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Exhilarating. Grand. Generous. None of those are words anybody would have previously associated with movies by Noah Baumbach, whose acerbic, sometimes brutal humor could verge straight into meanness in films like The Squid and the Whale , Margot at the Wedding and especially the recent Greenberg , which had me accusing Baumbach of being "nearly as ... (more)

In the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis," Justin Timberlake sings music set to a very different beat than "Suit and Tie." Timberlake plays a bearded pop folkie in the film, which was to premiere Sunday night at the Cannes Film Festival, about the music scene of early 1960s Greenwich Village.

There may be no Canadian novelist writing in English today who is as little known at home and as popular overseas as Christopher Moore.

It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials... It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest ... (more)

May is " Get Fit " month and the Phoenix Healthy Food Examiner is featuring a special guest contributor in this week's column.

A man was fatally shot in the West Village around midnight Friday and police were investigating the incident as a hate crime because the alleged gunman, who is in police custody, is said to have made anti-gay remarks right before firing his revolver.

A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime.

Injured passengers are transported from the scene where two Metro North commuter trains collided, Friday, May 17, 2013 near Fairfield, Conn.

This week has been a disquieting one for journalists concerned about protecting their sources.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 4.4-magnitude earthquake at 9:43 a.m about 12 miles northeast of Shawville, Canada.

The estimated jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing has swelled to a record $600 million for the popular lottery game, but one official estimated Friday that if it goes unclaimed the prize would zoom to nearly $1 billion.

If you have itchy eyes, an itchy throat, and post-nasal drip, you're not alone. Allergy season is hitting Central New Yorkers hard this year.

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Ottawa rattled buildings Friday in Ontario and Quebec and was felt across upstate New York from Buffalo to the Vermont border.

We hear about abandoned dogs every day, but rarely do we stop and think about the ways people leave man's best friend behind.

In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window.

Here's a fact about elections: they are competitive contests between candidates, each of whom brings certain baggage.

The Oneida Indians have struck a deal with the Cuomo administration to guarantee exclusive territory for their central New York casino in exchange for an estimated $50 million in annual payments to the state.

Firefighters are still working to determine what caused the fire, but they're saying that it does not look suspicious.

How much would you pay for a nude painting of "Golden Girls" star Bea Arthur? It really doesn't matter because some lucky person, who remains anonymous, just bought the piece of art for $1.9 million at Christie's auction house this week.

The 41-floor New Yorker Hotel on Eighth Avenue in New York City has 912 rooms . That's only one room short of what it would take to house the 913 New Yorkers still living in hotels in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.