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Country-pop singer Slim Whitman dies at 90

LOS ANGELES -- Slim Whitman, a country pop singer whose forlorn wail influenced a generation of vocalists in the early 1950s, has died at age 90.

Whitman, born in Tampa, Fla., was a regular on the influential country radio program "The Louisiana ...

Digital Savant Micro: What is 'UltraViolet?'

(In this space every week, we'll define a tech term, offer a timely tip or answer questions about technology from readers.)

An increasingly common feature for those still buying DVD and Blu-ray movies is the option for an "UltraViolet" copy of ...

A redneck 'Pulp Fiction' set around a pawn shop

A "redneck 'Pulp Fiction'" is such a natural idea for a grindhouse movie that it's shocking that it took almost 20 years for somebody to come up with "Pawn Shop Chronicles."

It's got pick-em-up trucks and huntin' bows, meth-heads and an Elvis ...

Joss Whedon makes a Shakespeare film in 12 days

MIAMI -- If man is indeed a giddy thing -- as William Shakespeare suggests in "Much Ado About Nothing," insinuating we are impulsive beyond all reason -- then Joss Whedon may be the giddiest man of all. After all, he's the director who decided to ...

Happy-sad -- that's the hallmark of She & Him

LOS ANGELES -- On a Tuesday afternoon in the basement studios of Capitol Records, She & Him were recording a volley of live tracks for a few radio station sessions. Singer Zooey Deschanel finished an umpteenth take of the duo's single "I Could've ...