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Authoritah Respected: South Park's 10 Best Celebrity Takedowns

It’s odd to think of South Park as “venerable,” but that’s a pretty good descriptor for a show in its 14th season. It’s been 200 episodes and nearly a decade-and-a-half since we were first introduced to the perpetually snow-blanketed town of South Park, Colorado and its way-past-depraved residents. No cow is too sacred for the show’s creators, especially celebrities; on tonight’s episode, “200,” every single person of fame who’s been maligned and mocked will return for a class-action lawsuit that “could be the thing that destroys South Park forever.” So on the eve of this historic event, a career retrospective...  read more

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith to Host Nobel Peace Prize Concert

The 108th annual Nobel Peace Prize ceremony will be held on December 10 at Oslo City Hall in Norway. It's a formal affair customarily attended by the Norwegian Royal Family and immediately followed by a banquet at Oslo's Grand Hotel. Past Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded to Mother Teresa, Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela and Al Gore, and this year's winner will be announced this Friday, Oct. 9....  read more

Listen to Al Gore Narrate the Intro to Google Earth's Climate Change Simulator

Just in time for the UN's climate change conference in Copenhagen, Google has released an interactive tour of climate change scenarios, as well as some "possible solutions for adaptation and mitigation."...  read more

Cirque du Soleil Billionaire to Host Live TV Show From Space With Help From Al Gore, U2 and Peter Gabriel

Space has always been the final frontier, especially for those who have more money than they know how to spend....  read more

The Story of the 2008 Presidential Election in Song: A Playlist (Part 1)

In honor of this Friday night's presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama (the first of three)—and my obsession with politics as full-contact sport—I've compiled the following playlist to tell the story of the 2008 election so far. Whether you're red, blue, independent or other, enjoy.Part I: The Primaries  “Changes” - David Bowie The Thin White Duke sings about what us young (and old) Americans want in Washington this year. ...  read more

Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth heads to the opera

Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth is being reworked into an opera by Giorgio Battistelli for Milan's famous La Scala opera house. Continuing in the grand tradition of other movies being turned into operas (Lost Highway, The Fly, Brokeback Mountain), the opera-ified version of the movie that is credited with launching the 'green' movement is set to be performed for La Scala's 2011 season....  read more

Al Gore hints at an Inconvenient sequel

When Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, was released in 2006, it won praise from critics and audiences alike, and scored an Academy Award (not to mention put Gore in the running for the Nobel Prize, which he would eventually be awarded in 2007). A variety of rumors have sprung this week about the possibility of a second film, Gore himself even telling The Sun that he "will make a sequel to the 2006 documentary." However, a statement that Paramount Pictures released this week denies the existence of such plans, making the validity of Gore's statement a little unclear. Related...  read more