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If you stumble upon pics of Sean Preston Federline, infant son of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, as, say, this site did, it’s probably best if you don’t post them. Friday, Spears’ record company Jive issued this stern statement: “A number of photographs of Britney Spears, her husband Kevin Federline …

The Eurovision Song Contest celebrated its 50th year of foisting remarkably denatured euro-pop on the euro-masses last night with a Celebration program live from Copenhagen, the centerpiece of which was a vote on the greatest Eurovision song of all time. The finalists were: “Nel blu, di pinto di blu (Volare)” …

Interesting timing: last week Civilta Cattolica (Catholic Civilization), the journal of the Italian Jesuit order that reflects the official view of the Vatican, said boxing goes against “natural and divine” principles, and is a “legalized form of attempted murder, in the short or in the long run,” citing the deaths …

A national poll conducted by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute concluded 78% Americans believe gas prices are very seriously or somewhat seriously impacting their quality of life. Jerry Lindsley, director of the Polling Institute, thinks politicians should be wary. “Spiraling gas and home heating oil prices may be the …

What do you do when the legal strictures and social norms of your homeland don’t coincide with your own? If you have the resources — as for example, Michael Jackson, might — you pick up and leave. Yesterday, Thomas A. Mesereau Jr., the silver-maned attorney who won Jackson’s acquittal on …

Every city should have something as cool as Cleveland’s UnSilent Film series – a multimedia juxtabulation of classic silent films and live electronic music performance. Just in time for Halloween, UnSilent Film celebrates its first anniversary proudly with its fifth presentation, the 1921 classic silent horror film The Cabinet of …

I would say San Jose-based comic book publisher SLG Publishing has picked the right time of year to release their first issue of The Haunted Mansion comic book series (not yet available from Amazon). The 32 page black & white comic, based on the classic Disney attraction and not on …

If you have observed any gathering place of teens — malls, school and campus, movie theaters, concerts, etc. — you may have come away with the impression that every other kid has a cell phone and is afraid not to use it. Your impression was correct: almost half of 10 …

With just seven weeks remaining until Peter Jackson’s big budget remake of King Kong is due to premiere, the director has dumped Howard Shore’s score for the film and hired James Newton Howard (The Sixth Sense, Batman Begins, The Interpreter, The Village, Signs, The Fugitive, Waterworld) to take over the …