Blackbeard

Networks send SOS to Michael J. Fox, Robin Williams and other stars

2013-05-17 06:00:00

� If viewers are losing interest in broadcast TV, what can lure them back? Executives hope they have an answer: stars. Lifting the curtain on their 2013-14 schedules at the "upfronts" in New York this week, the networks behaved like smartphone-...

2013 TV upfronts: NBC lineup aims at rebuilding Thursday comedies

2013-05-12 15:52:00

NEW YORK -- NBC is hoping that sitcom pros Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes can conjure their magic once more. The beleaguered network announced its 2013-14 lineup Sunday with a focus on restocking its dwindling comedy pantry. "The Office" and "30 Rock"...

Blackbeard's anchor recovered off North Carolina coast

2011-05-27 13:52:00

Indictments expected in New York police ticket-fixing scandal

2011-10-28 08:39:47

Cannon pulled from pirate Blackbeard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge

2011-10-28 08:39:49

Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes boy -- if he thinks he's a girl

2011-10-28 16:36:35

Why Bernie and Ruth Madoff are back in the news

2011-10-28 16:36:35

Statue of Liberty marks 125 years, hosts naturalization for 125

2011-10-28 16:36:35

No release for U.S. man accused of spying on Syrian dissidents

2011-10-28 16:36:34

2011 Summer movies list

2011-05-01 00:00:00

May 6 The Beaver A once-successful toy executive and family man suffering from depression begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet. With Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin. Written by Kyle Killen. Directed by Foster. Summit...

Tobacco Road a gem amid the Carolinas golf courses

2008-03-09 00:00:00

Durham, N.C. Amid superlative Carolina courses, a golfer stumbles upon Tobacco Road. One swing, and he's in love. You don't always find genius where you expect it. The highway to Tobacco Road Golf Club, the masterpiece of maverick golf course architect...

History with special effects: Is it museum or haunted mansion?

2006-03-19 00:00:00

WHAT'S shaking at museums these days? Just about everything. At the Lincoln museum in Springfield, Ill., the floor trembles and cannons belch smoke in the theater while in the library wispy holographic ghosts haunt the artifacts. At the Pirate Soul...

You've been to film festivals. You've been to music festivals. Now immerse yourself in the swashbuckling world of the 17th and 18th centuries with this tribute to Blackbeard and his brethren.

2013-05-09 00:00:00

You know him from: Your nightmares; history Pirate type: Classic villainous sociopath Talk like this pirate if: You want to remind people that pirates actually did quite a lot of murder and pillage and other bad stuff; you enjoy lighting your beard on fire and scaring the crap out of all and

2012-09-18 13:07:20

You know him from: Your nightmares; history Pirate type: Classic villainous sociopath Talk like this pirate if: You want to remind people that pirates actually did quite a lot of murder and pillage and other bad stuff; you enjoy lighting your beard on fire and scaring the crap out of all and

2012-09-18 13:07:20