What is Jaden Smith’s crime? Last weekend, the up-and-coming young actor, who will turn 12 this July 8, starred in a remake of “The Karate Kid” that audiences flocked to beyond expectation and, from all available evidence, loved. Given that Smith is front and center in more or less every frame of the 2 hour […]
The droning honk of the vuvuzela has become the real star of the World Cup — the kind of star some soccer fans love and others hate. Now, the wired world has joined the chorus. On Friday morning, there were roughly 30 vuvuzela-themed smartphone apps for the open-source Android platform. Another dozen or so were […]
Law enforcement agents in Brazil’s northeastern town of Pinheiros trekked and canoed for nearly two hours through rugged terrain to arrest a 54-year-old man accused of fathering eight children with his two eldest daughters, a top regional investigator said. Pinheiros Regional Police Chief Laura Amelia Barbosa told CNN that Jose Agostinho Bispo Pereira — who […]
Thousands of census workers, including many temporary employees, are fanning out across America to gather information on the citizenry. This is a process that takes place not only every decade in order to complete the constitutionally-mandated census; but also as part of the continuing “American Community Survey” conducted by the Census Bureau on a regular […]
(The Frisky) — Ah, first dates. So nerve-wracking. If only you knew exactly what was going to happen, then you could plan out everything in advance. But first dates are kind of like playing the lottery. You’ve got to be in it to win it, but sometimes you end up empty-handed. If you’re a woman, […]
