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The CSI franchise has a new lead investigator: Special Agent Avery Ryan. Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette plays the head of the FBI...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. The black jazz critic, essayist and novelist Albert Murray...

It's been a downward spiral for Paula Deen since news of her deposition testimony as part of a racial discrimination suit went public la...

Wednesday night it was dinner with a small group of Republican lawmakers. Thursday it's lunch with 2012 Republican vice presidential nom...

The dust hadn't settled on Tuesday's election when people started talking about the fiscal cliff, the expiration of tax cuts and aut...

Back in the Renaissance, men sculpted their bodies with padding: Fake calves, paunches, doublets that puff up a man to twice his size. And n...