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In this image released by the New Yorker Festival, Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," is shown during an interview at The 2008 New Yorker Festival, Saturday, Oct.

Actress Angelina Jolie attends the premiere of 'Changeling' at Ziegfeld Theater on October 4, 2008 in New York City.

Sarah Palin is the product of a design flaw - the consequence of the founders' decision to create the vice presidency.

Take a deep breath because, even if the economic meltdown has reduced your entertainment budget to rubble, there's so much going on this month, you're going to want to be constantly on the run.

Pedestrians walk past Lehman Brothers headquarters Wednesday in New York. The nation's fourth-largest investment bank, led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld Jr., is looking for a potential ...

Charles Darwin is best known for his theory of evolution and other natural history achievements, but little is known about his enduring and insightful work with plants and the important role they played in ...

Angela Burke stood for the impromptu interviews the day her son was killed. She told the media of his heroics -- protecting her from the gunman who had burst into their Camden home.

Last night Newsradio 570 WSYR's George Kilpatrick took your calls, asking who won the VP Debate.

Bar Refaeli has a sweet spot for destinations that feed her sugar habit. The Israeli model picked the Necco candy factory near Boston and New York's Serendipity restaurant - home of the frozen hot chocolate - ...

Elizabeth Edwards said Saturday that her passion for reforming the nation's health care system has been 'a great refuge' for her during the recent turmoil over her husband's extramarital affair.

Edwards, who has incurable breast cancer, also said medical tests this week showed that her condition hadn't worsened since March of 2007, when she and her husband, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, announced her cancer had returned and spread to her bones.

Edwards was interviewed at the New Yorker Festival by medical writer and surgeon Atul Gawande, who asked how she was managing to continue speaking out publicly on health care, given the turmoil in her personal life.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is a nicely sarcastic take on celebrity culture, though its own methods undermine its rebellious spirit.

Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer; his world is smaller now. He battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment.

As an 86-year-old gay man, with no family nearby and many acquaintances long since dead, he'd seem a likely prospect for isolation.

Instead, he has kindled a deep, five-year friendship with Gigi Stoll, a fashion model-turned-photographer half his age. Stoll helps Carter with medical arrangements, writes to him when she travels overseas, and sat with him for six hours during his most recent hospitalization.

The London News.Net Thursday 2nd October, 2008 London, Oct 2 : Hollywood actor Daniel Craig became the chief guest of a baptism celebration in New York, when he accidentally wandered to the party after hearing ...

ALBANY -- The state Commission on Property Tax Relief continues its research on how to reduce taxes on homeowners, even though New York is in a fiscal crisis and faces deficits, panel Chairman Thomas Suozzi ...

Someday, Michael Cera will show us what else he can do. He surely must have someone else inside of him besides the poignantly verbal but sweetly awkward nerd we've come to know and love in movies such as ...

A lawsuit involving the three surviving children of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is threatening to derail a US$1.4 million deal for a book on their mother.

Simon Pegg and Megan Fox in "How To Lose Friends & Alienate People." Poor Simon Pegg.

New York Gov. David Paterson and Legislative leaders are meeting to discuss the stumbling economy and its impact on the state budget.

Wall Street's meltdown is starting to be felt in the larger economy as households start to shudder and state services get scaled back even before New York's legislative leaders and the governor meet to plan more spending cuts on Friday.

A Siena College poll finds the national economic crisis _ led by Wall Street's woes _ has already hit what economists call the real economy. The statewide poll of registered voters found 85 percent of New Yorkers felt the financial situation poses a serious threat to their households.

New York Education Commissioner Richard Mills says his office is approving "Contracts for Excellence" for 26 school districts around the state.