Jan 1st, 2009 · A power outage is just the cherry on top of a year in Detroit that saw the auto industry running on fumes, a housing industry wracked by foreclosure and unemployment rates among the highest in the nation. So why is Detroit still so lovable?
Dec 15th, 2008 · The Broadway-bound revival, staged by co-creator Arthur Laurents, rethinks the musical from top to bottom. Some characters sing in Spanish, for one thing. And those lovable gang thugs? They're scarier now.
Nov 20th, 2008 · Americans are fascinated by pirates: swashbuckling, salt-soaked seafarers who sport blousy shirts, spiffy vests, leather boots, eye patches, peg legs and the occasional parrot on the shoulder. But will the recent hijackings by Somali pirates make them not so lovable?
Oct 17th, 2008 · The Graveyard Book is the tale of a boy adopted by ghosts after his parents are murdered. It's a macabre premise, but Gaiman's quaint and lovable otherworldly characters make this gentle story anything but grave.
Oct 16th, 2008 · Home from a long stay in a mental hospital, the hero in Matthew Quick's debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, embarks on a hapless campaign to win back his former wife.
Mar 16th, 2006 · Man Man's freewheeling waltzes reside somewhere between Broadway musicals and vintage 45s. Singer Honus Honus's gruff-but-lovable growl recalls Tom Waits or Nick Cave, while the rest of Man Man wields pots and pans, whistles and chimes, xylophones, flutes and trumpets.
Feb 25th, 2006 · Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills.