Charleston, South Carolina’s American Theater rolls out the red carpet at 7 p.m. tonight for the premiere of new teen drama Palmetto Pointe, with steaming young stars and Carolina natives Timothy Woodward Jr. (Summer Dreams), Brent Lovell (Summer Dreams), Sarah Edwards, Amanda Baker (One Tree Hill), and Will Triplet in …

In a move somewhat analogous to the passage of the USA Patriot Act after 9/11, in response to the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London which killed 52, British Home Secretary Charles Clarke today published a list of “certain types of behaviours that will form the basis for excluding and deporting …

Despite unprecedented success in getting out the vote among young people — Rock the Vote registered 1.4 million new voters for the 2004 presidential election and helped propel 21 million young voters to the polls last November 2nd — and the organization’s ostensible nonpartisan perspective, a quick survey of its …

According to a timely back-to-school study released today by market research firm Student Monitor, college women are 35% more likely than men to study daily, 21% more likely to study 15 or more hours weekly, 23% more likely to read their textbook thoroughly, and more likely to get “A”s than …

On Monday’s broadcast of The 700 Club, Christian Coalition founder, televangelist, ’88 presidential candidate, and friend-o-Bush Pat Robertson unloaded on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying, “We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability,” and accusing Chavez of intending …

Xingolati (pronounced Zîng-gō-läh-ti): is it a frothy, pricey hot new liquid stimulant at Starbucks, or the Groove Cruise of the Pacific, starring the “fearless freaks” themselves, Flaming Lips? If you voted for the latter, you are smarter than you look. TALENT UPDATE: just added to the lush, pullulating talent bill …

This is how much things have changed around here: two years ago the late-summer lull (we used to have such things) of August 23, 2003 produced a grand total of five (yes five) posts on Blogcritics. By way of comparison, today we already have 25 posts at 9 a.m. Zounds! …

When I was a kid in L.A. in the ’60s, for a (short) time there was a radio station that only played the Beatles and the Stones. In that time of extremely eclectic Top 40 radio — where a set might run from Aretha Franklin to Blue Cheer to Johnny …

Yesterday, the BBC investigative news program Panorama tackled the thorny and critical issue of Islamic extremism in Britain and whether the Islamic leadership there, in particular the ostensibly moderate Muslim Council of Britain, was capable of “dealing with this issue head on,” as MCB Secretary General Sir Iqbal Sacranie promised …

The inaugural Surfrider Foundation Celebrity Surf Jam brings together stars from the world of music, film, professional surfing, and Surfrider Foundation activists from across the country on Sunday, September 11th for a friendly surfing competition in the waters off of Huntington Beach to help raise awareness of the importance and …