Blowing off some steam ahead of the National Brass Symposium in June, members of the world-renowned Boston Pops' brass section give a rare demonstration of their individual warm-up techniques.

It's the unofficial start of summer this weekend, and not much music (beyond Latin freestyle) scans "SUMMER" as explicitly as the spate of hits (and misses) from a few years ago featuring the pivoting, clap-happy Diwali Riddim. It's in Lumidee's "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)" (one in a multi-year line of ubiquitous summer songs by one-hit wonders that I include Rihanna's "Pon de Replay" in — even though she obviously was not a one-hit wonder, she felt like one when her debut single came out).

It's been nearly a year since Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter Caylee, but life hasn't gotten much better for the 26-year-old.

At a backyard party in Boxford, Massachusetts, last weekend, a half-dozen bovine beer-lovers showed up sans RSVP to partake in the festivities.

As the web approaches Peak Memification, where even august publications like the Atlantic post Rage Comics on their Tumblr, we must turn to further shores to find unexploited memes. Buzzfeed points us to this Serbian Groom meme, a classic in the Deluded Men Seeking Love genre.

An elderly woman named Laverne says she is fulfilling a decade-long dream of skydiving at the start of a souvenir video recorded at the Parachute Center in Northern California.

A few weeks ago, I sent letters to every American death row inmate scheduled for execution this year. I asked them about their own survival prospects, their day-to-day lives, and their thoughts on America, its media, and its justice system. Today, a death row inmate replies.

It was an unwelcome sight for sure, but the tornado that swirled toward the farm in Harper, Kansas, where Caleb and Candra Pence were exchanging I do's ultimately provided a singularly memorable backdrop for their wedding photos.

Pedro Hernandez, the man arrested and charged with the murder of Etan Patz, was taken to Bellevue Hospital this morning and placed on suicide watch. Hernandez, who has cancer, had been in police custody just over 24 hours when he told authorities he had gone off his anti-depressant medication and was thinking about killing himself. He was taken to Bellevue at 5:30am this morning.

On page 14 of the Lake Norman High School yearbook there is a photo of a girl lifting her graduation gown and exposing her hooha.

Today is the 33rd anniversary of the disappearance of Etan Patz, the six-year-old New Yorker whose abduction in 1979 helped usher in a new age of terror and suspicion for American parents. Though Etan was declared legally dead in 2001, his case has never been solved. Yesterday, after three decades of false leads and a menagerie of suspects, the NYPD announced that a New Jersey man named Pedro Hernandez had confessed to strangling Patz and dumping his body somewhere in Manhattan. It's unclear at this point whether Hernandez's confession will hold water, if he acted alone, or if he is just a confused publicity seeker. Here's a look back at the case.

What the hell do the shiftless/ worthless kids these days want, when they're not beating up babies and playing on train tracks? The vapid young sellouts are, quite predictably, all about makin' that MOOLAH$$$$CA$$$HMONEY$$$$. Are "The Millennials" way more materialistic than your generation? U bet!

Hey girl, have you been on the set of Girls in the last two days? Well, if you have brown hair and are tallish, the only not-white guy is looking for you. So shuffle on off that Greenpoint sound stage—you're no extra in this love story.

Messing with the Saudi mutaween (religious police) is not recommended — particularly if you happen to be a Saudi woman.

A general principle to keep in mind when dealing with hackers is: If a gang of hackers announces the exact date, time and targets of an upcoming hack, it is not going to happen. So we'd bet 800 bitcoins that this attack on "46 major companies around the world" planned for 4pm today by a hacking group associated with Anonymous is not going to come off.

Police in the Mexico City suburb of Ciudad Neza arrested several people who were reportedly engaging in a "drug-fueled ritual" that resulted in the gouging out of a five-year-old's eyes.

BuzzFeed's Gavon Laessig got his hands on an early copy of the upcoming Barack Obama biography penned by Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss.

This week, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it is cutting its print publication schedule back to three days a week and laying off staff in an effort to remain financially viable. It's a sad step for a storied and respected newspaper. It is also, on an industrywide scale, a completely expected evolution. Let's briefly review the recent past, and the future, of newspapers.

On April 18th, 1930, the BBC famously informed listeners: "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news."