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Glance: Red Lobster menu, circa 1968
Red Lobster is launching its biggest menu revamp in a decade on Oct. 15. The chain plans to expand the number of non-seafood items and boost the ...
Rooftop pool, wine bar: Hotels building in Africa
The rooftop pool at Nairobi's newest high-rise hotel juts out over the edge so swimmers can peer through the glass bottom eight stories down. A new ...
Russia bans showing of anti-Islam film
A court in Moscow ruled Monday that an anti-Islam film that has sparked violent demonstrations around the world can no longer be shown in Russia.
High court rejects challenge to roadless rule
The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal challenging a federal rule that bars development on 50 million acres of roadless areas in national forests
Argentine Elvis impersonator promotes film
John McInerny, an Argentine architect and part-time Elvis Presley impersonator, plays — what else? — an Elvis impersonator in a new movie touring film ...
O'Donnell: I had to repeatedly bite my tongue
Norah O'Donnell understood the cultural differences that led Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to shake her hand before their "CBS This ...
Crowdfunding rescues provocative SKorean film
After being turned down by many investors over the last four years, South Korean film producer Choi Yong-bae said it feels strange and exciting that ...
Airlines' profit outlook recovering
The outlook for the airline industry is improving, with profits expected to reach $4.1 billion this year and $7.5 billion in 2013, the International ...
Givenchy, Hermes and Celine get elegant
True style doesn't try too hard. That was the statement at Paris Fashion Week, alarmingly simple, but proved in a number of ready-to-wear ...
Jerry Lewis to film PBS special in Las Vegas
Comedy king Jerry Lewis plans to film a television special for PBS. The Las Vegas Review Journal reports (http://bit.ly/Qor4SC ) that the 86-year-old ...
'Hotel Transylvania' checks in with $43M debut
Adam Sandler's monster mash-up "Hotel Transylvania" has brought the weekend box office back to life after a late-summer slump. The animated comedy ...
Hermes' stylish take on vibrant modernism
Summing up his spring-summer 2013 show for Hermes, the house of the jet-setting fashion buyer, Christophe Lemaire said, "a sharp, modernist traveler.
Time Warner flips switch on new Lakers channels
A few months ago, Time Warner Cable Inc. was crying foul at the high price it had to pay to air Knicks and Rangers games in New York. Now, the shoe ...
New protests against anti-Islam film in Pakistan
Thousands of people hit the streets in Pakistan's biggest city Sunday to protest an anti-Islam film made in the United States, suggesting anger over ...
Chile's Allende wins Danish literature prize
Chilean author Isabel Allende has won a Danish literature prize for her "magical and spellbinding storytelling." The 500,000 kroner ($86,000) Hans ...
Germany's Oktoberfest sees 3.6m visitors
This year's Oktoberfest folk festival has already attracted an estimated 3.6 million visitors, the city of Munich said Sunday. Officials are expecting ...
'Lorax' film wins Environmental Media award
The feature film "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax," documentary "Chasing Ice" and HBO comedy "Veep" are among the winners of this year's Environmental Media ...
Pakistanis protest against anti-Islam film
Thousands of members of Pakistan's radical Islamic groups rallied on Saturday in the southern city of Karachi against an anti-Islam film that has ...
SD festival drawing filmmakers to middle America
It's a Friday night on Main Street in the small northern South Dakota town of Aberdeen, and it's supposedly a hopping one with the marquee event of ...
APNewsBreak: NY pet cemetery deemed historic
Another cemetery has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, but this one's a little different. It has dogs and cats and iguanas and ...
NYC Ferris wheel project has big backers
The Ferris wheel may be a steam-age invention, but it is back in vogue in New York, which this week joined a long list of cities where urban planners ...
Americana revisited: Rockwell's models reuniting
Don Trachte's cowlick has been tamed. Mary Hall is no longer a towhead. Butch Corbett is still thin, but not the beanpole he once was. And Tom ...
Calif man behind anti-Muslim film had many aliases
Muslims across the Middle East outraged by an anti-Islam film made in America wanted swift punishment for the man behind the movie, and now Mark ...
Who's watching? 3-D TV is no hit with viewers
Phil Orlins knows everything about producing TV in three dimensions. The ESPN producer has captured the undulating greens of Augusta National and the ...
Baltimore police uncover 1951 Renoir theft report
Police have located a 60-year-old theft report from the day a Renoir painting disappeared from the Baltimore Museum of Art that matches the ...