If today’s column title gets Rachel Sweet’s Hairspray stuck in your head for the rest of the day, good! Because then we’ll have made our point that the version of Hairspray hitting this weekend isn’t as good as the John Waters original. Though the music not being as good is only part of it. There’s also the inherent irony about making a musical in which one of the central themes is integration through a......

You probably heard that Andy Samberg (the cute guy who does the funny videos on Saturday Night Live) was discovered online. As a member of the comedy group Lonely Island, Samberg and his cohorts were regulars at the video show-slash-website Channel 101, which eventually caught the attention of SNL’s Lorne Michaels. The rest is comedy history. Anyone can make a digital short and then use the interweb to distribute it around the world. It......

Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death for war crimes, and may be hanged within the next few months. What does the international community say? U.S. President George W. Bush calls the verdict "a milestone in the Iraqi people's effort to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law". The UN and European Union criticize the former Iraqi leader's death sentence. Vatican representative, Cardinal Renato Martino, calls the sentence "eye for an......