Many Americans will take a respite from the barrage of unemployment figures and mortgage foreclosure news and begin to get into the holiday spirit Thursday with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- a tradition through good times and bad, for the last 84 years.
See the former Spice Girl in her a cartoon cameo appearance on the undersea show
Shrek, Dora the Explorer, and other animated TV and movie stars beloved by children have been moonlighting as junk-food pitchmen in recent years. And they're good at it.
Elly Koufakis, the co-owner of a busy beauty salon in the posh Athens suburb of Psyhiko, isn't used to sitting around. The shop's staff rarely has a minute to breathe between haircuts and manicures. But since the debt crisis in Greece exploded in January, they now spend half their workday sitting idle. "We've seen a 50% drop in our appointments," Koufakis says. "Everyone seems to be reining in their spending."
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a gainfully employed, God-fearing, law-abiding citizen, and I come in peace. I don't bet on baseball, I take excellent care of my gums, I keep my tray table locked and upright from takeoff to landing.
The tradition that is Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has spun off its own tradition -- on Thanksgiving eve, New Yorkers and tourists alike gather on the Upper West Side of New York City to watch their favorite characters come to life in the forms of giant balloons.
With his parents and aunt Jessica Simpson looking on, Bronx Mowgli turns 1 in style
After a weekend alone with Bronx, he's excited he "didn’t burn the house down"
Spongy red balls wait in a queue, separating two teams wired to smack their opponent. Within seconds, the players dip and dive like dolphins until one player stands alone, relishing in victory.
The fashionista will play Queen Amphitrite, goddess of the sea, on a show in 2010
Todd Hawkins never figured himself for a cruising kind of guy. He grew up camping and still loves long road trips. But he got married to someone whose family vacation style couldn't have been more different.
The veteran actor's latest role is as a "Bubble Poppin̢۪ Boy" on the popular kids̢۪ show
"Stay My Baby" is the first video for Nickelodeon's iCarly star
If only our best and worst experiences were rewindable, fast-forwardable, deletable. Hey, pause: They are!
Youssif arrives in the U.S. for critical help in healing from burns. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
Dr. Peter Grossman meets with Youssif for the first time and examines the boy's scars.
Burger King Holdings Inc. on Friday reported a fourth-quarter net profit, reversing a year-ago loss, helped by longer store hours and its low-cost breakfast menu.
Following the recent recalls for toys made in China with loose magnets and lead paint, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued more warnings, this time recalling thousands of SpongeBob SquarePants journals, various spinning tops and children's jewelry.
Testing kids for lead exposure
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Its full name is the Digital Versatile Disc, and it certainly lives up to the billing.
File-sharing company BitTorrent has announced a slew of partnerships with major film and TV studios, allowing it to sell in-demand titles like "South Park" and "SpongeBob Squarepants."
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A year ago the Shadowbox Cabaret was itching to take its irreverent comedy theater routines from a shopping center in Columbus to Las Vegas, or maybe even get on cable television in a bunch of majo...
The company known for the Hula Hoop and Frisbee said Thursday it will be bought by a Hong Kong-based toy and game manufacturer.
When the 79th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade takes to the streets of New York City on Thursday, the balloons may need beefed-up security.
Taking a page from their adult contemporaries, Hasbro will now offer kids the chance to take episodes of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Dexter's Laboratory" with them anywhere they go.
Gene Simmons, the fire-breathing, blood-spitting KISS star, just might be the next SpongeBob, thanks to his latest project: "My Dad the Rock Star."
It was an incredible night for "The Incredibles."
IF HOLLYWOOD WERE RUN LIKE A REAL business--instead of, say, like a clubby, insecure, award-crazy, star-groveling high school--where things like return on investment mattered, there would be one un...
Burger King really wants its SpongeBob inflatables back, and the burger chain is even willing to offer a one-year's supply of free Whoppers, salads or any other item on its menu as a reward for information leading to their safe return.
She'll time her emergence with uncanny accuracy, the bedroom door opening the moment the last drop of coffee splashes into the pot. The kids snuggle under a blanket on the couch, unsure what to make of the fact that nobody's nagging them for watching TV on "such a beautiful day."
This new brand of doggie diapers has a funny name -- 'Pee Pees -N-More' -- and it looks comical on a pooch. So could a puppy burp cloth be next?
Something that works locally should work elsewhere too: Today, Peoria. Tomorrow, the world.
A superhero with spider-like abilities, a child wizard and a fearsome green ogre may be just what the doctor ordered to lift the toy industry out of the doldrums.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - When you're a small business and you overlook a detail, it often goes unnoticed. When you're a multimillion or multibillion dollar business, it opens up the opportunity for someone to make you look foolish.
When the writers and editors of MONEY set out to find the best stocks for the upcoming year, we recalled a market that caught us by surprise in 2003. Remember SARS? Or how spooked you felt before t...
We were on a quest for undervalued stocks in a rising market.
ROGER AILES He made Richard Nixon telegenic (as much as anyone could). He made CNBC the official channel of the stock market boom. Then Ailes, 63, built Fox News Channel into an inescapable politic...
I was in L.A. the other day, which is a good thing when it's the third week of spring and snowing in New York City. Of course they had perfect weather there. They're proud of their weather, which i...
Outside, the Gentle Giant Studios is an unprepossessing warehouse on a stretch of uncharming highway they tell me is in Burbank. Inside, however, it's Wonderland. It's Toontown, teeming with imagin...
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