Hungarian far-right politician and writer dies

Istvan Csurka, a Hungarian anti-Soviet dissident playwright and later far-right nationalist politician who was criticized at home and abroad for his anti-semitic articles, died Saturday at age 77.

Apple patents new touchscreen remote control for a future Apple TV

In addition to controlling home theater devices like DVD players and home automation systems, the remote concept could also work with your computer to run iTunes or execute other functions.

Great Big Home & Garden Expo opens today at I-X Center

CLEVELAND — The Great Big Home & Garden Expo presented by Time Warner Cable returns to Cleveland’s I-X Center today through Feb. 12 for the third year with more than 650 exhibitors, new home improvement features, appearances by home and garden celebrities, and returning favorites from the 2011 show.

Kerns: Beyer has high hopes; Movies 16 increases variety of specialty programming

A bit of this and a bit of that, as I send congratulations to one of my favorite singer-songwriters, Amanda Shires, for being named 2011 Artist of the Year from Texas Music magazine --- and also to Lamesa native and Texas Tech graduate Barry Corbin, whose memorable and varied performances will find him inducted March 8 into the Austin Film Society's Texas Film Hall of Fame ,It's still true: I ...

The Carpetbagger: 'Transformers' and 'Rango' Try Campaigning on TV

"Transformers" and "Rango" take to video to make their Oscar cases, and the Kodak Theater may not be the Kodak for much longer.