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Despite some naysaying to the contrary, "Thor: The Dark World" dropped its hammer on both the Friday night competition and box-office record books. The latest Marvel film grossed $31.6 million during its opening day, put...

Here's Jennifer Lawrence explaining how Jeffrey Wright, a newcomer to "The Hunger Games" franchise for "Catching Fire," pranked her during the film's production: "Jeffrey Wright handed me a Tiffany's box, and I was like,...

I'm old fashioned. I have deep respect and undying love for great songs. Some of them were written for Broadway shows; others to be performed at parties and in nightclubs. Some became popular over the radio or because th...

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Last call for sin: According to The Killers' lead singer Brandon Flowers, his band borrowed a bass line from David Bowie for the group's popular single, "All These Things That I've Done." "When that one was cooking I was...

Nostalgia is all the rage these days, so it comes as no surprise that Bill Cosby is hoping to return to prime time. The comedian told Yahoo TV that he's re-teamed with one of the "Cosby Show" producers Tom Werner to deve...

What would Spider-Man look like as a firefighter? Like this, apparently. The photo comes courtesy of Times of India, which debuted three new stills from "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" on Friday. Head to the site to check out...

The United Nations of voices we encounter on Manhattan's streets is global but transient: Visitors from abroad come to town and they look, they shop, they leave. By contrast, the same range of accents we hear in Queens i...

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Before "Pretty Woman," "Sleepless In Seattle" and "Love Actually," there was "When Harry Met Sally." Starring a very young Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal (with a full head of hair!), the romcom brought about the age old ques...

Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world, captured in the thick of things. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into various events around t...

Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. In her recent TEDTalk, Alexa Meade describes how she followed her creative instincts away from an office job and into an investigation of shadows, space and light ...

Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. "The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." -- John Keats "The ...

For many inked individuals, tattoos are a way to commemorate a spiritual journey or a means of expressing one's internal self. The body becomes the canvas for a diverse array of religious inspiration through this artform...

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge has denied an effort by graffiti artists to stop the demolition of a Queens building known as the city's mecca for aerosol-produced art. Judge Frederic Block told lawyers for ...

This is the second installment in an ongoing series that explores drag culture and the nightlife scene in Brooklyn, N.Y. Over the past several years, following the large-scale exodus of artists across the East River and ...

A new book that seeks to uncover sites long forgotten in Japan will give you chills. In "Nippon no Haikyo," French photographer Jordy Meow captures abandoned sites throughout the Asian country, traveling across the natio...

As first reported by Schmoes Know and confirmed late Friday by The Hollywood Reporter, director Alan Taylor is apparently set to test three young actresses for the role of Sarah Connor in the upcoming "Terminator 5." The...

Maybe Ray can play The Flash. As reported by TheWrap on late Friday night, "Girls" star Adam Driver is among three actors in contention to star as Dick Grayson a.k.a. Nightwing a.k.a. Batman's sidekick in Zack Snyder's "...

This week on Renovation Diary, Meg and Josh made big strides on their mudroom project, adding drywall AND new cork flooring. Christine and Pierre took a little bit of a break after a very special arrival, and Dan made th...

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There was a time when we assumed our post-mortem days would be of the drab variety, that once all our earthly possessions had disintegrated into the earth only a measly skeleton would remain. That time is no longer, than...