INNOVATION: Powdered Alcohol Produced

Freeze-dried, powdered alcohol has been approved by federal regulators, meaning the controversial novelty — once called “the Kool-Aid of teen binge drinking” — could hit liquor-store shelves across the country by the summer.  The product, dubbed Palcohol, was given the go-ahead on Tuesday by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau almost a year after it backtracked on its previous authorization, saying the label approvals had been issued in error.

Poet Laureate Philip Levine Is Dead

Philip Levine, a poet laureate in 2011-2012, died at his home in Fresno California on Saturday 14^th February, 2015, of pancreatic and liver cancer, his wife said Sunday. He was aged 87.

He was a native of Detroit and son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Levine was profoundly shaped by his working-class childhood and years spent in jobs ranging from driving a truck to assembling parts at

Hollywood Film Production in 'bad spiral' as Competition Bites

(Reuters) - Three days before the Oscars, the Los Angeles film czar and a think tank delivered some damning news to Tinseltown: Hollywood's status as the home of American film and television production is threatened because places like New York are offering better financial incentives to studios.The study of employment and production data released on Thursday by the Milken Institute, an economic think tank, says California has lost tens of thousands of entertainment jobs to New York and other U.S. states in the past decade, and film and television productions with them. While it may.......