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Dogs across the country can expect some bone-shaped presents under the Christmas tree this year.
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” won the Pulitzer Prize, but it’s likely the voters read it while holding a hand over their eyes and peering through a gap in two fingers. While it is a novel that explores the unwavering bond between a father and son, there are chilling and gruesome aspects that make a beautifully written tale somewhat cringeworthy.
NEW YORK - Director Tim Burton has become a household name thanks to his highly stylized and hugely popular movies such as “Batman” and “Beetlejuice.” While fans may say his films are works of art, few would expect to see Burton’s imagery displayed alongside Monet’s “Water Lilies” and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” However, from now until April, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is doing just that, with a major career retrospective of Burton’s art and movies.
Of all the adjectives one might use to describe Newsweek's current Sarah Palin cover, "unflattering" probably isn't one of them.
The White House is enlisting "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker, Forest Whitaker and others from Hollywood and beyond to help push President Barack Obama's arts initiatives.
The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities are expected to receive their highest levels of funding in 16 years from a bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law by this weekend.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Saturday doled out presidential M&Ms and dried fruit mixes to more than 2,000 trick-or-treaters, marking their Halloween at a White House event partly aimed at honoring military families.
How low can beer makers go? Having conquered the beer-belly set, some of the nation's biggest brewers are trying to win over the six-pack-ab crowd with ultra-low-calorie suds.
- Boston Celtics forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis had surgery on Tuesday to repair his broken right thumb after fighting with a childhood friend while riding in an SUV less than two days before the season opener.
There are still 10 couples left on “Dancing With the Stars,” but Tom Bergeron promised at the beginning that we are, indeed, halfway through the season with Monday’s Argentine tango and paso doble performances.
The spotlight is on Dallas as it opens its $354 million performing arts center, unveiling a new opera house and theater designed by architectural stars with the idea of making the arts more accessible.
Pamina Brassey was so nervous before the photo shoot that she made sure she had a little bit of wine on hand, just in case she needed it.
Sony launches its new handheld game gadget today. The smartly-designed PSPgo is a great gaming machine, but will its price and digital-only format drive consumers away?
Those beautiful, wacky and sometimes scary nighttime scenarios have powerful magic: They can help you conquer fears, resolve issues and show off your wild side. So tuck in, dream on — and write down your nocturnal adventures.
This remake makes you long for the complex characters of “High School Musical.”
White House officials told agencies across the government Tuesday they should take care to avoid even the appearance that politics played a part in the award of federal grants.
A message to anyone near a live microphone at this Sunday's Emmys: Don't say or do something you'll be embarrassed by later.
Greed, hubris, vast fortunes erased at a stroke — the financial crisis is dramatic gold dust for writers.
If you can’t get free admission to a museum, a park, or some sort of walking tour, music performance or a national park on Saturday, Sept. 26, then you’re just not trying.
As the baseball season grinds toward the World Series and another football season rears its helmeted head, a man's thoughts turn to fashion.
Sure, the West Wing gets the glory. But the East Room gets the action.
Donny Osmond, Aaron Carter, and Mya seem to have the right experience, but this show can be anybody's game. Well, not you, Tom Delay.
Since the economic downturn began, fashion designers have brought us plenty of hard-edged looks: rock-star leather, gladiator shoes, '80s-style shoulder pads.
Ladies, start your crunches: Bare bellies are back at New York Fashion Week.
New York stores were jammed Thursday for Fashion's Night Out, where shoppers rubbed elbows with celebrities — sometimes quite literally.
Otherworldly Landscapes: Chocolate Hills, Philippines - Bing TravelLegend says they were formed by a defecating giant buffalo given food poisoning by vengeful local farmers, but scientific evidence suggests that they were created either by limestone weathering or volcanic debris.
St. Patrick's Day - Holiday wallpapersSaint Patrick's Day , colloquially St. Paddy's Day or simply Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), the most commonly recognized of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on 17th of March. St.
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Chanukah - Hanukkah - Holiday wallpapersHanukkah ( also spelled Chanukah), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.
4th of July , Independence Day - Holiday wallpapersn the United States, Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Thanksgiving Day - Holiday wallpapers - Crazy FrankensteinA collection of high quality free computer desktop wallpapers featuring Thanksgiving Day - Holiday wallpapers. See these beautiful scenes and view on your computer. All wallpapers are in 1024x768, 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 resolutions.
An essay is an act of imagination. It still takes quite as much art as fictionWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who seeks them out with any sense of urgency.
Toilet Book Found to be First Edition of Darwin, worth up to $100,000Originally bought for a few shilling about 40 years ago, it languished in the bathroom bookcase for years, found to be 150 year-old first editon of Charles Darwin's book, being sold this week. [...]
Hogarth painting uncovered in Queensland, AustraliaTHE discovery of a self-portrait believed to be the work of leading 18th century British painter William Hogarth in Queensland, Australia, has London art experts excited.
Haydain Neale dies of lung cancerOTTAWA — Haydain Neale, singer-songwriter who was the creative force behind the R&B group Jacksoul, died of lung cancer on Sunday.
Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival: Still cutting edge after 20 years -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.comMore than 30 features, shorts and documentaries will mark the festival -- examining issues as diverse as Israel, the Holocaust, homosexuality, Israel-Palestinian relations and Ethiopian Jewry.
A Survey Shows Pain of Recession for Artists - NYTimes.comA major new survey of American artists and how they are weathering the economic downturn has found that slightly more than half experienced a drop in income from 2008 to 2009, a blow to an already struggling group, two thirds of whose members reported that they earned less than $ …
Hypebot Hightlights Amanda Palmer's Discussion Of The New Music Business"Sojourner" Amanda Palmer presents her case and perspective intelligently and with humor to almost a thousand loyal fans who paid reasonable prices for a reasonable chat and performance. Brava!
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Your handywork reveals, In the grain of wood. What nature conceals, God's presence is good. To give form to confusion, you bring about change. Granted your perception, materials to arrange.
Astronaut Self-Portrait [PIC]Some time during a six-hour space walk last week, astronaut Robert Satcher managed to capture this shot of himself...via himself. Today, the STS-129 will be completing their third and final space walk. [NASA]
The Doomed Lover A butterfly languid around a flame spirals, blind to its destiny. An earth, relentless around its sun revolves, oblivious. A sun crouched deep in its gravity well spins adrift around the dark core of its galaxy, awaiting the dawn of times.
Salute to Dell Hymes, Linguist and Anthropologist, 82Dell H. Hymes, a prominent anthropologist, linguist and folklorist whose work mined the rich, often overlooked territory where language and culture intersect, died on Nov. 13 in Charlottesville, Va. He was 82.
Memo to Grammar Cops: Back Off!"Passions run hot when the discussion turns to language," writes Rutgers English professor Jack Lynch in his sprightly new history of the notion of "proper" English, "The Lexicographer's Dilemma."
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