The Mouse That Roared: Turning to the Internet to Catch a Favorite TV Show

These days, they are still out there, but they have rivals in the realm of zealotry: people who do watch tv — sometimes plenty of it — but don’t own a cable box.
Those who belong to this crowd are only too happy to remind you that they can watch most ...

Corey Haim, Actor, Dies at 38

Corey Haim, an actor whose status as a teenage heartthrob of the 1980s gave way to substance abuse and rehabilitation as an adult, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Burbank, Calif. He was 38.
His death was confirmed by Sgt. Michael Kammert of the Los Angeles Police Department. The assistant ...

Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy: There Are No Hand-Me-Down Memories Here

AROUND the time I graduated from college, my parents sold the house I grew up in. It came as a shock to me to learn that my bedroom, which I had always assumed would be preserved for future generations to visit — sort of like a Presidential library with ...

Paris: A Rounder Season

Louis Vuitton seemed to provide the perfect bookend to the Milan-Paris ready-to-wear season, which ended tonight. Between Miuccia Pradain Milan and Marc Jacobs at Vuitton we saw the return of the lush, full-hipped woman, her breasts served up like ripe fruit. Do those dry, sober minimalists have a chance next ...

R. Kelly’s Throat Problems Delay Tour

R. Kelly has postponed his forthcoming European tour due to a throat problem. The I Believe I Can Fly hit-maker was due to start the trek on March 22nd but has now been forced to push back the dates after developing nodules on his vocal cords.
Doctors have ordered him ...

Jessica Simpson Still ‘Cares’ About John Mayer

Jessica Simpson will “always care” for her ex-boyfriend John Mayer, despite disapproving of his comments about her sexual prowess in a racy Playboy interview.
The singer was stunned when Mayer spoke candidly about their love life, likening Simpson to “sexual napalm” – but he immediately reached out to apologize to ...

Draft of National Education Standards Released

(March 10) — A group of educators released this day the first draft of a proposed set of national core standards for children in kindergarten through 12th grade. The call for national standards is supported by 48 states, the District of Columbia, two territories and the Obama administration, but it ...

US Puts Squeeze on Iran Amid Calls for UN Sanctions

(March 10) — The United States is intensifying pressure on Iran commercially and diplomatically amid the push for new international sanctions targeting Tehran’s nuclear program.
President Barack Obama late Wednesday signed executive orders renewing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act “to deal with the uncommon and extraordinary threat to the national ...

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy dress stirs controversy

French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy welcomes Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana Medvedeva, March 2, 2010 at the Elysee palace in Paris.
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Jamie Cullum; Imelda May

Recently Reviewed Often, people throw around the phrase “everything old is new again” without acknowledging the fact that what is being served up is just that — old, musty and borderline hackneyed. That could not have been further from the case Thursday night in Gotham, at a double-bill of ...

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