Sam Roberts, in a June 30, 2009 New York Times article, wrote about amateur historian Andrew Carroll's ongoing 50-state journey to locate events heretofore lost in time and space. Full Article at bookofjoe

"To stand naked on the stage is an outward manifestation of what we do in the best performances," asserts Michael Cerveris, who is literally naked at one point in Sarah Ruhl's "In the Next Room or the vibrator play," a Lincoln Center Theater production... Full Article at Backstage

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths will be the 7th original animated movie to come to DVD, the first being Superman: Doomsday. Although this is the second Justice League animated movie it has no relationship to Justice League: A New Frontier. Full Article at Associated Content

Buy this DVD at Amazon.com Rating: Not Rated Starring: Clark Gable as Rhett Butler - Visitor from Charleston Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara Barbara O'Neil as Ellen O'Hara - His Wife... Full Article at Comingsoon.net

1906 Alla Nazimova makes her Broadway debut in the title role of Hedda Gabler at the Princess Theatre. Full Article at Playbill

When John Wilkes Booth opened fire on President Abraham Lincoln in Fords Theatre in April 1865, the media was puzzled. Full Article at Daimnation!

Are the spirits conspiring against me? Were they trying to prevent me from talking with the newest ghost hunters on the TV scene? If so, they should have broken my pencil, too because I took notes. Full Article at SF Universe

When John Wilkes Booth opened fire on President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in April 1865, the media was puzzled. Full Article at Dallas Morning News - Blogs

How do we really know for sure what motivated John Wilkes Booth? Barry Rubin raises some troubling questions: John Wilkes Booth opened fire on President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in April 1865, the media was puzzled. Full Article at The Atlantic

When John Wilkes Booth opened fire on President Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre in April 1865, the media was puzzled. Full Article at The New Republic

The medical director of Western Australia's ambulance service has quit ahead of the release of an independent review of the ambulance service. Full Article at ABC Online

Last night, a friend of mine at a Hollywood party ran into Toby Kebbell, the very talented British actor who some of you may remember seeing in RocknRolla as Johnny Quid or in Control as Rob Gretton. Full Article at FirstShowing.net

From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, presidential assassins have shaped history. Full Article at The Patriot Ledger

If you call your children after Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth, you are leaving them quite a legacy. It is bad enough having one sibling being the President who ended slavery and the other being his assassin. Full Article at Times Online

More big-name actors have signed onto "The Conspirator," Robert Redford's post-Civil War drama, which started filming last week in Savannah, Ga. Full Article at Salt Lake Tribune

James McAvoy is such an amazing actor. He can pull of any role thrown at him no matter the time period or the subject matter. He is so underrated in my eyes. Full Article at OH NO THEY DIDN'T

England may be becoming more well known as a nanny state gone to extremes but it always hasn’t been that way. Full Article at The Inquisitr

Mugatu: SHUT UP! Enough already, Ballstein! Who cares about Derek Zoolander anyway? The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! Full Article at ShrinkWrapped

The man who found the abandoned trolley tunnel under Atlantic Avenue thirty years ago, Bob Diamond, is now hoping to find some historical booty down there. Full Article at Gothamist