Based on the hit television series that ran from 1979-85, the new movie version of The Dukes of Hazzard (see the tongue-in-cheek trailer here), opening August 5, is set in the present day and follows the adventures of “good old boy” cousins, Bo (Seann William Scott) and Luke (Johnny Knoxville) …

A survey of more than 600 computer-savvy music fans by the British music research firm The Leading Question shows that those who regularly download or share copyrighted music without permission also spend an average of £5.52 a month on legal downloads, while those who don’t illegally fileshare spent just £1.27 …

As a result of investigations by New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed Monday to pay $10 million and stop bribing radio stations to feature its artists. Spitzer called payola — illegal payoffs for airplay designed to manipulate record charts, generate consumer interest in records …

The 78th Annual Academy Awards, televised live on ABC from the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, will be held on Sunday, March 5, 2006. The gala will start on the hour: 5 p.m. on the West Coast, 8 p.m. on the East. The red carpet …

A 27 year-old Islamist radical of joint Dutch-Moroccan nationality, Mohammed Bouyeri, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole today for committing a terrorist act by murdering Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh last November. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of several police officers and …

Conflict in northern Uganda has displaced approximately 1.4 million people, 80% of them children and women, as the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) seeks to overthrow the Ugandan government. UNICEF Ambassador Clay Aiken traveled to the conflict region of northern Uganda to witness the phenomenon of “night commuters”: children who …

**********WARNING***************** DANGER ALERT CAUTION LOOK OUT TAKE CARE BE ON GUARD SPOILERS AHEAD: Botulism Botulism is food poisoning caused by the toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulism. The toxin is extremely dangerous as it affects the nervous system and is often fatal. Botulism is usually found in low-acid, canned …

This has been an unusually hot, dry summer in Northeast, Ohio, which has given us the excuse of leaving the two cats outside most of the time rather than festering in the basement, hairing the place up, stinking up the cat boxes. As a result of their extended freedom and …

“Take a typical family where the mother likes to watch dramas and the father likes to watch baseball or soccer. Now they can watch them together on the same screen,” Mikio Katayama, head of Osaka-based Sharp’s LCD business, told a news conference yesterday announcing a new liquid-crystal display that shows …

Pew’s Global Attitudes Project has just released a new study called “Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics,” which finds that support for terror is waning among the sampled Muslim public, lending some objective support to those who claim a moderate Islam will emerge from the current struggle …