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When you're lobbing radiation grenades and fighting aliens on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial on an otherwise quiet Washington evening, it's hard not to feel a sense of history.

Not every occupation is suffering through the recession.

The story of Prison Break lasted four years for viewers but only seven months for its characters - an insanely short period of time when you consider the whacked toes and hand, the prison murder of a beloved cat, the beheadings, the near-drowning bathtub torture, the countless shootings, explosions and stabbings, the removal of a body tattoo in one sitting, the resurrection of dead people and, of course, the two prison breaks.

It's not that Lady Gaga and her peers don't recognise the distinction between real life and performance; it's that they don't care about it, writes Ann Powers, of the Los Angeles Times.

As Grace Jones tells it, a certain pop-singer friend once asked how she managed to get out from under her strict, religious Jamaican-American family and set herself on the path to becoming a singer, actor and fashion fetish-object.

Americans' dream destination? Australia, according to a new Harris Poll that surveyed travellers' top overseas choices if costs were not a consideration.

Fantasy and horror fans, prepare yourselves for the Decade of del Toro. Geoff Boucher, of the Los Angeles Times, reports.

Fences and walls add stability, enclosure and additional design elements to a property.