During my time spent as a poor Mexican child in Liberal Kansas, my family got our cable TV the old-fashioned way--we stole it. Well, technically, one person on our block paid for it, and the rest of us hooked our houses up to that persons service.

sleazeroxx.com reports: The family of Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, said his death was a suicide. "He was a man who gave all he had to give to everyone around him, whether family, friends, fans or strangers," ; the family said in a statement relayed by police Wednesday.

Korean sources have said that Samsung is to supply its SGR-A1 stationary weapons robot to the South Korean military for the purpose of keeping an eye on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which separates North and South Korea

Two conflicts lie at the heart of "Dateline Israel," a compelling, but uneven exhibition of new photography and video art at the Jewish Museum. The first, which you might call Israel's internal, existential crisis, concerns the tension between the past and the present. The second, Israel's external, political crisis, relates to the conflict with the Palestinian Arabs. These are both major issues ...

From police reports.

IN THE world of entertainment, anything that has to do with military battles and "operation s" always seems so far away. The Middle East. Eastern Europe. China.

On paper, it sounds like the polar opposite of a box office sensation -- a three-hour ode to the Z-grade cinema of the 1970s, shot in the style of the time with enough sex and violence to satiate any exploitation junkie. But when the creative masterminds behind such a project turn out to be Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, suddenly, it seems like a Hollywood gold mine.