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Things are getting crazier during Barney and Robin's wedding weekend on "How I Met Your Mother" (CBS at 8). Robin feuds with her future in-laws, while Ted and Marshall have an argument about wedding-gift etiquette.

Sometimes authors don't shuffle off this mortal coil quietly or -- for want of a better word -- normally. Sometimes they meet a sticky and untimely end, and sometimes myths build up around an author's demise and we come ...

Before I talk about the Washington National Opera's new production of Verdi's "La forza del destino" ("The force of destiny"), which opened Saturday night, I ask you to think back to September, when the star soprano Debo...

Every time Michael Douglas talks about his cancer, the stranger he sounds. In 2010, he announced that he had throat cancer (and that he had recovered from the disease.) This past summer, we got TMI when he told a British...

Married: Greg Louganis and Johnny Chaillot in Malibu on Saturday. Louganis, 53, is the Olympic gold-medalist diver from the '80s and "Splash" reality coach; Chaillot, 52, is a L.A. paralegal. Guests Barbara Eden, Bruce V...

Kevin Barry, photo © Hugh O'Conor Two books positively straining at their bindings are in your local bookstore right now; pick them up, and you'll be glad you did. One is a novel, and the other is a collection of storie...

Does the flute have a more interesting champion right now than Claire Chase? At 35, this New York-based virtuoso has carved out a key role for herself in contemporary music, commissioning and performing a range of new wo...

CONDOLEEZZA RICE trained to be a concert pianist. Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was a professional clarinet and saxophone player. The hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner is a pianist who took cl...

They've famously played archenemies as "X-Men," but Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are anything but rivals in real life. The most adorable of famous pals, the two acting legends have enjoyed a rich and happy frien...

Vine, Twitter's micro-video social network, is perhaps the best form of entertainment for Generation Distraction. With a limit of 6 seconds per video, it's easy for viewers to absorb a diverse array of content in just a ...

Katy Perry appeared on "Saturday Night Live" this week, serving as the musical guest to the episode hosted by Bruce Willis. Perry first performed the debut single off of her upcoming album, "Prism," the chart-topper "Roa...

Tune in to the Mouthful blog to see a live stream of tweets reacting to new foods at the N.C. State Fair.

LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Gravity" won't be held down. The Warner Bros. astronaut adventure starring Sandra Bullock landed in the top spot at the box office for the second weekend in a row, according to studio ...

For all the complaints about godless Washington, you wouldn’t know it from this week’s nonfiction bestseller list. The most popular titles in the Washington area have a distinctly biblical glow: For the second week i...

We all know how important it is for our heath to remain physically active and have a good exercise routine. We also know that when our lives get busy and hectic, the gym membership is usually the first thing to get overl...

AUSTIN, Texas -- AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Heavy rain showers and thunderstorms with some flash flooding have canceled the final day of Austin City Limits Music Festival. Organizers posted on the festival's website Sunday th...

LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hugh Jackman threw himself a birthday party with 4,500 guests, but they had to pay to attend. The actor spent his 45th birthday Saturday at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, where he sang, dan...

Justin Bieber returns to the big screen in December with "Believe 3D." The 19-year-old singer offered up the first look at the upcoming film this week with a 36-second teaser. The clip shows Bieber discussing his newfoun...

The future is coming into focus. There is such clear momentum around a set of emerging behaviors that we can, without a doubt, project the exponential growth of raw unfiltered data. Think of it like Moore's Law for conte...

You go, girls. New research suggests that many of the first artistic masters were women, not men. For years, researchers have assumed that ancient cave paintings created tens of thousands of years ago were made by men. T...

Slouchy pants are seemingly the most comfortable trend ever to be embraced by fashionistas. They look and feel like PJ’s, but styled the right way, they can be transformed into ...

Mariah Carey took to Facebook this week to pen a letter to her fans, giving an update on the release of her upcoming album and speaking to her recent shoulder injury. The 43-year-old singer, who dislocated her shoulder w...