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Summer TV Preview: When Do Your Favorite Shows Premiere?

The Huffington Post | Maggie Furlong | Posted 06.01.2012

We know you're probably preparing yourselves for the season finales of some of your favorite shows, but there's plenty of new and returning series pre...

Single Moms on TV: Prostitutes and Drug Dealers?

Caryn Brooks | Posted 04.09.2012

Caryn Brooks

It's not a new idea on television to have single mothers do desperate things. But surely there are TV shows with strong women in a lead role. Yet no show in the top 5 or even the top 10 had a woman as the lead character, much less a single mother.

'Weeds' And 'Episodes' Return In July

Posted 03.14.2012

Showtime is gearing up for more Mary-Louise Parker and Matt LeBlanc this summer. The network has announced that the season premieres of "Weeds" and "E...

Mary Louise Parker Replaces Demi Moore In 'Lovelace': Report [UPDATE]

Posted 03.28.2012

Mary-Louise Parker has joined the cast of the 70s-era porn-star biopic "Lovelace," replacing Demi Moore in the role of feminist icon Gloria Steinem, U...

TV Says See Ya, Men!

Chris Harnick | Posted 02.19.2012

Chris Harnick

Looking at HBO's recent move -- the canceling of male-driven shows "Hung," "How to Make it in America," and "Bored to Death" and the renewal of the Laura Dern-fronted "Enlightened" -- it's become even more apparent: TV is now the land of women. And that's not a bad thing.

ADORABLE PHOTOS: Mary-Louise Parker Handles Weeds Of A Different Sort

Posted 12.13.2011

The star of the hit television show "Weeds", Mary-Louise Parker, handled weeds of different sort Monday. As USA Today reports, Parker unveiled the lat...

Does This TV Star Look Christ-Like To You?

Posted 10.10.2011

The team behind the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak's "Godspell" announced today that Hunter Parrish, of Showtime's "Wee...

The best films of 2011 - so far

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.10.2011

Marshall Fine

So - if the movie year had ended June 30 and we had to choose the best films of 2011 from the releases that hit American screens since Jan. 1, which o...

How The Killing Is Saving Television

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 09.02.2011

Lorraine Devon Wilke

With its eerie, atmospheric tone, complex 3-ring storyline, and roster of multi-dimensional characters who straddle so many fences we're not sure what color hat they wear, The Killing was irresistible.

App Lets You Sell Pot Legally--On Facebook

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 08.27.2011

Forget about watering the zucchini: A new game for Facebook will let you tend your marijuana plants instead. Launched on June 27 to coincide with t...

The Lawn Chemical Ritual

McKay Jenkins | Posted 06.21.2011

McKay Jenkins

It's not just our health that suffers from our cultural obsession with lawn chemicals; our environment suffers too. The Chesapeake Bay suffers catastrophic "dead zones" resulting from the excessive nutrients running off suburban lawns.

Mary-Louise Parker: I've Never Smoked Pot, Only Licked A Pot Lollipop

Vanity Fair | Eric Spitznagel | Posted 05.25.2011

Wait, you don't smoke marijuana, or you've never smoked it? I've never smoked it. Wow. That's like finding out Tommy Chong never touched the stu...

So Many Selves, So Little Time

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Michael Sigman

President Obama is a Kenyan or a Muslim -- or a Kenyan Muslim -- masquerading as an American Christian. The Dalai Lama is an undercover Nazi agent. Ma...

PHOTOS: Which Of Mary-Louise Parker's Ensembles Are Fab?

Posted 05.25.2011

Mary-Louise Parker and her onscreen alter ego Nancy Botwin return to the screen Monday night for the sixth season of hit drama "Weeds." One trait the ...

Grow a Conscience: How to Garden Green

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Avital Binshtock

Whether your farm fits in a window box or spans several acres, ensure a truly green thumb with these Earth-friendly gardening gizmos.

Farmers May Return To Harsh Herbicides, Chemicals To Battle Roundup Resistant Weeds

AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 05.25.2011

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When the weed killer Roundup was introduced in the 1970s, it proved it could kill nearly any plant while still being safer tha...

Get Off Your Grass and Create an Edible Lawn! with Brigitte Mars

Brigitte Mars | Posted 11.17.2011

Brigitte Mars

An estimated sixty-seven million pounds of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides are applied around homes and gardens yearly. Commercial and government landscapes, apply another 165 million pounds.

Horsemint Marijuana Confusion: Cops Haul Off Weed

gawker.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Cops in Corpus Christi, who are clearly very well-intentioned but maybe not the sharpest tools in the police shed, seized some 400 marijuana plants fr...

Secret Organic Weapon for Weeding

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.25.2011

Maria Rodale

Yes, it's that time of year, when weeds arise and rise again. Even the most devout organic gardener might be tempted to pull out the evil chemicals at...

American Water Company Joins Lawsuit Against Syngenta, Maker Of Atrazine Herbicide

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011

The nation's largest private water utility company has joined a federal lawsuit that aims to force the manufacturer of atrazine, a widely-used herbici...

Breaking Down "Breaking Bad"

Guy Nicolucci | Posted 05.25.2011

Guy Nicolucci

Thanks to Netflix and what economists are calling the jobless recovery, I've almost caught up with AMC's "Breaking Bad." If you haven't seen this show...

CBS Corporation Bans Ad Calling For Marijuana Legalization

Paul Armentano | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Armentano

Now, the fifteen-second ad, which asserts that taxing and regulating the adult use and sale of marijuana would raise 'billions of dollars in national revenue, will not appear on the CBS billboard in Times Square

The Weed-Free Sanctuary Garden

Valerie Easton | Posted 05.25.2011

Valerie Easton

For too long gardeners have thought of nature as something to prune, control, mow and trim. To our detriment, we've overlooked nature's ability to s...

This Show Doesn't Suck

Joel Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Joel Stein

Once a year a network turns down a pilot that seems like a huge mistake to me. This year that show was Ronna and Bev, on Showtime. It's a weird show by two very Jewish women.

Weeds, Season Five Finale

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Holly Cara Price

For the sake of the final scene of the Weeds season, I won't tell you what happens next, but let's just say that it's pineapple upside down cake time.