Armageddon News

An enduring fanbase helped the heavy metallers to No 1 in the album charts again after 43 years in an era of manufactured pop Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath celebrate the release of 13 in New York.

James Franco, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson wonder what's down in the basement in the Armageddon horror comedy "This Is The End."

Jim James goes jazzy, Death Grips go berserk, R. Kelly goes all out, and Frank Turner goes to the Rock Playbook 10. William Tyler Fahey-inflected, instrumental-rock doomsayer William Tyler opened his set by bragging that he lived only an hour away , and that's why his pants were still white.

A surprisingly large fraction of this summer's movie releases take the destruction of human life on earth as their premise.

There's a major theme emerging in movies slated for release over the next few months, and it's not that they're all loaded with special effects - which they are - but rather that they indulge our human obsession with Armageddon.

She showed up for a night of "sex to change the course of the world." He locked the door behind her and duct-taped the air vents to save the human race.

Corral some of your acting buddies. Cast them as caricatures of themselves.

Finally, a movie that both godless hedonists and fundamentalist Bible-thumpers can get behind! "This Is the End," a comedy in which the apocalypse comes to Hollywood and takes most of the A-list with it, sends up the new rules of celebrity engagement.

This Is the End proves what we've always suspected: Seth Rogen is down with playing the same guy in movies each time, James Franco has a creepy man crush on him, Jonah Hill is Rosemary's baby all grown up and Danny McBride is a cannibal.

Corral some of your acting buddies. Cast them as caricatures i of themselves. Whip up a screenplay about Armageddon, focusing it on the antics of said goofballs.

The hilarious and raucous "This Is the End," opening this week, thrusts us smack dab into the apocalypse, L.A.-style.

There could be worse ways to experience the apocalypse than with a party of stoned celebrities at James Franco's house.

So it's not surprising that into the vacuum that is the Legislature's special session where the most special thing about it to date may be that so little has been done those with nothing to do are pouring predictions of disasters lurking beyond the horizon.

You have no New Year's Eve plans. You're not even sure that you're going to finish shopping for Christmas.

Around this time every year, locals get the chance to look inside what could be our region's most unique home.