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Martin McDonagh’s thinnest play gets a creepy boost from Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell.

The Oscar-winning director of Mean Streets, Raging Bull, and this month’s Shutter Island describes his funny walk, his inability to cook, and his issue with the word “wonderful.”

10 Secrets of the Vatican Exposed Our 9th annual '10 Issue' hits newsstands this week! To celebrate, here's an article on the Vatican from last year's edition.

Have you been watching the Olympic ice hockey tournament and cheering for the American team? Be thankful you haven’t been forced to choose which U.S. team to root for. American fans faced just such a conundrum at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz

How to halt those with a penchant for horror stories, plus Facebook privacy.

Life is too short for most of us, heaven knows, touched by grief and elevated by love, if we’re lucky. Loyalty was another lure to Bleckner’s opening. “We’ve been friends since high school!” Bleckner said of Karan, giving the designer a hug whil

After decades of putting up awful buildings, Columbia tries to break its streak.

The Redken team dared a mix of Beauty Media and salons to transform their style and

Board Game: One reporter's retirement plan: a construction crane, blowtorches, and a treasure-trove of old wood

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. The scheme never discouraged drinking, but killed around 10,000 of those who dared to drink. * Why People Really Watch Figure Skating. It’s the spills as much as the s

Things were not going as I had hoped. My sole purpose for interrupting my manager at this late hour on this Monday night was to inquire, respectfully, about an increase in my wage. But the conversation had somehow reversed itself, and now here I was stand

On October 26, 1886, a note arrived at London’s Albemarle Hotel addressed to Mrs. John L. Gardner. The sender was novelist Henry James, who informed his correspondent that he was "writing to Sargent to say to him that we will come to see Mme Gautreau on

How the 2048 movement is helping “me” and “we” to work together. Photo: istockphoto.com/arissanjay 2048 is a plan to prevent future wars, eliminate poverty and create the conditions necessary for a sustainable existence on our plane

From Tunisian caves to Swedish mines, unusual hotels can be found around the world to make your vacation a special one

Isn’t it always the heart that wants to wash the elephant, begging the body to do it with soap and water, a ladder, hands, in tree shade big enough for the vast savannas of your sadness, the strangler fig of your guilt, the cratered full moon’s