The good news is: He’s tall, dark, and handsome.The bad news is: He’s short-tempered, a bit hairy, and has a tendency to howl at the full moon....Which makes bringing him home to meet mom and dad a bit...

The good news is: He’s tall, dark, and handsome.The bad news is: He’s a bloodsucking creature of the night. Not to mention arrogant, predatory, and immortal.What’s a girl to do? No worries—in this guide,...

Stop plucking your life away! Drop that flower, grab a pencil, and try it out.When it comes to all things floral, your man: A. Never sends flowers. He thinks plucking daisies is environmentally reprehensible....

From the corsairs of the Barbary Coast to Blackbeard to Jean Lafitte, pirates have been a part of every culture for centuries. Sometimes terrifying but always colorful characters, their history is as...

The Washington Monument.The pyramid on the $1 bill.The Skull and Bones Society at Yale University.Common American icons—or secret symbols? From our founding fathers to our most prestigious institutions,...

From the illustrious George Washington and the infamous J. Edgar Hoover to brilliant imaginer Walt Disney and bad boy of baseball Ty Cobb, Freemasons have influenced every aspect of American life. Yet...

The Freemasons include some of the greatest minds in history, such as Darwin and Churchill. They also stand accused of some of the bloodiest acts humanity has ever seen. Many even believe that they control...

For thousands of years, one clandestine organization has been rumored to control the destinies of men, cities, even nations: Freemasonry. Often traced back to the stonemason guilds of the Middle Ages,...

• An affordable, accessible companion to vampire literature, films, and TV • Several vampire movies are due out in 2008 and 2009: Twilight, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, and The Historian • Vampire...

Filmmaking is a notoriously difficult field to break into—a script’s chance of making it to production is a staggering 1 in every 140,000. But the millions of aspiring filmmakers can up their odds with...