A hurricane destroyed his home, drugs took his mother and a drug dealer shot his stepfather - it's no wonder writer Tarell Alvin McCraney is interested in 'what people build a life on when they don't have options'... more
A second Great Depression has been avoided but a full economic recovery remains two years away, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said ... more
Michelle Obama boarded the presidential train in Philadelphia at the weekend as a political wife and mother - and arrives in Washington as the new First Lady... more
It was an intensely political evening. First, the premiere of the amazing new film Recount, starring Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary, turned the dry legal arguments about "hanging chads" in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election into fascinating drama. Then screens hung down at New York's Four Seasons restaurant so we could watch the results come in from the polls in West Virginia... more
No Country for Old Men is one of the Coens' most violent films, but that won't stop it at the Oscars. It's about a man in an unforgiving world, say Joel and Ethan, it has to be brutal.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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