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Viersen: Viersen, Germany has issued the following news release: There are still a few tickets left for Stephan Hahnel's reading in the Albert Vigoleis Thelen City Library. On Tuesday, November [...]

Byline: Oren Dori Oct. 17Eight days after the outbreak of war, Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich and senior Ministry of Finance officials have presented the government's plan for dealing with [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel Bruce Jay Friedman, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who was best known for his comic novels and plays that veered from broad humor to uncomfortable encounters with the absurd, [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel Bruce Jay Friedman, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who was best known for his comic novels and plays that veered from broad humor to uncomfortable encounters with the absurd, [...]

NANNING, Jan 13, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A couple from south China have become the country's latest online celebrity after taking humorous selfies inside their burnt house. Earlier this [...]

This summer, I thumbed past an Instagram photo of a familiar-looking young man with silken brown skin and an enviable high-top fade dressed up in an azure suit. I lingered [...]

Byline: Peter Rainer Directed by first-timer John Maclean and shot in New Zealand, standing in for the American West, 'Slow West' is about a callow Scottish boy, Jay Cavendish (Kodi [...]

Byline: KATHERINE A. POWERS Special to the Star Tribune What I consider T.C. BoyleÆs greatest novels ù ôDrop City,ö ôThe Circleö and ôThe Womenö and, indeed, much of his other [...]

SHANGHAI -- Grey skies and black humor were the order of the day in Beijing Wednesday, as the city entered the second full day of its first ever red smog [...]

NEW YORK, Nov 08, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- by Xinhua writer Yang Shilong 'More disgusted than excited' has recently been a much-used phrase for U.S. media describing majority of [...]

The article focuses on Elspeth Barker's collection of essays and shorter fiction, "Notes From the Henhouse," showcasing her ability to navigate dark themes with humor and poignancy, drawing from her singular novel "O Caledonia" and her life experiences in rural Scotland.

Byline: Jessica Winter Jessica Winter / Associate News Editor Smith: Professor Smith discusses the aspects of black humor with students at BSA event. In celebration of Black History month, the [...]

Black humor? Absolutely. Or maybe the joke's on us Atsuko Matsumoto / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Yomiuri Rumba 4 stars out of five Dir: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy [...]

Byline: T.D. Mobley-Martinez March 23--There were few disappointments when I talked with stand-up comedian Lewis Black. Black, who lived in Colorado Springs in 1972, sounded just like himself -- that [...]

Byline: MARK ATHITAKIS Special to the Star Tribune On June 18, barring an 11th-hour intervention, Ronnie Lee Gardner will be executed by the state of Utah for murder. In April, [...]

Friday January 21, 2005 Section FRIDAY EXTRA! Page 10 Black Humor, Bloody Mayhem Color 'Assault' On Senses By BOB ROSS rross@tampatrib.com The cops are amoral drunkards, the criminals have integrity [...]

In the pressurized, volatile world of Wall Street, that finicky beast hope might die and be reborn untold times in a single trading session. It's the ideal setting, in other […]

Byline: Zaid Sabah BAGHDAD -- One of the first things Mohammed Esam does when he wakes up each morning is check his computer. It's not news he's after. Esam is [...]

FICTION A Dirty Job. By Christopher Moore. William Morrow. $24.95. 387 pages. Verdict: Some killer, some filler. Christopher Moore has found jollies in cannibalism and goofed on vampires. In his [...]

Iraq is awash in carnage and politics, and Muayad Naama is on hand to help people laugh at it. Using jagged lines and potato-shaped figures, Mr. Naama, a 53-year-old cartoonist, […]

One generation's groundbreaker becomes another generation's formula. The original is cut down and remade in cheaper material. Joe Hortua's second play, 'Between Us,' which opened on Tuesday at the Manhattan […]

The financial losses of the Internet nouveaux riches have created a wealth of black humor. 'B2B,' Web jargon for 'business to business,' has become shorthand for 'back to banking,' the [...]

`Little Murders' is a play that refused to die. Playwright Jules Feiffer whelped the dark comedy on Broadway in 1968, and critics greeted it with the same enthusiasm filmdom's Rosemary [...]

Byline: DEAN JOHNSON One of the most popular performers on the college comedy circuit is older than most of his audience's professors. But Lewis Black, 55, doesn't care. "I think […]

Byline: PETER SMITH 'I told my friends I was making a CD, and they said, what kind?' Comedian Lewis Black was incredulous. 'I said nothing but love songs.' Black, winner [...]

"Killer Joe," by Tracy Letts, presented by the TheatreZone, at the Actors Workshop, Boston, through June 17. Tracy Letts' "Killer Joe" features a family, the innocuously named Smiths, that would […]

It's rare that a film slapped with an NC-17 rating doesn't opt to defang a bit, since the cultural stigma that comes with the rating can be a death sentence. [...]

Alan Harrington, a novelist whose output ranged from black humor to social criticism to chronicles of the heart, died on Friday at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He was 79. […]