Michael Jackson: Carving an icon

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Happy Halloween!
Season's greetings to you and yours from Frankenstein's monster and his lovely bride. [Full post here]

Pomplamoose: Music duo going viral via social media
A couple hours ago, though, the video above — a Pomplamoose cover of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" — slowly slid down my home feed at FriendFeed. I clicked on it, and I was instantly hooked. The video has been up for just over a month and viewed nearly two million times. From there, I went to the

Halloween music playlist: Scary, spooky songs for the horror season
If you need some Halloween-themed tracks to fill out your iPod library, here are a few suggestions. You can download these tunes in handy MP3 form via Amazon.com and enjoy them at an upcoming costume party or hayride, use them as background music for your haunted house or trick-or-treat display, or relax with them while you're pumpkin-carving or lost in a corn maze. Please take care, however, to remove your earbuds when

UK Transplant patients given smokers' lungs
In the radio segment, Prof. John Dark, senior transplant surgeon at The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, said that data suggest the lungs of smokers "do a little bit worse, but not much worse; perhaps five percent worse." Professor Dark also noted the possibility that a donor's lungs might be harboring a very early canc

Movie review: 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' (2008)
Many of Woody Allen's more recent films are beautifully shot in luxurious foreign locations. They star contemporary name actors of great mystique who are all absolutely obeisant about the honor of working with Mr. Allen. But while they still feature the same Windsor EF Elongated titles and jazz/classical soundtracks as in previous w