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Photos: Kal Penn, in Denver for Obama, talks marijuana, youth, swing states

Actor Kal Penn, who is campaigning for Barack Obama nearly full-time, stopped in Colorado yesterday to promote the president on college campuses. While his well-known character in Harold & Kumar may know quite a bit about marijuana, Penn, at a stop at the Auraria campus yesterday afternoon, didn't h ... More >>

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Photos: Kal Penn, Harold & Kumar star, hypes Obama at youth summit

A few years after Harold and Kumar visited White Castle -- but before they escaped from Guantanamo Bay -- Kumar Patel's real-life alter ego, Kal Penn, served a two-year-stint as the associate director of the White House's Office of Public Engagement. In 2008, the House and 24 star campaigned in 26 s ... More >>

Tupac biopic finally gets the greenlight. Here's five ideas for who should play him.

​After being held up by years of litigation from Afeni Shakur-Davis, the mother of late rapper Tupac Shakur, the film depicting the rapper's life has finally been given the green light. Literally years in the making, the production company Morgan Creek has been mired in legal wranglings with ' ... More >>

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

Ten best divorce songs for Tiger Woods, or anyone else headed for Splitsville

Turn up the Tammy​Our long national nightmare is over. On Monday, the divorce between Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren was made official. While Tiger will likely continue to pull strange ass on the road and Nordegren will likely get a dumptruck-load of cash, we're going to suggest these songs to the ... More >>

Street Kings

Boys will be boys in Street Kings' shallow look at dirty police.

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