As soon as he extracted the letter from the envelope that had arrived in the day's mail, Dr. Gordon Katske suppressed a snicker. Beneath an authentic-looking logo from U.S. News & World Reports, several paragraphs of complimentary prose informed him that he had been selected as one of the country's top cardiac and thoracic surgeons for 2012-2013.

Not only did we survive last year's threat of a Mayan apocalypse, but we've made it through the first few months of the only year this century containing that supposedly spooky, unlucky number 13. While the superstitious try at all cost to avoid those dreaded digits, it's hard to stay in bed with th...

Recommended Based on the acclaimed graphic novels by Joann Sfar, The Rabbi's Cat is an animated adventure into the culture and climate of 1930s Algeria, as seen through the eyes of a sarcastic talking cat. Although the inclination might be to compare the film to Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and the film version directed by Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud, The Rabbi's Cat has its own distinctly ...