Heroine Katniss finds her ending as The Hunger Games closes with war
LOS ANGELES — The guns are loaded, the arrows sharpened and the gauntlet has been thrown down — war is coming to the Capitol...
4ME bets people will watch advertorials on stand-alone site
AUSTRALIA-BASED digital advertorial service 4ME group, in partnership with Media5 Marketing Corp., recently launched an online lifestyle multi-channel network in the Philippines to “revolutionize...
Bikini ads are out as biggest brewers court women drinkers
BUD LIGHT blew it with #UpForWhatever, the marketing campaign that called America’s most popular brew “the perfect beer for removing ‘no’ from your vocabulary...
M. Night Shyamalan adds humor to horror
By Angela Dawson
Front Row Features
M. Night Shyamalan, the filmmaker behind such contemporary suspense-horror films as The Sixth Sense and Signs, joins forces with small...
The nine lives of Russia’s Hermitage cats
FOR MORE than a century visitors have marveled at the Hermitage Museum’s precious collections, and for just as long dozens of cats have prowled...
Critics unhapy with Jolie film
NEW YORK — Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt teamed up for the first time on screen in 10 years for By The Sea...
Shoppers choose salons over sweaters, pressuring US retailers
ALIA BARKSDALE says she’s changing the way she shops, and that’s bad news for department stores and other US retailers.
“I’m doing my nails and...
Home away from home
The travel industry is being disrupted. First there were the budget airlines which made it possible for an increasing number of people to travel...
Misunderstanding of antibiotics fuels superbug threat, WHO says
LONDON — People across the world are alarmingly confused about the role of antibiotics and the right way to take them, and this ignorance...
Traveling and Eating: Comedians going where everyone has gone before
The Binge
Jessica Zafra
EVERYTHING’S BEEN DONE, the British actor Rob Brydon points out in The Trip to Italy. You can only do it differently. Take...
Airplane Wi-Fi should soon be somewhat less awful
FOR YEARS, people have cursed lousy, expensive Wi-Fi on airplanes, with most of the ire directed at Gogo, the largest player in the field.
Soon...