A Slight By Any Other Name

Exclusivity of any kind has always made me nervous enough that I want to throw up: segregation by skin color, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. So as a gay person, I was doubly disappointed to discover that The Peel Hotel, a nightclub in Melbourne, Australia that caters mostly to homosexual men, was recently granted the right to refuse entry to
With the re-opening of the Heather Kullorn case, there are plenty of questions among those who knew the 12-year-old.
BEIJING - For 15 years, China's oil companies have scoured its territory for new oil sources, drilling in Central Asian deserts and the floor of the Pacific, hoping to reduce rising dependence on imports. After years of disappointment, one company reportedly has made a major discovery. PetroChina Ltd. has found an offshore field that could be
Given Bob Barker's retirement this spring, The Price is Right is more popular than ever. Dakota reports from the set of the show.
Netscape's New Orleans Voices continues with a tour of the new Musician's Village courtesy of local musician, Margie Perez.
Netscape News was on hand for MoveOn.org's peace vigil in Ventura County CA protesting the Iraq War on the night of the 4th anniversary of the United States' involvement in that conflict.
Netscape News was on hand for MoveOn.org's peace vigil in Ventura County CA protesting the Iraq War on the night of the 4th anniversary of the United States' involvement in that conflict.
"Trombone Shorty" was a band leader by age 6. Now 21, he leads his "funky jazz" band, Orleans Avenue, as they carry the flag heralding the next generation of sounds from The Big Easy. Meet Shorty as he introduces us to his hometown neighborhood, Treme, the oldest Black neighborhood in America.
Since the Consumer Reports 2007 top picks ended up being all Japanese makes, they complied a list for the "All-American" buyer that will buy nothing but an American made car (don't know why, but that's besides the point). Check out the All-American list after the jump.
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Global warming could cause severe food and water shortages for millions of people by 2100 and trigger a melt of polar ice that could keep ocean levels rising for centuries, a draft U.N. report shows.
Last night's production was a strange one, too odd in many ways to be reduced to bullet points, and one largely unworthy of praise. According to Matt Drudge, the general public wasn't even watching--if overnight estimates prove accurate, it will be the third least-watched Oscars in history.
Though The O.C. 's ratings were at best average (and sometimes totally abysmal), the show served as a remarkably effective clearinghouse for totems of teenage cool.
IBM this week announced a breakthrough in microprocessor design that will greatly improve the performance of processors, particularly multicore processors. The breakthrough relates to the memory used in a Level 1, or L1 cache used in microprocessors. It's the first level of CPU instruction cache for storing the most recent instructions.
Netscape Anchor Alexia Prichard gets beaned with beads and meets some fun characters at Mardi Gras 2007.
The newest UN-sponsored assessment left out research that suggests more dire climate change.
The goal: to meticulously examine the first year of the conflict, pinpointing the key mistakes that continue to hamper the war effort today. The resulting film, though clinical in its treatment of the facts, paints a damning portrait of the Bush Administration's insistence on staying the course.
In an exclusive Netscape interview, studio wizard and former Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick talks about his long, productive collaboration with the Fab Four. And what does he think of "Love"? (Not much.)
Members of Birmingham's Muslim community on Saturday criticized the intense media speculation surrounding the arrest of nine local men over an alleged terrorist plot to kidnap and kill a British soldier.
Scientists and government officials are falling far behind in their attempts to come up with an authoritative report on global warming - but not because of major disagreements among more than 100 nations and dozens of scientists.
Three dramatic features are worth singling out for their formal innovation, their fresh perspective, their directors' willingness to take risks....and for the fact that each project left Sundance without distribution.
When the director of the documentary 'Ghosts of Abu Ghraib' asked the soldiers themselves why they had participated in the detainee abuse, they all gave her the same answer: "I did it because I was told to do it."
Major political figures rarely show up at film festivals. This morning, though, two former Bush Administration officials joined a panel discussion on the Iraq war at Sundance.
The much-buzzed Grace is Gone stars John Cusack as Stanley, a conservative, middle-American father of two who has just learned that his soldier wife has been killed in Iraq. The film defies expectations by avoiding political statement in favor of intimate portraiture.
Consumer Reports, the consumer product testing organization, publicly withdrew a report Thursday that concluded most rear-facing infant car-seats on the market failed crash tests when using tougher standards than the government uses.
An interview with the Village Voice columnist and author of the new book "La Dolce Musto."
Now that the awards have been handed out, here are my picks for the most award-worthy moments of the telecast.
Part 1 of Netscape and TUAW's sit down interview with Leo Laporte on the Macworld 2007 Conference. Today Leo discusses what he thinks of the new iPhone.
The Apple folks gave the TUAW.com guys an up close look at the soon to be released Apple TV. Scott McNulty narrates.







