The singer of Grammy-nominated heavy metal band As I Lay Dying has been arrested in Southern California after authorities say he tried to hire an undercover detective to kill his estranged wife.
Singer arrested in murder-for-hire sting
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Thailand’s Election: A Test of Its Fragile Democracy
Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s exiled former Prime Minister, likes to compare himself to Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma’s pro-democracy movement.
Larry Crowne: Tom Hanks’s Unemployment for Beginners
The harmless film Larry Crowne opens with the harmless Larry getting fired from his job at a Wal-Mart-like big-box store in the San Fernando Valley. Although the story quickly proceeds through familiar hallmarks of recent years — the fruitless job search, the necessary yard sales and looming foreclosure — this is not a recession story
Behavior: The Pimping Game
In the night world of San Francisco, Fillmore Slim, Soulful Spider and Bobby Joe from Baltimo' practice the same profession.
Armed Forces: Cider Joe at Sea
The twin-engine DC-3 lifted from the runway just after 5 p.m. and headed out over the Pacific for Hawaii
Home Economics
Buying a home is more affordable that it has been in decades. But what’s even more affordable in a lot of U.S
10 Questions for Ban Ki-Moon
Can the U.N. play a proactive role in the economic crisis we are witnessing right now
A Teen Twist on Sex
Americans have plenty of opinions about teenage sexuality.
San Francisco: Circumcision Ban and Religious Freedom
In the 1960s and ’70s, the San Francisco Bay Area was where the counterculture really started — the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, the Summer of Love in Haight-Ashbury, gay rights in the Castro. Today, the Bay Area is challenging the larger culture in a new and controversial way: there will be a referendum on the ballot in November that would make it the first major city in the U.S.
Reuniting Gertrude Stein’s Influential Art Collection
Outside of Academia, does anybody read Gertrude Stein anymore? Most of her major works are too strenuously experimental to be much fun.