Felix Baumgartner in 1999 preparing to base-jump from the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue atop Corcovado mountain, overlooking Rio de Janeiro. Baumgartner camped out overnight at the site ...
Frenchie is the heart and soul of his gym in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The 72-year-old bodybuilder has been running the place for 36 years, with loads of weathered snapshots on the ...
USC Institute for Creative Technologies The latest "virtual therapist" -- charged with helping diagnose depression -- comes from psychologist Albert Rizzo and computer scientist Louis-Philippe Morency at the University of Southern California ...
The public image of the polio campaign (formally known as the Global Polio Eradication Initiative or GPEI) is Bill Gates. He is the most famous of those involved, at least ...
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PROBLEM: Public health officials spend a lot of time trying to figure out ...
When you finally get to see the graphic sexual content of cinematic auteur Lars von Trier's upcoming film Nymphomaniac, you need to know that's not really Shia La ...
Finally a familiar face! The latest Wolverine reveals a little bit of plot behind Wolvie's fancy Japanese vacation. Plus, there's a sneak peek at the final level big ...
The undead are definitely upping their game, there's no question about it. And as if to prove the point, these parkouring zombies will happily show you how they've ...
Guillermo del Toro discusses the potential story for Pacific Rim 2. Damon Lindelof explains why Brad Bird's Tomorrowland really is all about Disneyland... sort of. Ellen Page discusses her ...
This isn't an alien world — it's a representation of the winds traveling from East to West (in blue) and West to East (in red) here on Earth. And ...
Second preview for the 'X-Men' spin-off features looks at a fan-favorite character.
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Others, including Carrie Underwood and Alicia Keys also offer support after the massive twister kills more than 50.
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In wake of the devastating Oklahoma tornado, a somber show continued that included an homage to Michael Jackson.
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Jim Pressler looks good for his age. Very good. “Although I’m 17 years his junior and firmly in my 40s,” writes his wife, Margaret Webb Pressler, “few people ever ...
By my reckoning, this superb first (and only) novel by James Ross has had five lives: a first printing in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin in 1940, a Signet paperback (abridged ...
In “Beyond War,” David Rohde sets out to find a new path for the United States in the Middle East after a decade of war and much longer support for ...
When I’m reincarnated, I want to come back as a robot. Being a human again, or a poodle, or a goldfish, will seem so sadly biological. Robots, on the ...
If government did not exist, we would have to invent it. And then we’d have to reinvent it, because it would be lousy and everyone would hate it.
Since ...
Senate investigators have found that Apple avoided paying taxes on "tens of billions" of dollars over the past four years by taking advantage of U.S. and Irish tax loopholes ...
Jimmy Savile, Hugh Hefner, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Margaret Mead, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the horrid philosophical justification for sexually victimizing children.
Twenty years ago, after moving to LA to "be discovered," a then-25-year-old Zach Galifianakis met and befriended an elderly laundromat volunteer named Elizabeth "Mimi" Haist.
The two remained close until ...
Last year, longtime Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko was let go, reportedly because bosses tired of his "relentless self-promotion." Zinczenko was hired by AMI to revamp its smaller Men ...
Did Pope Francis just perform an exorcism or do people just freak out when they see the Pope?
After Sunday's Pentecost Mass, Pope Francis was blessing children with disabilities ...
Your old plastic bottles no longer are useless when they’re being made into the felt that forms the Torbuschka family of bags by Kaaita. Each Torbuschka comes with two ...
Inspired by Op Art’s use of color and geometric shapes, Alessandra Baldereschi Design Studio created Poppins – a bench with some mighty colorful personality. The bench gives the illusion of ...
Design Store(y) visits a beauty of a shop in L.A. this month, called Garde. Owner Scotti Sitz, a native Angeleno who has also worked at top fashion houses ...
Portugual-based designer Daniel Duarte’s Time Machine seems appropriately named as I could imagine getting mesmerized and transfixed watching the layered bars rotate around as time passes. The abstract clock ...
Metaproject, the student challenge created by designer and Rochester Institute of Technology professor Josh Owen, is back again for another round. Last year’s focus was on using glass in ...
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I have a hard time resisting geometric prints and patterns. They’ve been around for a few years now, but they continue to pop up in contemporary designs and they ...
Anna-Wili Highfield is an artist who creates graceful sculptures of animals using cotton paper. She says that her goal is to represent animal life in an immediate and authentic way ...
This home, in the San Francisco Bay area, is a mid-century modern aficionado’s dream. When Carolyn Piotroski and her husband Joseph found this 1964 custom Eichler, it was so ...
Taste in decor is so subjective. White vs color, minimalism vs opulence, glamorous vs rustic, the list goes on. You may lean toward one particular style or mix a few ...
Two steps forward, one step back for Defiance. I'll dive right into the bad, since overarching narrative turns are almost always first and most dominant vehicle for discourse. I ...
Artist Josh Karp hangs out with Gil to talk about drawing hands, how he became an artist and his family!
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May 29 marks the 100th anniversary of the wonderfully scandalous premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” when a near-riot broke out in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Performances of ...
The U.S. Marine Chamber Orchestra seemed to gather strength and confidence as it worked its way through a program of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Bizet at the Schlesinger Concert Hall ...
Ray Manzarek, who studied economics in college but cherished music and met with Jim Morrison on a California beach one fateful day in 1965 to help create the Doors, died ...
Put yourself in The-Dream’s position: You’re an awkwardly hyphenated R&B superstar artist and producer. You have no problem getting Jay-Z and Beyonce to guest-star on your new ...
One fine day in 1957, a 15-year-old named Carol Klein got off the express train from Brooklyn to Manhattan with schoolbooks under one arm and sheet music under the other ...
You didn't think Brangelina & Co. would hole up in just any old shack, did you?
Of course not! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie—along with kids Maddox, Pax, Zahara ...
Brad Pitt was Angelina Jolie's biggest supporter as she underwent and recovered from her double mastectomy.
But, he hasn't always been the family man he is today. In ...
Talk about flower power.
Singer Lily Allen got quite the flattering tribute on Monday when she attended the Chelsea Flower Show in London, where gorgeous flora were on verdant...
Lindsay Lohan may have finally checked into her court-mandated rehab program, but now she's facing a different kind of legal drama.
An apparel manufacturer that partnered with...
Talk about performing under pressure.
Val Chermkovskiy and Zendaya Coleman proved just how badly they wanted to win Dancing With the Stars on Monday night's finale when the pair...
Avril Lavgine has her wedding dress already picked out.
"I sure do!" the bride-to-be beamed yesterday at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM in Las Vegas. "That was the...
Once again, in a time of tragedy Twitter has become a sounding board for thoughts, condolences and ways to give back.
"Text REDCROSS to 90999 to help Oklahoma tornado victims,"...
Spoiler alert! We're about to dig into the biggest, most jaw-dropping moments from Monday night's TV. If you haven't yet watched a particular show, and don't ...
What are Justin Timberlake and President Barack Obama looking at?!
The pair were photographed last month (takes a while for the pics themselves to clear national security,...
Demi Moore, in case you were wondering, has still got it.
The 50-year-old actress proved age is nothing but a number yesterday while rocking a bikini at restaurateur Harry...
