Paul Blart: Mall Cop. More Real Than Reviewers
How dare we derive pleasure from a movie that elitist reviewers writing for a minute collection of fellow elitists have deemed prosaic, unimaginative, and beneath them.
How dare we derive pleasure from a movie that elitist reviewers writing for a minute collection of fellow elitists have deemed prosaic, unimaginative, and beneath them.
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.30.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — The fallout from the horrific holiday season for retailers has begun, with the operator of an online toy seller filing for bankruptcy...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 12.29.2008 | Chicago
I wondered how the six kiddies in my family would take their first - but certainly not last - credit crunch Christmas.
Vicky Ward | Posted 12.29.2008 | Style
It's OK to drink, smoke or dope (in moderation). Pot is appearing at the dinner table and no one blanches. In fact if you don't seem like a victim of stress, then you're the one to worry about.
236.com | Posted 12.27.2008 | Business
Dammit shoppers, you're ruining Christmas! Terrified of how low this Christmas season's sales might turn out to be, retailers have been slashing price...
AP | LAUREN SHEPHERD | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
Two hours before the doors were set to open Friday morning, a Miami-area Wal-Mart parking lot was full of cars _ and possibility. But in a Christmas s...
Wall Street Journal | ANN ZIMMERMAN, JENNIFER SARANOW and MIGUEL BUSTILLO | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
J.C. Penney Co. is offering free wake-up calls to rouse department-store shoppers at 5:30 a.m. Friday. From the time the store opens until 1 p.m., the...
247wallst.com | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
To the amazement of Wall St., Amazon today said it had "its best holiday ever". In the firm's statement it said "Amazon announced the 2008 holiday ...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business
Holiday shopping is way down in some areas as shoppers grapple with a weak economy and face potential layoffs and work hour cutbacks. The result is ...
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — After limping through a holiday season expected to be the worst in decades, the nation's stores made it to Christmas with little to c...
AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business
ATLANTA — Severe weather across the U.S. has caused a delivery backlog at FedEx Corp., prompting the shipping company to take the extraordinary ...
Wall Street Journal | SCOTT PATTERSON | Posted 12.24.2008 | Business
For years, one of the more common descriptions of the holiday sales season was "good, not great." This year, the mantra may be "bad, but not doomsday....
Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living
If only there were a way to immediately link the immediate pleasure of downing that pint of Cherry Garcia with the distant pain of feeling like a lard ass.
Joanne Rendell | Posted 12.22.2008 | Style
Kids' fiction unleashes our long-ago dampened imaginations, so take a break from that Salman Rushdie book you're reading, and treat your mind to a kids book this holiday.
Los Angeles Times | Ari B. Bloomekatz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green
Some Jewish communities throughout the Southland celebrated the first night of Hanukkah with a twist Sunday, as one group cooked a giant potato latke ...
Giles Slade | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business
Here, at the end of the Bush years, the bottom has suddenly dropped out of the world and Americans are in mid-fall, struggling to stay upright and wondering when it will end.
AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business
What are people buying on Amazon (AMZN) and other electronic storefronts? Fewer flat screen TVs, Comscore says, either because promotional discounts h...
Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago
With Christmas just a few days away, the holiday shopping season is bearing out predictions that it will be the worst in decades. Local retailers suc...
Staar | Posted 12.20.2008 | Style
Santa baby that Cadillac is falling apart, won't start/ A gulf stream five would be smart/ Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight.
Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style
Looking to have a tacky Christmas season? At the office party, grind with the cute intern. Write and perform your own holiday rap. Or, hire a dwarf to dress as an elf at your party.
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style
While retailers across the country struggle to survive some shops in Tucson are counting their blessings in the form of pesos.
Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 12.18.2008 | Style
If there's a silver lining to this recession, it may be that Americans are less willing to buy tons of expensive crap for each other during the holida...
pipeline.refinery29.com | Karen Day | Posted 12.16.2008 | Style
Despite how many times you rescued kittens or helped a little old lady cross the street this year, we think everyone has a naughty side, and Santa's n...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.15.2008 | Living
Turn the TV off during the next few weeks, don't check your email, and lose the Blackberry. Take a few days off and have some real vacation time.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business
Reports abound that the holiday shopping season is looking bleak. So we'd have to guess that people will be cutting back somehow. Maybe it's fewer gif...
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Douglas MacKinnon | Posted 01.28.2009 | Entertainment