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Although modern graffiti was born in Philadelphia in the late 1960s when CORNBREAD and COOL EARL began bombing their names on streets and subways, New York City will always be graffiti’s home. Pioneers like TAKI 183 first m

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Game on! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are taking legal action against the British tabloid News of the World for its story last month that alleged the couple were working out details of a split.

"The News of the World has failed to meet our clients' reasonable demands for a retraction of and apology for these false and intrusive allegations which have now been widely republished by mainstream news outlets," a lawyer working for the couple in London said in a statement. "We have advised them to b… Continue

A young man arrived at Ty Burrell's hotel room to stock the minibar and immediately recognized the co-star of the ABC comedy "Modern Family."

He loved the show.

Thanks, Burrell replied. The man went on to quietly describe how his family gathered each week to watch "Modern Family" together, and because of those group viewings, he was getting to know his younger siblings better.

"I know we're not curing cancer," said Burrell, who portrays the earnest goofball dad Phil Dunph

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Sidestepping the usual slapstick comedy and animal tricks, a number of advertisers tried to score during Sunday's Super Bowl with commercials that tapped into men's ambivalence with their everyday lives.

In the battle among advertisers, Unilever's Dove, Chrysler LLC's Dodge and Flo TV created early buzz with spots that clearly targeted men feeling overwhelmed by responsibility and commitment.

"All three spots delved into a similar theme -- about how men are feeling and their rel

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Changes that Google Inc and the Authors Guild made to an ambitious plan to create a massive online library were inadequate because they fail to address antitrust and copyright concerns, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

Google's plan to put millions of books online has been praised for expanding access to books but has also been vociferously criticized on antitrust and copyright grounds.

The deal was amended last year after the Justice Department recommended that the

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