the enticing techno beat becomes irresistible, and patrons of Nikki Beach on Pelican Plage start dancing. It's only 2 in the afternoon, but the party has started.

HIGH POINT, N.C. - Remember that old advertising slogan, "Is it real or is it Memorex?"

Cabinetmakers' expert craftsmanship had even veterans wondering whether they were looking at classics or clones at the 2011 Fall International Home Furnishings Market here.

He played a bad guy in the film "The Blind Side," but IronE Singleton is anything but bad. The actor grew up in the Atlanta projects, where guns, drugs and hopelessness were pervasive. Yet he found his way out, graduating from the University of Georgia, where he played football.

Comedian-writer-actor Judah Friedlander, 42, is in the cast of NBC's "30 Rock," a spoof of "Saturday Night Live." He plays Frank Rossitano, an unkempt comedy writer. The trucker hats and big glasses are props he also uses for his standup comedy as "The World Champion of the World." While the characters appear the same, they are very different at the core.

Linda Johnson Rice is chairman of the multimedia company that publishes Ebony, a lifestyle and general-interest magazine for African-Americans, and Jet, a newsmagazine.

HIGH POINT, N.C. - Cheerful chic is what you can expect to see settling into furniture showrooms this spring. Manufacturers at the International Fall Furniture Market in High Point found a variety of ways to inject buoyancy and a certain savoir-faire into chairs and chests, settees, sideboards and more with color, pattern and texture.

For five centuries, the family of Charles, the ninth Earl Spencer, has occupied the 14,000-acre Althorp Estate in the English countryside. His relations include Winston Churchill, George Washington and, of course, his late sister Diana, Princess of Wales. Charles is the author of several books, including "Althorp: The Story of an English House."