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15 October 2009 4:55 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

First, let’s celebrate the fact that six-year-old Falcon Heene is alive and unharmed. Turned out the runaway balloon boy was in the attic, hiding in a box, the whole time. But let’s also take a moment to congratulate the junior aviator on perpetrating the greatest practical joke played on cable news since Glenn Beck got his own show. Ashton Kutcher couldn’t have punk'd the media any better. Whether it was all part of an elaborate publicity stunt (Falcon's family were once contestants on Wife Swap, which has raised some commentators’ eyebrows), or whether the little boy was »

- Benjamin Svetkey

1 February 2009 11:49 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Though Sunday at Noir City, the audience was advised to save its prayers.  Eddie Muller took to the Castro stage to briefly recap the success of the previous night’s Arlene Dahl tribute, an event which Dahl admitted to Muller was one of the most thrilling nights of her career.  “Coming from a woman who’s slept with Fernando Lamas,” Muller quipped, “that’s really something!”

On January 30, 1925, America’s foremost cave explorer Floyd Collins was trapped in a cave called Sand Cave, Kentucky.  Though only 55 feet below ground and 150 feet from the cave’s entrance, Collins was pinned by a 25-pound rock in a particular way that he couldn’t move either himself or the rock.  An intrepid journalist from the Louisville Courier by the name of William Burke “Skeets” Miller became the nation’s conduit to Floyd Collins.  Miller was the only one speaking to Collins while he lay trapped underground, »

- Michael Guillen

2 articles from 2009