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Mark Katic usually just sighs when it’s his roommate’s choice on cheap movie night.
Steve Stamkos loves the scary stuff.
“He’ll be all into the movie and I’ll end up staring at the floor for two hours,” the veteran defenceman for the OHL’s Sarnia Sting said. “It’s no fun for me because those aren’t the kinds of [...]

Will it be the four-level condominium in Incline Village, Nev., with a view of the lake? The chalet with mountain views one block from Sugar Pine Point State Park in Tahoma, Calif.? Or the cabin that sits along the Truckee River near Tahoe City, Calif., where he has become friendly with the neighbors?The homes [...]

CNN gave Ms. Zahn%26#8217;s slot to Campbell Brown, who is the host of %26#8220;Election Center,%26#8221; while MSNBC turned %26#8220;Tucker%26#8221; into %26#8220;Race for the White House%26#8221; and put David Gregory, the chief White House correspondent for NBC, in charge. Fox News replaced %26#8220;The Big Story,%26#8221; led by Mr. Gibson and his co-host, Heather Nauert, [...]

Some people pass almost unnoticed through life, only to become legends once they%26#8217;re gone %26#151; symbols of New York%26#8217;s mythic past when all the neighborhoods had character, all the rents were low and all the landlords knew their tenants%26#8217; names. Bill Gottlieb died in 1999, but residents of Greenwich Village talk about him to [...]

In parts of Brooklyn, buyers are still paying top dollar for coveted brownstones, and in some neighborhoods in Queens, the market is buoyed by immigrant buyers who won%26#8217;t let a housing slowdown blindside their dreams of homeownership. And yet in the Bronx, foreclosures are rising in poorer neighborhoods. In Staten Island, prices [...]

Do you address e-mails to Pet, Sweetie pie, or Lamb chop?Has one of your electronic communications ever expressed confusion about modern technology or the identity of a pop-cultural figure?
Are your non sequiturs the stuff of legend?
If so, you are probably someone’s mother.
A new website called Postcards From Yo Momma (postcardsfromyomomma.com) allows people to share the [...]

By Larry Worth
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - “American Pie” star Natasha
Lyonne’s personal struggles have been tabloid fodder for years.
But who knows how much of what’s been written about her is
true?
What isn’t up for debate is that her acting chops are
better than ever, as evidenced by her performance in [...]

(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Krittivas Mukherjee PANDHARKAWDA, India, March 20 (Reuters) - Almost every farmer across India’s arid cotton-bearing central plateau is a hostage, in one way or another, to a profitable mega-business of illegal moneylending. Families have lost land, farmers have been asked [...]

LONDON (Reuters) - A writer whose novel put her on trial
for “insulting Turkishness” has been longlisted for a
prestigious British fiction prize.
Elif Shafak, author of the bestselling “The Bastard of
Istanbul” was one of 20 writers longlisted on Tuesday for the
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
Shafak was prosecuted in Turkey over [...]

By James Mackenzie
PARIS (Reuters) - France paid tribute on Monday to the dead of World War One, holding a state funeral for its last surviving veteran of the four-year conflict, who died last week at the age of 110.
President Nicolas Sarkozy joined government and military leaders at the ceremony in Paris [...]