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Short sales outpacing sales of bank-owned homes
Sales of U.S. homes facing foreclosure are on the rise and outpacing sales of bank-owned homes, a reflection of stepped up efforts this year by ...
Emerald green is Pantone's top color of 2013
Emerald is no longer green with envy. The rich, vibrant shade is Pantone LLC's Color of the Year for 2013, beating out all the other shades of the ...
Stars out in London for 'Les Mis' premiere
Hollywood stars Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman have braved the London cold to walk the red carpet for the world premiere of "Les Miserables." Hathaway ...
Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, dies at 104
Architect Oscar Niemeyer, who recreated Brazil's sensuous curves in reinforced concrete and built the capital of Brasilia on the empty central plains ...
Review: Murray stars as FDR in bland 'Hyde Park'
Bill Murray as FDR? The casting might sound weird at first. But Murray's subtly charming presence ends up being one of the stronger elements of the ...
NBR Awards name 'Zero Dark Thirty' best film
Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" continued to gather awards momentum as the National Board of Review named the Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama the ...
Senate GOP fails to bring up immigration bill
Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked Republicans from bringing up an immigration bill offering permanent residence visas for foreigners with advanced ...
Winfrey picks Mathis' debut novel for book club
Add another book for possible holiday gifts: Oprah Winfrey's latest 2.0 selection. Winfrey announced Wednesday that she has chosen Ayana Mathis' debut ...
Did Costas overstep his bounds with gun comments?
Clearly, Bob Costas stirred up a hornet's nest Sunday with a halftime commentary about Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher, who killed his ...
Review: 'Playing for Keeps' one of year's worst
This is supposed to be the time of year when high-quality movies come out, whether they're potential Oscar contenders or crowd-pleasing family fare.
Russian writer Vasily Belov dies at 80
Vasily Belov, a writer who paid homage to old rural Russia in his books, has died. He was 80. Belov's death late Tuesday was announced by the ...
Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year
Thanks to the election, socialism and capitalism are forever wed as Merriam-Webster's most looked-up words of 2012. Traffic for the unlikely pair on ...
Michael Palin gives evidence in 'Spamalot' suit
Michael Palin has rejected a movie producer's claim that the producer was the unofficial seventh member of the Monty Python comedy troupe and is ...
Sundance Channel is 'Restless' with new miniseries
Sundance Channel, best known for its documentaries and other unscripted fare, is about to present a deliciously suspenseful spy thriller that signals ...
Costas wishes he had more time to talk
Bob Costas isn't backing down from his halftime comments on gun violence, but he wishes he had more time. The NBC sportscaster gave interviews Tuesday ...
Netflix outbids Starz for rights to Disney movies
Netflix's Internet video service has landed the U.S. rights to show Disney movies shortly after they leave theaters, a coup that could turn into a ...
NYC breaks ground on 26-acre Hudson Yards project
Work to transform the largest undeveloped property in Manhattan from a railroad storage yard into a sleek new neighborhood of spiky high-rises and ...
Huston's "Infrared" wins Bad Sex fiction prize
It's the prize no author wants to win. Award-winning novelist Nancy Huston won Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction award Tuesday for her novel "Infrared," ...
New search engine connects literary dots
Author Jennifer Gilmore is reading a biography of the late David Foster Wallace. She's curious about his most famous book, the novel "Infinite Jest," ...
'Peanuts' creator's love letters going to auction
The late "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz was once so infatuated with a young woman 23 years his junior he sent her dozens of romantic letters and ...
Regulators clear Disney purchase of Lucasfilm
Federal antitrust regulators have cleared Disney's $4 billion deal to buy Lucasfilm, the filmmaking empire behind the "Star Wars" franchise.
Data: New (physical) book chronicles the virtual
We question. We research. We catalog. We quantify. We aggregate, calculate, communicate, analyze, extrapolate and conclude. And eventually, if we're ...
Louvre comes to poor French city, raising eyebrows
The Louvre has embarked on an ambitious quest — opening a €150 million ($196 million) extension in an abandoned coal mining town in northern France ...
Review: 'Cheerful Weather' a spot-on period piece
A sustained balancing act between dry upper-crust cynicism and pent-up passions, Donald Rice's "Cheerful Weather for the Wedding" maintains its uneasy ...
Court upholds $319M verdict in 'Millionaire' case
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $319 million verdict over profits from the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and rejected Walt ...