The Philadelphia Inquirer

Would you like a little Ray Charles with your mocha frappuccino? Perhaps a taste of Alanis Morissette to take the edge off that espresso? Or maybe a shot of Bob...

These days it seems like everybody wants to get close to celebrities. Not Jim Tipton. He wants to get close to what's left of them. Tipton, 32, is a hunter...

Who's in it: Irfan Khan, Puru Chibber, Dmayanti Marfatia What it's about: Lafcadia the Warrior ruthlessly kills villagers who fail to pay taxes to a warlord until his warm-hearted son...

With the set-top box of the not-too-distant future, you'll be able to automatically record an old "Columbo" at 2 a.m. in the living room and watch it during dinner the...

When it comes to turning declining urban neighborhoods into thriving ones, struggling artists have a fine success record. Several chic Philadelphia neighborhoods owe their rebirth to painters, sculptors and others...

Thanks to VH1's "Behind the Music" and its even cheesier rockumentary descendants, the mythology attached to substance-abusing rock stars, particularly dead ones, now amounts to a cluster of cliches. The...

Oh, sure, you probably think it's easy to sell copies of Mexican horror films like "The Devil's Backbone" or "Attack the Gas Station," a kind of Korean "Dog Day Afternoon."...

In this spring's media swirl surrounding the "comeback" of Prince, there were stories celebrating his approach to audio naughtiness, rhapsodic accounts of his skills as an entertainer, memory-lane trips through...

No longer just the scourge of computer inboxes, spam has begun trickling into cell phones. Sometimes it's a text message that pops up on your cell phone screen, advertising lewd...

After years of hawking paper, pens, envelopes, desk accessories and small electronic devices, the nation's big office-supply retailers are targeting a new clientele. Staples Inc., Office Depot Inc. and OfficeMax...