The lady gangsta fantasy of M.I.A.'s video for 'Bad Girls'

Today M.I.A., aka Maya Arulpragasam, debuted her video for new single “Bad Girls,” working again with “Born Free” co-conspirator Romain Gavras. Filmed in Ouarzazate, Morocco, the country’s film capital also seen in “Lawrence of Arabia,” “The Last Temptation of Christ,” “Gladiator” and several other Western movies, the video is meant to evoke a Persian Gulf landscape – dusty, baked, semi ...

Western Pocono Community Library's young readers bring 'Oliver Twist' to stage

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS Members of Western Pocono Community Library's NiteLite and TAB groups will be bringing "Oliver Twist" to the stage at the library in free performances to honor author Charles Dickens' 200th birthday.

Cowboys & laughs; Actor Barry Corbin addresses crowd with Gathering keynote

Actor and keynote speaker Barry Corbin tells how to grip the reins of a “six up” team of horses hitched to a stage coach for a movie he performed in. Corbin got the attention of the crowd Thursday morning during the 2012 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering at the Elko Convention Center.

Reuters Magazine: The Hashtag Revolution

In just five years , Twitter has evolved from a 140-character punch line into a universal, all-purpose newswire, free and open to almost anyone, throbbing with the pulse of the planet in real time. It's ...

WD TV Live Hub review

Bringing your digital life to the big screen is how Western Digital describes its WD TV Live Hub , and we’d be hard pushed to disagree. The drive is well specified with HDMI, composite and component video out. It has two USB ports, one on the front and one on the rear.