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When first viewing the trailer for " Dark Skies ," I was immediately excited to see it.

As UC Merced concludes its eighth academic year and prepares to award degrees to another outstanding class of graduates this weekend , I am pleased to provide our neighbors and the greater Merced community with an update on our physical expansion plans in the face of rapidly growing student demand for admission.

The Cornell School of Hotel Administration has announced that Simon Hobbs, co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk on the Street, will serve as master of ceremonies at the sold-out 5th annual Cornell Hospitality Icon & Innovator Awards on June 4, 2013, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

Wanderful, Inc. has received the prestigious Editor's Choice Award from Children's Technology Review for its interactive storybook, Ruff's Bone.

The women of New York's Upper East side, where long days are spent popping into Bergdorf's or Barney's , or both, have continued to captivate passers-by who marvel at their pearls and coiffed hair.

There are numerous events each weekend in Northwest Arkansas, and bike races, air races and blues music are just some of the items that could fit on an active itinerary.

About a half hour from La Verne is Silver Lake, the No. 1 hipster community in the United States, according to Forbes magazine.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected a University of Michigan graduate's undergrad thesis film as one of 15 winners in this year's Student Academy Awards competition.

Benedict Cumberbatch's "Star Trek Into Darkness" villain is so fearsome, the movie built much of its hype around learning the character's identity in the months leading up to its release.

One more talk is set for The Whale Trail 's series, announced today by TWT's Donna Sandstrom : "Adventures with Orcas in the North Pacific, From A1 Stubbs to Iceberg, the White Russian Bull," featuring author/researcher Erich Hoyt .

It may be a tale as old as time but the young members of Helston's ACT1 theatre company are putting their own polish to a forthcoming production of Beauty and the Beast.

Last week the Drexel community finally got to see the product of the Drexel Players' last couple months of work as they close the 2012-13 season with "The Grapes of Wrath." Preceded by two lighter performances, "The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee" and "To Fool the Eye," the adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic is a much graver production ... (more)

ONE of the most successful British recording stars of all-time will perform at Cheltenham Town Hall next week.

It's Thursday, and you've got no idea what you'll do this weekend. Patch is coming to the rescue.

The Glass Menagerie , starring Tony winner Cherry Jones , Zachary Quinto, Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith, will begin performances at Broadway's Booth Theatre on September 5. Directed by Once Tony winner John Tiffany, the 17-week limited engagement will officially open on September 26.

When rockers from the classic era hit the upward part of their 60s, the gigs usually slow down or they hitch a ride on the latest Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band tour.

Unite national officer Dominic Hook's description of the latest jobs massacre at RBS as "brutal and irresponsible" says it all about a bank that is 81 per cent publicly owned but has no public allegiance.

The Clarence Derwent Award for most promising female and male performers on the New York metropolitan scene, has gone to Annaleigh Ashford and Michael Urie .

I normally don't write again about a show I just saw a month ago. But "Showgirls: The Musical" has finished it's off-off Broadway run to sold out crowds and moved off-Broadway May 15.

Tommy Chong, left, and Richard "Cheech" Marin arrive at the 6th Annual George Lopez Celebrity Golf Classic at the Lakeside Golf Club on Monday, May 6, 2013 in Toluca Lake, Calif.