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The 20 best TV sitcoms of all time – readers' choice

What did Monitor readers choose as the best sitcom in the history of television?

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The 20 best TV sitcoms of all time – readers' choice

What did Monitor readers choose as the best sitcom in the history of television?
Mel Brooks honored by De Niro, Freeman, Scorsese (+video)

Mel Brooks was honored by the American Film Institute Thursday. A galaxy of stars paid tribute to Mel Brooks, the man behind "Blazing Saddles," ''Young Frankenstein" and "The Producers."
Editor's Blog To invest or not to invest? The eternal question

Investing is an individual decision. How you view the stock market depends on where you are in your earnings cycle and what your past experience has been. The only thing the market may be telling everyone right now is that the bad old days of the last decade appear to be over.
Christopher Dorner: Hollywood anti-hero casts self in real-life drama (+video)

Christopher Dorner remains a fugitive, a three-time murder suspect. But to some Christopher Dorner's manifesto raises real issues: He accused the L.A. police of racism and other abuses, and weighed in on his favorite movies and celebrities. Is that why actor Charlie Sheen reached out to Dorner?
Top Picks: A Joni Mitchell biography, Jerry Seinfeld's web series, and more

Tom Brokaw recalls reporting on historic events in 'The Brokaw Files,' the Tom Hanks film 'A League of Their Own' comes to Blu-ray, and more top picks.
Culture Cafe Emmy nominations: 'Mad Men,' 'American Horror Story' come out ahead (+video)

The two drama series each earned 17 nods as Emmy nominations were announced Thursday morning.
Cover Story The family dinner is back – not haute, but the right thing to do

The family dinner – bolstered by science and popular buzz – is back: From Hollywood to the White House and out there at the dinner tables of America, the family ritual is increasingly considered the right thing to do.
Why Gioachino Rossini's music is so funny

Gioachino Rossini, whose leap-day birthday is marked by Google on Wednesday, had a gift for comic timing that would be recognized by today's sitcom writers.
Existing home sales dip, but prices vary wildly. Top 5 most, least expensive cities.

Existing home sales dipped below an annual rate of 5 million in May. Not counting condos and coops, single-family home sales stand at 4.2 million a year, which, if it held for all of 2011, would be lower than the worst of the slump in 2008. But home prices vary dramatically, depending upon where you live in the United States: the average listing for a typical four-bedroom, two bathroom house in the most expensive real-estate market is more than 40 times the average listing in the least expensive city, according to a recent survey of more than 2,300 markets by Coldwell Banker Real Estate. Here are the Top 5 most and least expensive cities. Is yours on the list?
06/21/2011 03:04 pm
Global News Blog Festivus becomes worldwide holiday. Break out the Festivus pole! [video]

Festivus, the holiday introduced on a "Seinfeld" episode 13 years ago, is being marked around the world today, especially by the twittering classes who turned the made-up celebration into a top Twitter trend.
12/23/2010 03:15 pm
Yogi Berra, Jerry Seinfeld fondly remember George Steinbrenner

Yogi Berra, Jerry Seinfeld, Hillary Clinton, and others recall George Steinbrenner as a man who was dictatorial, yet fiercely loyal to his friends.
07/14/2010 01:45 pm
Emmy nods: Conan O'Brien gets his day as TV landscape evolves

Emmy Award nominations released Thursday tapped Conan O'Brien's short-lived stint on NBC's Tonight Show, as well as a handful of shows from non-broadcast networks.
07/08/2010 05:18 pm
Editor's Blog Hello, 2010. Goodbye, Decade of Cringe

Who could have predicted the twists and turns of the past decade -- from hanging chads to 9/11, the bubble economy to Bernie Madoff? It is tempting to believe anything will be better than the Decade of Cringe. But the next 10 years will dismay and delight as well.
12/27/2009 01:03 pm
Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff

Garry Shandling's humor on DVD, an Italian cook's life in paperback, Cuban music after Castro, and more.
10/19/2009 01:00 am
Review: 'Whatever Works'

Woody Allen returns to familiar territory with a misanthropic New York physicist played by Larry David.
06/19/2009 01:00 am
The Vote Sunday morning show lineup

01/11/2009 12:00 am
More Hollywood writers do end-run around studio system

The strike is over, but some top writers are still exploring ways to turn the Internet into a new business model.
02/22/2008 12:00 am