It’s official: The Emmys have finally figured out how to put on a great TV show! For the second year, the Awards telecast honoring the small screen’s best has actually turned out an entertaining evening. This year’s spectacle hosted by the comically agile and energetic Jimmy Fallon tops last year’s stellar performance by host Neil [...]

Pat Tillman’s life had Hollywood written all over it. An NFL star, with the square -jawed good looks of a Marvel Comics superhero, Tillman exchanged the lure of fame and fortune following 9/11 for a dangerous stint in the Army Rangers and lost his life on the battlefield in Afghanistan. The military claimed he died [...]

Giving up is not an option for Sensible Washington, the all-volunteer group that sponsored a marijuana legalization bill that didn’t make it to the Washington ballot this year. The 2011 legalization campaign kicks off at this weekend’s Seattle Hempfest, the largest annual pro-marijuana rally in the world.

“The battle is so vicious. God is doing everything he can. It will end–I know that. I just don’t think it’s going to be pretty.” Those ominous words, a salvo in the abortion battle which remains the most heated combat zone in America’s Culture War, drip with resolve from the mouth of Anne, the Executive [...]

You think people are driving you crazy? Trust me: your mother, boss, significant other, even a demanding mother-in-law have nothing on the people rattling around Holly Miller’s head. The troubled protagonist in Shana Mahaffey’s darkly comic debut novel, “Sounds Like Crazy,” navigates life’s fragile and often flat-out funny moments with five distinct personalities–she dubs “The [...]