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Nickelback "Dark Horse'' RATING: 2 EXCLAMATION POINTS The melodic post-grunge band Nickelback, one of the most commercially successful acts of recent years, is often maligned -- this is what hard...

With the economy in a downturn, corporate travel managers are using strategies from other frugal eras to save money: pushing advance purchases of airline tickets, moving meetings to cheaper destinations,...

Things move at perpetually high speed for Beyonce Knowles. With her new album and two movies coming up, she's going to have a busy year. Knowles acknowledged that her husband...

Have you thought about your refrigerator's condenser coils lately? Spent any time with your dryer hoses this week? The answer is likely no, since we tend to think about these...

Stacy Grout used to be amazed at all the stuff in the unfinished basement of her Denver-area home. But after years of tripping over her young sons' toys strewn about...

Sorry, Mr. President. Please surrender your BlackBerry. Those are seven words President-elect Barack Obama is dreading but expecting to hear, friends and advisers say, when he takes office. For years,...

Q. My neighbor had wood shingles installed on one large wall and then painted. I can see the wall from my house and it is handsome. But it was not...

The most expensive piece of clothing sold by the Walt Disney Co. six years ago was a $75 sweatshirt embossed with a mug shot of Mickey Mouse. By Magic Kingdom...

President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia retreated Friday from his threat to deploy missiles on Europe's borders, but only if President-elect Barack Obama joins Russia and France in calling for a...

After four years of nonstop touring, San Diego singer-songwriter Jason Mraz realized that "room service doesn't provide food for the soul." "I thought, 'If I'm going to make another album,...