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A short story I recently read put a good deal of its focus on some incidents occurring as a direct result of the Inquisition. In the story, a woman was taken into custody and tortured until she confessed to consorting with the devil. Shortly before she died, her tormentors "mercifully" forgave her. Her accuser was a jilted suitor who had no evidence for the inquisitors other than his righteous ...

My friends and I have been casually joking around about how none of us get any "action," so to speak, and how we're basically sick of it. I know that it's mostly just all in fun and we use the subject for a good laugh, but I can tell that some people are really aching for some physical contact. I mean, it would be nice, but it's not imminent. The thing is, in my circle of friends, one girl h...

Oftentimes, bad films have some sort of clue in their marketing, in their title; that cue that you shouldn't be expecting anything more than a middling afternoon with a bucket of over-greased popcorn. Mentions of Adam Sandler, Michael Bay, or Dude Where's My Car?, are often signs that you should stay at home and check to see who was the latest reject on Project Runway.

And then there ar...

Chris Bauer , Jared Harris , Sarah Poulson , David Strathairn , Lili Taylor , Jonathan Woodward , Austin Pendleton , John Collum , Kevin Carroll , Cara Seymour , Norman Reedus

This biopic from director Mary Harron () attempts to document the meteoric life and times of 1950s pinup queen/cultural fantasy icon Bettie Page, played here with a coy mix of deep religious faith and innocently kin...

"I'm not sure exactly what she meant by that. We didn't go into it. It's something I think about every day," admits Harry.

The actor, who confesses he had no interest in dance prior to Rinna's involvement with the ABC hit, tells us, "I'm probably doing this for different reasons than everyone else on the show. Having seen what Lisa went through and following her journey — seei...

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KNOWN FOR Cooking her way through Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I" in one year -- and keeping a blog of the "Julie/Julia Project." After the project, she quit her "dead-end secretarial job" for a 9/11-related government agency (which she never identifies) and wrote a sex-and-profanity-laced m...

Here's how I understand Iversen's story: Just before graduating from Stanford a few years back, he had an identity crisis. The slam-dunk success track he'd been on long before his first day at pricey Phillips Exeter Academy didn't seem as pleasing as the lives of the public high school students he recalled from John Hughes' movies.

So, instead of assuming his assigned seat at some pr...

Gray day can't stop Hare Krishnas' colorful parade

email bio September 25, 2006 Peace, war, the pope and the Battle of the Ditch: All those topics surfaced Sunday as I went in search of a story on the first day of Ramadan at Colorado's largest mosque at 2071 S. Parker Road.

Muslims call Ramadan the month of peace, but this one got as edgy as the day's news.

A buzz filled ...

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The Queensland government has banned jailed sex offenders from being released to perform community service work, after reports of projects being run ne...

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A Goose Creek man shot to death outside his apartment this weekend may have been targeted because he was Hispanic, authorities said.

The 27-year-old man was shot once in the chest early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead at the scene, Berkeley County deputies said. The man's na...