May 12th, 2007 · Fifty years after his film debut in Elia Kazan's darkly prophetic A Face in the Crowd, America's favorite father-figure returns in a sweet-tart confection from director Adrienne Shelly.
Dec 19th, 2006 · On David Crosby's "Song with No Words (Tree with No Leaves)," a piano gently rumbles, while vocal harmonies, stacked atop each other for maximum choir effect, melt over the instruments. The result is part choral music, part stoner rock; it's easy to imagine the joint being passed from one musician to the next.
Nov 21st, 2006 · Polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs appears at a preliminary hearing in Utah today. Jeffs is the biggest target yet in a two-state crackdown on the persistent practice of polygamy. The leader of the nation's largest polygamous group faces two counts of being an accomplice to rape.
Sep 17th, 2006 · Pope Benedict XVI's comments about the prophet Muhammad, made in an academic speech earlier this week, continue to inflame the Muslim world. Islamist leaders have a demanded an apology and the pontiff has expressed his regrets -- but also his confusion over the uproar.
Sep 16th, 2006 · The Muslim world remains angry about remarks from Pope Benedict XVI. The pontiff quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who disparaged the prophet Muhammad. The Vatican says the pope is upset at the reaction.
Sep 1st, 2006 · Polygamy prophet Warren Jeffs will be housed in a correctional facility named Purgatory. It turns out that, but for a quirk of history, it could have easily been named Hell.
Aug 31st, 2006 · Polygamist church leader Warren Jeffs, once one of the FBI's top 10 most-wanted suspects, faces an extradition hearing Thursday in Las Vegas, where he was apprehended earlier this week after a traffic stop. Utah will prosecute Jeffs on charges he orchestrated forced marriages between underage girls and much older men in his religious group, where he is considered a prophet.
Aug 29th, 2006 · Polygamist Warren Jeffs, one of the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, has been arrested near Las Vegas after a traffic stop. Jeffs had been fleeing state and federal charges that he arranged marriages between underage girls and older male members of his religious group, where Jeffs is considered a prophet.