Some 40,000 video game enthusiasts are expected to bring their twitchy fingers to the Los Angeles Convention Center next week for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo.
Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kan., rattled off the letters to "Laodicean" to become the nation's spelling champion, outlasting 11 finalists and taking home more than $40,000 in cash and prizes and, of course, the huge champion's trophy.
Instead of running a mile down the road behind your still-new-to-a-bicycle son or daughter, food writer Nigella Lawson says, you could be making some cookies or bread rolls. It's another way to spend time with your children and get them to eat their food.
Instead of running a mile down the road behind your still-new-to-a-bicycle son or daughter, food writer Nigella Lawson says, you could be making some cookies or bread rolls. It's another way to spend time with your children and get them to eat their food.
Jump on a bus in Manhattan, and instead of eavesdropping on conversations around you, you might just hear some of that chatter set to music. A group of college students turn snatches of overheard conversations into librettos — and perform them on the routes and stops where they first heard the words.
May 27 is the 60th anniversary of the death of Robert Ripley, who founded Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Host Liane Hansen talks Edward Meyer, vice president of exhibits and archives for Ripley Entertainment, about Ripley and the criteria for making it into "Believe It Or Not" territory.
The first Indy 500 race was in 1911 and won by American Ray Harroun, thanks in part to his fancy new piece of equipment: the rear-view mirror. Host Scott Simon checks in with trivia expert A.J. Jacobs of Esquire magazine for more fun facts about Memorial Day and great race.
Shakespeare's sonnets have stayed with us for 400 years. But are there any words of love from our time that would last as long? We want to hear your ideas for words of love that might stay with us for as long as a Shakespearean sonnet.
The Snickers bar has a new sibling, and it's a girl. She's sexual, uninhibited and only 85 calories. But is the hyper-feminine, hyper-sexualized marketing campaign coming on too strong?
You are unlikely to find the posting for a Supreme Court Justice on Craigslist, but if you did, you might also find: The Constitution guarantees no furlough days and no cut in salary — nor does it specify any qualifications for the job. Perks include: cozy office with fireplace and office art work on loan from the Smithsonian.
This week's puzzle is an assortment of brainteasers that all have to do with the word "mother." The first challenge: Rearrange the letters of "mothers" to name something you might drink from. The answer: "thermos."
Try spelling promiscuous, sacrilegious, or milieu. Fourteen-year-old Yulkendy Valdez can. A native Spanish speaker, Valdez moved from the Dominican Republic to the United States less than four years ago and has since mastered the English language. Host Michel Martin speaks with Valdez as she prepares to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee later this month.
On the upside of the recent flu mania, one oft-neglected, seldom noticed and, come to think of it, very weird body part is receiving a new wave of attention: the elbow.
The Los Angeles-based spectacle fuses Mexican-style lucha libre wrestling with good old-fashioned American burlesque. The result? A playful sexo y violencia offering that's caught on big.
Scraps of paper and objects lost mean there's a chance for someone to find them. Davy Rothbart has made a career of having people send him the bits and pieces they find. His new anthology features celebrities' stories of letters, doodles and more peeks into other people's lives.
Making it to 90 years old is awe-inspiring in much of the world. But on a tiny Greek island in the North Aegean Sea, nonagenarians barely merit a second glance.
