Boom, Baby!: 'Battleship' & 'What to Expect'

There's a sequence of scenes at the beginning of Battleship , the noisy new action picture from director Peter Berg, that is so ridiculous, so patently absurd that it just might be the strangest thing you'll see at the movies this year — and it has nothing to do with battleships. Instead, it's Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch) and his brother Stone (Alexander Skarsgård) at a seedy Hawaii bar knocking ...

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Gov. Dayton’s veto of a bill that would have legalized an expanded array of fireworks exemplified the kind of thinking that will eventually lead Minnesota and the nation into stagnation.

'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol,' 'Out,' 'Above Suspicion' on home video

Whether zip-lining shirtless ... hanging from a building in capri pants ... or running down the side of a skyscraper ... you've dropped your hard-earned cash to see an advertisement for the awesomeness of Tom Cruise.

Sloshed: What the World Can Learn from Carbonated Cocktails

Bubbles! If you haven't already, chances are good you will see a house-carbonated Negroni at your favorite cocktail joint in the next couple months. Like Newton and Leibniz discovering calculus at the same time, or whoever wrote all those asteroid movies like fifteen years ago, bartenders are simultaneously stumbling across the joys of self-carbonated cocktails. The drinks aren't "carbonated" in ...