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UPDATE, Writethru: Two people have been injured, including one who is in serious condition, in a knife attack near the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris' 11th arrondissement. The police have arrested one suspect and detained another in the attack whose details are still unfolding. It has yet…

Nicholas Boukhrief’s drama Made In France was originally set for a theatrical release on November 18, but saw those plans shelved by distributor Pretty Pictures in the wake of the November 13 terrorist attacks on Paris. The film’s all-too timely subject centers on a journalist who infiltrates a Jihadi cell in the…

On Wednesday, a day before the one-year anniversary of the deadly attacks on its Paris headquarters, French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will release 1M copies of a special edition. The newspaper, which has never shied from unmasking intolerance, taking special aim at politicians and religious fundamentalists of all…

As expected, Charlie Hebdo has weighed in on the devastating attacks visited on Paris last Friday by ISIL-affiliated terrorists with positively hilarious cover for the latest issue. Offering a defiant celebration of French secular values, an en français F-bomb to go along with it, and a gallows humor look at the…

UPDATED Saturday, 6:15PM: The terrorist rampage that left at least 129 dead and hundreds injured in Paris was carried out by at least 10 conspirators including suicide bombers that split into three teams and spread out across the city Friday evening, French officials said Saturday. Icons of French culture the Eiffel…

In an unsurprising move, French distributor Pretty Pictures and producer Radar Films have pulled the planned Wednesday release of Made in France, about a French Muslim journalist, who infiltrates a Jihadi cell in the heart of Paris, with a view to uncovering a plot to bring havoc to the streets of the French capital…

It's been seven months since an assault at the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left 12 people dead and led to simultaneous hostage stand-offs which resulted in more deaths, including those of the killers. In one of the hostage situations, at a printing warehouse in Danmartin-en-Goële north of…

Having "drawn Muhammad to defend the principle that one can draw whatever one wants,” the editor and publisher of Charlie Hebdo says the satirical magazine will no longer publish cartoons that depict the Islamic prophet. Laurent Sourisseau made the announcement in an interview with German magazine Stern. Charlie Hebdo…

UPDATE, WEDNESDAY, 9:15 AM:  “Playwrights For A Cause,” a one-act showcase launching the Planet Connections Theater Festivity, will now be presented on June 14 at the New York Theatre Workshop, but without Neil LaBute’s contribution. The playwright released a statement explaining he did not want his play to detract…

Bill Maher and panelists Alex Wagner, Will Cain and former Gov. Lincoln Chafee debated the PEN-Charlie Hebdo controversy, and the shooting in Garland, Texas. That “draw Muhammad” cartoon contest in Texas, where the shooting occurred, was sponsored by “‘kind of a loon,’ Maher said, noting it was “obviously was a…

Accepting the PEN American Center’s version of a Lifetime Achievement Award, writer Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare In Love, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead) voiced support on Tuesday night for another of the $1,250-a-plate gala’s honorees, the surviving staff of the Paris-based satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The…

Tom Stoppard, a fevered friend of free expression and foe of bad writing, will receive the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award for his “extraordinary career as a dramatist and his abiding commitment to the defense of creative freedom worldwide.” It’s the highest honor bestowed by the American chapter of the…