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A look at the new spiritual TV shows of the fall/winter season--including "Eastwick," "The Vampire Diaries," "FlashForward," "Human Target," and more. Plus the returning favorites "Lost," "Heroes," "Medium," and more.

I was trolling around People.com yesterday looking for the poll asking readers to weigh in on what “J” name Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, of TLC’s “18 Kids and Counting,” should bestow on their recently announced nineteenth addition, when I noticed a most ironic bit of contextual advertising. Using metadata and/or content to target the…

Here are few favorite movies that celebrate the working class this Labor Day weekend.

Despite the summer heat, Bikram yoga (hot yoga)–done at temperatures of at least 100 degrees and usually more–is ever more popular. I am not someone who can imagine subjecting myself to that kind of workout in dead summer, though in winter it appeals far more, but for those who do–what to wear while you are…

Watch an exclusive clip from "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself."

It’s not news that Stephen Colbert is a Catholic. He’s admitted as much on his Comedy Channel show, “The Colbert Report.” (Besides, even with the best hairstylists in television at your disposal, you can’t fake that precisely parted, altar-boy-grown-up hair-do.) But in an interview in the current Rolling Stone, Colbert gives us a rare glimpse…

I learned something new today. Apparently, at least in Dubai, Ramadan is a time for more than daily prayer and fasting, it’s a holy time for television, too: “it is also the Middle Eastern equivalent of sweeps month,” according to Brian Stelter’s New York Times article, “Dubai Superheroes: Little Old Grannies Who Wear Veils,” which…

Jay Leno is finally coming back to evening television, and, in my opinion, it’s not a moment too soon. We need to laugh more, go to bed earlier, carry less stress and treat each other better every day. So the nightly television line-up will finally have more than drama and newsmagazines. I think Jay Leno’s…

Can the Qur’an, a book that is indelibly, even necessarily, Arabic, have a place in American culture? Sandow Birk, a “vaguely Presbyterian” American artist from Southern California presents that question in “American Qur’an.” In an exhibit of works on paper opening this week at a gallery in San Francisco, Birk juxtaposes passages from the Islamic…

Carrie Prejean, the recently dethroned Miss California whose anti-gay marriage comments at the April 19 Miss Universe Pageant stoked the national debate, filed suit yesterday against Miss California Pageant officials, citing religious discrimination amongst a litany of other charges. TMZ.com reports that “Prejean claims the Miss Cali people ‘conspired to get rid of her’ beginning…
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