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National Poetry Month: Read New Work From Alice Fulton

Posted 04.18.2012

Salman Rushdie said, "a poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going ...

An Extremely Serious Recorder-Playing Competition

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 03.19.2012

UPDATE: Listen to one of Mexico's SXSWiest bands play the recorder for us, in a video posted below. Remember the days of full-fledged childhood, wh...

Yes, 'DogTV' Looks Creepy

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 02.21.2012

Under the heading of things that were bound to happen even though they shouldn't, we can now list "cable's first network for canines." Doing the round...

Ja And Friends: A True Story Told In Pictures

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 02.03.2012

This is part of our "True Story Told In Pictures" series. The story below comes from an article in the New York Daily News. Everything that seems unbe...

The Skin Jeroen Eisinga Lives In: 150,000 Bees

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 01.14.2012

Dutch artist Jeroen Eisinga is self-indulgent and reckless, and probably happy to hear himself described that way. A self-styled daredevil, Eisinga es...

Catherine New

How Banks Get You On Overdraft Fees [GRAPHIC]

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 11.22.2011

Under pressure from regulators and lawyers, nearly all banks have stopped the predatory practice of reordering debit-card purchases to gouge customers...

An Entire U2 Album Gets Covered

Posted 12.26.2011

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the U2 album Achtung Baby, British magazine Q has put together a parallel cover album that so far we thoroughly ap...

Coldplay Tries "Something Different," Shakespeare Goes On Trial

Posted 12.24.2011

Monday, Oct. 24 Walter Isaacson's authorized Steve Jobs biography (titled "Steve Jobs") is out this Monday, pushed ahead of its original November r...

Read David Foster Wallace No-Edit Threat To Harper's

Posted 12.21.2011

Letters of Note has unearthed (via Flickr) a cover letter both funny and deadly serious that David Foster Wallace faxed to Harper's magazine demanding...

"Straw Dogs" Movie: Who's Playing Who? (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.30.2011

In 1971, Sam Peckinpah's psychological thriller, Straw Dogs, first hit the big screen. 40 years later, Rod Lurie takes the reins and it's more terrify...

The Most Psychotic Villains Of All Time (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.02.2011

Villains come in all shapes, sizes and spirits. They can be gigantic, tiny, tangible, apparitions, evil, ugly, aggressive and often times, humorous. Y...

Emily Swanson

Social Media Buzz Shows GOP Debate Not A Game Changer For Struggling Candidates

HuffingtonPost.com | Emily Swanson | Posted 10.12.2011

Gym-tan-laundry over taxes-jobs-politics? From a look at social media, at least, eyes were turned to the Jersey Shore over the Ames Republican preside...

The HOTTEST Professors (PHOTOS)

Posted 06.28.2011

Move over, Maxim – RateMyProfessors.com has its own hot list, and this year George Washington University’s Daniel Gutstein was voted hottest overa...