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Not only is there a surprisingly vibrant break-dancing scene in the blue-collar town of Middletown, Conn., but the rivalry and religious tension between the two crews makes for a compelling dance-filled documentary.That’s why...
Amanda Craig is dismayed by Dave Eggers's verbose reworking of Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's classic children's picture book The Wild Things by Dave Eggers The current vogue for rewriting or adding sequels to...
WIRED Magazine's Fifth Annual Holiday Pop-Up Store Features a Creative Collaboration with MOBY, Curated Sections by Adrian Grenier and Tony Hawk, the Hottest Holiday Products, Exclusive Events and Innovative Programming WIRED...
Irish-born writer's novel Let the Great World Spin, focused on Philippe Petit's World Trade Centre tightrope walk, acclaimed as 'gravity-defying feat' Colum McCann won the fiction prize at the National Book awards in New York...
Bangalore sister city celebrated Interested in tabla lessons or perhaps some instruction in Indian classical music? The Asian Art Museum is hosting an afternoon of music and art Saturday in celebration of the San...
That's right, Mr. Wolverine Hugh Jackman. No repeat for you. Johnny Depp, 46, is People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2009. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star joins Brad Pitt (1995 and 2000) and George Clooney (1997 and...
By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY NEW YORK -- Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, a portrait of a decaying 1974 New York, won the National Book Award for fiction Wednesday night in the publishing world's version of the...
With The Road and more driving Oscar season, we have entered a golden age of the good adaptation. By S.T. VanAirsdale Too many people have taken to lamenting the death of original ideas in Hollywood. Even if you can't turn the...
The Guardian examines the shortlist for the 2009 edition of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The shortlist: Paul Theroux for A Dead Hand Nick Cave for The Death of Bunny Munro Philip Roth for The Humbling Jonathan Littell for...
Actions Speak Loudest: Keeping Our Promise for a Better World , a new book by Robert McKinnon inspires us to keep a generational promise to leave the world a better place than we inherited. This collection of photos, essays,...
