Tweet WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The director of a U.S. documentary that portrays shale gas production as dangerous was arrested and escorted out of a Republican-dominated Congressional hearing on Wednesday, touching off a dispute over public access to the event. See the original post: U.S. filmmaker arrested at House hearing on shale gas  Read More →

Tweet LOS ANGELES (AP) — Artist Mike Kelley, who colleagues describe as an “irresistible force” in contemporary art, has died, police said Wednesday. More here: Artist Mike Kelley found dead in Los Angeles home  Read More →

Tweet WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse plucked threads of irony and empathy out of life, has died. She was 88…. See the original post here: Poland’s 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88  Read More →

Tweet LONDON (Reuters) – The family of late soul singer Amy Winehouse said on Wednesday it was “taking advice” after learning that the coroner at the inquest into her death had resigned because she was not qualified to practise in Britain. Follow this link: Amy Winehouse coroner not qualified: UK media  Read More →

Tweet NEW YORK (AP) — The upcoming remaking of “21 Jump Street” will premiere as the centerpiece of Austin’s South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival…. Read the original post: ’21 Jump Street’ to premiere as SXSW centerpiece  Read More →

Tweet NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater next month…. Link: Springsteen, E Street Band head to Harlem  Read More →

Tweet ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Singer Leslie Carter, the sister of Aaron Carter and former Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, has died in upstate New York. She was 25…. View post: Singer Leslie Carter dies at 25 in upstate NY  Read More →

Tweet MEMPHIS, Tenn. More: Lisa Marie Presley wants to make better Elvis film  Read More →

Tweet NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Alligator hunters, raccoon wranglers and crawfish catchers in Louisiana’s critter-filled swamps and bayous are increasingly common on television…. See the article here: Reality TV booms in Louisiana  Read More →

Tweet MADRID (AP) — A “Mona Lisa” copy owned by Spain’s Prado Museum was almost certainly painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci’s apprentices alongside the master himself as he did the original, museum officials said Wednesday…. More: ‘Mona Lisa’ copy done hand in hand with da Vinci  Read More →