It was 134 years ago today, June 25, that George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry fought and were overwhelmed by Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne at Little Big Horn River. There were no survivors among those who fought under Custer’s direct command and very few artifacts remained on the field. But one relic, a [...]

The Sè San Diego has become the latest luxury hotel to file Chapter 11. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that 5th Avenue Partners, the owners and operators of the 184-room boutique hotel, filed Chapter 11 to prevent the main lender WestLB AG Bank from appointing a receiver to take over. As of last month, Fifth [...]

In the last scene of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan, the empty vessel of a million teenage hopes and dreams sums up, in three words, everything that depresses me about this vapid, vexing franchise: “I’m not normal.”
I say, “no.” Despite surface-level plot machinations (y’know, that

Will someone please just tell me what’s going on with The Hobbit already?!?
First Guillermo del Toro drops out of the two-film project he’s been slaving over for the last year and a half, then Harry Potter director David Yates’ name was thrown in the mix as a potential replacement, then Peter Jackson protege Neil Blomkamp [...]

$700
Apple’s tiniest desktop wants to turn your HDTV into the
biggest computer monitor in the abode. The evidence for this is the all-new HDMI
port that pumps a hi-def signal to your set, perfect for using Hulu to watch
missed episodes of TV shows. The sexy midget sports a unibody aluminum shell
with a twist-off rubber base for [...]

Says something vaguely dirty during the Thor panel when an idiot
asks her what it was like to kiss Mila Kunis in the forthcoming Black
Swan:  75%
Three people have heart attacks as a result of said comment:  95%
Sends in team of undercover agents to replace maquette of Slave Leia and Jabba with one of Padme in [...]

Casting news about Dexter’s fifth season keeps breaking…and we keep scratching our heads. 
To be fair, it’s the John Lithgow efffect.  There was so much hype about Lithgow’s Trinity Killer role last season (and rightfully so), that it’s hard not to say “meh” when news breaks that Julia Stiles is going to be playing a “mysterious [...]

LOS ANGELES — Peter Molyneux’s been busy the last few years making Fable and working on Milo and Kate for Kinect. But the one series we wanted to hear most about is Lionhead Studios’ Black & White.
The last Black & White title, Black & White 2, was released in 2005 for the PC and [...]

Tale of Interest: A crippling injury lands Bender paralyzed in the hospital, where he regains his sense of purpose by joining Beck on tour as a folk musician, leading crew to follow around the country in a vintage VW Van!  Groovy!
Why We Love It: Futurama’s greatest episodes map out the uncharted corners of the bizarre [...]

LOS ANGELES — Motion control was the theme of this year’s E3. Both Microsoft and Sony
showed their latest wares — Kinect and PlayStation Move,
respectively — hoping to cut a slice off the Wii marketshare.
One person
who was instrumental in showing off Kinect (then codenamed “Project Natal”) when it
was announced last year was Peter Molyneux,