Teresa Palmer’s Kick-butt Fantasies of Angelina Jolie

from The New Zealand Herald Teresa Palmer casting her spell By Jacqueline Smith Sorcerer’s Apprentice star Teresa Palmer leaves behind some awkward years as she heads up the Hollywood starlet ranks, writes Jacqueline Smith. Expand It’s hard to believe...

Clemens And Frey In Slate

from Slate.com Roger Clemens, James Frey, and the Thrill of Watching the Overly Ambitious Fall By Laura Kipnis Which is worse: lying to Congress or lying to Oprah? When the news broke that former MLB star Roger Clemens was being indicted for perjury about his alleged...

Lawyer Burns Koran and Bible, Then Inhales

from The Telegraph UK Australian lawyer smokes pages of Bible and Koran, asking ‘Which is best?’ An Australian lawyer, Alex Stewart, has smoked pages torn from the Koran and the Bible, posting the video on YouTube just days after an American Pastor’s...

Katonah Poetry Series Under Threat

from The New York Times Even Poetry Is Undergoing Cutbacks By PETER APPLEBOME KATONAH, N.Y. It’s not clear what’s more unlikely — that for 43 years most of the nation’s best-known poets have come to the modest Katonah Library for a poetry series begun by a former Mad...