Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- There’s a little bit of everything in the musical “Finian’s Rainbow”: Romance and satire, whimsy and cynicism, fairy tale and political diatribe. It is, above all, good.

Mark Martin senses this is going to be a good week for him as he continues chasing Jimmie Johnson and the NASCAR season championship he so covets.

While iconic European castles such as Ashford in Ireland and Amberley in England evoke images of fairy tales and living happily ever after, the truth is these medieval palaces were built as fortifications designed to keep out brutal marauders. These days,...

Steven Pearlstein has an excellent column in the Washington Post today explaining the problem with Wall Street compensation policies for the layman. Most times these explainers or arguments are too complicated and esoteric, which works in the Street’s favor.

It's an old Scottish prayer, and if anyone knows about the fairy folk, it's the Celts.

Russian family fantasy film “The Book of Masters” is the first Walt Disney release to be produced in Russia by Disney’s CIS division. It is based around a compilation of popular Russian fairy tales featuring traditional heros and villains known to generations of Russian children.

Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport has been polluting a small river with kerosene for two years. A cigarette butt thrown into a pond near the river set the pond on fire. The water was burning in it as it was a fairy tale. The fire-fighting team proved to be helpless.

Gary Buiso The World’s Fastest Nudist is as fictional as Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, it was revealed this week.

By Gary Green Correspondent This could be a fairy tale: It has a bleak beginning, the appearance of a hero and a happy ending. But this is a true story about a frightened puppy bearing the physical scars of a terrible ordeal, that was rescued by a nice woman who took it home to nurture and love.

MEDFORD - Gia Barbero's fairy tale afternoon would have been complete had she scored any goal. But for the goalkeeper to net the game-winner in a college playoff game during a penalty kick shootout?