The Queen's New Andy Warhol Paintings Were a Bargain
With the recent purchase of four famous Andy Warhol portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, it would seem like Buckingham Palace is getting pretty edgy.
Have you ever had a job where two different bosses were constantly tell you to do two different things? That's Paul Ryan right now.
With the recent purchase of four famous Andy Warhol portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, it would seem like Buckingham Palace is getting pretty edgy.
If you're bored with your little smart phone and less little tablet, you might consider investing in one of the latest impressive touchscreen devices: mirrors.
Mahmoud Ahmadenijad had more than one sinister moments when he sat down with reporters at the Warwick Hotel on Monday.
Variety, the struggling but steadfast Hollywood trade publication, is close to finding a buyer, and if all goes as the Los Angeles Times says it will, that could very well be the Penske Media Corporation.
In celebration of National Punctuation Day, one of our commenters noted James Joyce's playful use of the colon in a line from Ulysses.
Discovered: Korean eunuchs outlived endowed peers; uncertainty lingers about Omega-3 pills; sexism in science; sustained thought kills cooperation.
We've all heard the schoolchildren's chant that goes, basically, "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage," or some iteration thereof. Of course, in this day and age, that's not always the chronology at all.
Cuomo has had a strained relationship with the media over the years, owing in part to a reputation for closely controlling his public image, but on Sunday he invited the press corps along for a field day, at a newly acquired parcel of 69,000 acres in the Adirondack State Park, the largest addition to the park in the last 100 years.
The kiddie tablet wars aren't child's play. In a lawsuit filed today, the makers of the Nabi accuse Toys 'R' Us of sabotaging their product only to copy it for their own Tabeo device.
In today's world tour of state media: The violent poetry of the Taliban is compiled in a book, Vietnam cracks down on "anti-state propaganda" and Iran follows suit. We begin in Afghanistan.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Budget forecasting may be an imperfect art prone to lots of error, but when researchers looked at how forecasts and reality measured up, the errors ran mostly in one direction.
A Real Housewife gets her own talk show, surely enraging all the other Real Housewives. Also in show business news today: Emmy ratings are both up and down, The Bachelor feels snubbed, and Justin Bieber wins again.
Today in Poll Watch: Voters think President Obama will stand up for the middle class, but actual middle class voters are split between him and Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, Romney appears to be losing ground on Medicare.
Coming in with an average SAT reading score of 496, 2012's graduating seniors have the dubious distinction of having attained the worst reading score since 1972.
Though Facebook claims that there is no glitch, users insist that a bug on the site has exposed their private messages, putting them on their Timeline for all to see.
Facebook has defended its new in-store tracking partnership with Datalogix by explaining that it doesn't violate any Federal Trade Commission regulations. That led us to ask what exactly the FTC does protect in the data collection department.
It's not unusual for reporters and press flacks to exchange strong words, but it is unusual for them to go deep-six nuclear on each other—and that's exactly what transpired between longtime Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines and BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings in a radioactive e-mail exchange published today.
Today in Ad Watch: Scott Brown takes on Elizabeth Warren's family tree, President Obama mocks Mitt Romney's "47 percent" tape, and Romney says Obama can't even control Nancy Pelosi.
As we gathered punctuation favorites from a range of our favorite writers, novelists, and word knowledgable people, we ran into a cold, hard fact. Some punctuation marks were hated, perhaps none more vehemently than the exclamation point. It was a mark hated most of all by Grantland staff writer Rembert Browne.
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