Saturday Night Live has entertained audiences for 34 years. With the show coming off one of its most successful seasons to date, we look at how Lorne Michaels continues to catch lightning in a bottle.  Read More

Fueled by a hybrid-powered dream, a bunch of Philly high schoolers are taking on the car world.  Read More

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns doesn’t rewrite history. He brings the past to life.  Read More

Adam takes a trip to Lake Charles, LA to explore the Creole Nature Trail and the casinos.  Watch Now

THE SAN FRANCISCO Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is halfway through its four-month Richard Avedon retrospective -- the first one of its kind in the United States since the famed photographer’s death in 2004. Renowned for his distinctive portraiture style, Avedon started out as a fashion photographer during the early 1950s (his iconic 1968 image of Twiggy will live on forever) before turning his lens to a variety of figures from all realms of society.  Read More

Hall & Oates relives the good ol’ days with its new box set, All the Way from Philadelphia.

In the mInd’s eye, the tall blond with the honeyed croon and his diminutive, dark-haired partner with the earthy harmonies are inextricably linked. One of pop’s most identifiable and dynamic duos, Daryl Hall and John Oates made a career out of their contrasts and commonalities. Their wildly successful formula -- a mingling of classic soul and singer-songwriter touches -- yielded a string of top-10 hits throughout the 1970s and ’80s as well as sales of some 50 million albums.  Read More

We’ve waited all summer, and this month, we’re finally being rewarded with a bountiful fall harvest of new TV offerings. Here’s what to watch -- and what you can miss.  Read More

A new book tells the true story of how an ordinary woman broke barriers by becoming one of the first female wrestlers in the country.  Read More

For trivia connoisseurs, The World’s Greatest Book of Useless Information is required reading. Your life will never hinge on knowing that the loudest sound that could be made in the year 1600 came from a pipe organ or that best-selling author John Grisham is a distant cousin of former president Bill Clinton. But that’s exactly the point. Such factoids are pop-culture junk food -- tasty but empty -- and they are collected to delightful effect in the new book titled The World’s Greatest Book of Useless Information: If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn’t Need to Know -- Think Again (Perigee Trade, $13).  Read More