We’re only a week away from the opening of Pixar’s latest animated extravaganza, The Incredibles [trailers: WM, Real, QuickTime]. Writer-director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant) and the Academy Award winning team behind Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo bring the story of an unusual family: Once one of the …

Since the Redskins became the “Redskins” in 1933, the result of the team’s final home game before the presidential election has correctly predicted the White House winner: if the Skins win, the incumbent wins; if they lose, the incumbent loses: “It’s kind of amazing,” coach Joe Gibbs said. “You wouldn’t …

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino sit atop British film magazine Empire’s poll of the greatest living movie stars over the age of 50. The co-stars of the Godfather saga took the top two places in the vote of 10,000 readers. The magazine writes: They are the pinnacle of the …

Remains of a 3 1/2 tall archaic human species, Homo floresiensis, have been found on an island 370 miles east of Bali – the species may have survived into the 16th century: Despite their stature, they were mighty hunters. They made stone tools with which they speared giant rats, clubbed …

Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, which “defends imprisoned journalists and press freedom throughout the world, as well as the right to inform the public and to be informed, in accordance with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” has put out their annual ranking of worlwide press freedom. Autocratic …

We have two cats although I am so not a cat person – in fact no one in the family is really a cat person, so it’s a good thing there are two of them: they keep each other company while we do more interesting things. But this woman is …

The death of BBC radio giant John Peel is beginning to sink in – the loss is starting to take shape. The Glastonbury Festival new bands tent will be renamed the John Peel Stage in tribute: “It’s very appropriate because it’s all the sort of music that John would have …

Sox up 3-0 – if they blow this they will be the only team in MLB history to have collapsed worse than the 2004 Yankees. And the Sox aren’t just up 3 games to none: they have never been behind in the three games. They have won with the bat, …

It takes a special kind of star to remain in the limelight after passing to the Great Beyond, and Elvis is still the King when it comes to generating big bucks from the grave. While moldering for 27 years now, Elvis managed to crank out $40m last year alone for …

We’ve been telling you about the coolness that is Berkleemusic.com, Berklee’s online music school, delivering online access to world-renowned music faculty, educational concepts and curriculum, previously available only to on-campus students. Berkleemusic.com has expanded music-education opportunities using the newest methods, media, technologies, and special juju. Now they’ve announced the winners …