Stopping Off in the Gothic South, on the Road to Ruin
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In the first feature directed by Shainee Gabel, John Travolta delivers a hammed-up scenery-chewing variation of the brainy good ole boy he played in "Primary Colors."
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Ten of the globe's most perilous places--and what to do if you have to visit one.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Tugendhat Villa, a monument of modernism in the Czech Republic, is on the verge of collapse.
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A long and winding road runs from Joseph Fletcher to Craig Conway.
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The realty space is being disrupted.
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Environmentalists bristle as city moves toward 'shared use' of a local haunt.
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Things could be better for the Goth retailer.
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With spirited preaching and conservative teaching, the South is giving the faith a new flavor
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Stephen Kingâs use of horror is not what it used to be. It may still be the impetus for his stories, but it is no longer the foremost reason theyâre interesting.
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There are ghosts haunting âBanished,â about the forced expulsion of black Southerners from their homes in the troubled and violent decades after the Civil War.
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EXETER, England  - If local legend is true, there  are almost as many ghosts wandering the streets of the ancient  English city of Exeter as there are people.
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Centuries collide as a CNET News.com reporter navigates the city's Gothic district using modern-day GPS technology optimized for pedestrians.
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La senatrice teodem commenta le parole del cardinal Ruini
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The rosebushes at the house on Bayshire Lane in Herndon have died. Plastic wrappers and empty crates are visible through the windows of the otherwise vacant house. A breeze riffles the pages of a weather-beaten copy of the Nuevo Testamento on the front porch.
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A British architectural historian has an unusual specialty: he focuses on architectsâ designs that have been taken apart.
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You might be surprised how far you have to drive from New Orleans, LA to get to the Gulf of Mexico.  Following     the west bank of the Mississippi River along Hwy 23, you go through the separate and well-separated towns of     Belle Chasse, Pointe a la Hache, Port Sulphur, Empire, Boothville, and finally over 60 miles from New Orleans     the tiny oilfield supply and marina town of Venice.    At Empire the highway goes over a pretty tall bridge and on the other side of the canal, beyond the levee     system, Katrina's storm surge came through with a vengeance.  The roads have been cleared but everywhere along     them are the twisted skeletons of steel buildings with vegetation hanging out of shattered second-story     windows.  A refrigerator sits atop the flooded husk of a house.  A perfect square of fenceless pickets     surrounds a perfectly bare concrete slab.  The occasional forlorn FEMA trailer can be spotted parked on one of     many slabs in a field of such slabs that was once a neighborhood.  The carcass of a cow is wedged improbably     in the canopy of a tree twenty feet up.    What is striking is not that the landscape looks like this; most of the coastline of Louisiana and Mississippi     experienced such damage.  What is striking is that it looked like this when I visited last week, in August     2006, almost an entire year after the storm came through.
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Many houses of worship are under threat, crumbling from years of neglect, or becoming targets for acquisition by developers in neighborhoods where choice real estate is scarce.