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On Friday, the Disney Channel premiered Descendants, a TV movie about the children of Disney heroes and villains. No surprise, it is basically a mix of Once Upon a Time and High School Musical. Sober, it is a rough sit. Drunk? It is a delight. Spoilers… Here’s how the plot works: After they got married,…
James Holmes walked into a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rise in 2012 carrying three guns including a semi-automatic rifle and opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring 70 more. Nobody, not even his defense attorneys, denied that. But those attorneys still told a jury and a judge that Holmes was not guilty of those…
Photo Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has not yet announced whether he will join the 2016 presidential race. Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times For months, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been telling crowds, the news media, and anyone else who will listen that she “always thought this would be a competitive race.” But she…
No one quite knows what the first Republican debate will look like, who exactly will be onstage, or what it means that Donald Trump will be there, too. This, it seems, is the Republican National Committee’s solution to the debacle of the 2012 debates. The problems are memorable: too many primary debates, too many damaging…
Men: What are they thinking? And where do they get off? More specifically, why do they always think you like them or want them when you don’t? And conversely, why don’t they know when you actually do like them, either? Join me as we keep chipping away at this riddle of the ages. If you’re…
Continue reading the main story Video Love Letters to the Gravity Boss Dan Price, chief of Gravity Payments, raised the annual salary floor for his employees to $70,000. Most responses were positive, but Mr. Price says that even the negative letters were valuable. By ERICA BERENSTEIN and JESSEY DEARING on Publish Date July 31, 2015….
Setting out from Boston, hitchBOT wanted nothing more than to see America, really see it, from sea to shining sea. Unfortunately, the friendly thumbs-upping robot got its head bashed in after getting only as far as Philadelphia. Lauren O’Neil, a journalist with Canada’s CBC, tweeted a photo of what looks like the poor state the…
It was all good just a week ago 2. Dee Barnes If you’re at all familiar with Dee Barnes, it might be from the line in Eminem’s great “Guilty Conscience” about how you shouldn’t take advice from someone who slapped Dee Barnes. I realized this when I was trying to find the video of Dee…
A gay Staten Island caterer says cops who were captured on video taking him down in his front yard, beat him while shouting homophobic slurs, the Daily News has learned. Louis Falcone, 31, wasn’t charged as a result of the June 19 takedown, and now plans to sue in federal court for civil rights violations,…
Photo Celebrities caught in serious repose include, from left, Kristen Stewart, January Jones and Victoria Beckham. Credit From left, Ian Langsdon/European Pressphoto Agency, Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters I didn’t think much about it at the time: I was appearing in a short television segment and had quickly…