During a recent taping of the Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report," host Stephen Colbert took Pandora founder Tim Westergren to task for the name of his Internet radio service.

"Why Pandora?" Colbert asked, reminding him that Pandora's box from Greek mythology released evil into the world. "Is that what the Internet is? You click open the box and evil comes out your speakers?"

"Surprises come out," Westergren responded, "and at the bottom of that box was hope."

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Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is worshipped by millions of sports fans across the country, was to marry his girlfriend on Sunday evening, television news channels reported.

Dhoni, often described as India's most eligible bachelor, was expected to wed Sakshi Singh Rawat at a private Hindu ceremony near the town of Dehra Dun in the northern state of Uttarakhand.

Teammates such as Harbhajan Singh and Suresh Raina gathered to attend the event, and Bollywood movie…

Arnold Friberg, a Utah artist best known for his painting of George Washington in prayer at Valley Forge, died Thursday, his family said. He was 96

Jayna Friberg-Cleamons said her father-in-law died at a Salt Lake City rehabilitation center following hip replacement surgery.

Friberg, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also painted portraits of figures from the Book of Mormon.

"He didn't want to be known as Mormon artist," Friberg-Cleamons told…

Broadway wizard Frank Loesser remains in style as the 100th anniversary of his birth approaches.

His 1962 "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," which captured both the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awards, is returning to Broadway with Daniel Radcliffe. Loesser's 1951 "Guys and Dolls," another Tony winner, has been revived repeatedly to the same cheers that greeted its debut.

Loesser, who was born June 29, 1910, in New York and died in 1969, will be feted by TCM on his…

A sale of photographs from the collection of the Polaroid Corporation brought in $12.5 million, setting an auction record for iconic photographer Ansel Adams and new marks for the medium by artists including Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, and David Hockney.

The sale of 1,200 photographs from the Polaroid collection was ordered by U.S. bankruptcy court in Minnesota when businessman Tom Petters, whose operations once included Polaroid Corp., was convicted last year of a $3.65 billion Ponzi…