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Idina Menzel is starring in the national tour of her musical If/Then! “If/Then is especially meaningful for me because I had the opportunity to develop it for several years with the creative team, whom I have come to consider family,” the 43-year-old actress shared in a statement. “I’m so thrilled to launch the show’s national [...]

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It’s a question a child might ask, but not a childish question. Sure, right now, we mammalian primates are calling all the shots here on Earth, but what if things had gone otherwise? We know that cephalopods like Squid and Octopi are really smart — what if they were the dominant life? And, more importantly, what would…

Count continues but Conservatives had won more than 80 councillors and two councils by Friday evening

Snapchat has settled on a much cheaper price for ads that appear in its Discover section, Re/code reports.

It’s not necessarily a novel observation, but “Pitch Perfect,” the Universal studio comedy about the world of competitive college-level a cappella, a surprise 2012 hit, is modeled after a classic sports comedy picture. The girl-powered sing-along comedy had the exact same paradigm: there’s an reluctant outsider cajoled into joining a foreign, often “uncool” world (think Jackie Earle Haley in “The Bad News Bears”) and the team sport personnel is a rag tag group of misfits that can’t get it together. Читать дальше...

New Tory policy - invisibility cloaks for all!

The AAA estimates that more than 37 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more during Memorial Day holiday.

Two words: Bomb. Shell! Charlize Theron stepped out to the premiere of her new film, Mad Max: Fury [...]

The city of the broad shoulders is facing its own fiscal crisis, but comparisons to Detroit are far off the mark.

Whatever Matteo Garrone is cooking up for Cannes, it certainly looks to be the most visually ambitious effort yet by the filmmaker behind "Reality" and "Gomorrah." And today brings another intriguing peek at his next effort, one that will surely provide a memorable experience for those on the Croisette. Starring Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones, Stacy Martin, Alba Rohrwacher and Massimo Ceccherini, the film is a loose screen adaptation of the fairy tales by Italian poet Giambattista Basile. Читать дальше...

At a party the other day, one start-up founder told me the secret of Silicon Valley’s sky-high valuations. “I’ve had investors tell me, you can name any valuation you want, we’ll just make up for it in the terms,” he said.

Amazon is expanding its grocery delivery service in Northern New Jersey.

Joint diplomatic efforts to end weeks of bombing finally bear fruit

Tempur Sealy International's shareholders voted to remove CEO Mark Sarvary from its board.

It has razor sharp teeth like a cheese grater, and can turn its mouth inside out and drag itself using its tooth-lined throat.

Third of votes at insurer’s AGM fail to back chief’s pay

There’s a lot of grumbling about what’s wrong with San Francisco these days — insane housing and rent prices, loss of arts organizations, lack of community and the “soul” of the City — but here’s a new event that celebrates the people, the neighbors and the music of S.F. The debut S.F. Porchfest is an

Dov Charney said Standard General paid a law firm to manufacture reasons to show he was not fit to be CEO.

Tiens Group is treating more than half of its workers to a four-day trip in France, The Guardian reported.

Nike CEO Mark Parker says tens of thousands of spinoff jobs also would be created from the trans-Pacific trade pact.

The groundswell of support for independence has risen to flood level, writes Roy Foster

Forever had to end someday — but did it have to be today? Fans of the Ioan Gruffudd-starring A[...]

‘Bad bank’ to appeal against decision in dispute with German lender

The data on sluggish national wages mask big gains and losses around the country, a CNBC analysis finds.