Probably the three greatest advances in the sports world in the last 100 years are the curve ball, the protective cup and the sports bar. And since most of us at CityBeat can't throw a decent b  

It was another decidedly melodic year in film. With the movie musical resurrected -- thank you forebears Chicago and Moulin Rouge -- and seemingly not going anywhere, and with more writers, direc  

The voice on the other end of the phone cackles. It might be the most famous laugh in all of television -- if not pop culture -- history. Young. Mischievous. Utterly Bart. "This is awesome," he  

Web-slingers. Pirates. Transforming mutant robots. These have long been the undisputed stars of summer films. They hoist the tent poles that comprise each studio's summer movie slate and they're  

Casinos and drinking go together like sex and cigarettes. They're all vices, but one is particularly fun after the other. It is with that in mind that this year's Swizzle sets out to cover, bey  

A group of organized crime bosses gather in an empty office building in Morristown, N.J., to hear the pitch: Help execute a terrorist attack in the center of Manhattan and walk away with enough m  

It's a fall Friday night in Covington, and a couple hundred curious onlookers watch as a man clad in black leather invites a somewhat shy woman and then a very shy man on stage to dance with him.  

Here lies Chuck Lamb. It was in a small, unassuming motel room at the Budget Host on Central Parkway where Lamb met his bloody fate, taking two to the chest at close range. The corpse lays motion  

For several years journalists have been portrayed in cinema just about a notch above fanatical, bomb-toting terrorists. Actually, sometimes the journalist is a notch below, because the terrorist u  

In the end, everyone had advice for this story. That's what happens when people who write stories for a living become the subject of a story. Steve Ramos, head film critic for CityBeat, wanted