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On June 26 author J.K. Rowling will be interviewed on the stage of London’s Royal Albert Hall by comedian Stephen Fry, who has narrated the Potter audiobooks, before reading from the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and will then answer questions from children: Competition for a …

Oxford English Dictionary recognizes another hip-hop term: The venerable definitions resource has already added other hip-hop-turned-mainstream terms like “jiggy,” “breakbeat,” “dope” and “phat” to the online updates of the 20-volume dictionary, and now it has started drafting an entry for the latest OED-approved term, “bling bling.” The term, which is …

Henri Cartier-Bresson, the 94 year-old “godfather of photojournalism” is honored with a major retrospective at the National Library and the opening of his foundation in Paris: Among the memorable images are his portraits of the painter Henri Matisse in his studio and snatched street scenes from as far afield as …

Like music and dancing, virtually every human culture has created images of dragons, even the Inuits who live where there aren’t even any reptiles. Why is this so? The NY Times has an interesting look into this phenomenon: A huge scaly serpent, usually with the wings of a bat or …

There is no downside to this story – how often can you say that? Okay I guess there is obesity and someone could be injured by a book dropped off a high building, but that’s about it: Now in its 4th year, Free Scoop Night is our way of saying …

From the 1960's - a United Nations-backed super team!

Caroll Spinney, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for 34 years, has written a book: The 156-page book (Villard, $16.95) is for adults, not children, but Spinney figures most of his readers will have grown up with Sesame Street, or have children who watch it. At 69, he says he …

Former pauper J.K. Rowling, who wrote the first Harry Potter book living on welfare in a two-bedroom apartment in Scotland just 10 years ago, is now worth more than the Queen: Rowling, 37, has more than quadrupled her personal fortune in the past two years, according to the survey by …

Just seven more non-shopping days 'til Free Comic Book Day!

An autopsy of a badly broken social system by a forensic psychologist, the creator of the documentary Six.