A major Colorado hospital system will refuse to hire anyone who uses tobacco products starting Jan. 1.
After seeing his eight features and speaking to him only briefly, one gets the sense that if director Jean-Marc Vallée gathered $100 million for a tentpole project, $90 million of it would go toward getting the most extravagant soundtrack in history. The filmmaker traffics his character-driven narratives in fluid ideas of music and memory, but none so expertly and audaciously than in his latest film "Wild," which stars Reese Witherspoon as an American woman who seeks spiritual relief by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Читать дальше...
Discussing how the holiday ski season is setting up already, with Rob Katz, Vail Resorts Chairman and CEO.
Federal agencies have doled out billions in erroneous payments over the last five years, but the problem is worsening, Fiscal Times reports.
In 1999 Jack Ma was living in a small apartment with his wife in Hangzhou, China, when he came up with the idea for Alibaba.
If the Foundation Cartier's pairing up of David Lynch and Patti Smith for a conversation might seem a bit odd, you might not be aware that the duo have collaborated before. In 2011, they created an e-card for the Foundation (see below), with Lynch's animation providing the backdrop for Smith's rendition of "Bah-Bah Black Sheep" because, obviously. The duo are back, having participated in a talk for the gallery and it's every bit as excellent as you'd expect. Caught on camera by BBC's "Newsnight Encounters" series... Читать дальше...
Google is now offering a subscription service to Web users to remove ads from sites.
House Republicans, after months of threats, sued two Cabinet secretaries over the way the health-care law was implemented.
There's confidence, there's hubris, and then there's Warner Bros.' developing big screen adaptation of Stephen King's "The Stand." If making the leap from smaller character driven dramas to what was previously described as a three-hour, R-rated movie wasn't enough, "The Fault In Our Stars" director Josh Boone says the plans for the project just got a helluva lot bigger. Stopping by Kevin Smith's Hollywood Babble-On podcast (via Slashfilm), Boone revealed how his single movie version has now morphed into a massively-scaled quartet of films. Читать дальше...
There are few new cancer drugs to treat kids, and not much research is being done.
Media-market experts are claiming that the new podcast "Serial" could mark a sea-change in listening and advertising habits.
Speaker Boehner said President Obama's new executive actions on immigration "deliberately sabotage" bipartisan efforts.
Google announces "Contributor," a subscription service that lets users pay monthly subscriptions so that they don't have to see ads.
Surviving World War II, corruption during New York City's most violent year, the fight for Civil Rights, the early life of one of the greatest minds of our generation, and an attempted assassination of King Jong-Un. One of these will be getting the comedy treatment at the multiplex before the end of the year, and to save you the trouble of looking it up, we'll just tell you: it's the latter, and Seth Rogen and James Franco will attempt to mine laughs from that situation in the upcoming comedy "The... Читать дальше...
In National Security and Double Government, Michael Glennon examines the continuity in U.S. national security policy from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. Glennon explains the lack of change by pointing to the enervation of America's "Madisonian institutions," namely, the Congress, the presidency, and the courts. In Glennon's view, these institutions have been supplanted by a "Trumanite network" of bureaucrats who make up the permanent national security state. National security... Читать дальше...
2015 is looking up a particularly good year to be a Carrie Brownstein fan. She'll be back on the road with the reunited Sleater-Kinney, who will also be dropping No Cities To Love, their first new album since 2005's The Woods. You'll also see Brownstein pop up in a role in Todd Haynes' "Carol." But before all that, "Portlandia," the show that has raised her profile over the last half decade, will be back, and a new trailer has arrived. And make no mistake, the fifth season of the hipster skewering show will be bigger than ever. Читать дальше...
Our friend Jake over at Vsauce3 dared us to put the two biggest gaming consoles up against each other for our first-ever knockout episode. Find out whether the Xbox One or PS4 ends up being the toughest and which one gets the chainsaw in our season finale.
Our friend Jake over at Vsauce3 dared us to put the two biggest gaming consoles up against each other for our first-ever knockout episode. Find out whether the Xbox One or PS4 ends up being the toughest and which one gets the chainsaw in our season finale.
William Ready, Braintree CEO, discusses the newest players in the online and mobile payments space.
Ross Stores on Thursday reported earnings of $192.7 million in its fiscal third quarter.
Ann Inc. on Friday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $29.9 million.
Foot Locker on Friday reported net income of $120 million in its fiscal third quarter.
Names on the move ahead of the open.
TV streaming service Aereo filed for bankruptcy protection after a U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the company's model violated copyright laws.
