Who needs Twitter's 140 characters? Five words were enough for the winners at the 13th annual Webby Awards ceremony, where Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, took the prize for breakout of the year. ...more

June 10, 2009

Who needs Twitter's 140 characters? Five words were enough for the winners at the 13th annual Webby Awards ceremony, where Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, took the prize for breakout of the year. ...more

June 9, 2009

Whenever Kathy Griffin opens her mouth, an incident may ensue. Here are three of her more notorious efforts. ...more

March 19, 2009

What the Academy Awards needed most Sunday night was a movie that most of the audience had seen and liked. ...more

February 24, 2009

Now that the political conventions are over and the presidential campaign is in full swing, it's time for my quadrennial civics lesson. After listening to the two candidates' acceptance speeches, they might need a refresher course themselves. ...more

September 14, 2008

Under increasing criticism, the LPGA Tour on Friday backed off plans to suspend players who cannot speak English well enough to be understood at pro-ams, in interviews or in making acceptance speeches at tournaments. ...more

September 6, 2008

So the 80th annual Academy Awards will arrive as scheduled on ABC Sunday night. "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart returns at the helm. The red carpets will be rolled out. The actors will be glammed up. The fashion police will be on alert. Cue the music. Let the pomp begin. ...more

February 21, 2008

So the Academy Awards will arrive as scheduled on ABC Sunday night. "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart returns at the helm. The red carpets will be rolled out. The actors will be glammed-up. The fashion police will be on alert. Cue the music. Let the pomp begin. ...more

February 20, 2008

No red carpet. No fawning hosts. No celebrities. No gowns. No hairdos. No fashion faux pas. What kind of awards show is this? ...more

January 7, 2008

The scope of the disaster, from the minutiae to the monumental, was front-page news. Eyewitness accounts mixed with morbid speculation, all devoured by the public with equal parts hand-wringing and schadenfreude. It had the makings of an epic catastrophe, the stuff of Greek tragedy - one man's hubris leading to utter devastation and ruin. ...more

December 18, 2007