The out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after Geoffrey Gilmore left the film fes...

Hat tip: Craig Hickman From The New York Daily News: Conflict-of-interest issues grow for President Obama's new urban czar Adolfo CarrionBY Greg B. SmithDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER President Obama's new urban czar, Adolfo Carrión, admitted Tuesday he has not paid an architect who designed a renovation ...

People claiming to represent "Christians" in general are outraged by the Australian government finally overturning the nasty, women-killing "gag rule" that prohibited Australian aid money going to medical clinics in the third world if they dared to also perform (or refer to organisations that would)...

Cinematical has just received this exclusive clip from Bart Got A Room , featuring William H. Macy (complete with awesome Jewfro) and newcomer Steven J. Kaplan. One of my favorite films from last year's Tribeca Film Festival, Bart Got A Room follows one skinny, nerd-ish dude on his quest to find a p...

Energy Secretary Steven Chu has made it clear from Day 1 that he intends to get long-delayed loans out the door ASAP. Now he has knocked out one of the obstacles he saw creating drag for the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing incentive program: a set of hard deadlines. Chu wanted to do away w...

We don't regret the radiant, blinding love we developed for Boom Blox the First, though the physical toll it took on our ball chuckin' arm was nigh-unbearable. Therefore, the latest trailer for Boom Blox Bash Party , EA's follow-up to the highly enjoyable tower toppler, has left equally intrigued an...

Filed under: Scandals Bernard Madoff has become one of the most infamous non-violent people in the history of the world for operating the largest Ponzi scheme ever, widely quoted at something like $50 billion. But some experts say that the number is exaggerated, and suggest that the actual figure co...

His real name was Steven Kimball. But here at Daily Kos and on his own blog, Climaticide Chronicles, he was known as JohnnyRook. After a two-and-a-half-year fight against  acute myeloid leukemia, he died Monday at his home in Port Townsend, Washington. He was 53. (The photo shows him in the Can...

Speaking of gun porn, am I the only one getting a funny feeling in my pants while watching OLN's coverage of this year's SHOT show? I've never seen so many sexy AR's in my life! Smeagol needs it, the precious......

Remember the Teletubbies-Britain’s most iconic TV show for kids to come out of the late 90s? Much to my surprise and amusement, it turns out that Gary Stevens, a British conceptual artist performing in the Walker’s upcoming show, ‘Ape’, was once a writer and consultant for th...