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By Adrienne Gaffney Lab skills were the hot social currency Tuesday night at a gala for this year's World Science Festival. Physicist Brian Greene, a co-founder of the festival, wowed guests like Phil Donahue, Marlo Thomas, artist Tomas Saraceno, Ann Zif
Last night on Chelsea Lately, Amy Heidemann, the white Christian Nebraskan female half of the viral group Karmin, rapped Busta Rhymes's and Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now," with the warp speed honed from her first-ever (and prohibited) rap album, Dr. Dre'
The 2012 World Science Festival (worldsciencefestival.com) returns to New York City for its fifth anniversary season, May 30th to June 3rd, 2012, with more than 50 extraordinary events, performances and exhibitions designed to make the esoteric understan
In network television, CBS is the top dog. But with "Dogs in the City" (8 p.m., TV-PG), it's borrowing a series idea from "The Dog Whisperer," a show that has migrated from National Geographic to Nat Geo Wild. That only goes to prove that in television,
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In a nation poised to celebrate Memorial Day, it’s a fitting occasion to pay tribute to a former Maine governor who pulled off one of the most daring missions of World War II. He’s Tudor Gardiner. Descendant of the founder of the city south of Augusta th
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LITTLE ROCK What is it? Route 66, the complete series, 116 episodes on 24 discs from Shout! Factory When? Now How much? $129.99 Is this a travelogue? No. It’s a scripted series from 1960-64 that follows the adventures of Tod Stiles (Martin Milner) and h
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The thrill of reading Matt Kirkpatrick’s debut collection, (FC2, 2012), is like the thrill of stepping into a carefully curated vintage store: each exquisite story has a talismanic magic unto itself, and a unique literary lineage. For example, the execut
The desert island cartoon is one of those clichés we'd never thought to analyze too deeply until we read a smart cartoonist doing so, and now we're fascinated. New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff discussed the genre with Vanity Fair's Bruce Handy, poin
George Maharis (left) played Buz Murdock alongside Martin Milner as Tod Stiles in Route 66, two men driving across America in search of home. When you've seen a lot of movies where Toronto plays the part of New York, you come to appreciate location shoot
STONY BROOK, NY, May 25, 2012 – Six finalists have been announced for “The Flame Challenge,” a month-long contest spearheaded by Alan Alda and the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University to answer the question, “What is a flame?” in a
An iconic Mendocino County resort with sweeping views of the rugged coastline will be reopening in June, four years after it shut down amid financial and legal problems. Visitors tour the grounds of the Heritage House in Little River in 2008. The Heritag
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In addition, the festival will also present the orchestral work Icarus at the Edge of Time, adapted by Brian Greene and Tony-Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang (Chiglish, M. Butterfly) and featuring a score by Philip Glass. LeVar Burton ("Roots")
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For the event, actor and science advocate Alan Alda invites scientists, teachers, and others who care about science communication to join in the discussion of one of the vital questions of our time: how to help society understand science better. Alda wil
In addition, Festival co-founder Brian Greene will conduct two rarely-seen-in-public Physics experiments: the "Quantum Levitation" and "Double-Slit" experiments. The 2012 World Science Festival, running May 30-June 3, presents more than 50 events, perfor
Now that Season 37 of Saturday Night Live has come to a close, let’s talk about some of the highlights from the past 22 episodes. What struck me most about this season was the apparent hunger for new hit sketches. While the show’s tendency to recycle wor
Davis McCallum directs the production, which is based on Sherill Tippins' non-fiction book of the same title, which explores the lives of the noted tenants of an artist commune organized by George Davis in a small house in Brooklyn Heights at the start o
The Weinstein Company previewed a trio of potentially Oscar-bound movies on Monday in "Django Unchained," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "The Master." The glimpse featured new work in vastly different voices from three of their generation’s most talented
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NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- "What is a flame?" asked 11-year-old Alan Alda. The World Wide Assembly brought Alda together with students participating as judges in the Flame Challenge, a competition directly inspired by Alda's frustration
A versatile, determined, and groundbreaking actress who died young and is now largely forgotten, Diana Sands deserves any overdue remembrance of and tribute to her life and career. The great news about “Diana Sands: A Certain Toughness of Spirit” is that
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The 2012 World Science Festival (http://www.worldsciencefestival.com) today announced an impressive line-up of cutting-edge science programs for its fifth anniversary season, May 30th to June 3rd, 2012 with more than 50 events designed to make the esoter
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Q: On the April 22 episode of “Mad Men” there was an actress who played a psychiatrist at the party where Roger (John Slattery) and his wife took LSD. That actress looks familiar, but I can’t remember from what. Can you tell me her name and a few of her
In honor of the impending Mother's Day holiday, we here at Hollywire thought it would be nice to bring you the . Some of today's leading ladies would've never gotten this far without their celebrity moms and vice versa. These 10 mother/daughter duos are
When I was a kid growing up in the suburbs of Dallas, one of the first moments I ever remember the topic of homosexuality coming up was during an episode of M*A*S*H*, that mega-popular sitcom starring Alan Alda and many other upcoming stars. The scene di
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Spike Lee, age 12, brought home a sod of grass from Shea after the Mets won the ’69 World Series and hid this favorite possession under his bed. After a few days, Mama made him throw it out. “It began to smell,” he says. Liev Schreiber: “Once as a boy I
Notable Chinese-American author and human rights activist Bette Bao Lord, who is in residence this week as a Montgomery Fellow, will engage in a public “conversation” about her personal and professional experiences in Filene Auditorium today at 4:30 p.m.
Actor Alan Alda challenged scientists worldwide to answer the question "What is a flame?" earlier this year, and he turned to local students to help him find the answer.Speaking at Brentwood South Middle School Tuesday morning, Alda thanked a group of si
Twelve performers making their Broadway or Off-Broadway debuts this season were named winners of the 68th annual on Tuesday. One winner, Hettienne Park was cited for two productions—"Seminar" and "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism & Social
Discuss this story now Laura Linney continues her superb, award-winning portrayal of wife, mother, teacher and cancer patient Cathy in this sophomore round of the Showtime comedy-drama series. Not only do Cathy and husband Paul (Oliver Platt) face a rede
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