Are you a poet ready for some honest input? Are you strong enough to hear constructive criticism? Then maybe your poems are up to the scrutiny of a trio of published poets who started 5/5+ this fall, otherwise known as Five Five Plus. They’ve established a forum for poets to have their work heard and receive criticism. The trio promises to mince no words.
Documentary filmmakers A.J. Schnack and David Wilson knew it would be easy to make fun of Branson, middle America’s flag-waving, family-friendly celebration of musical variety shows and early-bird dinner specials.
Despite summertime flops, Hollywood is expected to coming in just shy of $11 billion at the box office for 2013, the largest take ever. But because of higher ticket prices, actual attendance at North American theaters remained flat after a decade of decline.
With spring comes Pop Warner football. But with news of former players suing the NFL for not doing enough to prevent head injuries, some parents are thinking twice before enrolling their children in the program.
For the handful of New York transit officials who collect items lost on commuter trains, subways and buses, the flood of wallets, handbags, eyeglasses and smartphones is occasionally broken by tales of crazier things left behind.
The Cleveland Cavaliers suspended enigmatic center Andrew Bynum indefinitely on Saturday for “conduct detrimental to the team” and banned him from all team-related activities.
Even as new filmmaking centers help spread Hollywood’s wealth around the world, the boost to local economies comes at a personal cost to the specialists who must follow the work. As movie production migrates from place to place, friendships get left behind and raising a family can be difficult.
The top foreign adviser to Iran’s supreme leader on Friday called for separate talks directly with the United States amid the multilateral negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.
A traffic collision that took place just after midnight on Saturday left a driver in critical condition.
Threatening lawsuits and protests, opponents are gearing up to fight a decision by Okinawa’s governor that could pave the way for a new U.S. military base on the southern Japanese island.
An intellectually challenged man who went missing in Henderson on Friday has been found.
The $75 he and his buddy had made the day before from the stolen motorcycle felt like a fortune compared to the $5 a day he earned selling his mother’s tortillas. The 15-year-old lay in bed inside the wooden one-room house he shared with his 10 brothers and sisters and told his partner, Eduardo Aguilera, that he wasn’t in the mood.
A majority of what Carlos Lopez-Sosa does to help UNLV win basketball games is not showing up on a stat sheet. The senior forward is getting fewer opportunities than he ever imagined.
Since she last fought in a cage as part of the first female match in Ultimate Fighting Championship history in February, Ronda Rousey has filmed a reality show and two movies, granted countless interviews and appeared on so many magazine covers she says she doesn’t even get excited about them anymore.
Electricians working atop a New York City skyscraper on Friday installed the last of the 2,688 crystal triangles that give the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball its shimmer, including a panel dreamt up by a 12-year-old former cancer patient.
Some Britney fans said on Twitter they cried at her Planet Hollywood dress rehearsal Thursday night. They’re not weeping alone. Here are your top 10 Twitter tears for Britney Spears in recent days.
More than 1 million Americans are bracing for a harrowing, post-Christmas jolt as extended federal unemployment benefits come to a sudden halt this weekend, with potentially significant implications for the recovering U.S. economy.
The owner of a TV network that covers Western and cowboy lifestyles is baffled by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s decision to pick CBS Sports Network over his network to broadcast the Las Vegas-based National Finals Rodeo.
Do you wonder how you could better manage finances? You’re not alone. When it comes to money, most people are far from perfect. Whether you make $20,000 a year or $200,000, some simple steps can start you on the right financial path, and some of them only take a few minutes to complete.
Exercise. Lose the weight. Answer every incoming email. Those are the hard kinds of New Year’s resolutions, because you have to think about them every day for the rest of the year. Many are forgotten long before Valentine’s Day.
From smartphones to smart cars, technology is transforming virtually every aspect of our busy lives. Technologies not only make life easier while on the go, but new options are quickly simplifying life at home as well. Some experts are predicting 2014 will be the year of the smart home. Home automation is a top home improvement trend, making the Jetsons’ futuristic lifestyle more realistic than ever before.
With the start of the new year, millions of Americans will have access to health coverage for the first time or have improved coverage because of the health care law. There are steps you can take now to ensure you have access to coverage beginning Jan. 1.
About half of US adults incorrectly believe that antibiotics or flu vaccines will treat the flu, according to a new survey from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). The good news is that two-thirds of those surveyed know that people should be vaccinated against the flu each year.
It’s no big deal for women gladiators to climb into the mixed martial arts cage anymore. Now they’re headlining the fight cards as main events for Las Vegas-based fight organizations such as juggernaut Ultimate Fighting Championship and Lion Fight Promotions.
Family Court Judge Steven Jones found Lisa Willardson’s body Thursday slumped over the toilet in the bathroom of her rented Henderson home, according to his lawyer, James J. Jimmerson.
A breakdown of the fights on the main card of UFC 168 today at the MGM Grand Garden:
