The team behind The Book of British Hit Singles & Albums has revealed that — thirty years since their first UK #1 album A Night at The Opera — Queen has overtaken the Beatles as Official UK Album Chart champions, having spent more weeks on chart than the Fab Four. …

From Hollywood’s first full-length animated feature, Disney’s glorious and haunting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, to the mega-hits of recent years like The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., the Shreks and Toy Stories, moviegoers have thrilled to the art and magic of animation. The Academy of Motion …

Giddy with the star treatment they received in the caper film National Treasure, wherein the Declaration of Independence was stolen for “its own protection” (and for the invisible treasure map on the back), the National Archives and Records Administration will launch a new public web site on Wednesday, July 20, …

Three bomb blasts struck the London subway and one tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday. Reports estimate at least 45 are dead and 1000 wounded. Prime Minister Tony Blair called the terror attacks “barbaric” and said, “We shall prevail and they shall not.” A …

“Boost Mobile RockCorps” is offering young music fans the chance to earn tickets to see Coldplay, 50 Cent, Eminem, Green Day, Erykah Badu, Queen Latifah, Jill Scott, and Van’s Warped tour this summer in exchange for four hours of service to their communities. Boost Mobile RockCorps, an extension of the …

If you were in Sonkajarvi, Finland over the weekend, you KNOW they held the 13th annual Wife Carrying Competition and that Estonian Margo Uusorg, 25, completed the 253.5-meter obstacle course in 59 seconds with “friend” Egle Soll, 23, clinging to his back in the trademark “Estonian Carry”: hanging upside down …

Ninety-one countries ranging across the geographical, economic and cultural spectrum have been invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to submit their best films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 78th Academy Awards. In 2004, 50 countries submitted films for consideration, and the …

Live 8: “10 concerts, 100 artists, a million spectators, 2 billion viewers, and 1 message.” Did it work? Did it “make poverty history“? Were the shows good, great or indifferent? Is the world a better place? Was the G8 paying any attention? Can Africa be saved? Is it ours to …

Much to their mutual relief, director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Cruise are hitmakers again with their remake of War of the Worlds. With over $113 million at the North American box office and an additional $102m elsewhere for its first six days of release, War has already earned more …

“When history books are written, I’d like it to be said that I am one of the premiere singers of our time.” Luther Vandross Luther Ronzoni Vandross, one of the finest R&B singers of the last thirty years and indeed one of the “premiere singers of our time,” with a …