Human history is full of people finding creative ways to open up one another’s bodies, and History channel has realized that it’s sitting on vast, untapped reserves of historical bloodletting
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Top Chef‘s Chef Tom Colicchio on Hunger in America and the Documentary A Place at the Table
In a new documentary, the ‘Top Chef’ judge want to raise awareness about a serious (and fixable) national crisis
Missee Harris Wants to Be the First Black Bachelorette
Missee Harris is campaigning to be the first woman of color to star in ABC’s “The Bachelorette”
The First TIME
TIME’s very first issue (cover date: March 3, 1923), reviewed by film critic Richard Corliss
A Place at the Table: A Serving of Hard-to-Swallow Truths
From the company that made ‘Food, Inc.,’ an examination of how — and why — 50 million American men, women, and children go to bed sick and hungry
Stoker: Gloom with a View
Visual threat trumps explicit gore in ‘Oldboy’ director Park Chan-wook’s first American thriller
Jack the Giant Slayer: Fee-Fi, Ho-Hum
A new take on the Jack and the Beanstalk tale is heavy on special-effects, light on subtlety, and way too intense for kids
Atoms for Peace, Thom Yorke’s Side Project, Isolated and Lost on Amok
A promising project takes a step in the wrong direction
Bloody Death: Six Ways to Die on TV
In this week’s issue of TIME, James Poniewozik explores the question of why today’s TV dramas are increasingly dependent on violence. Here, see six of the ickiest ways television characters have recently kicked the bucket.
Why Superhero Deaths Have Become Meaningless
Batman’s iconic sidekick just met an untimely end — and fans wonder when he’ll be brought back to life. Why can’t dead superheroes stay dead?
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Dead Tree Alert: TV’s Bumper Crop of Blood; Plus: Kurt Sutter on the Uses of Mayhem
TV has too much dumb, mindless violence, but also too much smart, mindful violence. And the reasons it’s so exhaustingly bloody have something to do with the reasons much of it is so good.
How Parks and Rec Brings Pawnee to Life Online
The digital strategies behind TV shows like NBC’s ‘Parks and Recreation’ are a balanced mix of creativity and commerce
90 Years of TIME Cover Stars: The Celebrities Who Defined a Century of Entertainment
As TIME celebrates its 90th birthday, we look back at the some of the stars who have graced its cover over the last almost-century