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It's easy to forget that Amazon Prime is good for more than just super fast shipping. With a huge library of movies and TV streaming on demand, including some original titles, it's an added benefit for when you've exhaus...

One year ago today, we lost a dear friend in Amy Jellicoe. Amy was 40 when she returned from a California holistic-treatment facility that provided a vital spiritual awakening after the mega-meltdown she'd had at work. A...

Well, the McConaissance is official, as Matthew McConaughey walked away with his first Oscar on Sunday night for his performance in “Dallas Buyers Club.” “It’s a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates,” sa...

From March 7th through April 28th, Salon 94 Bowery presents "Kigurumi, Dollers, and How We See," a new body of work from artist Laurie Simmons. Long known for exploring the conceptual and psychological subtext of doll pl...

A little more than six months after "12 Years a Slave" debuted at the Telluride Film Festival, Steve McQueen's slavery drama has been named Best Picture at the 2014 Oscars. Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup, a free ...

Bette Midler's Oscars debut came as part of the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment. Midler sang "Wind Beneath My Wings" at the ceremony, which Midler covered in the 1988 film "Beaches." Midler was announced as a surpris...

We're going to go ahead and deem this nature porn. In the second installment of their Project Yosemite time-lapse series, photographers Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill give viewers a glimpse of the valley's beauty both...

The Federal Communications Commission is not happy with several TV networks that played a trailer for the 2013 film "Olympus Has Fallen," which used that familiar, jarring tone also used in tests of the Emergency Broadca...

Matthew Sagalnik, a Princeton sociology professor, has been testing if things become popular on their merits or because of social influences. One study took two groups of teenagers and allowed them to listen to unsigned ...

It was a tough call for June Squibb enthusiasts last night: watch the Oscars, where the 84-year-old Nebraska star was nominated for (but ultimately did not win) Best Supporting Actress? Or watch "Girls," where Squibb wou...

It was a tough call for June Squibb enthusiasts last night: watch the Oscars, where the 84-year-old Nebraska star was nominated for (but ultimately did not win) Best Supporting Actress? Or watch "Girls," where Squibb wou...

The hype surrounding Lupita Nyong’o and Jennifer Lawrence was inescapable Sunday night, perhaps stealing some attention from other deserved actresses and what was overall a strong showing on the red carpet. View Photo ...

The hype surrounding Lupita Nyong'o and Jennifer Lawrence was inescapable Sunday night, perhaps stealing some attention from other deserved actresses and what was overall a strong showing on the red carpet.

I went to Eaton Galleries to check out Moosylvania, A group art show tribute to Jay Ward. If you're old like me you'll remember Rocky & Bullwinkle, Boris Badanoff and Natasha as well as many others you'll see here. Check...

NEW YORK (AP) -- An estimated 43 million people watched the Academy Awards, the most-watched audience for the show in a decade and most popular entertainment event on television since the "Friends" finale in 2004. The Ni...

The Vanity Fair Oscars Party is one of the swankiest fêtes Tinseltown sees all year long. Though this year's party on Sunday, March 2, was moved from its previous location at the Sunset Tower to a parking lot on the sou...

The Inn at Perry Cabin, that tony Eastern Shore retreat for deep-pocketed businessmen and couples on the lam from city life, will soon be operating under new ownership. According to The Daily Record, the Inn, which was p...

And the award for worst (best?) name flub goes to John Travolta! Say it with us: Eh-deen-a Men-zel. Travolta introduced Tony Award-winning star Idina Menzel as -- the consensus appears to be -- Adele Dazeem. Menzel, who ...

And the award for worst (best?) name flub goes to … John Travolta! Say it with us: Eh-deen-a Men-zel. Travolta introduced Tony Award-winning star Idina Menzel as — the consensus appears to be — Adele Dazeem. Menzel...

Outside it was raining, but down deep in the crypt it was merely chilly. The slightly fey, round-spectacled chief of historic monuments, and the kindly young hipster "artist" in shades and a plastic hat explained to the ...

Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated five times for an Academy Award. And five times, both he and his fans have been disappointed. DiCaprio failed yet again Sunday to lock down the Academy Award for Best Actor, passed ov...

Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated five times for an Academy Award. And five times, both he and his fans have been disappointed. DiCaprio failed yet again Sunday to lock down the Academy Award for Best Actor, passed ov...