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Woodlawn Cemetery: Where the Rich and Famous Spend Eternity
Duke Ellington, Herman Melville and other luminaries have tombs with a view in this famous New York City graveyard, located on 400 leafy acres of the Bronx
Happy 50th Birthday, Cassettes!
The trusty audio cassette was introduced to the world in August of 1963
LIFE at the Movies: When 3-D Was New
Sixty years after the premier of the first full-length 3-D movie on Nov. 26, 1952, LIFE.com revisits J.R. Eyerman’s classic photo of the audience at the opening-night screening of the film.
Move Over ‘Song of Summer’—the ‘Song of Fall’ Is Here
Which pop song will survive to conquer your Thanksgiving 2012 playlist?
An Oral History of Michael Jackson’s Bad
As the 25th anniversary of the album approaches, we take a look at the creation and legacy of a record-setting release
The New Yorker Publishes F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Previously Rejected in 1936
Ice-T on His Rap Documentary, the Feud with Pop and the Future of Hip Hop
The rapper and actor Ice-T is celebrating some big anniversaries in 2012: 25 years since his album Rhyme Pays was the first hip-hop record to bear the now-familiar “explicit content” sticker, and 20 since his rap-rock band’s …
Pop Prediction: The Next Big Girl Group
We’ve seen the meteoric rise of the boy band One Direction. Who will be their female counterparts?
Palin Fans Try to Rewrite History (or at Least Wikipedia) on Paul Revere
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This weekend, Tuned In Jr., who is studying Boston and the American Revolution in school, mentioned that he was getting a “locked” error message while trying to load a Wikipedia page on Paul Revere. I know! As a father and a journalist, I should know better than to let my son use …
Top 10 Iconic Movie Locations
If you film there, they will come. TIME looks at the some of the most famous real-life locations in cinema history.
Jack Bauer's Conservative Creator Lands Kennedy Mini
Joel Surnow, the conservative half of the team that created and ran 24 for years, has found a home for the miniseries on the Kennedy family that he’s been shopping this year: the History channel. The eight-hour (apparently down from ten) project will be History’s first scripted miniseries.
Will Surnow’s politics slant his portrayal of …
Fireside Chatter
Speaking of Barack Obama Takes Over Your TV Week, it’s going to be the subject—sort of—of my column in TIME this week. And one thing I’d been doing in prepping for the column was to go back and listen to some of FDR’s fireside chats, which are repeatedly held up as a model for Presidential outreach.
One point I make is that the …