Newsworthy |
Grammys underwhelm. The bar is set pretty low when the two best
things you can say about Sunday night’s telecast of the Grammy
Awards are: no wardrobe…
Culture |
To family and friends, Nehemiah Griego was just a normal teen who
loved playing sports, jamming in the church band, and accompanying
his father on mission…
Television |
With the long-awaited season three of PBS’s sleeper hit
Downton Abbey
now in full swing, many who have not yet succumbed to
DA
fever are wondering what they have…
Newsworthy |
Football, anyone? I don’t normally spend much time watching NFL
games, but when the playoffs roll around I usually give the games a
try. Typically, I watch…
Politics |
By now, practically every American with a political bone in his or
her body has seen or heard of the Obama campaign ad featuring Lena
Dunham (if you…
Music |
The Korean pop music industry (K-pop) is booming (see “Pop
religion” in the current issue of WORLD). Although the tightly
choreographed and heavily…
Space |
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP)—Felix Baumgartner stood alone at the edge of
space, poised in the open doorway of a capsule suspended above
Earth and wondering if he…
Entertainment |
The hottest ticket on Broadway continues to be
The Book of Mormon
, a musical that pokes fun at the Mormon faith in particular and
Christianity in general. It is…
Obituaries |
DETROIT (AP)—Alex Karras, the rugged lineman who anchored the
Detroit Lions' defense in the 1960s, then went on to an acting
career in which he starred in…
Entertainment |
It has been a long hot summer already. And there's been plenty to
get upset about, from the return of global warming to legal
gymnastics on the Supreme Court.
