Butcher: Finding 'banned' books in Michigan schools is surprisingly easy
Books that are “banned” in schools have a remarkable way of appearing on bookshelves. The latest dust-up in Michigan over a ...
“I have always been fascinated with the paranormal since I was a little girl”: Local paranormal author and investigator speaks urban legends at Curiosity Con
It’s all about the bizarre, the strange, and the freaky. Curiosity Con wraps up Sunday, Jan. 26 at the Colorado Springs Event ...
King Charles' strange nickname for Meghan Markle to acknowledge her 'toughness'
While Meghan Markle was still a working royal, King Charles, who was Prince of Wales at the time, had a bizarre nickname for ...
Opinion: Connecticut does have a truly great capital city
The recent op-ed in the Hartford Courant by Nikos Mohammadi demands a rebuttal. Despite Mr. Mohammadi’s claims, we argue that ...
I just tested Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook Plus — and it’s making me believe in Google’s laptops again
Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook Plus ($699) surprised me. With a similar aesthetic appeal to the M3 MacBook Air, the long battery ...
5 Projects That Prove That There Will Never Be Another Director Like David Lynch
Which is just one reason why there will never be another David Lynch. A movie like this would have ended most directors' ...
Benedict Cumberbatch: Actors Are ‘Really F—ing Weird Creatures. We Want to Be in Extreme Situations Sometimes to Tell a Real Story’
Benedict Cumberbatch joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance to discuss playing the extreme grief of his ...
The 9 Most Expensive Streaming Movies of All-Time
Costly theatrical movies are infamous. The likes of Cleopatra still dominate the imaginations of moviegoers decades after their respective releases simply because of their infamous cost overruns. The ...
Duke Robillard on working with Bob Dylan, forming Roomful of Blues — and forging his own path
Born Michael John Robillard in Woonsocket in 1948, he founded Roomful Of Blues with pianist Al Copley in Westerly in 1967.
Hemingway book returned to Connecticut library after 56 years
A copy of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" was returned to a Connecticut library 56 years late, along with a note ...
Shark takes a big bite out of surfer's board
An Australian surfer got into "a bit of a tussle" with a bronze whaler shark and was able to walk away uninjured -- but his ...
Scientists Found a Strange Life Form Caught in an Evolutionary Time Loop
“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each sample has hundreds of books, all cut up into these sentences. To ...