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The smartest guys in the room: How the Astros failed on the biggest stage 10/24/2019 07:43pm • The Houston Astros have what is widely considered to be the smartest front office in baseball. They’ve built a near-perfect team, loaded at every position, with one title already in hand and reason to expect more to come. And they’ve undone all of the credit for that through the bizarre misha Q&A: 'Blair Witch Project' celebrates 20th anniversary in Frederick 10/16/2019 12:01am • EDITOR'S NOTE: The following interview was conducted in 2017. In 1999, filmmakers ventured into the woods of Burkittsville, Maryland, to shoot a low-budget horror flick that became one of the most profitable films of all time. This Friday, "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) celebrates its 2 Problematic fave? Why ‘Fight Club’ endures, 20 years later 10/15/2019 01:21pm • When I first saw “Fight Club,” it instantly became my favorite movie, something I can’t definitively say isn’t true today. I understand what it means to say this. To say so out loud evokes a reaction, especially these days. There is, after all, an entire subgenre of Twitter comedy devoted Movie Review: Will Smith battles himself in Ang Lee's 'Gemini Man' 10/11/2019 03:26am • Ang Lee remains one of our most visionary filmmakers, winning the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for his wire-fu in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000), the Best Director Oscar for his socially progressive "Brokeback Mountain" (2005) and his second Best Director Oscar for his wondrous 3D i 'SNL' has Beck Bennett's Vice President Mike Pence freaking out over impeachment 10/06/2019 01:04am • "Saturday Night Live" usually mocks President Trump in its cold opens, but this week the NBC variety show focused on Vice President Mike Pence. The VP, who was played by Beck Bennett, was meeting with advisers to figure out how to deal with the impeachment news swirling FTC: Millennials more likely to report falling victim to financial scams 10/02/2019 10:11am • The Federal Trade Commission has a new report out on who's more likely to report being victims of financial scams — and it's not who you'd think. "We oftentimes hear about grandma or grandpa getting scammed by clicking on the wrong thing online, but in this case, the FTC is saying that the re The Awesome Burger is Nestlé's answer to the plant-based meat craze 09/24/2019 08:30am • Nestlé's Plant-Based Protein Center of Excellence, the beating heart of the massive food company's recent foray into fake meat. If you turn off Highway 1 at just the right spot in Moss Landing, California, past fruit stands, roadside cafes and artichoke farms, you may catch a sudden whiff of ba After combative House hearing, what's ahead for impeachment? 09/17/2019 09:02pm • The House Judiciary Committee held a highly contentious impeachment hearing Tuesday, which included repeated clashes between congressional Democrats and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Democrats admonished Lewandowski for often failing to answer their questions. Lewandowski cited College Football Corner: The quarterback whisperer 09/15/2019 06:02pm • Somebody from the NCAA needs to find out exactly what is in the water of Lake Thunderbird in Norman, Oklahoma. Once again the most feared passing attack in the nation wears the crimson and cream of the Oklahoma Sooners. And once again it's a transfer quarterback piloting the attack. OU is getting How to protect yourself from being 'phished' through Google Calendar 09/12/2019 07:59am • Q: Should I now be concerned about using Google Calendar? A: Google’s suite of productivity tools is estimated to have over 1.5 billion users, with Gmail and Google Calendar being the most popular tools. A convenience feature within these tools was recently shown to be an effective way to trick u Eva Longoria, other celebrities write letters of support for actress Felicity Huffman ahead of sentencing 09/06/2019 09:57pm • Actress Felicity Huffman is asking for a year's probation, 250 hours of community service and a $20,000 fine for her involvement in the college admissions scandal, a new filing from her attorneys says. "She is remorseful — indeed, deeply ashamed — about what she did," her attorneys wrote in t Burger boss Spike Mendelsohn opening a fake burger joint in Silver Spring 09/06/2019 10:59am • Chef Spike Mendelsohn (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision for Spectrum Brands/AP Images) Celebrity chef Spike Mendelsohn, whose beefy burgers at his Good Stuff Eatery restaurants have loyal patrons who include Barack Obama, is embracing the plant-based imitation burger movement. Mendelsohn is lead Want to help Dorian victims? Beware of scammers 09/02/2019 05:59pm • Massive storms like Hurricane Dorian may be unpredictable, and Montgomery County, Maryland's, Office of Consumer Protection said you can be sure of one thing when natural disasters strike: The scammers get to work. From fraudulent appeals for direct donations on social media to websites that offe Today In History: Aug. 31 08/31/2019 12:00am • Today is Saturday, Aug. 31, the 243rd day of 2019. There are 122 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On August 31, 1986, 82 people were killed when an Aeromexico jetliner and a small private plane collided over Cerritos, California. The Soviet passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov c Woman pretended to be pregnant to steal $24K in cellphones from Gaithersburg store 08/22/2019 09:47am • Police in Maryland's Montgomery County are looking for a group of women involved in a theft of nearly 30 cellphones from a Verizon store in Gaithersburg last month, including one woman who may have faked being pregnant to stash the stolen merchandise. The women entered the store at about 6:30 p.m