Los Angeles County has more homeless people than any other metropolis in the United States. "For over four years, filmmakers Letitia Schwartz and Judith Vogelsang followed the lives and progress of several artists...
Religulous opens on the valley floor of Meggido, the future birthplace of Armageddon and home to a 200 million man army during the Great Tribulation, but, at present, it’s simply an empty stage for Bill Maher to...
Radiocarbon dating has revealed that the Stonehenge monument was actually constructed in 2300BC, a few hundred years later than was previously estimated. For the first time in over 40 years, excavation rights...
This video is just incredible. The person who took it buried the tape (it is unclear whether it was a tape or a kind of memory card) because he feared it would be confiscated. Why would he think that? Oh, just the...
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" A noted Pakistani anthropologist, Samar Minallah, has launched a 17-minute documentary to highlight the miseries and agonies of the people displaced by the ongoing military operation in the troubled Bajaur...
During the NBA offseason, Houston Rockets forward Tracy McGrady paid a visit to refugee camps in war-torn Sudan. His visit was chronicled by a film crew and turned into a documentary entitled "3 Points."""I had no...
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A notorious English criminal family has broken up, and four of its members sentenced to 50 years behind bars. The Johnson family gang was responsible for a huge number of heists and lived a luxurious lifestyle."A GANG of gypsy burglars have been jailed for Britain's biggest...
Have any seen the Wild China series on the Travel Channel this week?So what do NP contributors think of the series so far?IMHO it's an obvious PR ploy and found omitted subjects kind of offensive.No tigers. And Episode Three: about Tibet! IMHO an interesting informative...
There's every reason to be suspicious of the Chinese. They are the largest producer and supplier of doping products in the world. While there is some evidence that the Chinese Olympic Committee is...
You'd think that by now the infamous Sacha Baron Cohen, of Ali G and Borat fame, would have a tough time arranging (ie. staging) crazy interviews without the interviewees immediately realizing they were being...
Sherman Alexie, who can be a real hoot, has some poignant things to say about this film revival."THE Exiles,” a film about American Indians living on the edge of downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, is both a chronicle and a casualty of neglect: a movie about a forsaken...
At this year's AnimeExpo 2008, running through July 6 in Los Angeles, Anime Expo® has teamed with Bang Zoom!® Entertainment to offer free voice acting workshops that will give participants a taste of voice acting with insiders’ tips, general discussions and chances to dub...
"The Alex Jones Show is a nationally syndicated news/talk show based out of Austin, TX. The show is syndicated by the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM and FM radio stations across the United States, as...
"A three-part documentary of the best-selling book, “The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West” by Harvard and Oxford historian Niall Ferguson. Monday night at 10 on Ch. 13....