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Evil Needs Playlists, Too

Will McCahill — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:38:59 CST

When they’re not plotting to kill you or thousands of others, the world’s most evil men like to kick back with some tunes, too. The Guardian gives us an idea of what’s on their playlists: Osama bin Laden: The al-Qaeda chief has the perfect soundtrack for hiding in caves from...

Best Soap Opera Cameos

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:19:31 CST

James Franco’s much-hyped General Hospital guest stint began Friday, but can he live up to the true classics of the celebrity cameo genre? Many other luminaries have guested on daytime TV, and “they almost always shake things up like a schizophrenic with a fake pregnancy interrupting a wedding in a...

Nuke Blunder Last Straw for Booted Air Force Brass

Harry Kimball — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:30:04 CDT

The Secretary of the Air Force and the service's chief of staff were forced to resign today on the heels of a report highly critical of the handling of nuclear weapons and technology, the Air Force Times reports.

B-52s Shimmy Again

Eleanor Villforth — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:30:41 CDT

Sixteen years after the release of their last album, the B-52s are still rocking the cosmic party, this time with the all-new album Funplex . The Georgia band still performs regularly, but "if we're going to keep doing this, we need new material," guitarist Keith Strickland told NPR. "And our fans...