And metadata is like the Dewey Decimal System.
His girlfriend recanted allegations.
By the U.S. Postal Inspection Service
Due to mental illness in WWII.
Says the prisoners want attention.
250,000 signed up in November.
Reinstates colonial-era law.
The Islamic Front is in the doghouse with Washington.
In North America.
But tells him to "ease up on hot-button issues."
At a lunch in New York, Spike Jonze and Amy Adams dished on the secrets of their futuristic new film—including Wiig’s role.
YouTube released the top trending music videos of the year, featuring Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, and more. But the top-ranked video might surprise you.
Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman, oh my! Can the comic book flick genre survive this bloat?
On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray announced a budget deal. Should it pass, the deal would undo a portion of the sequester and raise discretionary spending in fiscal 2014 by $45 billion, from the sequester level of $967 billion to $1...
A bipartisan proposal to trim the sequester and forbid shutdowns for the next two years means Washington may finally be ready to quit kneecapping growth.
On Wednesday morning, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) announced that he was suspending his chief of staff, Ryan Loskarn, who was being investigated by law enforcement for "allegations involving child pornography." In a release, Alexander, a ...
The chief of staff for Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander is under investigation for allegations involving child pornography.
For the past five years, Democrats have delighted as a civil war has raged over the soul of the Republican Party, with the establishment pummeled by a group of small-government Tea Party absolutists.But now a similar battle appears to be brewing o...
After years of reveling in intra-GOP squabbling, Democrats are facing a battle within their own party over economic populism—and the fight over inequality may dominate the 2014 races.
Since the Cuban revolution, the island’s ties with the United States have been marred by espionage, near war, sabotage, and deep distrust. But since President Obama came to office in 2009, Cuban leader Raul Castro has signaled that he is intereste...
Tuesday’s greeting between Obama and Castro comes after six months of quiet diplomacy between the United States and Cuba—and Castro signaling he’s ready for bigger talks.
So is it a good thing, this budget deal? It’s a less bad thing than most of the bad things that have been happening on Capitol Hill over the last couple of years, so that’s progress of a sort. And to the extent that it sets spending at levels high...
The budget deal tops out above $1 trillion. Can the Tea Partiers make peace with that? If it’s seen as a win for the big-spending Obamabots, GOP support could vaporize pretty quickly.
With superhero movies following The Avengers and stuffing two hour flicks with tons of characters—Iron Man, the Hulk, Hawkeye, Thor, Captain America, S.H.I.E.L.D., and countless villains—the question looms: Is a bigger movie always better?The Man ...
Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman, oh my! Can the comic book flick genre survive this bloat?
Want to score big in your Oscar pool? Pay attention to this morning’s announcement. More than the Golden Globe Awards, the splashy Hollywood orgy of stars that has practically zero bearing on the eventual Academy Award nominees (this is an organiz...
'12 Years a Slaves' and 'The Butler' dominate the movie categories, while 'Breaking Bad' and '30 Rock' get rewarded for their swan songs on the TV side.
When Danielle Brooks won the role of Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson on Orange Is the New Black, she wasn’t wearing any pants.And you thought you couldn’t love her more.Brooks nearly loses her breath giggling at herself as she recalled her pantsless aud...
She was your favorite on ‘Orange Is the New Black.’ Now she’s going to be the first female black character on ‘Girls.’ Meet Danielle Brooks, 2013’s breakout star.
PopCap has a history of making games that are nigh-impossible to put down, including Bejewled, which reintroduced the world to match-three puzzle games; Plants vs. Zombies, a totally amazing take on the tower-defense genre pitting, well, plants ag...
Get ready for more blue and orange pegs, because the super addictive pachinko-‘Breakout’ hybrid is back, this time with a head-banging unicorn.
Her, filmmaker Spike Jonze’s long-awaited follow-up to Where the Wild Things Are that’s out Dec. 18, provides an embarrassment of cinematic riches. There’s Joaquin Phoenix’s riveting turn as Theodore Twombly, a romantic who’s in the throes of a de...
At a lunch in New York, Spike Jonze and Amy Adams dished on the secrets of their futuristic new film—including Wiig’s role.
The British tabloids’ fascination with the royal family knows no bounds, so it is perhaps unsurprising that the Windsors have on several occasions taken center stage at the phone hacking trial now underway in London, where the prosecution says...
A court hears that the Windsors may have made life too easy for alleged phone hackers by collecting the family’s private mobile numbers in a loosely-guarded “Green Book” directory.
He’s got his daily words of wisdom on app; he’s made it almost cool to be Catholic; and he is decidedly an all around good guy, so it should come as no surprise that Pope Francis, after just nine months on the job, has been named Time magazine’s “...
The new pontiff gets the nod over a shortlist that included Edward Snowden, Ted Cruz and Bashar al-Assad.
The crackdown on Maidan, Kiev’s main square, began after 3 a.m. when most of the protesters had gone to sleep. Thousands of Ukrainian interior ministry units quietly approached from all sides, preparing to cross the barricades of the “Eurolutionar...
On an extraordinary night, Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin forces were turned back by a band of protesters led by a tiny pop star.
When the first protests against the Ukrainian government’s E.U. kibosh broke out in Kiev two weeks ago, I was on the ground with a French friend who works for a European supermarket chain. Watching the hordes of angry Ukrainians wave the starry bl...
Kiev’s protesters are staging an enthusiastic ‘Eurolution’—and their determination to join a broken bureaucracy is baffling other Europeans.
On a clear afternoon in late August, a government jet flew over Urm Al Kubra, a village in the Aleppo countryside. Siham Qambari, a high-school senior, was in class preparing for exams.The first bomb fell a hundred meters down the road, hitting th...
Syria’s government has dropped incendiary weapons on civilians on more than 50 occasions, according to NGOs. Survivors of an attack near Aleppo share their harrowing stories.
A tired world came to South Africa this week to rejuvenate itself by reconnecting with the most inspiring story of modern times: the way Nelson Mandela forged an impossible peace out of certain civil war by reconciling his people with their oppres...
Some 70,000 people crammed into Johannesburg Stadium to hear luminaries like Barack Obama and Desmond Tutu speak—and to boo current South African president Jacob Zuma.
President Obama is in South Africa honoring human rights champion Nelson Mandela today, but back in Washington, a leading Sudan advocacy group is criticizing Obama’s record on protecting Africans in danger.“In 2007, Mr. Obama said that genocide is...
One human rights group criticized President Obama Tuesday for not doing enough to combat human rights abuses in Sudan.
Released in September 2008, Google’s Chrome Internet browser has wasted no time in dominating the Web. It was swiftly adopted by users looking for a cleaner, more intuitive interface for visiting their favorite websites. By May 2012, Chrome had su...
Google Chrome has a whole bunch of extensions meant to make browsing the Internet better, faster, and more secure. But which ones do you really need? Start with these nine.
Chances are good that you, like me, have always assumed pirates wore eye patches because their eyes were poked out in a vicious swordfight on the high seas. It’s a brutal life, that. Arrrrrrgghhhh. But it turns out we may be wrong about our seafar...
It’s 3 a.m., you’ve left the bathroom, and you’re blindly fumbling your way back to bed. It doesn’t have to be this way! With this simple body hack, you can totally see in the dark.
By Jeremey DuVall for Life by DailyBurn The words “big, strong heart” likely bring to mind examples of suffering through emotional breakups, offering kindness to strangers, and giving out the perfect cards on Valentine’s Day. Of course, the heart...
In an announcement that’s surely left the royal family reeling, Pope Francis was revealed this morning to be Facebook’s No. 1 most talked about person (or event) in 2013. The royal baby crawled in at a disappointing third, bested by the Holy Fathe...
What do Pope Francis, the royal baby, and Miley Cyrus have in common? All were named as the most-talked about people or events in 2013 by Facebook! See the full list.
How might 2014 play out in tech? Silicon Valley may again need to watch out for Microsoft, cheap smartphones will hit markets, and the Edward Snowden revelations will launch the Year of Encryption. Those are a few predictions from Mark Anderson, f...
Microsoft may get its mojo back, smartphones will get cheap, and we’re about to enter the Year of Encryption. A look at what to expect in telecom and computing for the coming year.
Good news! Another celebrity just started a diet that he wants to tell you about!Jay Z has let us know that he and Beyoncé are going vegan for 22 days, to celebrate his 44th birthday. Yes, that potent nexus of food, pursuit of the flat stomach, an...
The hip-hop mogul and Beyoncé are missing the point of successful diets—if you stay on it, it works. Why the odds are stacked against the couple in their 22-Day challenge.
Sure, we’ve all heard that we should get more sleep. The realities of life sometimes get in the way of that, and it becomes “we should get more sleep later.” There is either more work to be done, or more fun to be had, or both. The only downside i...
From moving around to turning up the lights and, yes, drinking coffee, here are some perfectly safe and legal ways to keep the Sandman away.
Last summer, there was much buzz about a Fifty Shades of Grey lingerie line—bras and panties for women, boxers for men—designed by BlueBella, a British retailer that wanted to capitalize on the global BDSM phenomenon. “The books have played a sign...
The cult novel gets a spinoff line of naughty knickers just in time for the holidays—but are these underthings too tame for BDSM fans?
Nothing seels like controversy, eh?An artist who painted a daring picture of a pregnant Kate Middleton in a racy stripper-style pose has been named as the winner of the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year competition.Nick Lord, 25, was named winn...
Nick Lord, 25, wins commission to paint Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel for a portrait which will hang in the British Library.
Kristen Stewart Named Face of Chanel: Sullen, sartorial star Kristen Stewart has been confirmed as the face of the 2013 Métiers d'Art Paris-Dallas collection campaign. The campaign, which was shot by Karl Lagerfeld, will be released in May 20...
And Gisele blends breastfeeding into her beauty routine.
Fashion designer Alice Temperley is full of praise for her most high-profile client's style, saying that Kate Middleton is the perfect modern-day woman. “The Duchess is an inspiration,” Alice told The Telegraph in an interview today. “She’s...
“The Duchess is an inspiration,” the designer tells The Telegraph in an interview.
Lululemon Founder Resigns as Chairman: Chip Wilson, the outspoken, fat-shaming founder of Lululemon, announced his resignation as chairman of the company on Tuesday. Wilson, who is best known for his comments that some women's bodies simply d...
And Mango launches a plus-size line.
I was once a “model” for a Brazilian wax, in which one has the torturous job done for free by an aesthetician in training. Having been through this procedure many times, I empathized with my visibly nervous waxer. I smiled reassuringly, contriving...
Forget Gaga’s bushy full frontal—modern women aren’t embracing the au naturel look just yet.
On a summer day at a villa on the French Riviera in 1957, top Hollywood producer Mike Todd gave his ravishing 25-year-old bride Elizabeth Taylor some buffed red-leather boxes. Her eyes brightened—she knew those boxes came from the French jeweler C...
It has bejeweled the upper crust for over a century. A new retrospective in Paris looks back at the house’s work from its birth in 1847—including Kate Middleton’s wedding tiara.
Let’s face it—if you’re in New York during the holidays, you’re going to find yourself doing one of the things every tourist does. You (or someone in your crew) will want to try out the ice-skating rink at Rockefeller Center. You’ll go to The Nutc...
Who can resist the holiday season in New York? Certainly not us (nor millions of tourists). We’ve rounded up the places you should visit after seeing the places you came to visit.
It’s important to start the New Year off right…with the perfect party that is! We’ve rounded up the best hotels to dance, drink, and maybe even hang with celebrities this year.
It’s important to start the New Year off right…with the perfect party that is! We’ve rounded up the best hotels to dance, drink, and maybe even hang with celebrities this year.
At the end of a long day on the slopes, there’s only one thing you can think of: a comfy bed to fall into. At these top 10 ski resorts and hotels, you’ll get that and so much more.
At the end of a long day on the slopes, there’s only one thing you can think of: a comfy bed to fall into. At these top 10 ski resorts and hotels, you’ll get that and so much more.
This should stop your complaining about the current snowy forecast. Scientists announced on Monday findings from NASA satellite data that showed East Antarctica set the record for coldest temperature ever measured in August 2010. The frigid tundra...
At which point it hurts to breathe.
The Yayoi Kusama exhibit isn’t the only show in New York that people are willing to wait in long, cold lines to experience. At the Frick Collection on the Upper East Side, droves of visitors are turning out daily to see, Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Ha...
Some of the Dutch Golden Era’s best works, including ‘Girl with the Pearl Earring,’ are making the final stop in their American tour at The Frick Collection. See them while you can.
It’s just past the one-year anniversary when Gianfranco Soldera, a complex 76-year-old man who makes some of the most coveted Brunello di Montalcino in the world, slumbered in his Tuscan home, unaware of the carnage about to take place. It was a f...
Gianfranco Soldera makes one of the world’s most coveted Italian wines—and was the target of a break-in that sent $25 million in vino down the drain. Why does he have so many enemies?
DUBAI, United Arab EmiratesA late-afternoon sandstorm had descended on the Al Marmoom racetrack, some 40 kilometers outside of Dubai, and dust swirled everywhere. But even with the harsh desert weather, the races went ahead as planned.The camels—m...
Just when you thought the most competitive sport in Dubai couldn’t get any more exciting, the owners of purebred racing camels have gone and invented remote-control jockeys to whip t...
The Coen Brothers’ new movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, is hardly a sunny, soft-focus nostalgia-fest. It depicts a hardscrabble week in the life of the titular folksinger—a period, sometime in the winter of 1961, during which Davis gets punched in the ...
A historian on how the bohemian paradise dramatized in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ became one of the squarest, priciest neighborhoods in New York.
Nothing seels like controversy, eh?An artist who painted a daring picture of a pregnant Kate Middleton in a racy stripper-style pose has been named as the winner of the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year competition.Nick Lord, 25, was named winn...
Nick Lord, 25, wins commission to paint Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel for a portrait which will hang in the British Library.
On a summer day at a villa on the French Riviera in 1957, top Hollywood producer Mike Todd gave his ravishing 25-year-old bride Elizabeth Taylor some buffed red-leather boxes. Her eyes brightened—she knew those boxes came from the French jeweler C...
It has bejeweled the upper crust for over a century. A new retrospective in Paris looks back at the house’s work from its birth in 1847—including Kate Middleton’s wedding tiara.
The Yayoi Kusama exhibit isn’t the only show in New York that people are willing to wait in long, cold lines to experience. At the Frick Collection on the Upper East Side, droves of visitors are turning out daily to see, Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Ha...
Some of the Dutch Golden Era’s best works, including ‘Girl with the Pearl Earring,’ are making the final stop in their American tour at The Frick Collection. See them while you can.
These are two pages from “War Primer 2”, a gripping artist’s book by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin that I saw in the New Photography 2013 show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The book is an intervention into another volume: Bertholt...
At MoMA, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin riff on Bertolt Brecht's take on conflict.
This is a detail from David Blatherwick’s installation called “I Wish I Knew”, in St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto. Blatherwick videotaped five members of the church’s fine choir as they whistled transcriptions of real bird song, then mounted...
David Blatherwick's videos fill a church with bird calls.
“What I love most about the art week in Miami is the incredible contrast between the absolute professionalism of fair directors, gallerists, and artists by day and our absolute debauchery by night on boats, behind bushes and in sultry underground ...
You missed it. The biggest bash of the year and you weren’t even there. Good thing all of these people were. What the tongues are wagging about at the end of Miami Art Basel.
From lips licking lipstick to wired Chanel bottles, a new exhibit at cutting-edge IDOLIZE looks at the intersection of beauty, fashion, and design in our culture.
From lips licking lipstick to wired Chanel bottles, a new exhibit at cutting-edge IDOLIZE looks at the intersection of beauty, fashion, and design in our culture.
For years Joel Grey has been attentively photographing billboards once they’ve begun to fall apart, showing what’s underneath and creating surprising and accidental works of art.
For years Joel Grey has been attentively photographing billboards once they’ve begun to fall apart, showing what’s underneath and creating surprising and accidental works of art.
In 1645, when the London publisher Humphrey Moseley agreed to print the “Poems of Mr. John Milton,” he requested that Milton have his portrait engraved for the frontispiece. Until this point, author images were generally reserved for religious pam...
For authors and publishers one of the most fraught parts of publicizing book is what photo to put on the jacket. Novelist Jennifer Miller on what a photo says about the author.
Describe your morning routine.I’m usually woken by a vibration on my up-band. It’s the gradual vibration for about ten seconds, and then the chimes of my blue light. It’s just a way to wake gently. It all gently puts me into awake-mode. I play mus...
On being on ‘The Simpsons,’ playing music with Stephen King, and the importance of the opening line.
In 1831, Charles Darwin made his historic five-week tour of the Galapagos Islands aboard the HMS Beagle, changing the course of scientific history and laying the foundation for modern ideas about the history of life. But he almost didn’t make it o...
The mind is a much more accurate predictor than we might have thought, and we need look no further than our own face.
“Gluten-free” seems to be appearing just about everywhere these days, from restaurant menus to grocery store shelves and even on cosmetics labels. And with good reason. The gluten-free market is exploding. Packaged Facts, a market research company...
Gluten-free diets may not just be a trendy choice but something everyone should follow. New research reveals that proteins in wheat may be detrimental to all humans.
In his famous essay on the American detective story, “The Simple Art of Murder,” Raymond Chandler, the man who walked through the door Dashiell Hammett kicked in, paid him homage. The creator of Philip Marlowe wrote of the creator of Sam Spade: “H...
The perfect gift for any crime and mystery lover this season is a new omnibus edition of Dashiell Hammett’s work. Allen Barra on the enduring greatness of his work, even when there a...
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