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The fifth season of American Idol is off to an astonishing start with ratings higher than ever through the audition and Hollywood rounds. Will interest continue throughout the season? Will compelling new stars emerge? Will superstar Kelly Clarkson's cooling toward the show that put her on the map — she …

Vice President Dick Cheney had a really bad day Saturday.

A frenetic first weekend of the XX Winter Games is complete in Torino, Italy, with the Tomato flying to halfpipe gold, a Texan with Vulcan eyebrow skaking really fast, Bode a medal bust, Italy a luge winner on its $100 million track, Norwegian cross-country skier making a miraculous last-to-second run, …

Though the mean-spirited might refer to it as Avoiding Injury With the Vaguely Familiar, the show Skating With Celebrities — not uncoincidentally timed with the Torino Winter Olympics — has found an audience among the skate-crazy and/or sadistic as six figure skating professionals including Nancy Kerrigan and Tai Babilonia attempt …

Is Valentine’s Day an organic celebration of eros, philia and agape made manifest through the spirit of a romantic early Christian martyr? Or is it a crass commercial grab enforced by guilt and manipulation whereby automatons reflexively purchase societally approved symbols of emotional attachment? Do we respond to the call …

Our own televised terpsichorean chroniclers Patfish and Beth Gottfried focus like corybantic laser beams on the second season of ABC’s popular stars-go-dancing reality competition show Dancing With the Stars. Voila: TV Review: Dancing with the Stars – Finals – Woo! Hoo! for Drew! Save a Horse and Ride Drew Lachey. …

Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer — gaunt and with close-cropped hair, as if the accumulated weight of his frought past was all the baggage his frame could bear — returns from the (presumed) dead in season five of the hit “clock” series 24 to take on ruthless “Central Asian” (read “Chechen”) …

After a remarkably mild winter, up to 7 inches of snow is arriving just in time to give Detroit a festive coating and complicate the movement of tens of thousands of fans converging on steel-roofed Ford Field for the 6:30 kickoff of Super Bowl XL between the Pittsburgh Steelers and …

In September, a dozen cartoons were published in Denmark critical of Islam, some depicting Muhammad, the prophet and founder of Islam, in an unflattering light. Many Muslims consider it blasphemy to print any image of Muhammad. One cartoon depicts Muhammad with a turban in the shape of a bomb. Another …

Blogcritics' very first Featured Artist of the month is Gretchen Lieberum, the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter.